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PREFACE TO THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD SIR WALTER RALEIGH	1
PREFACE TO THE NOVUM ORGANUM FRANCIS BACON	1
PREFACES AND EPILOGUES	2
THE RECUYELL OF THE HISTORIES OF TROY	2
EPILOGUE TO BOOK II	4
EPILOGUE TO BOOK III	5
DICTES AND SAYINGS OF THE PHILOSOPHERS	6
GOLDEN LEGEND.	8
CATON (1483)	10
PROLOGUE	10
AESOP. (1483)	11
EPILOGUE	11
CHAUCER’S CANTERBURY TALES	12
PROEM	12
BY WILLIAM CAXTON	14
PROLOGUE	14
ENEYDOS (1490)	17
PROLOGUE	17
DEDICATION OF THE INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION	19
GENERAL SYLLABUS	37
DEDICATION OF THE REVOLUTIONS OF THE HEAVENLY BODIES	40
TO POPE PAUL III	40
PREFACE TO THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN SCOTLAND	44
PREFATORY LETTER TO SIR WALTER RALEIGH ON THE FAERIE QUEENE	45
PREFACE TO THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD	49
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EPISTLE DEDICATORY	90
TO OUR MOST GRACIOUS AND MIGHTY PRINCE AND LORD	90
PREFACE	91
THE PLAN OF THE INSTAURATIO MAGNA	99
PREFACE	107
PREFACE TO THE FIRST FOLIO EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS (1623)[A]	111
PREFACE TO THE PHILOSOPHIAE NATURALIS PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA	112
PREFACE TO FABLES,	114
PREFACE TO JOSEPH ANDREWS	133
THE COMIC EPIC IN PROSE	133
PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY	138
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD	156
PREFACE TO SHAKESPEARE	157
INTRODUCTION TO THE PROPYLAeEN [A]	190
PREFACES TO VARIOUS VOLUMES OF POEMS	202
ADVERTISEMENT TO LYRICAL BALLADS	202
PREFACE TO LYRICAL BALLADS	204
APPENDIX TO LYRICAL BALLADS	222
PREFACE TO POEMS	225
ESSAY SUPPLEMENTARY TO PREFACE	235
PREFACE TO CROMWELL	256
PREFACE TO LEAVES OF GRASS	296
INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE	314
I	314
II	317
III	319
IV	321
V	323
VI	329
VII	331
VIII	333

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