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Chapter 23 THE WOODVILLE INTRIGUE PROSPERS.-MONTAGU CONFERS WITH HASTINGS, VISITS THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, AND IS MET ON THE ROAD BY A STRANGE PERSONAGE.

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Chapter 1 THE PASTIME-GROUND OF OLD COCKAIGNE. Chapter 2 THE BROKEN GITTERN. Chapter 3 THE TRADER AND THE GENTLE; OR, THE CHANGING GENERATION. Chapter 4 ILL FARES THE COUNTRY MOUSE IN THE TRAPS OF TOWN. Chapter 5 WEAL TO THE IDLER, WOE TO THE WORKMAN. Chapter 6 MASTER MARMADUKE NEVILE FEARS FOR THE SPIRITUAL WEAL OF HIS HOST AND HOSTESS. Chapter 7 THERE IS A ROD FOR THE BACK OF EVERY FOOL WHO WOULD BE WISER THAN HIS GENERATION. Chapter 8 MASTER MARMADUKE NEVILE MAKES LOVE, AND IS FRIGHTENED. Chapter 9 EARL WARWICK THE KING-MAKER. Chapter 10 KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. Chapter 11 THE SOLITARY SAGE AND THE SOLITARY MAID.
Chapter 12 MASTER ADAM WARNER GROWS A MISER, AND BEHAVES SHAMEFULLY.
Chapter 13 A STRANGE VISITOR.-ALL AGES OF THE WORLD BREED WORLD-BETTERS.
Chapter 14 LORD HASTINGS.
Chapter 15 MASTER ADAM WARNER AND KING HENRY THE SIXTH.
Chapter 16 HOW, ON LEAVING KING LOG, FOOLISH WISDOM RUNS A-MUCK ON KING STORK.
Chapter 17 MY LADY DUCHESS'S OPINION OF THE UTILITY OF MASTER WARNER'S INVENTION, AND HER ESTEEM FOR ITS-EXPLOSION.
Chapter 18 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
Chapter 19 MARGARET OF ANJOU.
Chapter 20 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.
Chapter 21 WHEREIN MASTER NICHOLAS ALWYN VISITS THE COURT, AND THERE LEARNS MATTER OF WHICH THE ACUTE READER WILL JUDGE FOR HIMSELF.
Chapter 22 EXHIBITING THE BENEFITS WHICH ROYAL PATRONAGE CONFERS ON GENIUS,-ALSO THE EARLY LOVES OF THE LORD HASTINGS; WITH OTHER MATTERS EDIFYING AND DELECTABLE.
Chapter 23 THE WOODVILLE INTRIGUE PROSPERS.-MONTAGU CONFERS WITH HASTINGS, VISITS THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, AND IS MET ON THE ROAD BY A STRANGE PERSONAGE.
Chapter 24 THE ARRIVAL OF THE COUNT DE LA ROCHE, AND THE VARIOUS EXCITEMENT PRODUCED ON MANY PERSONAGES BY THAT EVENT.
Chapter 25 THE RENOWNED COMBAT BETWEEN SIR ANTHONY WOODVILLE AND THE BASTARD OF BURGUNDY.
Chapter 26 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.
Chapter 27 THE GREAT ACTOR RETURNS TO FILL THE STAGE.
Chapter 28 RURAL ENGLAND IN THE MIDDLE AGES-NOBLE VISITORS SEEK THE CASTLE OF MIDDLEHAM.
Chapter 29 COUNCILS AND MUSINGS.
Chapter 30 THE SISTERS.
Chapter 31 NEW DISSENSIONS.
Chapter 32 THE WOULD-BE IMPROVERS OF JOVE'S FOOTBALL, EARTH.-THE SAD FATHER AND THE SAD CHILD.-THE FAIR RIVALS.
Chapter 33 WHEREIN THE DEMAGOGUE SEEKS THE COURTIER.
Chapter 34 SIBYLL.
Chapter 35 KATHERINE.
Chapter 36 JOY FOR ADAM, AND HOPE FOR SIBYLL-AND POPULAR FRIAR BUNGEY!
Chapter 37 THE WHITE LION OF MARCH SHAKES HIS MANE.
Chapter 38 THE CAMP AT OLNEY.
Chapter 39 THE CAMP OF THE REBELS.
Chapter 40 THE NORMAN EARL AND THE SAXON DEMAGOGUE CONFER.
Chapter 41 WHAT FAITH EDWARD IV. PURPOSETH TO KEEP WITH EARL AND PEOPLE.
Chapter 42 WHAT BEFALLS KING EDWARD ON HIS ESCAPE FROM OLNEY.
Chapter 43 HOW KING EDWARD ARRIVES AT THE CASTLE OF MIDDLEHAM.
Chapter 44 THE ANCIENTS RIGHTLY GAVE TO THE GODDESS OF ELOQUENCE A CROWN.
Chapter 45 THE LADY ANNE VISITS THE COURT.
Chapter 46 THE SLEEPING INNOCENCE-THE WAKEFUL CRIME.
Chapter 47 NEW DANGERS TO THE HOUSE OF YORK-AND THE KING'S HEART ALLIES ITSELF WITH REBELLION AGAINST THE KING'S THRONE.
Chapter 48 THE FOSTER-BROTHERS.
Chapter 49 THE LOVER AND THE GALLANT-WOMAN'S CHOICE.
Chapter 50 WARWICK RETURNS-APPEASES A DISCONTENTED PRINCE-AND CONFERS WITH A REVENGEFUL CONSPIRATOR.
Chapter 51 THE FEAR AND THE FLIGHT.
Chapter 52 HOW THE GREAT BARON BECOMES AS GREAT A REBEL.
Chapter 53 MANY THINGS BRIEFLY TOLD.
Chapter 54 THE PLOT OF THE HOSTELRY-THE MAID AND THE SCHOLAR IN THEIR HOME.
Chapter 55 THE WORLD'S JUSTICE, AND THE WISDOM OF OUR ANCESTORS.
Chapter 56 THE FUGITIVES ARE CAPTURED-THE TYMBESTERES REAPPEAR-MOONLIGHT ON THE REVEL OF THE LIVING-MOONLIGHT ON THE SLUMBER OF THE DEAD.
Chapter 57 THE SUBTLE CRAFT OF RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER.
Chapter 58 WARWICK AND HIS FAMILY IN EXILE.
Chapter 59 HOW THE HEIR OF LANCASTER MEETS THE KING-MAKER.
Chapter 60 THE INTERVIEW OF EARL WARWICK AND QUEEN MARGARET.
Chapter 61 THE MAID'S HOPE, THE COURTIER'S LOVE, AND THE SAGE'S COMFORT.
Chapter 62 THE MAN AWAKES IN THE SAGE, AND THE SHE-WOLF AGAIN HATH TRACKED THE LAMB.
Chapter 63 VIRTUOUS RESOLVES SUBMITTED TO THE TEST OF VANITY AND THE WORLD.
Chapter 64 THE STRIFE WHICH SIBYLL HAD COURTED, BETWEEN KATHERINE AND HERSELF, COMMENCES IN SERIOUS EARNEST.
Chapter 65 THE MEETING OF HASTINGS AND KATHERINE.
Chapter 66 HASTINGS LEARNS WHAT HAS BEFALLEN SIBYLL, REPAIRS TO THE KING, AND ENCOUNTERS AN OLD RIVAL.
Chapter 67 THE LANDING OF LORD WARWICK, AND THE EVENTS THAT ENSUE THEREON.
Chapter 68 WHAT BEFELL ADAM WARNER AND SIBYLL WHEN MADE SUBJECT TO THE GREAT FRIAR BUNGEY.
Chapter 69 THE DELIBERATIONS OF MAYOR AND COUNCIL, WHILE LORD WARWICK MARCHES UPON LONDON.
Chapter 70 THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY OF THE EARL-THE ROYAL CAPTIVE IN THE TOWER-THE MEETING BETWEEN KING-MAKER AND KING.
Chapter 71 WHEREIN MASTER ADAM WARNER IS NOTABLY COMMENDED AND ADVANCED-AND GREATNESS SAYS TO WISDOM, "THY DESTINY BE MINE, AMEN."
Chapter 72 THE PROSPERITY OF THE OUTER SHOW-THE CARES OF THE INNER MAN.
Chapter 73 FURTHER VIEWS INTO THE HEART OF MAN, AND THE CONDITIONS OF POWER.
Chapter 74 THE RETURN OF EDWARD OF YORK.
Chapter 75 THE PROGRESS OF THE PLANTAGENET.
Chapter 76 A KING IN HIS CITY HOPES TO RECOVER HIS REALM-A WOMAN IN HER CHAMBER FEARS TO FORFEIT HER OWN.
Chapter 77 SHARP IS THE KISS OF THE FALCON'S BEAR.
Chapter 78 A PAUSE.
Chapter 79 THE BATTLE.
Chapter 80 THE BATTLE. No.80
Chapter 81 THE BATTLE. No.81
Chapter 82 THE LAST PILGRIMS IN THE LONG PROCESSION TO THE COMMON BOURNE.
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