The Last Of The Barons, Volume 1.

I The Pastime-ground of old Cockaigne

II The Broken Gittern

III The Trader and the Gentle; or, the Changing Generation

IV Ill fares the Country Mouse in the Traps of Town

V Weal to the Idler, Woe to the Workman

VI Master Marmaduke Nevile fears for the Spiritual Weal of his

Host and Hostess

VII There is a Rod for the Back of every Fool who would be Wiser

than his Generation

BOOK II

THE KING'S COURT

I The Solitary Sage and the Solitary Maid

II Master Adam Warner grows a Miser, and behaves Shamefully

III A Strange Visitor-All Ages of the World breed World-

Betters

IV Lord Hastings

V Master Adam Warner and King Henry the Sixth

VI How, on leaving King Log, Foolish Wisdom runs a-muck on

King Stork

VII My Lady Duchess's Opinion of the Utility of Master Warner's

Invention, and her esteem for its Explosion

VIII The Old Woman talks of Sorrows, the Young Woman dreams

of Love; the Courtier flies from Present Power to

Remembrances of Past Hopes, and the World-Bettered opens

Utopia, with a View of the Gibbet for the Silly Sage he

has seduced into his Schemes,-so, ever and evermore,

runs the World away

IX How the Destructive Organ of Prince Richard promises Goodly

Development

BOOK IV

INTRIGUES OF THE COURT OF EDWARD IV

I Margaret of Anjou

II In which are laid Open to the Reader the Character of Edward

the Fourth and that of his Court, with the Machinations of

the Woodvilles against the Earl of Warwick

III Wherein Master Nicholas Alwyn visits the Court, and there

learns Matter of which the Acute Reader will judge for

himself

IV Exhibiting the Benefits which Royal Patronage confers on

Genius,-also the Early Loves of the Lord Hastings; with

other Matters Edifying and Delectable

V The Woodville Intrigue prospers-Montagu confers with

Hastings, visits the Archbishop of York, and is met on the

Road by a strange Personage

VI The Arrival of the Count de la Roche, and the various

Excitement produced on many Personages by that Event

VII The Renowned Combat between Sir Anthony Woodville and the

Bastard of Burgundy

VIII How the Bastard of Burgundy prospered more in his Policy than

With the Pole-axe-and how King Edward holds his Summer

Chase in the Fair Groves of Shene

IX The Great Actor returns to fill the Stage

X How the Great Lords come to the King-maker, and with what

Proffers

BOOK V

THE LAST OF THE BARONS IN HIS FATHERS HALLS