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SPECIMENS
OF
EARLY ENGLISH
A NEW AND REVISED EDITION
WITH
Introduction, Notes, and Glossarial Index
BY THE
REV. RICHARD MORRIS, LL. D.
AND THE
REV. WALTER W. SKEAT, M. A.
PART II
FROM ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER TO GOWER
A. D. 1298-A. D. 1393
Oxford
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
M DCCC LXXII
[All rights reserved]
Preface
CONTENTS OF PART II.
Introduction
I. ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER.
(A) Reign of William the Conqueror
(B) Life of St. Dunstan
II. METRICAL ENGLISH PSALTER.
PAGE
ix
xiii
I
19
23
24
25
29
31
35
43
44
46
48
50
VI. WILLIAM OF SHOREHAM.
De Baptismo
63
VII. CURSOR MUNDI, OR CURSUR O WERld.
The Visit of the Magi, and the Flight into Egypt
69
VIII. SUNDAY HOMILIES IN VERSE.
(A) From the Homily for the Second Sunday in
(B) Homily for the Third Sunday after the Octave
83
89
(c) The Landing of Edward at La Hogue
126
131
134
XII. WILLIAM OF PALERNE, OR WILLIAM AND THE
WERWOLF
XIII. ALLITERATIVE POEMS.
The Deluge
The Destruction of Sodom
XIV. SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE.
(A) Prologue to the Voiage
(B) The Begynnyng of Machomete.
(c) The Contrees beyonde Cathay.
XV. WILLIAM LANGLAND, OR Langley.
Piers the Plowman (Earliest Version, or A-text):
Prologus
The same: Passus I
The same part of Passus II
The same part of Passus III
The same: Passus V
XVI. JOHN BArbour.
The Bruce: Extracts from Book VII.
XVII. JOHN Wyclif, and NICHOLAS HEREFord.
(A) Wyclif's Translation of St. Mark's Gospel :
cap. i-vi
(B) Hereford's Translation of Psalms xiv, xxiii,
215
Confessio Amantis: The Tale of the Three Coffers. 270
Confessio Amantis: Aeson regains his Youth
274
Notes.
Glossarial Index
283
347