rse, was Marston.]

[Footnote 10: From the Fifth Satire in _The Metamorphosis of
Pygmalion's Image and Certain Satyres_, by John Marston. 1598.]

[Footnote 11: _Pasquil's Madcappe: Thrown at the Corruption of these
Times_--1626. Breton, to be read at all, ought to be studied in the two
noble volumes edited by Dr. A.B. Grosart. From his edition I quote.]

[Footnote 12: _English Literature_, by Prof. Craik. Hannay's _Satires
and Satirists_.]

[Footnote 13: _Life of Dryden_, by Sir Walter Scott. Saintsbury's _Life
of Dryden_.]

[Footnote 14: Thackeray's _English Humorists_. Hannay's _Satires and
Satirists_.]

[Footnote 15: _Satire and Satirists_, by James Hannay. Lecture III.]

[Footnote 16: Dowden's _French Literature_.]

[Footnote 17: Minto's _Characteristics of English Poets_.]

[Footnote 18: Cf. Saintsbury's _Life of Dryden_.]

[Footnote 19: Cf. Gosse, _Eighteenth Century Literature_.]

[Footnote 20: Thackeray's _English Humorists_.]

[Footnote 21: _The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin_--Carisbrooke Library,
1890.]

[Footnote 22: _The Baeviad and the Maeviad_, by W. Gifford, Esq., 1800.]

ENGLISH SATIRES.

WILLIAM LANGLAND.

(1330?-1400?)

I. PILGRIMAGE IN SEARCH OF DO-WELL.

This opening satire constitutes the whole of the Eighth _Passus_ of
_Piers Plowman's Vision_ and the First of Do-Wel. The "Dreamer"
here sets off on a new pilgrimage in search of a person who has not
appeared in the poem before--Do-Well. The following is the argument
of the _Passus_.--"All Piers Plowman's inquiries after Do-Well are
fruitless. Even the friars to whom he addresses himself give but a
confused account; and weary with wandering about, the dreamer is
again overtaken by slumber. Thought now appears to him, and
recommends him to Wit, who describes to him the residence of
Do-Well, Do-Bet, Do-Best, and enumerates their companions and
attendants."

Thus y-robed in russet . romed I aboute
Al in a somer seson . for to seke Do-wel;
And frayned[23] full ofte . of folk that I mette
If any wight wiste . wher Do-wel was at inne;
And what man he myghte be . of many man I asked.
Was nevere wight, as I wente . that me wisse kouthe[24]
Where this leode lenged,[25] . lasse ne moore.[26]
Til it bifel on a Friday . two freres I mette
Maisters of the Menours[27] . men of grete witte.
I hailsed them hendely,[28] . as I hadde y-lerned.
And preede them par cha