Chapter I: Introduction: § 1. Works appended to those of Chaucer in various

editions. § 2. Thynne's collection in 1532. _A Praise of Women._
_The Lamentation of Mary Magdalen._ _The Remedy of Love._ § 3. Other
non-Chaucerian pieces. _The Craft of Lovers._ _A Balade._ _The Ten
Commandments of Love._ _The Nine Ladies Worthy._ _Virelai._ _The
Judgement of Paris._ _A Balade pleasaunte._ _Another Balade._ _The
Court of Love._ § 4. Additions by Speght. _Chaucer's Dream._ _Eight
Goodly Questions._ § 5. Editions and MSS. consulted. § 6.
Authorities for the pieces here printed. § 7. I. THE TESTAMENT OF
LOVE. § 8. The acrostic found in it. Name of the author. § 9. Fate
of Thomas Usk. § 10. Idea of the work. § 11. The author's
plagiarisms from Chaucer. § 12. How he stole a passage from The
House of Fame. § 13. Borrowings from Troilus and Piers Plowman.
§ 14. The author's inaccuracies. § 15. The title; and the meaning
of Margaret. § 16. Plan of the work. § 17. Outline of Book I. § 18.
Outline of Book II. § 19. Outline of Book III. § 20. II. THE
PLOWMANS TALE. § 21. Never supposed to be Chaucer's. § 22. Written
by the author of The Ploughmans Crede. § 23. III. JACK UPLAND. § 24.
Date, A.D. 1402. § 25. Traces of two texts. § 26. Not originally
written in alliterative verse. § 27. IV. THE PRAISE OF PEACE. By John
Gower. § 28. The Trentham MS. § 29. Date, A.D. 1399. § 30. V. THE
LETTER OF CUPID. By Thomas Hoccleve. § 31. VI. TWO BALADES. By Thomas
Hoccleve. § 32. VII. A MORAL BALADE. By Henry Scogan. Date, about
1407. § 33. The supper at the Vintry. § 34. VIII. THE COMPLAINT OF
THE BLACK KNIGHT. By John Lydgate. § 35. His quotations from Chaucer's
version of the Romaunt of the Rose. Date, about 1402. § 36. IX. THE
FLOUR OF CURTESYE. By John Lydgate. Date, about 1401. § 37. X. A BALADE
IN COMMENDATION OF OUR LADY. By John Lydgate. § 38. A new stanza and
a new MS. § 39. XI. TO MY SOVERAIN LADY. By John Lydgate. § 40. XII.
BALLAD OF GOOD COUNSEL. By John Lydgate. § 41. XIII. BEWARE OF
DOUBLENESS. By John Lydgate. § 42. XIV. A BALADE: WARNING MEN, &c.
By John Lydgate. § 43. XV. THREE SAYINGS. By John Lydgate. § 44. XVI.
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCY. By Sir Richard Ros. Date, about 1460.
§ 45. Apparently in the Leicestershire dialect. § 46. Alan Chartier.
§ 47. Thynne's text and the MSS. § 48. XVII. THE TESTAMENT OF CRESSEID.
By Robert Henryson. Date, about 1460. § 49. XVIII. THE CUCKOO AND THE
NIGHTINGALE. Probably by Sir Thomas Clanvowe. § 50. The queen at
Woodstock; about A.D. 1403. § 51. Clanvowe's excessive use of the
final _-e_. § 52. His partiality for 'headless' lines. § 53. Milton's
Sonnet to the Nightingale. § 54. XIX. ENVOY TO ALISON. Not by Clanvowe.
§ 55. XX. THE FLOWER AND THE LEAF. By the authoress of The Assembly
of Ladies. § 56. The former is the earlier poem. Neither of them is
by Chaucer. § 57. Variations from Chaucer's usages. § 58. Examination
of the Rimes. § 59. Change in pronunciation. § 60. Gower on the
Flower and the Leaf. § 61. XXI. THE ASSEMBLY OF LADIES. By the
authoress of The Flower and the Leaf. § 62. Ordering of a medieval
household. § 63. XXII. A GOODLY BALADE. By John Lydgate. Imperfect.
§ 64. XXIII. GO FORTH, KING. By John Lydgate. § 65. _Duodecim
Abusiones._ § 66. XXIV. THE COURT OF LOVE. First printed in 1561.
§ 67. Tyrwhitt's plan for a Glossary to the Canterbury Tales. § 68.
Moxon's edition of Chaucer; establishing an erroneous canon of
Chaucer's Works. § 69. How to draw up such a canon correctly. § 70.
The Court of Love discussed. § 71. The Trinity MS. and the language.
§ 72. Artificiality of the archaisms affected. § 73. Examination of
the Rimes. § 74. Comparison with Chaucerian English. § 75. The
Courts of Love. § 76. Pieces numbered XXV-XXIX. § 77. Twelve
authors (at least) distinguished in the present volume. § 78.
There are probably four more. § 79. Improvements in the present PAGE
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