tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">§ 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 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 The same: To the Lordes and Knightes of the Garter 234 VII. Henry Scogan: A Moral Balade 237 VIII. John Lydgate: The Complaint of the Black Knight; or, The Complaint of a Loveres Lyfe 245 IX. The same: The Flour of Curtesye 266 X. The same: A Balade; in Commendation of our Lady 275 XI. The same: To my Soverain Lady 281 XII. The same: Ballad of Good Counsel 285

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The same: Beware of Doubleness 291 XIV. The same: A Balade: Warning Men to beware of deceitful Women 295 XV. The same: Three Sayings 297 XVI. Sir Richard Ros: La Belle Dame sans Mercy 299 XVII. Robert Henryson: The Testament of Cresseid