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A national record of events, which is said to have been begun at the instance of King Alfred the Great . Its last record is of the accession of Henry II, 1154. It is the oldest historical work written in any Germanic language, and is the basis of most of our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon History.

ASHTON, JOHN. THE ROMANCES OF CHIVALRY, TOLD AND ILLUSTRATED IN FACSIMILE. 1886-89.

CHILD, F. J. ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH POPULAR BALLADS. 5 v. 1882.

CLOUSTON, W. A. POPULAR TALES AND FICTIONS. 2 v. 1887.

CROXALL, S. A SELECT COLLECTION OF NOVELS, written by the most celebrated authors in several languages ... and all now translated from the originals by several eminent hands. 6 v. 1720-2.

GIBB, J. GUDRUN, BEOWULF, THE SONG OF ROLAND AND OTHER MEDIEVAL TALES. 1881.

GROUP OF EASTERN ROMANCES AND STORIES. 1889.

HALLIWELL, J. O. THORNTON ROMANCES. Camden Soc., 1844.

Percival, Isumbras, Eglamour, Degravant.

HARTSHORNE, C. H. ANCIENT METRICAL TALES. 1829.

Athelston, King Edward and Shepherd, Floris, William the Werwolf, etc.

LABOULAYE, EDWARD R. L.

LUDLOW, JOHN MALCOLM. POPULAR EPICS OF THE MIDDLE AGES OF THE NORSE-GERMAN AND CARLOVINGIAN CYCLES. 2 v. 1865.

Ten dramas from the Chester, Coventry, and Towneley series, with two of later date.

SERBSKI PESME: the National Songs of Servia. 1861.

Specimens of 1. Reynard, 2. Fryer Bacon, 3. Robert the Devil, 4. Guy of Warwick, 5. Hamlet, 6. Virgilius, 7. Friar Rush.

MORRIS, DR. R. OLD ENGLISH MISCELLANY. . E.E.T.S., 1872.

PAINTER, WILLIAM. PALACE OF PLEASURE. Beautified, adorned and well furnished with pleasant histories and excellent novels, selected out of divers good and commendable authors. 1566-69.

RITCHIE, LEITCH. Editor of the Library of Romance. 15 v. 1833-35.

RITSON, J. ANCIENT ENGLISH METRICAL ROMANCES. 3 v. 1802. The Wedding of Sir Gawain, Ywaine and Gawin, Launfal, Lybeaus Disconus, The Geste of King Horn, The Kyng of Tars and the Sudan of Damas, Emare, Sir Orpheo, Chronicle of Engleland, Le bone Florence of Rome, The Erle of Tolous, The Squyer of Lowe Degree, The Knight of Curtesy, and the Fair Lady of Faguell, Horn Childe and Maiden Rimnild.

ROBSON, J. THREE EARLY ENGLISH METRICAL ROMANCES. Camden Soc. No. 18. 1842.

Anturs of Arther, Sir Amadace, The Avowynge of King Arther, Sir Gowan, Sir Kaye and Sir Bawdewyn of Bretan.

Contains the Cymric poems attributed to the bards of the sixth century.

Including all the extant oldest English texts up to about 900, which are preserved in contemporary MSS., with the exception of the 'Chronicle' and the works of Alfred.

Vol. 1. 'Robert the Devyll'; Deloney's 'Thomas of Reading'; 'The History of Friar Bacon'; 'The Pleasant History of Friar Rush'; 'The Lyfe of Virgilius'; vol. 2. 'Robin Hood'; 'George ? Green'; 'Tom ? Lincolne'; vol. 3. The History of Helyas, Knight of the Swan. The History of the Life and Death of Dr. John Faustus. The second Report of Dr. John Faustus.

UTTERSON, R. SELECT PIECES OF EARLY POPULAR POETRY. 2 v. 1817.

Syr Tryamoure, Syr Isenbras, Syr Degore, Syr Gowghter.

METRICAL ROMANCES OF THE 13TH, 14TH AND 15TH CENTURIES, published from original MSS. With an Introduction, 3 v. 1810.

TALES OF THE EAST. 3 v. 1811.

This romance forms the 153rd chapter of an edition of the 'Gesta Romanorum', printed in 1488, and is considered as the probable original of the play of 'Pericles'. It was rendered into Anglo-Saxon.

ARGONAUTICS, in four books, by Francis Fawkes, 1780.

THE ANCIENT HISTORIE AND EXQUISITE CHRONICLE OF THE ROMAN WARRES.... 1578.

The history is a compilation. Of the twenty-four books only eleven are extant.

FABLE OF CUPID AND PSYCHE. by Thos. Taylor. 1795.

MEMORANDA OF ANGELICAL DOCTRINE, FROM LADY DAY TO THE ASCENTION: digested and done into English ... by W. Humphrey. 1866.

CLOUSTON, W. A. ARABIAN POETRY FOR ENGLISH READERS. 1881.

LYALL, SIR C. J. TRANSLATIONS OF ANCIENT ARABIAN POETRY, with an introduction and notes. 1885.

PRIDEAUX, W. F. THE LAY OF THE HIMYARITES. 1879.

'The most famous product of Arabian literature: a large collection of entertaining tales of unknown origin. The stories of Aladdin, of Sindbad the Sailor, of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and many others, are as well known to English people of every age as any stories from their native literature.' The influence of these stories on English literature is incalculable.

DIALOGUES, COMEDIES, LETTERS. 1538-57.

SONNETS AND OTHER POEMS. .

Imitated largely by Nash, and the Elizabethan pamphleteers.

THE SUPPOSES : A comedie written in the Italian Tongue by A. and Englisshed by G. Gascoygne. In. .

'Ariosto', says Hallam, 'has been, after Homer, the favourite poet of Europe.'

A. based his epics on the writings of Virgil. He was Spenser's favourite poet, who suggested the style and form used in the 'Faerie Queene'.

'Orlando Furioso' is closely imitated from Boiardo's 'Orlando Innamorato.' His 'Satyres' are written in the Horatian manner.

THE BIRDS OF A. From the Text of Dindorf. With notes by H. P. Cookesley, 1834.

A PLEASANT COMEDY ENTITLED HEY FOR HONESTY, DOWN WITH KNAVERY. Tr. by Thos. Randorph, 1651.

THE WORLD'S IDOL; or, PLUTUS THE GOD OF WEALTH. From the Greek by H. H. B. 1659.

The comedies of A. bear a close resemblance to the work of our comic playwriters to-day.

ARISTOTLE'S RHETORIC ... MADE ENGLISH ... In four books. 1656.

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