Transcriber's Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.
Variations in spelling, punctuation and accents are as in the original.
Each page in the main body of the book has every 5th line numbered. The Notes section (page 217 onwards) refers back to the main body by page and line number. In order to preserve this association, the line numbers have been enclosed in brackets thus {5} and left in position. The first reference to each page in the notes is linked to the relevant page.
Not all pages have notes and no reference is made to the notes in the original text. As such a facility might prove useful, the first line number {5} on any page for which there are notes has been linked to the relevant notes section.
BASED ON ROCQUE'S MAP OF LONDON IN 1741-5
OF ENGLISH TEXTS
GENERAL EDITOR
HENRY VAN DYKE
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Carlyle's Essay on Burns. Professor Edwin Mims, Trinity College, North Carolina. 35 cents.
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Gaskell's Cranford. Professor Charles E. Rhodes, Lafayette High School, Buffalo. 40 cents.
George Eliot's Silas Marner. Professor W. L. Cross, Yale University. 40 cents.
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GATEWAY SERIES
THE
SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY
PAPERS
EDITED BY
C. T. WINCHESTER, L.H.D.
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE,
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK CINCINNATI CHICAGO
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
Copyright, 1904, by
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY.
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London.
SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY.
W. P. 2
[PREFACE BY THE GENERAL EDITOR]
This series of books aims, first, to give the English texts required for entrance to college in a form which shall make them clear, interesting, and helpful to those who are beginning the study of literature; and, second, to supply the knowledge which the student needs to pass the entrance examination. For these two reasons it is called The Gateway Series.
The poems, plays, essays, and stories in these small volumes are treated, first of all, as works of literature, which were written to be read and enjoyed, not to be parsed and scanned and pulled to pieces. A short life of the author is given, and a portrait, in order to help the student to know the real person who wrote the book. The introduction tells what it is about, and how it was written, and where the author got the idea, and what it means. The notes at the foot of the page are simply to give the sense of the hard words so that the student can read straight on without turning to a dictionary. The other notes, at the end of the book, explain difficulties and allusions and fine points.
The editors are chosen because of their thorough training and special fitness to deal with the books committed to them, and because they agree with this idea of what a Gateway Series ought to be. They express, in each case, their own views of the books which they edit. Simplicity, thoroughness, shortness, and clearness,—these, we hope, will be the marks of the series.
HENRY VAN DYKE.