I Earl Warwick the King-maker
II King Edward the Fourth
III The Antechamber
BOOK III
IN WHICH THE HISTORY PASSES FROM THE KING'S COURT TO THE STUDENT'S CELL, AND RELATES THE PERILS THAT BEFELL A PHILOSOPHER FOR MEDDLING WITH THE AFFAIRS OF THE WORLD
CHAPTER
I The Solitary Sage and the Solitary Maid
II Master Adam Warner grows a Miser, and behaves Shamefully
III A Strange Visitor—All Ages of the World breed World-
Betters
IV Lord Hastings
V Master Adam Warner and King Henry the Sixth
VI How, on leaving King Log, Foolish Wisdom runs a-muck on
King Stork
VII My Lady Duchess's Opinion of the Utility of Master Warner's
Invention, and her esteem for its Explosion
VIII The Old Woman talks of Sorrows, the Young Woman dreams
of Love; the Courtier flies from Present Power to
Remembrances of Past Hopes, and the World-Bettered opens
Utopia, with a View of the Gibbet for the Silly Sage he
has seduced into his Schemes,—so, ever and evermore,
runs the World away
IX How the Destructive Organ of Prince Richard promises Goodly
Development
BOOK IV
INTRIGUES OF THE COURT OF EDWARD IV
CHAPTER
I Margaret of Anjou
II In which are laid Open to the Reader the Character of Edward
the Fourth and that of his Court, with the Machinations of
the Woodvilles against the Earl of Warwick
III Wherein Master Nicholas Alwyn visits the Court, and there
learns Matter of which the Acute Reader will judge for
himself
IV Exhibiting the Benefits which Royal Patronage confers on
Genius,—also the Early Loves of the Lord Hastings; with
other Matters Edifying and Delectable
V The Woodville Intrigue prospers—Montagu confers with
Hastings, visits the Archbishop of York, and is met on the
Road by a strange Personage
VI The Arrival of the Count de la Roche, and the various
Excitement produced on many Personages by that Event
VII The Renowned Combat between Sir Anthony Woodville and the
Bastard of Burgundy
VIII How the Bastard of Burgundy prospered more in his Policy than
With the Pole-axe—and how King Edward holds his Summer
Chase in the Fair Groves of Shene
IX The Great Actor returns to fill the Stage
X How the Great Lords come to the King-maker, and with what
Proffers