Francis Thynne's Animadversions

upon

Speght's first (1598 A.D.) Edition of

Chaucers Workes.

NOW NEWLY EDITED FROM THE MS. IN THE BRIDGEWATER LIBRARY, WITH FRESH COLLECTIONS FOR THE LIVES OF WILLIAM THYNNE, THE CHAUCER EDITOR, AND FRANCIS THYNNE, HIS SON,

AND A REPRINT OF THE ONLY KNOWN FRAGMENT OF

"The Pilgrim's Tale,”

BY

F. J. FURNIVALL, M.A.,

AND A PREFACE BY

G. H. KINGSLEY, M.D., F.L.S.

PUBLISHED FOR THE CHAUCER SOCIETY

BY N. TRÜBNER & CO., 57 & 59, LUDGATE HILL.

LONDON.

1876.

[Arms of the Lord Chancellor Egerton blazond: and underneath them,]

Magna quidem laus est generoso sanguine nasci,
Maior honestatis facta decusque segni,

Maxima nosse deum, fontem metamque bonorum,
Vti sorte, piè viuere, rite mori.

Second Series, 13.

JOHN CHILDS AND SON, PRINTERS.

CONTENTS.

DR G. H. KINGSLEY'S PREFACE: SHORT LIVES OF WILLIAM AND

FRANCIS THYNNE, ETC.

MARK NOBLE'S ACCOUNT OF FRANCIS THYNNE

PAGR

vii

MR FURNIVALL'S HINDWORDS (CONTENTS, p. xx) ...

xxi

1. WILLIAM THYNNE: HIS LIFE, WORK, FOOD, WILL, ETC.

...

2. FRANCIS THYNNE: HIS LIFE AND LETTERS, WITH EXTRACTS

FROM HIS WRITINGS

...

LIST OF FRANCIS THYNNE'S WORKS

MR J. P. COLLIER'S ATTRIBUTION OF 4 SPURIOUS WORKS TO F.

xlvii

cxviii

THYNNE

...

...

...

cxxvii

EXTRACTS FROM THESE: 1. THE DEBATE BETWEEN PRIDE AND

LOWLINESS, p. cxxviii; 2. A PLEASAUNT DIALOGUE BETWEENE

THE CAP AND THE HEAD, 1564, p. cxxix; 3. NEWES FROM

THE NORTH, 1579, p. cxxxi; 4. THE CASE IS ALTERED, 1604,

p. cxxxvii.

MR BRADSHAW'S DISPROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF WM. THYNNE'S

1-75