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CONTENTS The Modern Drama: Introduction by Maurice Maeterlinck Charles the Bold -- Edward A. Freeman Quentin Durward’s Initiation -- Sir Walter Scott Charles the Bold and Louis XI -- Philippe de Comines A Digression Concerning the Advantage Which the Knowledge of Letters, and More Especially of History, Is to Princes and Great Lords The Occasion of the King’s Being Seized and Secured in the Castle of Peronne by the Duke of Burgundy, 1468 A Digression Concerning the Virtues of the Duke of Burgundy, and the Time of His House’s Prosperity A Comparison of the Troubles and Sorrows Which King Louis Suffered with Those He Had Brought upon Other People; with a Continuation of His Transactions Till the Time of His Death, 1483 The Morgante Maggiore -- Pulci (tr. Byron) Rinaldo and Orlando -- Boiardo (tr. Symonds) Rinaldo and Fiordelisa Orlando’s Lament over Rinaldo Orlando and Agricane Rinaldo’s Vision The Bell Ringer of Notre Dame -- Victor Hugo The Pranks of Howleglass: How Little Howleglass Showed Much Cunning and Malice How Howleglass Fell from the Tight Rope into the Water, Etc. How the Mother of Howleglass Admonished Him, That She Might Engage Him to Learn an Honest Trade How Howleglass Obtained Bread for His Mother How Howleglass Hired Himself to a Priest How Howleglass, Being in Want of Ready Cash to Pay His Host, Found a Substitute How Howleglass Caused the Inhabitants of Meyburg to Believe That He Was Going to Fly How Howleglass Hired Himself as Servant to a Baker How Howleglass Served as Castle Warder to the Lord of Ambal How Howleglase Wished to Be Repaid for the Trouble He Took in Dining How Howleglass Journeyed to Rome, Where He Had an Interview with the Pope Old English Ballads: Sir Patrick Spens Edward, Edward Child Maurice The Demon Lover Old Robin of Portingale Mary Hamilton The Not-Browne Mayd Take Thy Old Cloak about Thee The Children in the Wood Jealous Fools and Envious Fools -- Alexander Barclay To Maystress Margaret Hussey -- John Skelton Columbus’s Fi