INDEX

KEY TO PRONUNCIATION

[=a], as in fate; [)a], as in fat; ä, as in arm; [a:], as in all; [a.], as in what; â, as in care

[=e], as in mete; [)e], as in met; ê, as in there

[=i], as in ice; [)i], as in it; ï, as in machine

[=o], as in old; [)o], as in not; [o:], as in move; [.o], as in son; ô, as in horse; [=oo] as in food; [)oo], as in foot

[=u], as in use; [)u], as in up; û, as in fur; [:u], as in rule; [.u], as in pull

[=y], as in fly; [)y], as in baby

c, as in call; ç, as in mice; ch, as in child; [-c]h, as in school

g, as in go; [.g], as in cage

s, as in saw; [s=], as in is

th, as in thin; th, as in then

x, as in vex; [x=], as in exact.

NOTE. Titles of books, poems, essays, etc., are in italics.

Absalom and Achitophel ([=a]-chit'o-fel) Abt Vogler (äpt v[=o]g'ler) Actors, in early plays; Elizabethan Addison; life; works; hymns; influence; style Adonais (ad-[=o]-n[=a]'is) Aesc (esk) Aidan, St. ([=i]'dan) Aids to Reflection Alastor ([)a]-l[)a]s-tôr) Alchemist, The Alexander's Feast Alfred, King; life and times; works All for Love Alysoun, or Alisoun (äl'[)y]-sown or äl'[)y]-zoon), old form of Alice Amelia American Taxation, Burke's speech on An Epistle Anatomy of Melancholy Ancren Riwle (angk'ren rol) Andrea del Sarto (än-dr[=a]'yä del sär't[=o]) Andreas Angeln Angles, the Anglo-Norman Period; literature; ballads; lyrics; summary; selections for reading; bibliography; questions on; chronology Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Anglo-Saxon Period; early poetry; springs of poetry; language; Christian writers; source books; summary; selections for reading; bibliography; questions on; chronology Anglo-Saxons; the name; life; language; literature, see Anglo-Saxon Period. Annus Mirabilis Anselm Apologia, Newman's Apologie for Poetrie Arcadia Areopagitica ([)a]r'=[=e]-[)o]p-[)a]-j[)i]t'[)i]-cä) Arnold, Matthew; life; poetry; prose works; characteristics Art, definition of Arthurian romances Artistic period of drama Artistic quality of literature Ascham, Roger Assonance Astraea Redux ([)a]s-tr[=e]'ä r[=e]'duks) Astrophel and Stella ([)a]s'tr[=o]-fel) Atalanta in Calydon ([)a]t-[)a]-l[)a]n'tä, k[)a]l'[)i]-d[)o]n) Augustan Age, meaning. See Eighteenth-century literature Aurora Leigh ([a:]-r[=o]'rä l[=e]) Austen, Jane; life; novels; Scott's criticism of Bacon, Francis; life; works; place and influence Bacon, Roger Ballad, the Ballads and Sonnets Barchester Towers Bard, The Bard of the Dimbovitza (dim-bo-vitz'ä), Roumanian folk songs Battle of Agincourt (English, [)a]j'in-k[=o]rt) Battle of Brunanburh Battle of the Books Baxter, Richard Beaumont, Francis (b[=o]'mont) Becket Bede; his history; his account of Cædmon Bells and Pomegranates Benefit of clergy Beowulf (b[=a]'[=o]-wulf), the poem; history; poetical form; manuscript of Beowulf's Mount Bibliographies, study of literature; Anglo-Saxon Period; Norman; Chaucer; Revival of Learning; Elizabethan; Puritan; Restoration; Eighteenth century; Romanticism; Victorian; general Bickerstaff Almanac Biographia Literaria Blackmore, Richard Blake, William; life; works Blank verse Blessed Damozel Blot in the 'Scutcheon, A Boethius (b[=o]-[=e]'thi-us) Boileau (bwa-l[=o]'), French critic Boke of the Duchesse Book of Martyrs Borough, The Boswell, James. See also Johnson Boy actors Breton, Nicholas Brontë, Charlotte and Emily Browne, Thomas; works Browning, Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert; life; works; obscurity of; as a teacher; compared with Shakespeare; with Tennyson; periods of work; soul studies; place and message Brut, Layamon's; quotation from Brutus, alleged founder of Britain Bulwer Lytton Bunyan, John; life; works; his style Burke, Edmund; life; works; analysis of his orations Burney, Fanny (Madame D'Arblay) Burns, Robert; life; poetry; Carlyle's essay on Burton, Robert Butler, Samuel Byron; life; works; compared with Scott Cædmon (k[)a]d'mon), life; works; his Paraphrase; school of Cain Callista Calvert, Raisley Camden, William Campaign, The Campion, Thomas Canterbury Tales; plan of; prologue; Dryden's criticism of Canynge's coffer Carew, Thomas Carlyle; life; works; style and message Carols, in early plays Casa Guidi Windows (kä'sä gw[=e]'d[=e]) Castell of Perseverance Castle of Indolence Cata Cavalier poets Caxton; specimen of printing Celtic legends Chanson de Gestes Chanson de Roland Chapman, George; his Homer; Keats's sonnet on Chatterton, Thomas Chaucer, how to read; life; works; form of his poetry; melody; compared with Spenser Chaucer, Age of: history; writers; summary; selections for reading; bibliography; questions on; chronology Chester plays Cheyne Row Childe Harold Child's Garden of Verses Chocilaicus (k[=o]-kil-[=a]'[=i]-cus) Christ, The, of Cynewulf Christabel Christian Year Christmas Carol, A Christ's Hospital, London Chronicle, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle plays Chronicles, riming Chronology: Anglo-Saxon Period; Norman-French; Age of Chaucer; Revival of Learning; Elizabethan; Puritan; Restoration; Eighteenth Century; Romanticism; Victorian Citizen of the World Clarissa Classic and classicism Classic influence on the drama Cloister and the Hearth Clough, Arthur Hugh Cockaygne, Land of (k[=o]-k[=a]n') Coleridge; life; works; critiqal writings Collier, Jeremy Collins, William Comedy, definition; first English; of the court Complete Angler, The Comus, Masque of Conciliation with America, Burke's speech Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Consolations of Philosophy Cotter's Saturday Night Couplet, the Court comedies Covenant of 1643 Coventry plays Cowley, Abraham Cowper, William; life; works Crabbe, George Cranford Crashaw, Richard Critic, meaning of Critical writing, Dryden; Coleridge; in Age of Romanticism; in Victorian Age Criticism, Arnold's definition Cross, John Walter Crown of Wild Olive Culture and Anarchy Curse of Jfehama (k[=e]-hä'mä) Cursor Mundi Cycles, of plays; of romances Cynewulf (kin'[)e]-wulf), 36-38 Cynthia's Revels (sin'thi-ä) Daniel, Samuel Daniel Deronda D'Arblay, Madame (Fanny Burney) Darwin and Darwinism Death, Raleigh's apostrophe to Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Defense of Poesie Defensio pro Populo Anglicano Defoe; life; works Dekker, Thomas Delia Democracy and Romanticism; in Victorian Age Dear's Lament De Quincey; life; works; style De Sapientia Veterum Deserted Village, The Dethe of Blanche the Duchesse Diary, Evelyn's; Pepys's; selections from Dickens; life; works; general plan of novels; his characters; his public; limitations Dictionary, Johnson's Discoverie of Guiana (g[=e]-ä'nä) Divina Commedia (d[=e]-v[=e]'nä kom-m[=a]'d[=e]-ä) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Domestic drama Donne, John his poetry Dotheboys Hall (do-the-boys) Drama, in Elizabethan Age origin, periods of, miracle and mystery plays, interludes, classical influence on, unities, the English, types of, decline of. See also Elizabethan Age, Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, etc. Dramatic unities Dramatists, methods of See Shakespeare, Marlowe, etc. Drapier's Letters Drayton, Michael Dream of Gerontius, The (j[)e]-r[)o]n'sh[)i]-us) Dryden life, works, influence, criticism of Canterbury Tales Duchess of Malfi (mäl'f[=e]) Dunciad, The (dun's[)i]-ad) Ealhild, queen ([=e]-äl'hild) Earthly Paradise Eastward Ho! Economic conditions, in Age of Romanticism Edgeworth, Maria Edward II Egoist, The Eighteenth-Century Literature: history of the period, literary characteristics, the Classic Age, Augustan writers, romantic revival, the first novelists, summary, selections for reading, bibliography, questions, chronology, Eikon Basilike ([=i]'kon b[)a]-sil'[)i]-k[=e]) Eikonoklastes ([=i]-kon-[=o]-klas't[=e]z) Elegy, Gray's Elene Elizabethan Age history, non-dramatic poets, first dramatists, Shakespeare's predecessors, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's contemporaries and successors, prose writers, summary, selections, bibliography, questions, chronology Endymion English Bards and Scotch Reviewers English Humorists English Idyls Eormanric ([=e]-or'man-ric) Epicaene ([)e]p'[=i]-sen), or The Silent Woman Epithalamium ([)e]p-[)i]-th[=a]-l[=a]'m[)i]-um) Erasmus Essay concerning Human Understanding Essay of Dramatic Poesy Essay on Burns Essay on Criticism Essay on Man Essay on Milton Essays, Addison's, Bacon's Essays in Criticism Essays of Elia ([=e]'l[)i]-ä) Ethics of the Dust Euphues and euphuism ([=u]'f[=u]-[=e]z) Evans, Mary Ann. See George Eliot Evelyn, John Everlasting No, and Yea, The Every Man in His Humour Everyman Excursion, The Exeter Book Faber, Frederick Fables, Dryden's Faery Queen Fall of Princes Faust (foust), Faustus (fas'tus) Ferrex and Porrex Fielding, novels, characteristics Fight at Finnsburgh Fingal (fing'gal) First-folio Shakespeare Fletcher, Giles Fletcher, John Ford, John Formalism Four Georges, The Foxe, John Fragments of Ancient Poetry French influence in Restoration literature French language in England French Revolution, influence of French Revolution, Carlyle's Fuller, Thomas Gammer Gurton's Needle Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth Gawain and the Green Knight (gä'-w[=a]n) Gawain cycle of romances, 57 Gebir (g[=a]-b[=e]r') Geoffrey of Monmouth (jef'r[)i]) George Eliot; life; works; characteristics; as a moralist Gest (or jest) books Geste of Robin Hood Gibbon, his history Gifts of God, The Girondists (j[)i]-ron'dists) Gleemen, or minstrels Goldsmith; life; works Good Counsel Gorboduc (gôr'b[=o]-duk) Gorgeous Gallery Gower Grace Abounding Gray, Thomas; life; works Greatest English Poets Greene, Robert Gregory, Pope Grendel; story of; mother of Grubb Street Gulliver's Travels Gull's Hornbook Hakluyt, Richard (h[)a]k'loot) Hallam, his criticism of Bacon Hardy, Thomas Hastings, battle of Hathaway, Anne Hazlitt, William Hengist (h[)e]ng'gist) Henry Esmond Herbert, George; life; poetry of Hero and Leander Heroes and Hero Worship Heroic couplet Heroic Stanzas Herrick, Robert Hesperides and Noble Numbers (h[)e]s-p[)e]r'[)i]-d[=e]z) Heywood, John Heywood, Thomas Hilda, abbess Hildgund (hild'gund) Historical novel History, of England, Macaulay's; of Frederick the Great, Carlyle's; of Henry VIII, Bacon's; of the Reformation in Scotland, Knox's; of the Wortd, Raleigh's Hnæf (n[e=]f) Hobbes, Thomas Holofernes (hol-[=o]-fer'n[=e]z) in Judith Holy and Profane State Holy Living Holy War Homer, Chapman's; Dryden's; Pope's; Cowper's Hooker, Richard Hooker, Thomas Hours in a Library Hours of Idleness House of Fame House of Life Hrothgar (r[)o]th'gar) Hudibras (h[=u]'d[)i]-bras) Humanism Humphrey Clinker Hunt, Leigh Husband's Message Huxley, Hygelac (h[=i]-j[=e]'lak) Hymn book, first English Hymn to Intellectual Beauty Hymns, Addison's; Cowper's Hypatia (h[=i]-p[=a]'shia) Hyperion (h[=i]-p[=e]'r[)i]-on) Idealism of Victorian Age Ideals Idols, of Bacon Idylls of the King Il Penseroso (il pen-s[)e]-r[=o]'s[=o]) Iliad, Pope's translation; Chapman's; Dryden's Imaginary Conversations Impeachment of Warren Hastings In Memoriam Instauratio Magna (in-sta-r[=a]'shi-o) Interludes Intimations of Immortality Jacobean poets Jane Eyre (âr) Jeffrey, Francis Jest (or gest) books Jew of Malta John Gilpin Johnson, Samuel; life; works; his conversations; Boswell's Life of Johnson Jonathan Wild Jonson, Ben; life; works Joseph Andrews Journal of the Plague Year Journal to Stella Judith Juliana Keats; life; works; place in literature Kilmarnock Burns, the Kings' Treasuries Kingsley, Charles Knight's Tale, The Knox, John Kubla Khan (kob'lä kän) Kyd, Thomas L'Allegro (läl-[=a]'gr[=o]) Lady of the Lake Lake poets, the Lamb, Charles; life; works; style Lamb, Mary Lamia (l[=a]'mi-ä) Land of Cockaygne (k[)o]-kän') Land of Dreams Landor, Walter Savage; life; works Langland, William Language, our first speech; dual character of; Teutonic origin Last Days of Pompeii (pom-p[=a]'y[=e]) Law, Hooker's idea of Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Lay Sermons Layamon Lays of Ancient Rome Lead, Kindly Light Lectures on Shakespeare Legends of Goode Wimmen Leviathan Lewes, George Henry Liberty of Prophesying Life, compared to a sea voyage Life of Johnson Life of Savage Lindsay, David Literary Club, the Literary criticism. See also Critical writing. Literary Reminiscences Literature, definition; qualities; tests; object in studying; importance; Goethe's definition; spirit of modern Literature and Dogma Lives, Plutarch's; Walton's Lives of the Poets Locke, John Lockhart, John Lorna Doone Lost Leader, The Lovelace, Richard Lycidas (lis'[)i]-das) Lydgate, John Lyly, John (lil'[)i]) Lyra Apostolica Lyrical Ballads Lytton, Edward Bulwer Macaulay; life; works; characteristics Macpherson, James (mak-fer'son) Magazines, the modern Maldon, The Battle of Malory Mandeville's Travels Manfred Marlowe; life; works; and Milton; and Shakespeare Marmion Marvell, Andrew Massinger, Philip Matter of France, Rome, and Britain Melodrama Memoirs of a Cavalier Meredith, George Merlin and the Gleam Metaphysical poets Metrical romances Middleton, Thomas Miles Gloriosus (m[=e]'les gl[=o]-r[)i]-[=o]'s[u:]s) Mill on the Floss Milton; life; early or Horton poems; prose works; later poetry; and Shakespeare; Wordsworth's sonnet on Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Miracle plays Mirror for Magistrates Mr. Badman, Life and Death of Modern literature, spirit of Modern Painters Modest Proposal, A Moral Epistles Moral period of the drama Moral purpose in Victorian literature Morality plays More, Hannah More, Thomas Morris, William Morte d'Arthur (mort där'ther) Mother Hubbard's Tale Mulèykeh (m[=u]-l[=a]'k[)a]) My Last Duchess Mysteries of Udolpho, The ([=u]-dol'f[=o]) Mystery plays New Atalantis Newcomes, The Newman, Cardinal; life; prose works; poems; style Newspapers, the first Nibelungenlied (n[=e]'b[)e]-lung-en-l[=e]d) Noah, Play of Norman Conquest Norman pageantry Norman period. See Anglo-Norman Normans; union with Saxons; literature of North, Christopher (John Wilson) North, Thomas Northanger Abbey (north'[=a]n-jer) Northern Antiquities Northumbrian literature; decline of; how saved Novel, meaning and history; precursors of; discovery of modern Novelists, the first English. See Scott, Dickens, etc. Novum Organum (or'g[)a]-num) Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity Ode to Dejection Ode to the West Wind Odes, Pindaric Odyssey, Pope's; Chapman's; Dryden's Old Fortunatus (for-t[=u]-n[=a]'tus) Oliver Cromwell, Carlyle's Oliver Twist Origin of Species Orlando Furioso (or-lan'd[=o] foo-r[=e]-[=o]'s[=o]) Orm, or Orme; his Ormulum Orosius ([=o]-r[=o]'si-us), his history Ossian (osh'ian) and Ossianic poems Owl and Nightingale, The Oxford movement P's, The Four Palamon and Arcite (pal'a-mon, är'-s[=i]te) Pamela (pam'e-lä) Pantisocracy (pan-t[=i]-sok'r[=a]-se), of Coleridge, Southey, etc. Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Paradyse of Daynty Devises Paraphrase, of Cædmon Parish Register, The Pauline Pearl, The Pelham Pendennis Pepys, Samuel (pep'is, peeps, pips) Percy, Thomas Peregrine Pickle (per'e-grin) Pericles and Aspasia (per'i-kl[=e]z, as-p[=a]'shi-ä) Philistines, the Phoenix (f[=e]'nix) Pickwick Papers Piers Plowman (peers) Pilgrim's Progress Pindaric odes (pin-där'ic) Pippa Passes Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven Plutarch's Lives Poems by Two Brothers Poetaster, The Polyolbion (pol-[)i]-ol'b[)i]-on) Pope, Alexander; life; works Porter, Jane Practice of Piety Praeterita (pr[=e]-ter'[)i]-tä) Praise of Folly Prelude, The Pre-Raphaelites (rä'f[=a]-el-ites) Pride and Prejudice Princess, The Prometheus Unbound (pr[=o]-m[=e]'th[=u]s) Prose development in eighteenth century Pseudo-classicism (s[=u]'d[=o]) Purchas, Samuel; Purchas His Pilgrimes Puritan Age: history; literary characteristics; poets; prose writers; compared with Elizabethan; summary; selections for reading; bibliography, questions; chronology Puritan movement Puritans, wrong ideas of Queen Mab, in Romeo and Juliet Queen's Gardens Rabbi Ben Ezra Radcliffe, Mrs. Anne Raleigh, Walter Ralph Royster Doyster Rambler essays Rape of the Lock Reade, Charles Realism Recluse, The Reflections on the French Revolution Religio Laici Religio Medici Religious period of the drama Reliques of Ancient English Poetry Reminiscences, Carlyle's Remorse Renaissance, the (re-n[=a]'säns, r[=e]'n[=a]s-sans, etc.) Restoration Period: history; literary characteristics; writers; summary; selections for reading; bibliography; questions; chronology Revival of Learning Period: history; literature; summary; selections for reading; bibliography; questions; chronology Revolt of Islam Revolution, French; of 1688; age of Richardson, Samuel; novels of Rights of Man Rime of the Ancient Alariner Rime Royal Ring and the Book, The Robin Hood Robinson Crusoe Roderick Roderick Random Romance; Greek Romances Romance languages Romance of the Rose Romantic comedy and tragedy Romantic enthusiasm Romantic poetry Romanticism, Age of; history; literary characteristics; poets; prose writers; summary; selections for reading; bibliography; questions; chronology Romanticism, meaning Romola Rosalynde Rossetti, Christina (ros-set't[=e]) Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rowley Papers Royal Society Runes Ruskin; life; works; characteristics; message Sackville, Thomas St. Catherine, Play of St. George's Guild Saints' Everlasting Rest Samson Agonistes (ag-o-nis't[=e]z) Sartor Resartus (sar'tor re-sar'tus) Satire; of Swift; of Thackeray Saxon. See Anglo-Saxon School of Shooting Science, in Victorian Age Scop, or poet (skop) Scott, Walter; life; poetry; novels; criticism of Jane Austen Scottish Chiefs Scyld (skild), story of Sea, names of, in Anglo-Saxon, 25 Seafarer, The Seasons, The Selections for reading: Anglo-Saxon period; Norman; Chaucer; Revival of Learning; Elizabethan; Puritan; Restoration; Eighteenth Century; Romanticism; Victorian Sentimental Journey Sesame and Lilies (ses'a-m[=e]) Shakespeare; life; works; four periods; sources of plays; classification of plays; doubtful plays; poems; place and influence She Stoops to Conquer Shelley; life; works; compared with Wordsworth Shepherds' Book Shepherd's Calendar Shirley, James Shoemaker's Holiday, The Short View of the English Stage Sidney, Philip Sigurd the Volsung Silas Marner Silent Woman, The Sir Charles Grandison Skelton, John Sketches by Boz Smollett, Tobias Social development in eighteenth century Sohrab and Rustum (soo'rhab, or s[=o]'hrab) Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience Sonnet, introduction of Sonnets, of Shakespeare; of Milton Sonnets from the Portuguese Southey; works Spanish Gypsy Spanish Tragedy Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Spectator, The Spenser; life; works; characteristics; compared with Chaucer Spenserian poets Spenserian stanza Stage, in early plays; Elizabethan Steele, Richard Stephen, Leslie Sterne, Lawrence Stevenson, Robert Louis Style, a test of literature Suckling, John Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of Swan, The Swift; life; works; satire; characteristics Swinburne Sylva Symonds, John Addington Tabard Inn Tale of a Tub Tale of Two Cities Tales from Shakespeare Tales in Verse Tales of the Hall Tam o' Shanter Tamburlaine (tam'bur-lane) Task, The Tatler, The Taylor, Jeremy Temora (te-m[=o]'rä) Tempest, The Temple, The Tennyson; life; works; characteristics; message Tenure of Kings and Magistrates Terra Tests of literature Teufelsdroeckh (toy'felz-droek) Thackeray; life; works; characteristics; style; and Dickens Thaddeus of Warsaw Thalaba (täl-ä'bä) Theater, the first Thomson, James Thyrsis (ther'sis) Timber Tintern Abbey Tirocinium (t[=i]-r[=o]-sin'[)i]-um), or A Review of Schools Tom Jones Tories and Whigs Tottel's Miscellany Townley plays Toxophilus (tok-sof'[)i]-lus) Tractarian movement Tracts for the Times Tragedy, definition, of blood Transition poets Traveler, The Treasure Island Treatises on Government Tristram Shandy Troilus and Cressida (tr[=o]'[)i]-lus, kres'-[)i]-dä) Trollope, Anthony Troyes, Treaty of Truth, or Good Counsel Tyndale, William (tin'dal) Udall, Nicholas ([=u]'dal) Udolpho ([=u]-dol'f[=o]) Unfortunate Traveller, The Universality, a test of literature University wits Unto This Last Utopia Vanity Fair Vanity of Human Wishes Vaughan, Henry Vercelli Book Vicar of Wakefield Vice, the, in old plays Victorian Age, history, literary characteristics, poets, novelists, essayists, etc., spirit of, summary, selections for reading, bibliography, questions, chronology View of the State of Ireland Village, The Vision of the Rood Volpone (vol-p[=o]'ne) Voyages, Hakluyt's Wakefield plays Waldere (väl-d[=a]'re, or väl'dare) Waller, Edmund Walton, Izaak Waverley Wealth of Nations Weather, The, play of Webster, John Wedmore, Treaty of Westward Ho Whigs and Tories Whitby (hwit'b[)i]) Widsith (vid'sith) Wiglaf (vig'läf) Wilson, John (Christopher North), Wither, George Women, in literature Wordsworth, life, poetry, poems of nature, poems of life, last works Wordsworth, Dorothy Worthies of England Wuthering Heights (wuth'er-ing) Wyatt (w[=i]'at), Thomas Wyclif (wik'lif) Wyrd (vird), or fate York plays

Why, man, she is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar and the rocks pure gold.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, II, 4.

Then the Courage-hearted quakes, when the King (Lord) he hears Speak to those who once on earth but obeyed Him weakly, While as yet their Yearning fain and their Need most easily Comfort might discover.... Gone is then the Winsomeness Of the earth's adornments! What to Us as men belonged Of the joys of life was locked, long ago, in Lake-flood. All the Fee on earth.

See Brooke's History of Early English Literature, pp. 377-379, or The Christ of Cynewulf, ed. by Cook, also by Gollancz.

33.

My robe is noiseless while I tread the earth, Or tarry 'neath the banks, or stir the shallows; But when these shining wings, this depth of air, Bear me aloft above the bending shores Where men abide, and far the welkin's strength Over the multitudes conveys me, then With rushing whir and clear melodious sound My raiment sings. And like a wandering spirit I float unweariedly o'er flood and field.

(Brougham's version, in Transl. from Old Eng. Poetry.)

Men yernen jestis for to here And romaunce rede in diverse manere,

and then follows a summary of the great cycles of romance, which we are considering.

61. I live

63. I am

66. I know

67. gone

77. act.

80. kick.

81. awl.

82. judge.

87. clad.

89. brook.

91. theirs

92. rule

94. called

95. theirs

96. yield

97. say

98. them

99. hate

102. rains

117. clad.

123. pity.

124. know.