Captain Ravenshaw; Or, The Maid of Cheapside. A Romance of Elizabethan London

by Robert Neilson Stephens

  CONTENTS.

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  CHAPTER PAGE

  I. MEN OF DESPERATE FORTUNES 11

  II. DISTURBERS OF THE NIGHT 35

  III. MASTER JERNINGHAM'S MADNESS 57

  IV. THE ART OF ROARING 79

  V. PENNILESS COMPANIONS 95

  VI. REVENGE UPON WOMANKIND 107

  VII. MISTRESS MILLICENT 119

  VIII. SIR PEREGRINE MEDWAY 133

  IX. THE PRAISE OF INNOCENCE 147

  X. IN THE GOLDSMITH'S GARDEN 167

  XI. THE RASCAL EMPLOYS HIS WITS 183

  XII. MASTER HOLYDAY IN FEAR AND TREMBLING 203

  XIII. A RIOT IN CHEAPSIDE 213

  XIV. JERNINGHAM SEES THE WAY TO HIS DESIRE 238

  XV. RAVENSHAW FALLS ASLEEP 250

  XVI. THE POET AS A MAN OF ACTION 260

  XVII. DIRE THINGS BEFALL IN THE FOREST 273

  XVIII. RAVENSHAW'S SLEEP IS INTERRUPTED 285

  XIX. KNAVE AGAINST GENTLEMAN 304

  XX. HOLYDAY'S FURTHER ADVENTURES 338

  XXI. THE CAPTAIN FORSWEARS SWAGGERING 352