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John Heywood the epigrammatift. His works examined. Antient
unpublished burlesque poem of Sir Penny.

SECTION XXV. p. 97.

Sir Thomas More's English poetry. Tournament of Tottenham.
Its age and Scope. Laurence Minot. Alliteration. Digreffion
illustrating comparatively the language of the fifteenth century, by
a fpecimen of the metrical Armoric romance of Ywayn and
Gawayn.

SECTION XXVI. P. 135.

The Notbrowne Mayde. Not older than the fixteenth century.
Artful contrivance of the ftory. Mifreprefented by Prior. Me-
trical romances, Guy, fyr Bevys, and Kynge Apolyn, printed
in the reign of Henry. The Scole howfe, a fatire. Chriftmas
carols. Religious libels in rhyme. Merlin's prophefies. Lau-
rence Minot. Occafional difquifition on the late continuance of
the ufe of waxen tablets. Pageantries of Henry's court. Dawn
of taste.

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Metrical verfions of Scripture. Archbishop Parker's Pfalms in
metre. Robert Crowley's puritanical poetry.

Tye's Acts of the Apostles in rhyme. His merit as a mufician.
Early piety of king Edward the fixth. Controverfial ballads and
plays. Tranflation of the Bible. Its effects on our language.
Arthur Kelton's Chronicle of the Brutes. First Drinking-
fong. Gammar Gurton's Needle.

SECTION XXX. p. 209.

Reign of queen Mary. Mirrour of Magiftrates. Its inventor,
Sackville lord Buckhurst. His life. Mirrour of Magiftrates
continued by Baldwyn and Ferrers. Its plan and ftories.

Sackville's Legend of Buckingham in the Mirrour of Magistrates.
Additions by Higgins. Account of him. View of the early
editions of this Collection. Specimen of Higgins's Legend of Cor-
delia, which is copied by Spenfer.

SECTION XXXIII. p. 269.

View of Niccols's edition of the Mirrour of Magiftrates. High
eftimation of this Collection. Historical plays, whence.

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Tuffer.

SECTION XXXV. p. 298.

Remarkable circumftances of his life. His Husbandrie,
one of our earliest didactic poems, examined.

SECTION XXXVI. p. 311.

William Forreft's poems. His Queen Catharine, an elegant manu-
Script, contains anecdotes of Henry's divorce. He collects and
preferves antient mufic. Puritans oppose the study of the claffics.
Lucas Shepherd. John Pullayne. Numerous metrical verfions of
Solomon's Song. Cenfured by Hall the fatirit. Religious
rhymers. Edward More. Boy-bishop, and miracle-plays, re-
vived by queen Mary. Minute particulars of an antient mira-
cle-play.

SECTION XXXVII. P. 329.

English language begins to be cultivated. Earliest book of Criticism
in English. Examined. Soon followed by others. Early critical
Syftems of the French and Italians. New and fuperb editions of
Gower and Lydgate. Chaucer's monument erected in Weftminster-
abbey. Chaucer esteemed by the reformers.

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SECTION XXXVIII. p. 355.

Sackville's Gordobuc. Our firft regular tragedy. Its fable, con-
duct, characters, and ftyle. Its defects. Dumb-show. Sack-
ville not affifted by Norton.

SECTION XXXIX. p. 372.

Claffical drama revived and ftudied. The Phoeniffe of Euripides
tranflated by Gascoigne. Seneca's Tragedies tranflated. Account
of the tranflators, and of their respective verfions. Queen Elisa-
beth tranflates a part of the Hercules Oetæus.

SECTION XL. P. 395.

Most of the claffic poets tranflated before the end of the fixteenth
century. Phaier's Eneid. Completed by Twyne. Their other
works. Phaier's Ballad of Gad's-hill. Staniburft's Eneid in
English hexameters. His other works. Fleming's Virgil's Bu-
colics and Georgics. His other works. Webbe and Fraunce
tranflate fome of the Bucolics. Fraunce's other works. Spenser's
Culex. The original not genuine. The Ceiris proved to be ge-
nuine. Nicholas Whyte's Story of Jafon, fuppofed to be a verfion
of Valerius Flaccus. Golding's Ovid's Metamorphofes. His
other works. Afcham's cenfure of rhyme. A translation of the
Fafti revives and circulates the ftory of Lucrece. Euryalus and
Lucretia. Detached fables of the Metamorphofes tranflated.
Moralisations in fashion. Underdowne's Ovid's Ibis. Ovid's
Elegies tranflated by Marlowe. Remedy of Love, by F. L.
Epiftles by Turberville. Lord Effex a tranflator of Ovid. His
literary character. Churchyard's Ovid's Triftia. Other detached
verfions from Ovid. Antient meaning and ufe of the word Ballad.
Drant's Horace. Incidental criticism on Tully's Oration pro
Archia.

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SECTION XLII.
P. 461.

Tranflation of Italian novels. Of Boccace.
Of Boccace. Paynter's Palace of
Pleasure. Other verfions of the fame fort. Early metrical verfions
of Boccace's Theodore and Honoria, and Cymon and Iphigenia.
Romeus and Juliet. Bandello tranflated. Romances from Bre-
tagne. Plot of Shakespeare's Tempeft. Mifcellaneous Collec-
tions of tranflated novels before the year 1600. Pantheon.
Novels arbitrarily licenced or fuppressed. Reformation of the
English Prefs.

SECTION XLIII. p. 490.

General view and character of the poetry of queen Elifabeth's age.

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