Preface.--Introduction.--John Lydgate (?) The siege of Harfleur and the battle of Agincourt.--Thomas Occleve. The letter of Cupid.--A little geste of Robin Hood and his meiny and of the proud sheriff of Nottingham.--English carols. From a manuscript at Balliol College, Oxford.--The examination of Master William Thorpe, priest, of heresy, before Thomas Arundell, archbishop of Canterbury, 1407.--The examination of Sir John Oldcastle.--On translating the Bible. Chapter XV of the prologue to the second recension of the Wycliffite version.--John Trevisa. Dialogue between a lord and a clerk upon translation.--William Caxton. Prefaces and epilogues.--A miracle play of the nativity. The pageant of the shearmen and tailors, from the Coventry Corpus Christi plays.--Everyman: a moral play.--Pleadings in Rastell v. Walton, a theatrical lawsuit, temp. Henry VIII.--Brief glossary