POEMS COMMONLY ATTRIBUTED TO CHAUCER

Extracts from The Romaunt of the Rose

WILLIAM LANGLEY or LANGLAND (born about 1332)
Extracts from The Vision of Piers the Plow an

I

15

16

36

40

42

46

56

61

62

72

80

Extracts from De Regimine Principum

JAMES THE FIRST OF SCOTLAND (1394-1437)

Extract froin The King's Quair

Poem from The Gude and Godlie Ballates

ROBERT HENRYSON (1425?-1480 ?)

The Garmond of Fair Ladies

136

137

140

The Tribes of the Dead

The Destiny of Rome

STEPHEN HAWES (d. 1530?) .

Extracts from The Pastime of Pleasure:

7. Churton Collins 175

Dialogue between Graunde Amoure and La Pucel

Amoure laments the absence of La Pucel

The Character of a True Knight

Description of La Belle Pucel

JOHN SKELTON (1460?-1529)

Extract from The Garlande of Laurell:

To Maystress Margaret Hussey

Extract from Colyn Cloute

SIB DAVID LYNDESAY (1490 ?-1558)

Extracts from The Dreme

THE EARL OF SURREY (1517?-1547)

Description of Spring

A Complaint by Night of the Lover not beloved

Lines written in imprisonment at Windsor

The Means to attain Happy Life

A Praise of his Love

THOMAS SACKVILLE, LORD BUCKHURST (1536-1608).

Extract from The Induction

Complaint of the Duke of Buckingham

Sleep

The Dean of St. Paul's 27c

The Gardens of Venus

Wooing of Amoret

The Quelling of the Blatant Beast

Claims of Mutability pleaded before Nature

Extract from the Teares of the Muses:

Complaint of Thalia (Comedy)

Sonnets

Epithalamion

• 290

293

296

298

30c

305

313

FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE (1554-1628)

Extracts from Mustapha :

Mary A. Ward 365