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CHAPTERS

ON

EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE.

CHAPTERS

ON

EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE.

BY

J. H. HIPPISLEY, Esq. M.A.

"Not for the lerid bot for the lewed."

PROLOGUE TO BRUNNE'S TRANSLATION OF PIERS LANGTOFT.

LONDON:

EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET.

MDCCCXXXVII.

10433.12

HARVARD

COLLEGE LIBRARY

LONDON: BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

360109

INTRODUCTION.

It is felt by the writer of the following chapters, that some apology may be required for a publication on subjects which have engaged the attention of many able authors, as well of the present, as of the preceding age. The choice of so beaten a track, necessarily implies one of two intentions; either that of supplying the deficiencies of previous writers, or that of selecting from well-known works, such matter as may lead the minds of those who have less leisure than inclination for the study of literary history, to a consideration of some of the more material topics which the pursuit may offer to them. This little work, undertaken with the latter object only, necessarily assumes, in some

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