Chapter II: Introduction: , vii

John Lydgate (?). The Siege of Harfleur and the Battle of Agincourt, 1

Thomas Occleve. The Letter of Cupid, 14

A Little Geste of Robin Hood and his Meiny and of the proud Sheriff
of Nottingham, 35

English Carols. From a Manuscript at Balliol College, Oxford, 83

The Examination of Master William Thorpe, priest, of heresy, before
Thomas Arundell, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1407, 90

The Examination of Sir John Oldcastle, 175

On Translating the Bible. Chapter XV. of the Prologue to the second
recension of the Wycliffite version, 193

John Trevisa. Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk upon Translation, 203

William Caxton. Prefaces and Epilogues:--
The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy, 213
Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers, 218
Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiae, 222
Golden Legend, 225
Caton 227
AEsop, 230
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, second edition, 232
Malory's King Arthur, 234
Eneydos, 239

A Miracle Play of the Nativity. The Pageant of the Shearmen and
Tailors, from the Coventry Corpus Christi Plays, 245

Everyman: A Moral Play, 277

Pleadings in Rastell _v._ Walton, a Theatrical Lawsuit, temp. Henry
VIII., 307

BRIEF GLOSSARY, 323