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Sir Thomas Wyat. Inferior to Surrey as a writer of fonnets. His
life. His genius characterifed. Excels in moral poetry.

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The first printed Mifcellany of English poetry. Its contributors.
Sir Francis Bryan, Lord Rochford, and Lord Vaulx. The firft
true paftoral in English. Sonnet-writing cultivated by the nobi-
lity. Sonnets by king Henry the eighth. Literary character of
that king.

SECTION XXII. p. 60.

The fecond writer of blank-verfe in English. Specimens of early
blank verfe.

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SECTION XXIX. p. 190.

Tye's Acts of the Apostles in rhyme. His merit as a musician.
Early piety of king Edward the fixth. Controverfial ballads and
plays. Translation 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 Magistrates
continued by Baldwyn and Ferrers. Its plan and stories.

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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. Hiftorical plays, whence.

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SECTION XXXV. p. 298.

Tuffer. 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-
fcript, 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 Westminster-
abbey. Chaucer esteemed by the reformers.

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