. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . e made no effort to vary the position ofthe csesuia, which with him alwaAS follows the second foot. Theexplanation of much that is rough in liis verse is due rather toan ignorant imitation of Romance |)rinciples than to a lack ofear. His most important work, Ilie Story of Thebes (c. 1422),suggested by the Knights Talc and designed to form one of 1 Life of Our Lady. fol. E,. b. - -History of Troy, Pynson, l.
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . e made no effort to vary the position ofthe csesuia, which with him alwaAS follows the second foot. Theexplanation of much that is rough in liis verse is due rather toan ignorant imitation of Romance |)rinciples than to a lack ofear. His most important work, Ilie Story of Thebes (c. 1422),suggested by the Knights Talc and designed to form one of 1 Life of Our Lady. fol. E,. b. - -History of Troy, Pynson, ]:i. fol. E^. h. LITERATURE. 525 1485] the Canterbury series, wus in the same heroic couplet, whilsthis most popular but ihillest poem, the Falls of Princes,written for Humphrey, Duke of (iloucester, between l-iSO andl-i^iS, is a renderini^ in rliyme ro^al of a French translation ofBoccaccios De Casibus Virorum Illustrium. The theme wassympathetic to a people whicli saw three of tlieir kings within acentury come to a tragic end. The source of inspiration wasagain Chaucer ( The ilonkes Tale), and the subject did notlose its popularity till the issue of the last edition of the Mirror. LYDGATE (MS. Hail. iruO). for ^lagistrates, in 1620. Lydgate also wrote the Complaintof the Black Knight, and in his j-ounger days (c. 1-403) the Temple of Glas, an allegorical poem, formerly attributed toHawes. In his later calmer years he versitied to order the livesof SS. Alban, Edmund, and Margaret. There was nothing thatcame amiss to his eas}, somewhat muse. To moderntaste, Lydgates occasional pieces on social subjects, such as his Satirical Description of his Lady or his Ballade on theExtravagant Head-dresses of the Day, will always prove mostattractive, and cause regret that he wasted his energies on any- 5-2G Tin-: CLOf^E OF THE ^riDDLE AGES. Prose :Pecock. rialory. Fortescue. 11399 tliiiiL! niDie aiiiliitious. When, in the next century, one comesto the endless and moralising alle
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