THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY

OF

ENGLISH LITERATURE

VOLUME IV

PROSE AND POETRY

SIR THOMAS NORTH TO MICHAEL DRAYTON

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

C. F. CLAY, MANAGER

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THE

CAMBRIDGE HISTORY

OF

ENGLISH LITERATURE

EDITED BY

A. W. WARD, LITT.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse