As a matter of literary honesty, as well as for my own comfort, I may be permitted to state that this is the only volume of the new edition of the _Garner_ for which I am responsible or can take credit. I have eaten at least one dinner intended for my friend Mr. A.F. Pollard; my wastepaper basket has received applications for subscriptions which prove his reputation for generosity; I have even received a cheque, which the fact that it is reckoned forgery under some circumstances for a man to sign his own name forbade my cashing; and I have recently been more congratulated as the author of his _Henry VIII._ than I have ever been on any book of my own. So far from being identical, I regret to say that we are not even related; but as we seem to be as much mistaken as the two Dromios, I hope that our appearance side by side in this new edition of the _Garner_ may help to distinguish rather than further confound us. ALFRED W. POLLARD. CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE, iii INTRODUCTION, vii John Lydgate (?). The Siege of Harfleur and the Battle of Agincourt, 1 Thomas Occleve. The Letter of Cupid, 14 A Little Geste of Robin Hood and his Meiny and of the proud Sheriff of Nottingham, 35 English Carols. From a Manuscript at Balliol College, Oxford, 83 The Examination of Master William Thorpe, priest, of heresy, before Thomas Arundell, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1407, 90 The Examination of Sir John Oldcastle, 175 On Translating the Bible. Chapter XV. of the Prologue to the second recension of the Wycliffite version, 193 John Trevisa. Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk upon Translation, 203 William Caxton. Prefaces and Epilogues:-- The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy, 213 Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers, 218 Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiae, 222 Golden Legend, 225 Caton 227 AEsop, 230 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, second edition, 232 Malory's King Arthur, 234 Eneydos, 239 A Miracle Play of the Nativity. The Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors, from the Coventry Corpus Christi Plays, 245 Everyman: A Moral Play, 277