LONDON:

PRINTED BY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS.

CHAUCER

JOHN GOWER

The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

VOL. II.

•

The Tale of the Coffers or Caskets, &c. (in the fifth

Book of the Confessio Amantis)

Of the Gratification which the Lover's Passion re-

ceives from the Sense of Hearing (in the sixth Book

of the Confessio Amantis)

JOHN LYDGATE

OF

JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND

ROBERT HENRYSON

Canace, condemned to Death by her Father Æolus,

sends to her guilty Brother, Macareus, the last

Testimony of her unhappy Passion (Book I. fol. 39)

SCOTTISH POETRY

Extract from Canto II. of the Quair

Robene and Makyne, a Baliad

WILLIAM DUNBAR

The Daunce of the Seven deadly Sins through Hell

SIR DAVID LYNDSAY

Description of Squyre Meldrum

SIR THOMAS WYATT

Ode. The Lover complaineth the Unkindness of his

Love

·

From his Songs and Epigrams.-A Description of such

a one as he could love

On his Return from Spain

From his Odes.-An earnest Suit to his unkind Mis-

tress not to forsake him

To his Mistress