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CHAPTER XVIII
POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS VERSE TO THE CLOSE OF
THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY-FINAL WORDS
SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTES.
As in the case of the bibliography to chap. XVII, vol. 1, a few works on the
social and political history of England during the Middle Ages are included
in the following bibliography; and advantage has been taken of the
opportunity afforded by a concluding chapter to add a few notes on books
and writers not specifically dealt with elsewhere. References to other histories
of English literature have been added in cases where fuller details are given
than has been either possible or deemed desirable in this work.
In addition to the general bibliographies mentioned on p. 419, vol. I,
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The Appendix volume to W. T. Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual, compiled
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burghe, Bannatyne and Maitland Clubs, Surtees Society, Abbotsford Club,
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Wille Gris, Wille Gris,
Thinche twat you was, and qwat you es,
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combined so much of the substance with so little of the show of learning,
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of statement' (J. M. Rigg, in D. of N. B. ). Littleton's book will be
further dealt with in a later section of the present work dealing with
legal literature. MSS in Cambridge University library, Mm. 5. 2,
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