PLAYFUL POEMS

EDITED
AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION

HENRY MORLEY.
EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND
LITERATURE AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
LONDON

LONDON
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, Limited
Broadway, Ludgate Hill
GLASGOW, MANCHESTER, AND NEW YORK
1891

CONTENTS.

	PAGES
Introduction	[7]–15
Chaucer’s Manciple’s Tale of Phœbus and the Crow Modernised by Leigh Hunt.	[17]–27
Chaucer’s Rime of Sir Thopas Modernised by Z. A. Z.	[29]–37
Chaucer’s Friar’s Tale; or, The Sumner and the Devil Modernised by Leigh Hunt.	[39]–48
Chaucer’s Reve’s Tale Modernised by R. H. Horne.	[49]–62
Chaucer’s Poem of the Cuckoo and the Nightingale Modernised by William Wordsworth.	[63]–73
Gower’s Treasure Trove Modernised from the fifth book of the Confessio Amantis.	[75]–80
Lydgate’s London Lickpenny	[81]–84
Lydgate’s Bicorn and Chichevache	[85]–89
Dunbar’s Best to be Blyth	[91], 92
Drayton’s Dowsabell	[93]–96
Drayton’s Nymphidia	[97]–116
Pope’s Rape of the Lock	[117]–137
Cowper’s John Gilpin	[139]–146
Burns’s Tam O’Shanter	[147]–153
Hood’s Demon Ship	[155]–158
Hood’s Tale of a Trumpet	[159]–180
Note.—The Game of Ombre	[181]–187
Glossary	[188]–192