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INDICIUM FAMILIARITATIS.
(Etlra Smts, Lxvi.
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CONTENTS.
FAQE
Forewords … … … … … … … vii
Appendices:
I. Documents relating to Lydgate … … … … xxiii
II. The IX properties of wine, by Lydgate … … … xxx
III. In praise of Lydgate by Burgh … … ….. xxxi
IV. Specimen of MS. Add. 14408 xxxiii
Lydgate and Burgh's 'Secrees of old Philisoffres '
1. The Prolog 1
2. here is the fourme of the Epistil that kyng Alysaundre sent
to his maister Aristotiles … … … … … 5
3. Thanswere of Aristotilees … … … … … 6
4. This Eubryssh rehersith name of the philisoifre Callid philip,
born in parys, wh…