TO MY SOVERAIN LADY. By John Lydgate. § 40. XII. BALLAD OF GOOD COUNSEL. By John Lydgate. § 41. XIII. BEWARE OF DOUBLENESS. By John Lydgate. § 42. XIV. A BALADE: WARNING MEN, &c. By John Lydgate. § 43. XV. THREE SAYINGS. By John Lydgate. § 44. XVI. LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCY. By Sir Richard Ros. Date, about 1460. § 45. Apparently in the Leicestershire dialect. § 46. Alan Chartier. § 47. Thynne's text and the MSS. § 48. XVII. THE TESTAMENT OF CRESSEID. By Robert Henryson. Date, about 1460. § 49. XVIII. THE CUCKOO AND THE NIGHTINGALE. Probably by Sir Thomas Clanvowe. § 50. The queen at Woodstock; about A.D. 1403. § 51. Clanvowe's excessive use of the final _-e_. § 52. His partiality for 'headless' lines. § 53. Milton's Sonnet to the Nightingale. § 54. XIX. ENVOY TO ALISON. Not by Clanvowe. § 55. XX. THE FLOWER AND THE LEAF. By the authoress of The Assembly of Ladies. § 56. The former is the earlier poem. Neither of them is by Chaucer. § 57. Variations from Chaucer's usages. § 58. Examination of the Rimes. § 59. Change in pronunciation. § 60. Gower on the Flower and the Leaf. § 61. XXI. THE ASSEMBLY OF LADIES. By the authoress of The Flower and the Leaf. § 62. Ordering of a medieval household. § 63. XXII. A GOODLY BALADE. By John Lydgate. Imperfect. § 64. XXIII. GO FORTH, KING. By John Lydgate. § 65. _Duodecim Abusiones._ § 66. XXIV. THE COURT OF LOVE. First printed in 1561. § 67. Tyrwhitt's plan for a Glossary to the Canterbury Tales. § 68. Moxon's edition of Chaucer; establishing an erroneous canon of Chaucer's Works. § 69. How to draw up such a canon correctly. § 70. The Court of Love discussed. § 71. The Trinity MS. and the language. § 72. Artificiality of the archaisms affected. § 73. Examination of the Rimes. § 74. Comparison with Chaucerian English. § 75. The Courts of Love. § 76. Pieces numbered XXV-XXIX. § 77. Twelve authors (at least) distinguished in the present volume. § 78. There are probably four more. § 79. Improvements in the present PAGE edition ix I. THOMAS USK: THE TESTAMENT OF LOVE. BOOK I: PROLOGUE AND CHAPTERS I-X 1 BOOK II: CHAPTERS I-XIV 46 BOOK III: CHAPTERS I-IX 101 II. THE PLOWMANS TALE 147 III. JACK UPLAND 191 IV. JOHN GOWER: THE PRAISE OF PEACE 205 V. THOMAS HOCCLEVE: THE LETTER OF CUPID 217 VI. THE SAME: TO THE KINGES MOST NOBLE GRACE 233 TO THE LORDES AND KNIGHTES OF THE GARTER 234 VII. HENRY SCOGAN: A MORAL BALADE 237