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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
C. F. CLAY, MANAGER
London: FETTER LANE, E. C. 4
Paris : THE GALIGNANI LIBRARY
Bombay, Calcutta and fuadras : MACMILLAN AND CO. , LTD.
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THE
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OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE
EDITED BY
A. W. WARD, Litt. D. , F. B. A. , Master of Peterhouse
AND
A. R. WALLER, M. A. , Peterhouse
VOLUME III
RENASCENCE AND REFORMATION
HET
*POC
ALYA
MATER
CANTA
BRIGT
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CAMBRIDGE:
at the University Press
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First edition, 1908
New impression, 1918
## p. v (#11) ###############################################
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cit
✓ 3
PREFATORY NOTE
THE
HE three volumes of The Cambridge History of English
Literature which are to follow the present will consist
of two concerned with the history of dramatic writing in England
to the middle, or thereabouts, of the seventeenth century, pre-
ceded by one dealing with poetry and prose other than dramatic
to the end, approximately, of the first quarter of the seventeenth
century. We find that it will be more convenient to publish the
volume concerned with Elizabethan and Jacobean prose and
poetry from Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton so soon as may
be after that now issued, with which it immediately associates
itself, rather than to defer it until after the issue of the two drama
volumes. These last, in a sense, will be complete in themselves,
and we hope to publish them without loss of time.
We have not cared to draw a hard and fast line between the
contents of volumes III and iv; the two should be taken together
as covering the sixteenth century and the early decades of the
seventeenth, apart from the drama.
The process of compression has had to be applied more
severely than we might have wished; but, in accordance with
the intentions expressed in the preface to volume I, we have not
scrupled to devote less space to well known writers, in order to
treat at greater length subjects concerning which difficulty may
be experienced in obtaining assistance elsewhere; neither have
we hesitated to limit the space devoted to generalisation rather
than restrict unduly that required for bibliographies.
We cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of acknowledging the
3 continued assistance received from scholars engaged in the teaching
+ of English literature at home and abroad, on both sides of the
15
150S. IS
## p. vi (#12) ##############################################
vi
Prefatory Note
Atlantic. And especially welcome has been the evidence of their
kindly-expressed appreciation of our aims offered by several
distinguished continental scholars—by Dr Richard Wülker of
Leipzig, himself eminent alike as a historian of English literature
and as a professor of the subject, whose criticisms thus possess a
twofold value; by Dr Cino Chiarini of Florence, to the continua-
tion of whose most welcome articles in La Cultura we are looking
forward; by Professor Albert Feuillerat of Rennes, a literary critic
of high reputation on both sides of the Channel, in the Revue de
[ Enseignement des Langues Vivantes and elsewhere; and by
others. The effective support given us in our endeavours to
provide a history for both the general reader and the student by
the combination of a text abstaining as much as possible from
technicalities, with bibliographies as full as possible of matter, has
been a source of great encouragement to us in carrying on our
task. We are convinced that it is the duty of a university Press
to endeavour both to meet the highest demands that can be made
upon its productions by men of learning and letters, and to enable
the many to share in the knowledge acquired by the few.
It may interest our readers to know that, by permission of the
Syndics of the Press, copies of Professor Manly's chapter on Piers
the Plowman, in our second volume, have been circulated among
its members by the Early English Text Society-the body of
scholars best qualified to estimate the importance of this con-
tribution. The offprint is accompanied by a few pages of
regnant 'forewords' from the pen of the veteran founder and
director of the Society, and by the article on the same subject
contributed to Modern Philology in January 1906 and Dr Henry
Bradley's letter in The Athenceum of 21 April 1906.
A. W. W.
A. R. W.
CAMBRIDGE,
28 December 1908.
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
ENGLISHMEN AND THE CLASSICAL RENASCENCE
By the Rev. T. M. LINDSAY, D. D. , Principal of the Glasgow
College of the United Free Church of Scotland.
PAGE
The birth of the classical renascence Erasmus. His first visit to
England. Thomas Linacre. William Grocyn. English students
at Paris. John Colet. William Lily. John Fisher. Sir Thomas
More. The spread of the classical renascence. Sir Thomas Elyot.
Thomas Wilson
1
CHAPTER II
REFORMATION LITERATURE IN ENGLAND
By the Rev. J. P. WHITNEY, B. D. , King's College, Cambridge;
Professor of Ecclesiastical History, King's College, London.
Simon Fish. Erasmus and Cambridge. Aspects of the reformation.
The Book of Common Prayer. Evolution of the prayer-book.
Thomas Cranmer. His influence. The Homilies. Hugh Latimer.
His sermons. William Tindale. The Bible in English. Miles
Coverdale. The Great Bible. The Scots New Testament.
Hymns. Sternhold and Hopkins. Results of the reformation
period
25
CHAPTER III
THE DISSOLUTION OF THE RELIGIOUS HOUSES
By the Rev. R. H. BENSON, M. A. , Trinity College.
Destruction of books and of opportunities for study. Decrease of
scholarship. New methods of thought, New channels of inter-
course. Antiquarian study
48
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Contents
CHAPTER IV
BARCLAY AND SKELTON
EARLY GERMAN INFLUENCES ON ENGLISH LITERATURE
PAGE
By ARTHUR KOELBING, Ph. D. , Freiburg im Breisgau.
Alexander Barclay. Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff. Barclay's
additions to Brant. The influence of The Ship of Fools.
Barclay's Eclogues. John Skelton. Phyllyp Sparowe. The
Bouge of Courte. Colyn Clout. Speke, Parrot. Why come
ye nat to courte? Magnyfycence. Characteristics of Skelton.
German influence on English literature. English protestant
dialogues. Grobianus
56
CHAPTER V
THE' PROGRESS OF SOCIAL LITERATURE IN TUDOR TIMES
By HAROLD V. ROUTH, M. A. , Peterhouse, Professor
of Latin in Trinity College, Toronto.
Cocke Lorell's bote. Mock testaments. Fraternities, orders and
dances of death. The boke of Mayd Emlyn. Widow Edith.
Satires and disquisitions on women. The Schole-house of women.
The Proude Wyves Paternoster. Jest-books. The Geystes of
Skoggan. Howleglass. Riddles and broadsides. Transition of
society. The Complaynt of Roderyck Mors. Robert Crowley.
The Hye Way to the Spyttel Hous. Awdeley's Fraternitye of
vacabones. Harman's Caveat. Cosmopolitanism. Andrew Boorde.
William Bullein. A Dialogue against the Fever Pestilence.
Superstition in the sixteenth century. Scot's Discoverie of Witch-
craft.
83
CHAPTER VI
SIR DAVID LYNDSAY
AND THE LATER SCOTTISH 'MAKARIS'
By T. F. HENDERSON.
The Dreme. The Testament and Complaynt of our Soverane
Lordis Papyngo. Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis.
Minor poets. Sir Richard Maitland. Alexander Scott. Alexander
Montgomerie
115
.
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Contents
ix
CHAPTER VII
PAGE
BEFORMATION AND RENASCENCE IN SCOTLAND
By P. HUME BROWN, M. A. , LL. D. , Scottish Historiographer Royal;
Professor of Ancient (Scottish) History and Palaeography in
the University of Edinburgh.
The reformation in Scotland. Patrick Hamilton. Alexander Alane.
Plays.
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1
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
C. F. CLAY, MANAGER
London: FETTER LANE, E. C. 4
Paris : THE GALIGNANI LIBRARY
Bombay, Calcutta and fuadras : MACMILLAN AND CO. , LTD.
Toronto: J. M. DENT AND SONS, LTD.
Tokgo: THE MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA
Copyrighted in the United States of America by
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
2, 4 AND 6 WEST 45TH STREET, New YORK CITY
1
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THE
CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE
EDITED BY
A. W. WARD, Litt. D. , F. B. A. , Master of Peterhouse
AND
A. R. WALLER, M. A. , Peterhouse
VOLUME III
RENASCENCE AND REFORMATION
HET
*POC
ALYA
MATER
CANTA
BRIGT
HINC
CAMBRIDGE:
at the University Press
1918
## p. iv (#10) ##############################################
First edition, 1908
New impression, 1918
## p. v (#11) ###############################################
R820. 7
cit
✓ 3
PREFATORY NOTE
THE
HE three volumes of The Cambridge History of English
Literature which are to follow the present will consist
of two concerned with the history of dramatic writing in England
to the middle, or thereabouts, of the seventeenth century, pre-
ceded by one dealing with poetry and prose other than dramatic
to the end, approximately, of the first quarter of the seventeenth
century. We find that it will be more convenient to publish the
volume concerned with Elizabethan and Jacobean prose and
poetry from Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton so soon as may
be after that now issued, with which it immediately associates
itself, rather than to defer it until after the issue of the two drama
volumes. These last, in a sense, will be complete in themselves,
and we hope to publish them without loss of time.
We have not cared to draw a hard and fast line between the
contents of volumes III and iv; the two should be taken together
as covering the sixteenth century and the early decades of the
seventeenth, apart from the drama.
The process of compression has had to be applied more
severely than we might have wished; but, in accordance with
the intentions expressed in the preface to volume I, we have not
scrupled to devote less space to well known writers, in order to
treat at greater length subjects concerning which difficulty may
be experienced in obtaining assistance elsewhere; neither have
we hesitated to limit the space devoted to generalisation rather
than restrict unduly that required for bibliographies.
We cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of acknowledging the
3 continued assistance received from scholars engaged in the teaching
+ of English literature at home and abroad, on both sides of the
15
150S. IS
## p. vi (#12) ##############################################
vi
Prefatory Note
Atlantic. And especially welcome has been the evidence of their
kindly-expressed appreciation of our aims offered by several
distinguished continental scholars—by Dr Richard Wülker of
Leipzig, himself eminent alike as a historian of English literature
and as a professor of the subject, whose criticisms thus possess a
twofold value; by Dr Cino Chiarini of Florence, to the continua-
tion of whose most welcome articles in La Cultura we are looking
forward; by Professor Albert Feuillerat of Rennes, a literary critic
of high reputation on both sides of the Channel, in the Revue de
[ Enseignement des Langues Vivantes and elsewhere; and by
others. The effective support given us in our endeavours to
provide a history for both the general reader and the student by
the combination of a text abstaining as much as possible from
technicalities, with bibliographies as full as possible of matter, has
been a source of great encouragement to us in carrying on our
task. We are convinced that it is the duty of a university Press
to endeavour both to meet the highest demands that can be made
upon its productions by men of learning and letters, and to enable
the many to share in the knowledge acquired by the few.
It may interest our readers to know that, by permission of the
Syndics of the Press, copies of Professor Manly's chapter on Piers
the Plowman, in our second volume, have been circulated among
its members by the Early English Text Society-the body of
scholars best qualified to estimate the importance of this con-
tribution. The offprint is accompanied by a few pages of
regnant 'forewords' from the pen of the veteran founder and
director of the Society, and by the article on the same subject
contributed to Modern Philology in January 1906 and Dr Henry
Bradley's letter in The Athenceum of 21 April 1906.
A. W. W.
A. R. W.
CAMBRIDGE,
28 December 1908.
## p. vii (#13) #############################################
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
ENGLISHMEN AND THE CLASSICAL RENASCENCE
By the Rev. T. M. LINDSAY, D. D. , Principal of the Glasgow
College of the United Free Church of Scotland.
PAGE
The birth of the classical renascence Erasmus. His first visit to
England. Thomas Linacre. William Grocyn. English students
at Paris. John Colet. William Lily. John Fisher. Sir Thomas
More. The spread of the classical renascence. Sir Thomas Elyot.
Thomas Wilson
1
CHAPTER II
REFORMATION LITERATURE IN ENGLAND
By the Rev. J. P. WHITNEY, B. D. , King's College, Cambridge;
Professor of Ecclesiastical History, King's College, London.
Simon Fish. Erasmus and Cambridge. Aspects of the reformation.
The Book of Common Prayer. Evolution of the prayer-book.
Thomas Cranmer. His influence. The Homilies. Hugh Latimer.
His sermons. William Tindale. The Bible in English. Miles
Coverdale. The Great Bible. The Scots New Testament.
Hymns. Sternhold and Hopkins. Results of the reformation
period
25
CHAPTER III
THE DISSOLUTION OF THE RELIGIOUS HOUSES
By the Rev. R. H. BENSON, M. A. , Trinity College.
Destruction of books and of opportunities for study. Decrease of
scholarship. New methods of thought, New channels of inter-
course. Antiquarian study
48
## p. viii (#14) ############################################
viii
Contents
CHAPTER IV
BARCLAY AND SKELTON
EARLY GERMAN INFLUENCES ON ENGLISH LITERATURE
PAGE
By ARTHUR KOELBING, Ph. D. , Freiburg im Breisgau.
Alexander Barclay. Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff. Barclay's
additions to Brant. The influence of The Ship of Fools.
Barclay's Eclogues. John Skelton. Phyllyp Sparowe. The
Bouge of Courte. Colyn Clout. Speke, Parrot. Why come
ye nat to courte? Magnyfycence. Characteristics of Skelton.
German influence on English literature. English protestant
dialogues. Grobianus
56
CHAPTER V
THE' PROGRESS OF SOCIAL LITERATURE IN TUDOR TIMES
By HAROLD V. ROUTH, M. A. , Peterhouse, Professor
of Latin in Trinity College, Toronto.
Cocke Lorell's bote. Mock testaments. Fraternities, orders and
dances of death. The boke of Mayd Emlyn. Widow Edith.
Satires and disquisitions on women. The Schole-house of women.
The Proude Wyves Paternoster. Jest-books. The Geystes of
Skoggan. Howleglass. Riddles and broadsides. Transition of
society. The Complaynt of Roderyck Mors. Robert Crowley.
The Hye Way to the Spyttel Hous. Awdeley's Fraternitye of
vacabones. Harman's Caveat. Cosmopolitanism. Andrew Boorde.
William Bullein. A Dialogue against the Fever Pestilence.
Superstition in the sixteenth century. Scot's Discoverie of Witch-
craft.
83
CHAPTER VI
SIR DAVID LYNDSAY
AND THE LATER SCOTTISH 'MAKARIS'
By T. F. HENDERSON.
The Dreme. The Testament and Complaynt of our Soverane
Lordis Papyngo. Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis.
Minor poets. Sir Richard Maitland. Alexander Scott. Alexander
Montgomerie
115
.
## p. ix (#15) ##############################################
Contents
ix
CHAPTER VII
PAGE
BEFORMATION AND RENASCENCE IN SCOTLAND
By P. HUME BROWN, M. A. , LL. D. , Scottish Historiographer Royal;
Professor of Ancient (Scottish) History and Palaeography in
the University of Edinburgh.
The reformation in Scotland. Patrick Hamilton. Alexander Alane.
Plays. The Gude and Godlie Ballatis. John Knox. Historie
of the reformatioun in Scotland. Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie.
The Diary of Mr James Melville. Historians. Political ballads.
John Major. The Complaynt of Scotland. Ninian Winzet.
John Leslie. Hector Boece. George Buchanan
138
.
CHAPTER VIII
THE NEW ENGLISH POETRY
By HAROLD H. CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose
College, Oxford.
Tottel's Miscellany. Sir Thomas Wyatt.
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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
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VOLUME III
RENASCENCE AND REFORMATION
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1
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
C. F. CLAY, MANAGER
London: FETTER LANE, E. C. 4
Paris : THE GALIGNANI LIBRARY
Bombay, Calcutta and fuadras : MACMILLAN AND CO. , LTD.
Toronto: J. M. DENT AND SONS, LTD.
Tokgo: THE MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA
Copyrighted in the United States of America by
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
2, 4 AND 6 WEST 45TH STREET, New YORK CITY
1
dil Rights reserved
## p. iii (#9) ##############################################
THE
CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE
EDITED BY
A. W. WARD, Litt. D. , F. B. A. , Master of Peterhouse
AND
A. R. WALLER, M. A. , Peterhouse
VOLUME III
RENASCENCE AND REFORMATION
HET
*POC
ALYA
MATER
CANTA
BRIGT
HINC
CAMBRIDGE:
at the University Press
1918
## p. iv (#10) ##############################################
First edition, 1908
New impression, 1918
## p. v (#11) ###############################################
R820. 7
cit
✓ 3
PREFATORY NOTE
THE
HE three volumes of The Cambridge History of English
Literature which are to follow the present will consist
of two concerned with the history of dramatic writing in England
to the middle, or thereabouts, of the seventeenth century, pre-
ceded by one dealing with poetry and prose other than dramatic
to the end, approximately, of the first quarter of the seventeenth
century. We find that it will be more convenient to publish the
volume concerned with Elizabethan and Jacobean prose and
poetry from Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton so soon as may
be after that now issued, with which it immediately associates
itself, rather than to defer it until after the issue of the two drama
volumes. These last, in a sense, will be complete in themselves,
and we hope to publish them without loss of time.
We have not cared to draw a hard and fast line between the
contents of volumes III and iv; the two should be taken together
as covering the sixteenth century and the early decades of the
seventeenth, apart from the drama.
The process of compression has had to be applied more
severely than we might have wished; but, in accordance with
the intentions expressed in the preface to volume I, we have not
scrupled to devote less space to well known writers, in order to
treat at greater length subjects concerning which difficulty may
be experienced in obtaining assistance elsewhere; neither have
we hesitated to limit the space devoted to generalisation rather
than restrict unduly that required for bibliographies.
We cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of acknowledging the
3 continued assistance received from scholars engaged in the teaching
+ of English literature at home and abroad, on both sides of the
15
150S. IS
## p. vi (#12) ##############################################
vi
Prefatory Note
Atlantic. And especially welcome has been the evidence of their
kindly-expressed appreciation of our aims offered by several
distinguished continental scholars—by Dr Richard Wülker of
Leipzig, himself eminent alike as a historian of English literature
and as a professor of the subject, whose criticisms thus possess a
twofold value; by Dr Cino Chiarini of Florence, to the continua-
tion of whose most welcome articles in La Cultura we are looking
forward; by Professor Albert Feuillerat of Rennes, a literary critic
of high reputation on both sides of the Channel, in the Revue de
[ Enseignement des Langues Vivantes and elsewhere; and by
others. The effective support given us in our endeavours to
provide a history for both the general reader and the student by
the combination of a text abstaining as much as possible from
technicalities, with bibliographies as full as possible of matter, has
been a source of great encouragement to us in carrying on our
task. We are convinced that it is the duty of a university Press
to endeavour both to meet the highest demands that can be made
upon its productions by men of learning and letters, and to enable
the many to share in the knowledge acquired by the few.
It may interest our readers to know that, by permission of the
Syndics of the Press, copies of Professor Manly's chapter on Piers
the Plowman, in our second volume, have been circulated among
its members by the Early English Text Society-the body of
scholars best qualified to estimate the importance of this con-
tribution. The offprint is accompanied by a few pages of
regnant 'forewords' from the pen of the veteran founder and
director of the Society, and by the article on the same subject
contributed to Modern Philology in January 1906 and Dr Henry
Bradley's letter in The Athenceum of 21 April 1906.
A. W. W.
A. R. W.
CAMBRIDGE,
28 December 1908.
## p. vii (#13) #############################################
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
ENGLISHMEN AND THE CLASSICAL RENASCENCE
By the Rev. T. M. LINDSAY, D. D. , Principal of the Glasgow
College of the United Free Church of Scotland.
PAGE
The birth of the classical renascence Erasmus. His first visit to
England. Thomas Linacre. William Grocyn. English students
at Paris. John Colet. William Lily. John Fisher. Sir Thomas
More. The spread of the classical renascence. Sir Thomas Elyot.
Thomas Wilson
1
CHAPTER II
REFORMATION LITERATURE IN ENGLAND
By the Rev. J. P. WHITNEY, B. D. , King's College, Cambridge;
Professor of Ecclesiastical History, King's College, London.
Simon Fish. Erasmus and Cambridge. Aspects of the reformation.
The Book of Common Prayer. Evolution of the prayer-book.
Thomas Cranmer. His influence. The Homilies. Hugh Latimer.
His sermons. William Tindale. The Bible in English. Miles
Coverdale. The Great Bible. The Scots New Testament.
Hymns. Sternhold and Hopkins. Results of the reformation
period
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CHAPTER III
THE DISSOLUTION OF THE RELIGIOUS HOUSES
By the Rev. R. H. BENSON, M. A. , Trinity College.
Destruction of books and of opportunities for study. Decrease of
scholarship. New methods of thought, New channels of inter-
course. Antiquarian study
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CHAPTER IV
BARCLAY AND SKELTON
EARLY GERMAN INFLUENCES ON ENGLISH LITERATURE
PAGE
By ARTHUR KOELBING, Ph. D. , Freiburg im Breisgau.
Alexander Barclay. Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff. Barclay's
additions to Brant. The influence of The Ship of Fools.
Barclay's Eclogues. John Skelton. Phyllyp Sparowe. The
Bouge of Courte. Colyn Clout. Speke, Parrot. Why come
ye nat to courte? Magnyfycence. Characteristics of Skelton.
German influence on English literature. English protestant
dialogues. Grobianus
56
CHAPTER V
THE' PROGRESS OF SOCIAL LITERATURE IN TUDOR TIMES
By HAROLD V. ROUTH, M. A. , Peterhouse, Professor
of Latin in Trinity College, Toronto.
Cocke Lorell's bote. Mock testaments. Fraternities, orders and
dances of death. The boke of Mayd Emlyn. Widow Edith.
Satires and disquisitions on women. The Schole-house of women.
The Proude Wyves Paternoster. Jest-books. The Geystes of
Skoggan. Howleglass. Riddles and broadsides. Transition of
society. The Complaynt of Roderyck Mors. Robert Crowley.
The Hye Way to the Spyttel Hous. Awdeley's Fraternitye of
vacabones. Harman's Caveat. Cosmopolitanism. Andrew Boorde.
William Bullein. A Dialogue against the Fever Pestilence.
Superstition in the sixteenth century. Scot's Discoverie of Witch-
craft.
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CHAPTER VI
SIR DAVID LYNDSAY
AND THE LATER SCOTTISH 'MAKARIS'
By T. F. HENDERSON.
The Dreme. The Testament and Complaynt of our Soverane
Lordis Papyngo. Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis.
Minor poets. Sir Richard Maitland. Alexander Scott. Alexander
Montgomerie
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CHAPTER VII
PAGE
BEFORMATION AND RENASCENCE IN SCOTLAND
By P. HUME BROWN, M. A. , LL. D. , Scottish Historiographer Royal;
Professor of Ancient (Scottish) History and Palaeography in
the University of Edinburgh.
The reformation in Scotland. Patrick Hamilton. Alexander Alane.
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THE
CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE
EDITED BY
A. W. WARD, Litt. D. , F. B. A. , Master of Peterhouse
AND
A. R. WALLER, M. A. , Peterhouse
VOLUME III
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PREFATORY NOTE
THE
HE three volumes of The Cambridge History of English
Literature which are to follow the present will consist
of two concerned with the history of dramatic writing in England
to the middle, or thereabouts, of the seventeenth century, pre-
ceded by one dealing with poetry and prose other than dramatic
to the end, approximately, of the first quarter of the seventeenth
century. We find that it will be more convenient to publish the
volume concerned with Elizabethan and Jacobean prose and
poetry from Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton so soon as may
be after that now issued, with which it immediately associates
itself, rather than to defer it until after the issue of the two drama
volumes. These last, in a sense, will be complete in themselves,
and we hope to publish them without loss of time.
We have not cared to draw a hard and fast line between the
contents of volumes III and iv; the two should be taken together
as covering the sixteenth century and the early decades of the
seventeenth, apart from the drama.
The process of compression has had to be applied more
severely than we might have wished; but, in accordance with
the intentions expressed in the preface to volume I, we have not
scrupled to devote less space to well known writers, in order to
treat at greater length subjects concerning which difficulty may
be experienced in obtaining assistance elsewhere; neither have
we hesitated to limit the space devoted to generalisation rather
than restrict unduly that required for bibliographies.
We cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of acknowledging the
3 continued assistance received from scholars engaged in the teaching
+ of English literature at home and abroad, on both sides of the
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Atlantic. And especially welcome has been the evidence of their
kindly-expressed appreciation of our aims offered by several
distinguished continental scholars—by Dr Richard Wülker of
Leipzig, himself eminent alike as a historian of English literature
and as a professor of the subject, whose criticisms thus possess a
twofold value; by Dr Cino Chiarini of Florence, to the continua-
tion of whose most welcome articles in La Cultura we are looking
forward; by Professor Albert Feuillerat of Rennes, a literary critic
of high reputation on both sides of the Channel, in the Revue de
[ Enseignement des Langues Vivantes and elsewhere; and by
others. The effective support given us in our endeavours to
provide a history for both the general reader and the student by
the combination of a text abstaining as much as possible from
technicalities, with bibliographies as full as possible of matter, has
been a source of great encouragement to us in carrying on our
task. We are convinced that it is the duty of a university Press
to endeavour both to meet the highest demands that can be made
upon its productions by men of learning and letters, and to enable
the many to share in the knowledge acquired by the few.
It may interest our readers to know that, by permission of the
Syndics of the Press, copies of Professor Manly's chapter on Piers
the Plowman, in our second volume, have been circulated among
its members by the Early English Text Society-the body of
scholars best qualified to estimate the importance of this con-
tribution. The offprint is accompanied by a few pages of
regnant 'forewords' from the pen of the veteran founder and
director of the Society, and by the article on the same subject
contributed to Modern Philology in January 1906 and Dr Henry
Bradley's letter in The Athenceum of 21 April 1906.
A. W. W.
A. R. W.
CAMBRIDGE,
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
ENGLISHMEN AND THE CLASSICAL RENASCENCE
By the Rev. T. M. LINDSAY, D. D. , Principal of the Glasgow
College of the United Free Church of Scotland.
PAGE
The birth of the classical renascence Erasmus. His first visit to
England. Thomas Linacre. William Grocyn. English students
at Paris. John Colet. William Lily. John Fisher. Sir Thomas
More. The spread of the classical renascence. Sir Thomas Elyot.
Thomas Wilson
1
CHAPTER II
REFORMATION LITERATURE IN ENGLAND
By the Rev. J. P. WHITNEY, B. D. , King's College, Cambridge;
Professor of Ecclesiastical History, King's College, London.
Simon Fish. Erasmus and Cambridge. Aspects of the reformation.
The Book of Common Prayer. Evolution of the prayer-book.
Thomas Cranmer. His influence. The Homilies. Hugh Latimer.
His sermons. William Tindale. The Bible in English. Miles
Coverdale. The Great Bible. The Scots New Testament.
Hymns. Sternhold and Hopkins. Results of the reformation
period
25
CHAPTER III
THE DISSOLUTION OF THE RELIGIOUS HOUSES
By the Rev. R. H. BENSON, M. A. , Trinity College.
Destruction of books and of opportunities for study. Decrease of
scholarship. New methods of thought, New channels of inter-
course. Antiquarian study
48
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viii
Contents
CHAPTER IV
BARCLAY AND SKELTON
EARLY GERMAN INFLUENCES ON ENGLISH LITERATURE
PAGE
By ARTHUR KOELBING, Ph. D. , Freiburg im Breisgau.
Alexander Barclay. Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff. Barclay's
additions to Brant. The influence of The Ship of Fools.
Barclay's Eclogues. John Skelton. Phyllyp Sparowe. The
Bouge of Courte. Colyn Clout. Speke, Parrot. Why come
ye nat to courte? Magnyfycence. Characteristics of Skelton.
German influence on English literature. English protestant
dialogues. Grobianus
56
CHAPTER V
THE' PROGRESS OF SOCIAL LITERATURE IN TUDOR TIMES
By HAROLD V. ROUTH, M. A. , Peterhouse, Professor
of Latin in Trinity College, Toronto.
Cocke Lorell's bote. Mock testaments. Fraternities, orders and
dances of death. The boke of Mayd Emlyn. Widow Edith.
Satires and disquisitions on women. The Schole-house of women.
The Proude Wyves Paternoster. Jest-books. The Geystes of
Skoggan. Howleglass. Riddles and broadsides. Transition of
society. The Complaynt of Roderyck Mors. Robert Crowley.
The Hye Way to the Spyttel Hous. Awdeley's Fraternitye of
vacabones. Harman's Caveat. Cosmopolitanism. Andrew Boorde.
William Bullein. A Dialogue against the Fever Pestilence.
Superstition in the sixteenth century. Scot's Discoverie of Witch-
craft.
83
CHAPTER VI
SIR DAVID LYNDSAY
AND THE LATER SCOTTISH 'MAKARIS'
By T. F. HENDERSON.
The Dreme. The Testament and Complaynt of our Soverane
Lordis Papyngo. Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis.
Minor poets. Sir Richard Maitland. Alexander Scott. Alexander
Montgomerie
115
.
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ix
CHAPTER VII
PAGE
BEFORMATION AND RENASCENCE IN SCOTLAND
By P. HUME BROWN, M. A. , LL. D. , Scottish Historiographer Royal;
Professor of Ancient (Scottish) History and Palaeography in
the University of Edinburgh.
The reformation in Scotland. Patrick Hamilton. Alexander Alane.
Plays. The Gude and Godlie Ballatis. John Knox. Historie
of the reformatioun in Scotland. Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie.
The Diary of Mr James Melville. Historians. Political ballads.
John Major. The Complaynt of Scotland. Ninian Winzet.
John Leslie. Hector Boece. George Buchanan
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CHAPTER VIII
THE NEW ENGLISH POETRY
By HAROLD H. CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose
College, Oxford.
Tottel's Miscellany. Sir Thomas Wyatt.
