[Footnote 17: Minto's _Characteristics of English Poets_.]

[Footnote 18: Cf. Saintsbury's _Life of Dryden_.]

[Footnote 19: Cf. Gosse, _Eighteenth Century Literature_.]

[Footnote 20: Thackeray's _English Humorists_.]

[Footnote 21: _The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin_--Carisbrooke Library,
1890.]

[Footnote 22: _The Bæviad and the Mæviad_, by W. Gifford, Esq., 1800.]




ENGLISH SATIRES.


WILLIAM LANGLAND.

(1330?-1400?)


I. PILGRIMAGE IN SEARCH OF DO-WELL.

This opening satire constitutes the whole of the Eighth _Passus_ of
_Piers Plowman's Vision_ and the First of Do-Wel. The "Dreamer"
here sets off on a new pilgrimage in search of a person who has not