6 Hauing then gifts differing according to the grace that is giuen to vs, whether prophecie, let vs prophecie according to the proportion of faith. 7 Or ministery, let vs wait, on our ministring: or hee that teacheth on teaching. 8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giueth let him doe it with simplicite: hee that ruleth, with diligence: hee that sheweth mercy with cheerefulnesse. II. Tabular Outline of modern English Literature. (Poems are mentioned in _Italics_.) WILLIAM DUNBAR, 1450-1530. Poet. _The Thistle and the Rose_ (1503); _The Golden Terge_ (1508); _The Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins_. The greatest of the Scottish poets except Burns. He has been called ‘the Chaucer of Scotland.’ SIR THOMAS MORE, 1480-1535. Barrister; Lord Chancellor of England; writer on social philosophy; historian. History of King Edward V., and of his brother, and of Richard III. (1513); Utopia (1516)--a description of a model state of society, written to influence the bettering of the laws of England. WILLIAM TYNDALE, 1477-1536. Priest; translator; author. Translation of New Testament (1525, 1534), also of the Pentateuch and Jonah (1530-31). He has done more by his version to fix and shape our language in its present form, than any writer between Chaucer and Shakspeare. SIR DAVID LYNDSAY, 1490-1556. Keeper of Prince James (afterwards James V. of Scotland); Lyon king-at-arms; poet. _Satire of the Three Estates_, that is, King, Lords, and Commons; _Monarchie_. ROGER ASCHAM, 1515-1568. Lecturer on Greek at Cambridge; tutor to Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth. Toxophĭlus, a treatise on shooting with the bow; The Schoolmaster, a book about teaching, especially the teaching of Latin. JOHN FOX, 1517-1587. Prebendary of Salisbury Cathedral. Book of Martyrs (1563), an account of the chief Protestant martyrs, chiefly those in the reign of Mary. EDMUND SPENSER, 1552-1599. Secretary to Viceroy of Ireland; poet. _Shepherd’s Calendar_ (1579); _Faerie Queene_ (1590-96), in six books. RICHARD HOOKER, 1553-1600. Scholar and theologian; Master of the Temple; and rector of a country church. Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. This is a defence of the Church of England, and contains passages of great majesty and splendour of diction. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, 1554-1586. Courtier; romancist; poet. Arcadia, a romance (1580); Defence of Poesie. Some _Sonnets_. FRANCIS BACON, 1561-1626. Lord High Chancellor of England; essayist; philosopher. Essays (1597); Advancement of Learning (1605); Novum Organum (1620); and other works on philosophy, and the art of gaining new knowledge. SIR WALTER RALEIGH, 1552-1618. Courtier; navigator; historian.