Acknowledgment is due, and is gratefully rendered, to Mrs. C.S.
Calverley for permission to print the verses which close this book; and
to Messrs. Macmillan & Co. for permission to print A.H. Clough's
"Spectator ab Extra".
To Professor C.H. Herford my warmest thanks are due for his careful
revision of the Introduction, and for many valuable hints which have
been adopted in the course of the work; also to Mr. W. Keith Leask,
M.A.(Oxon.), and the librarians of the Edinburgh University and
Advocates' Libraries.
OLIPHANT SMEATON.
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INTRODUCTION xiii
WILLIAM LANGLAND
I. Pilgrimage in Search of Do-well 1
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
II. III. The Monk and the Friar 6
JOHN LYDGATE
IV. The London Lackpenny 10
WILLIAM DUNBAR
V. The Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins 14
SIR DAVID LYNDSAY
VI. Satire on the Syde Taillis--Ane Supplicatioun
directit to the Kingis Grace--1538 19
BISHOP JOSEPH HALL
VII. On Simony 22
VIII. The Domestic Tutor's Position 23
IX. The Impecunious Fop 24
GEORGE CHAPMAN
X. An Invective written by Mr. George Chapman
against Mr. Ben Jonson 26
JOHN DONNE
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