The Best of the Worlds Classics, Restricted to prose.

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Title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III
(of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I
Author: Francis W. Halsey
Editor: Henry Cabot Lodge
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[Illustration: MILTON, BACON, CHAUCER, and SHAKESPEARE.]

THE BEST
of the
WORLD'S CLASSICS
RESTRICTED TO PROSE
HENRY CABOT LODGE
Editor-in-Chief
FRANCIS W. HALSEY
Associate Editor
With an Introduction, Biographical and Explanatory Notes, etc.
IN TEN VOLUMES
Vol. III
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND--I

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
NEW YORK AND LONDON

COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

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The Best of the World's Classics
VOL. III
GREAT BRITAIN AND
IRELAND--I
1281-1745
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CONTENTS
VOL. III--GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND--I
RICHARD DE BURY--(Born in 1281, died in 1345.)
In Praise of Books. (From the "Philobiblon")
SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE--(Reputed author.)
I The Route from England to Constantinople. (From the "Travels")
II At the Court of the Great Chan. (From the "Travels")
JOHN WYCLIF--(Born about 1324, died in 1384.)
The Baptism of Christ. (Being a translation from the Gospel of Mark)
GEOFFREY CHAUCER--(Born about 1340, died in 1400.)
Of Acquiring and Using Riches. (One of the prose "Canterbury Tales")
WILLIAM CAXTON--(Born about 1422, died in 1491.)

Of True Nobility and Chivalry. (From the "Game and Playe of Chesse."
Translated by Caxton from the French original)
SIR THOMAS MALORY--(Born about 1430, died after 1470.)
Of the Finding of a Sword for Arthur. (From the "Morte d'Arthur")
SIR THOMAS MORE--(Born in 1478, died in 1535.)
Life in Utopia. (From the "Utopia")
JOHN KNOX--(Born in 1505, died in 1572.)
An Interview with Mary Queen of Scots. (From the "History of the
Reformation in Scotland")
ROGER ASCHAM--(Born in 1515, died in 1568.)
Of Gentle Methods in Teaching. (From the "Schoolmaster")
JOHN FOXE--(Born in 1516, died in 1587.)
The Death of Anne Boleyn. (From the "Book of Martyrs")
SIR WALTER RALEIGH--(Born in 1552, died in 1618.)
The Mutability of Human Affairs. (From the Preface to the "History of
the World")
FRANCIS BACON--(Born in 1561, died in 1626.)
I Of Travel. (From the "Essays")
II Of Riches. (From the "Essays")
III Of Youth and Age. (From the "Essays")
IV Of Revenge. (From the "Essays")

V Of Marriage and Single Life. (From the "Essays")
VI Of Envy. (From the "Essays")
VII Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature. (From the "Essays")
VIII Of Studies. (From the "Essays")
IX Of Regiment of Health. (From the "Essays")
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE--(Born in 1564, died in 1616.)
I Brutus to His Countrymen. (From "Julius Cæsar")
II Shylock in Defense of His Race. (From the "Merchant of Venice")
III Hamlet to the Players. (From "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark")
BEN JONSON--(Born in 1573, died in 1637.)
Shakespeare and Other Wits. (From "Timber; or, Discoveries Made
Upon Men and Matter")
IZAAK WALTON--(Born in 1593, died in 1683.)
I The Antiquity of Angling. (From
Part I, Chapter IV, of "The Compleat
Angler")
II Of the Trout. (From
Part I, Chapter IV, of "The Compleat
Angler")
III The Death of George Herbert. (From the "Lives")

JAMES HOWELL--(Born in 1595, died in 1666.)
I The Bucentaur Ceremony in Venice. (From the "Familiar Letters")
II The City of Rome in 1621. (From the "Familiar Letters")
SIR THOMAS BROWNE--(Born in 1605, died in 1682.)
I Of Charity in Judgments. (From the "Religio Medici")
II Nothing Strictly Immortal. (From Chapter V of "Urn Burial")
JOHN MILTON--(Born in 1608, died in 1674.)
I Of His Own Literary Ambition. (From "The Reason of Church
Government")
II A Complete Education Defined. (From the "Tractate on Education")
III On Reading in His Youth. (From the "Apology for Smectymnus")
IV In Defense of Books. (From the "Areopagitica")
V A Noble and Puissant Nation. (From the "Areopagitica")
VI Of Fugitive and Cloistered Virtue. (From the "Areopagitica")
LORD CLARENDON--(Born in 1608, died in 1674.)
Of Charles I. (From the "History of the Rebellion")
THOMAS FULLER--(Born in 1608, died in 1661.)
Qualities of the Good Schoolmaster. (From "The Holy and Profane
State")
JEREMY TAYLOR--(Baptized in 1613, died in 1667.)
The Benefits of Adversity. (From the "Rules and Exercises of Holy

Dying")
ABRAHAM COWLEY--(Born in 1618, died