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... . Mr A. W. Pollard has charged him- self with Middle English and almost all the writers down to Reformation times - Layamon , the Ormulum , the Chronicles and Romances , Piers Plowman , Chaucer and his successors , Wyclif , Preface vii :
... . Mr A. W. Pollard has charged him- self with Middle English and almost all the writers down to Reformation times - Layamon , the Ormulum , the Chronicles and Romances , Piers Plowman , Chaucer and his successors , Wyclif , Preface vii :
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... ROMANCES THOMAS LINACRE • SIR TRISTREM ' ' HAVELOK THE DANE ' ' KING HORN ' WILLIAM LILLY JOHN COLET SIR THOMAS MORE ... ROMANCES 50 HUGH LATIMER RICHARD CŒUR DE LION ' 50 ARCHBISHOP CRANMER 6 BEVIS OF HAMPTON ' 51 JOHN LELAND GUY OF ...
... ROMANCES THOMAS LINACRE • SIR TRISTREM ' ' HAVELOK THE DANE ' ' KING HORN ' WILLIAM LILLY JOHN COLET SIR THOMAS MORE ... ROMANCES 50 HUGH LATIMER RICHARD CŒUR DE LION ' 50 ARCHBISHOP CRANMER 6 BEVIS OF HAMPTON ' 51 JOHN LELAND GUY OF ...
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... romance and song up to the present day . A fourth school of poetry , imitative of the old poetry of the north , continued under the Norman - Welsh rule till the days of Henry the Second , when the Black Book of Carmarthen was made of ...
... romance and song up to the present day . A fourth school of poetry , imitative of the old poetry of the north , continued under the Norman - Welsh rule till the days of Henry the Second , when the Black Book of Carmarthen was made of ...
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... romance . After this poem silence follows . The Fight at Maldon is the last song of the war - poetry of England before the Conquest . Not till long after the Conquest did it rise again , and then it rose almost a stranger to the ancient ...
... romance . After this poem silence follows . The Fight at Maldon is the last song of the war - poetry of England before the Conquest . Not till long after the Conquest did it rise again , and then it rose almost a stranger to the ancient ...
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... Romance . The history of Apollonius of Tyre , used by Shakespeare in the play of Pericles , was now rendered into English prose out of the Latin translation of the late Greek story . Two other translations out of the Latin reproductions ...
... Romance . The history of Apollonius of Tyre , used by Shakespeare in the play of Pericles , was now rendered into English prose out of the Latin translation of the late Greek story . Two other translations out of the Latin reproductions ...
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