Jones, emrys (ed) new oxford book of sixteenth century verse, the

THE NEW OXFORD
BOOK OF SIXTEENTH
CENTURY

EMRYS JONES,
Editor

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS


THE NEW
OXFORD BOOK OF

SIXTEENTH-CENTURY
VERSE

EMRYS JONES is Goldsmiths' Professor of English
Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of New
College. His publications include Scenic Form in Shakespeare
(1971) and The Origins of Shakespeare (1977).


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THE NEW
OXFORD BOOK OF

SIXTEENTH
CENTURY
VERSE

Chosen and edited by
EMRYS JONES

OXFORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS


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CONTENTS
xxv

Introduction
J O H N SKELTON (c. 1460-15 29)

from
1.
2.
3.
from
4.
from
5.
from
6.
7.
from
8.
from
9.
10.

The Garland of Laurel
To Mistress Isabel Pennell
To Mistress Margaret Hussey
[My darling dear, my daisy flower]
The Bouge of Court
'The sail is up, Fortune ruleth our helm'
Philip Sparrow
'Pla ce bar
Magnificence
[Fancy's song and speech]
[The conclusion of the play]
Elinour Rumming
[Visitors to the ale-house]

Speak, Parrot
[The opening stanzas]
[The conclusion]

1
2

3
4

9
18
20
22

26
30

ANONYMOUS

11. The Nutbronm Maid

32

STEPHEN HAWES (l475?-IS23?)

from The Pastime of Pleasure
12. [The epitaph of graunde amoure]
13. [Against Swearing]

43
43

ANONYMOUS

14. Western Wind
15. 'By a bank as I lay'

44
45

HEATH (first name and dates unknown)
16. 'These women all"

46

A T T R I B U T E D TO K I N G H E N R Y V I I I (1491-1547)

17. 'Pastime with good company"
18. 'Whereto should I express'
19. 'Green groweth the holly'

47
48
48

W I L L I A M C O R N I S H (d. 1523)

20. 'You and I and Amyas'

49
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CONTENTS
ANONYMOUS

21. [The juggler and the baron's daughter]

50

SIR T H O M A S M O R E (1477 Or 1478-1535)
22. A Lamentation of Queen Elizabeth
23. Certain metres written by master Thomas More ... for
"The Book of Fortune'

55

A L E X A N D E R B A R C L A Y (l475?-I552)
from Eclogues
24. ['The Miseries of Courtiers'. . . Eating in Hall]

62

ANONYMOUS
from Scottish Field
25. [The Battle of Flodden]

67

SIR T H O M A S WYATT (c.1503-1542)
26. 'And wilt thou leave me thus?'
27. 'Madam, withouten many words'
28. 'in aeternum'
29. 'Whoso list to hunt'
30. 'Farewell, Love'
31. 'Forget not yet'
32. 'Is it possible'
33. 'My lute, awake!'
34. 'They flee from me'
35. 'With serving still'
36. 'What should I say'
37. 'In court to serve'
38. 'Sometime I fled the fire'
39. 'Quondam was I'
40. 'Who list his wealth and ease retain'
41. 'In mourning wise'
42. 'Tagus, farewell'
43. 'If waker care'
44. 'The pillar perished is'
45. 'Lucks, my fair falcon'
46. 'Sighs are my food'
47. 'Throughout the world, if it were sought'
48. 'Fortune doth frown'
49. [Part of a Chorus from Seneca's Thyestes]
50. Psalm 130 ['From depth of sin and from a deep despair']
51. 'Mine own John Poyntz'
52. 'My mother's maids when they did sew and spin'
53. 'A spending hand that alway poureth out'

vi

52

'74
74
75
76
76
77
77
78
80
80
81
82
82
82

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84
86
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86
87
87
87
88
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88

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92
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CONTENTS
A T T R I B U T E D TO SIR T H O M A S WYATT

54. 'I am as I am and so will I be'

97

ANONYMOUS

from The Court of Lave
55. [The birds' matins and conclusion of the poem]

98

HENRY H O W A R D , EARL OF SURREY (15 17?-1547)

56.
57.
58.
59.
60.
from
61.
62.
63.

64.
65.
66.
67.

'When raging love'
'The soote season'
'Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green'
'Alas, so all things now do hold their peace'
'O happy dames'
Certain Books of Virgil's '/Eneis'
[Creusa]
[Dido in love]
[The Happy Life]
'So cruel prison'
An excellent epitaph of Sir Thomas Wyatt
'Th'Assyrians' king'
[Epitaph for Thomas Clere]

102
IO2
103
103
IO4
105

108
109
109
in

112
113

R O B E R T C O P L A N D (fl. 1508-1547)

from The High Way to the Spital House
68. 'To write of Sol in his exaltation'

"3

J O H N H A R I N Q T O N (d. 1582)

69.
70.
71.
72.

To his mother
[Husband to wife]
[Wife to husband]
A sonnet written upon my Lord Admiral Seymour

119
120
121
122

ANONYMOUS

73. [How to obtain her]

122

A N N E A S K E W (1521-1546)

74. The Ballad which Anne Askew made and sang
when she was in Newgate
SIR THOMAS SEYMOUR (BARON SEYMOUR OF SUDELEY)

75. 'Forgetting God'

123

(1508?-1549)
125

J O H N H E Y W O O D (c.1497-c.1580)

76. [A quiet neighbour]

126

N I C H O L A S G R I M A L D (15 I9?-I562?)

127

77. Description of Virtue

vii

CONTENTS
THOMAS, LORD VAUX (1510-1556)
78. The Aged Lover Renounceth Love
79. [The Pleasures of Thinking]
80. [Death in Life]
81. [Age looks back at Youth]

127
129
130
130

G E O R G E C A V E N D I S H (l499?-I56l?)

82. An Epitaph of our late Queen Mary

131

T H O M A S P H A E R (l510?-I560)

from The nine first books of the Eneidos
83. [Euryalus and Nisus meet their deaths]

135

B A R N A B Y G O O G E (1540-1594)

84. To Doctor Bale
85. Of Money

86. Coming homeward out of Spain

137
138
138

T H O M A S S A C K V I L L E , E A R L O F D O R S E T (1536-1608)

from The Mirror for Magistrates
87. The Induction

:

39

ANONYMOUS
88. A Dialogue between Death and Youth

154

E D W A R D DE VERE, EARL OF OXFORD (1550-1604)
89. 'The lively lark stretched forth her wing'
90. 'If women could be fair and yet not fond'
91. 'The labouring man, that tills the fertile soil'
92. 'Sitting alone upon my thought'
93. [A Court Lady addresses her Lover]
94. 'When wert thou born, Desire?'
95. 'What cunning can express'

157

157
158
159
160
161
162

ATTRIBUTED TO EDWARD DE VERE, EARL OF OXFORD

96. 'When I was fair and young'

163

ANONYMOUS
97. The lover compareth himself to the painful falconer

164

ARTHUR G O L D I N G (£.1536-1605)
from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'
98. [Ceyx and Alcyone]

165

J O H N P I K E R Y N G (c.1567)
from The History of Herestes
99. [Haltersick's Song]

174

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CONTENTS
100. [Song sung by Egistus and Clytemnestra]
101. [The Vice's Song]

175
177

ANONYMOUS

102. 'Fain would I have a pretty thing'

178

G E O R G E T U R B E R V I L L E (c.1544-c.1597)

103. A poor Ploughman to a Gentleman for whom he
had taken a little pains
104. To his friend P. of courting, travelling,
dicing, and tennis
105. [Epigram from Plato]
106. [A Letter from Russia]

179
180
180
181

Q U E E N E L I Z A B E T H I (1533-1603)

107.
from
108.
109.

'The doubt of future foes'
Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
'All human kind on earth'
'Ah, silly pug, wert thou so sore afraid?'

183
184
185

ANONYMOUS

110. 'Christ was the Word that spake it'

185

T H O M A S TUSSER (l524?-158o)

from Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry
III. [December's Husbandry]
112. [Advice to Housewives]

186
189

I S A B E L L A W H I T N E Y (fl. 1567-1573)

from The Manner of her Will and What she left to London ...
113. 'I whole in body and in mind"

192

GEORGE G A S C O I G N E (1534-1577)

114.
115.
116.
117.
118.
119.
120.

Gascoigne's Woodmanship
Magnum vectigal parsimonia
Gascoigne's Lullaby
Gascoigne's Good Morrow
Gascoigne's Goodnight
]No haste but good]
The Green Knight's Farewell to Fancy

BEWE (first name unknown) (fl. c.1576)
121. 'I would I were Actaeon'

196

200
202
203
205
206
209
211

THOMAS PROCTOR (ft. c.1578)

122. Respice Finem

212

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T H O M A S C H U R C H Y A R D (l520?-l604)

123. A Tale of a Friar and a Shoemaker's Wife

213

TIMOTHY KENDALL (fl. 1577)

from
124.
125.
126.

127.
128.

Flowers of Epigrams
The difference between a King and a Tyrant
A Tyrant in deep, naught dijfereth from a common man
Of a good prince and an evil
Desire of Dominion
Upon the grave of a beggar

227
227
228
228
228

N I C H O L A S B R E T O N (c.1555-1626)

129.
130.
131.
132.
133.
134.

[Service is no Heritage]
'In the merry month of May'
The Chess Play
A Report Song
'Who can live in heart so glad'

'In time of yore'

229
232
232
235
235
237

E D M U N D S P E N S E R (c..1552-1599)

135.
from
136.
from
137.
138.
139.
140.
141.

To ... Master Gabriel Harvey
Mother Hubbard's Tale
[The Fox and the Ape go to Court]
The Faerie Queene
[Guyon's Voyage to the Bower of Bliss]
[The House of Busyrane]
[The Vision of the Graces]
[Mutability claims to rule the world]
[A Faerie Queene Miscellany]

(i) 'He making speedy way through spersed ayre'
(ii) 'By this the Northerne wagoner had set'
(iii) 'The noble hart, that harbours vertuous thought'
(iv) 'Right well I wote most mighty Soueraine'
(v) 'And is there care in heauen? and is mere loue'
(vi) 'Nought vnder heauen so strongly doth allure'
(vii) 'When I bethinke me on that speech whyleare'
from Amoretti
142. 'New year, forth looking out of Janus' gate'
143. 'Most glorious Lord of life, that on mis day'
144. 'One day I wrote her name upon the strand'
145. 'Lacking my love, I go from place to place'
146. Epithalamion
147. Prothalamion

x

238
239
246
2SS
262
268
277
278
278
278
279
280
280

281
281
282
282
282
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CONTENTS
SIR P H I L I P S I D N E Y (1554-1586)

from The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
148. 'My sheep are thoughts, which I both guide and serve'
149. 'O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness'
150. 'My true love hath my heart, and I have his'
151. 'Why dost thou haste away'
152. 'Ye goat-herd gods, that love the grassy mountains'
from Certain Sonnets
153. 'Ring out your bells'
from Astrophil and Stella
154. 'Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show'
155. 'Let dainty wits cry on the sisters nine'
156. 'It is most true, that eyes are formed to serve'
157. 'Some lovers speak, when they their muses entertain'
158. 'Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend'
159. 'You that do search for every purling spring'
160. 'With what sharp checks I in myself am shent'
161. 'On Cupid's bow how are my heart-strings bent'
162. 'Fly, fly, my friends, I have my death wound, fly'
163. 'Your words, my friend, right healthful caustics, blame'

164. 'The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness'
165. 'Because I oft, in dark abstracted guise'
166. 'You that with allegory's curious frame'
167. 'Whether the Turkish new moon minded be'
168. 'With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies'
169. 'Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace'
170. 'As good to write, as for to lie and groan'
171. 'Stella oft sees the very face of woe'
172. 'In martial sports I had my cunning tried'
173. 'Because I breathe not love to every one'
174. 'Who will in fairest book of nature know'
175. 'Have I caught my heavenly jewel'
176. 'I never drank of Aganippe well'
177. 'Of all the kings that ever here did reign'
178. 'Only joy, now here you are'
179. 'In a grove most rich of shade'
180. 'Go, my flock, go get you hence'
181. 'Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame'
182. 'Be your words made, good sir, of Indian ware'
183. 'When far-spent night persuades each mortal eye'
184. 'Who is it that this dark night'
from The Psalms of David Translated into English Verse
185. Psalm ij ['How long, O lord, shall I forgotten be?']

xi

297
297
298
299

299
302
303
303
304
304
304
305
305
306
306
306
307
307
307
308
308
309
309
309
310
310
310
3"
312
312
312
314
317
318

318
319
319
320


CONTENTS
SIR E D W A R D DYER (d. 1607)

186. 'Prometheus, when first from heaven high'

321

ATTRIBUTED TO SIR E D W A R D DYER

322

187. In praise of a contented mind
ANONYMOUS

188. 'The lowest trees have tops, the ant her gall'

323

H U M P H R E Y G I F F O R D (/?. £.1580)

189. For Soldiers
190. In the praise of music

324

325

R I C H A R D S T A N Y H U R S T (1547-1618)

from The First Four Books of Virgil his /Eneis
191. [Polyphemus]

327

T H O M A S W A T S O N (£.1557-1592)

192. My love is past

33i

ANONYMOUS

193. Verses made by a Catholic in praise of Campion .. .
194. [Hymn to the Virgin]

332
337

T H O M A S G I L B A R T (fl. c.1583)

195. A declaration of the death of John Lewes . . .

339

ANONYMOUS

196. A new courtly sonnet of the Lady Greensleeves
197. A Nosegay

343
345

J O H N LYLY (c.1554-1606)

from
198.
199.
200.
from
201.
202.
from
203.
204.
from
205.
206.
207.
208.

Campaspe
'O for a bowl of fat Canary'
'Cupid and my Campaspe played'
'What bird so sings, yet so does wail?'
Sapho and Phao

'O cruel love, on thee I lay'
The Song in making of the Arrows
Endimion
'Stand! Who goes there?'
'Pinch him, pinch him black and blue'
Midas
'My Daphne's hair is twisted gold'
'Pan's Syrinx was a girl indeed'
"Las, how long shall F
'Sing to Apollo, God of Day'
xii

349
349
35°
35°
35°
351
352
352
352
353
353


CONTENTS
F U L K E G R E V I L L E , L O R D B R O O K E (1554-1628)

from
209.

210.
211.
212.
213.
214.
215.
216.
217.
218.
219.
220.
221.
from
222.

Caelica
'The world, that all contains, is ever moving'
'I with whose colours Myra dressed her head'
'All my senses, like beacon's flame'
'When all this All doth pass from age to age'
'Love is the peace, whereto all thoughts do strive'
'The earth with thunder torn, with fire blasted'
'When as man's life, the light of human lust'
'Man, dream no more of curious mysteries'
'Eternal Truth, almighty, infinite'
'Wrapt up, O Lord, in man's degeneration'
'Down in the depth of mine iniquity'
'Three things there be in man's opinion dear'
'Sion lies waste, and thy Jerusalem'
Mustapha

[Chorus of Priests ('O wearisome condition of humanity')]

354
355
355
357
357
358
358
359
359
360
360
361
362
362

S I R W A L T E R R A L E G H (
223. 'Praised be Diana's fair and harmless light'
224. 'Like truthless dreams'
225. 'Like to a hermit poor'
226. 'Conceit begotten by the eyes'
227. Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen
228. 'As you came from the holy land'
229. 'If all the world and love were young'
230. Sir Walter Ralegh to his son
231. 'Farewell false love, the oracle of lies'
232. A Vision upon this Conceit of'The Faerie Queene'
233. The Lie

234. 'Fortune hath taken thee away, my love'
235. The Ocean to Cynthia
Translations from The History of the World
236. from Catullus ('The sun may set and rise")
237. from Euripides ('Heaven and Earth one form did bear')
238. fromAusonius ('I am that Dido which thou here dost see')
239. 'What is our life?'
240. Verses made the night before he died
241. On the snuff of a candle, the night before he died
ATTRIBUTED

363
3°4
364
365
366
367
368
369
37°
371
37i
373
374
389
389
389
39°
390
391

TO SIR WALTER R A L E G H

242. To his love when he had obtained her
SIR A R T H U R G O R G E S (1557-1625)
243. [Dialogue from Desportes]

xiii

39i
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CONTENTS
C H I D I O C K T I C H B O R N E (d. 1586)

244. Tichborne's Elegy

393

R O B E R T S O U T H W E L L SJ (1561-1595)

245.
246.
247.
248.
249.
250.
251.
252.

253.

The Burning Babe
New Prince, Nea> Pomp
A Vale of Tears
Decease release
Man's civil war
Look home
Times Go by Turns
Loss in Delays
Content and Rich

394
395
396
398
399
400
401
402
403

ANONYMOUS

254. Upon the Image of Death
[Songs set by William Byrd]
255. 'I joy not in no earthly bliss'
256. 'What pleasure have great princes'
257. 'Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses'
from Six Idillia ... chosen out of.. . Theocritus

258. Cyclops
259. Neatherd
260. Adonis
LODOWICK BRYSKETT (LODOVICO BRUSCHETTO)

4°5
407
407
408
409
411
412

(1546-1612)

261. A Pastoral Eclogue upon the death of Sir Philip Sidney Knight

413

ANONYMOUS

262. 'Like to a ring without a finger'

417

R O B E R T G R E E N E (1558-1592)

263.
264.
265.

266.
267.
268.
269.
270.
271.

[Phillis and Coridon]
'Weep not, my wanton'
The Description of the Shepherd and His Wife
[The Shepherd's Wife's Song]
\A Night Visitor}
The Palmer
'Old Menalcas on a day'
'Deceiving world'
The Description of Sir Geoffrey Chaucer

420
421
422
423
425
425
426
427
428

W I L L I A M W A R N E R (£.1558-1609)

from Albion's England

272. A Tale of the beginning of Friars and Cloisterers

xiv

429


CONTENTS
SIR H E N R Y L E E (1530-1610)

273. [Farewell to the Court]

432

T H O M A S L O D G E (1558-1625)

274.
275.
276.
277.
278.

'Love in my bosom like a bee'
'Love guards the roses of thy lips'
'My Phillis hath the morning sun'
The Shepherd's Sorrow, being disdained in lave
[Animal Weather-forecasting}

433
434

434
435
437

ANONYMOUS

279. ['Hopeless desire soon withers and dies']
280. 'Were I as base'
281. \Anacreon, Ode 3 ('Of late, what time
the Bear turned round')]

439
440
440

F R A N C I S T R E G I A N (1548-1608)

282. \An imprisoned recusant writes to his wife]
SIR JOHN H A R I N G T O N

441

(1560-1612)

from 'Orlando Furioso' in English Heroical Verse
283. [The beginning of Orlando's madness]
284. [Astolfo recovers Orlando's wits]
285. Of Treason
286. Of the mars in Ireland
287. A Groom of the Chamber's Religion in King

Henry the eighth's time
288. Sir John Raynsford's Confession

443
450
458
459
459
460

ANONYMOUS

289. The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage
HENRY CONSTABLE

290.
291.
292.
293.
294.
295.
296.
297.
298.
299.

461

(1562-1613)

To the Marquess of Piscat's Soul
To Sir Philip Sidney's Soul
To God the Holy Ghost
To the Blessed Sacrament
To Our Blessed Lady
To St John Baptist
To St Peter and St Paul
To St Mary Magdalen
To St Mary Magdalen
To St Margaret

463
463
464
464
465
465
466
466
467
467

M A R Y H E R B E R T , C O U N T E S S O F P E M B R O K E (1561-1621)

300. Psalm 52 ('Tyrant, why swell's! thou thus')

xv

468

CONTENTS
301.
302.
303.
304.
305.

Psalm 58 ('And call ye this to utter what is just')
Psalm 59 ('Save me from such as me assail')
Psalm 73 ('It is most true that God to Israel')
Psalm 134 ('You that Jehovah's servants are')
Psalm 139 ('O Lord, in me there lieth nought')

469
470
472
475
475

C H R I S T O P H E R M A R L O W E (1564-1593)

from
306.
307.
308.
309.
310.
from
311.

312.
313.

All Ovid's Elegies
Elegia IV ('Thy husband to a banquet goes with me')
Elegia V ('In summer's heat, and mid-time of the day')
Elegia XIII ('Now o'er the sea from her old love comes she')
Elegia XV ('Envy, why carp'st thou my time is spent so ill?')
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love
Lucan's First Book, translated line for line
[The causes of the civil war]
[Caesar summons his forces from Gaul]
Hero and Leander

478
480
480
482
483
484
486
488

S I R H E N R Y W O T T O N (1568-1639)

314. A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in Us youth
315. [To John Donne]

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Delia
'Look, Delia, how we steem the half-blown rose'
'But love whilst that thou mayst be loved again'
'When men shall find thy flower, thy glory, pass'
'When winter snows upon thy golden hairs'
'Thou canst not die whilst any zeal abound'
'Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew'
'Care-charmer sleep, son of the sable night'
'Let others sing of knights and paladins'

Ode ('Now each creature joys the other')
The Civil Wars
[King Richard II is taken into custody]
Musophilus
'Fond man, Musophilus, that thus dost spend'
'Sacred Religion, mother of form and fear'
'Behold how every man, drawn with delight'
'Power above powers, O heavenly Eloquence'

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M I C H A E L D R A Y T O N (1563-1631)

from The Shepherds' Garland
330. The eighth eclogue

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CONTENTS
from
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from
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333.
334.
335.
336.
from
337-

Idea's Mirror
'The golden sun upon his fiery wheels'
Idea
'Love, in a humour, played the prodigal'
'As other men, so I myself do muse'
'An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still'
'As Love and I, late harboured in one inn'
'Truce, gentle Love, a parley now I crave'
England's Heroical Epistles
(i) Queen Katherine to Owen Tudor
(ii) Owen Tudor to Queen Katherine

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ANONYMOUS

338. [The Ruins of Walsingham}
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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(1564-1616)

from Venus and Adonis
339. [The Death of Adonis]
from The Rape of Lucrece
340. [Before the Rape]
341. [Lucrece's Death]
from The Two Gentlemen of Verona
342. 'Who is Silvia? what is she'
from Love's Labour's Lost
343. 'When daisies pied and violets blue'
344. 'When icicles hang by the wall'
from A Midsummer Night's Dream
345. 'You spotted snakes with double tongue'
346. 'The ousel cock, so black of hue'
from The Merchant of Venice

347. 'Tell me where is fancy bred'
from Much Ado About Nothing
348. 'Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more"
349. 'Pardon, goddess of the night'
from As You Like It
350. 'Under the greenwood tree'
351. 'Blow, blow, diou winter wind'
352. 'What shall he have that killed the deer?'
353. 'It was a lover and his lass'
from Twelfth Night
354. 'O mistress mine, where are you roaming?'
355. 'Come away, come away, death'
356. 'When that I was and a little tiny boy'
from Hamlet
357. 'Why, let the strucken deer go weep'

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CONTENTS
358. 'How should I your true-love know'
359. 'Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's day'
360. 'And will 'a not come again?'
from Measure for Measure
361. 'Take, O take those lips away'
from Antony and Cleopatra
362. 'Come, thou monarch of the vine'
from Cymbeline
363. 'Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings'
364. 'Fear no more the heat o' th' sun'
from The Winter's Tale
365. 'When daffadils begin to peer'
366. 'Jog on, jog on, the footpath way'
367. 'Lawn as white as driven snow'
from The Tempest
368. 'Come unto these yellow sands'
369. 'Full fathom five thy father lies'
370. 'Where the bee sucks, there suck I'
from The Two Noble Kinsmen
371. 'Roses, their sharp spines being gone'

from Sonnets
372. 'When forty winters shall besiege thy brow'
373. 'When I do count the clock that tells the time'
374. 'When 1 consider every thing that grows'
375. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?'
376. 'Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws'
377. 'A woman's face, with Nature's own hand painted'
378. 'As an unperfect actor on the stage'
379. 'Weary widi toil, I haste me to my bed'
380. 'When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes'
381. 'When to the sessions of sweet silent diought'
382. 'Full many a glorious morning have I seen"
383. 'No more be grieved at that which thou hast done'
384. 'What is your substance, whereof are you made'
385. 'Not marble, nor the gilded monuments'
386. 'Being your slave, what should I do but tend'
387. 'Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore'
388. 'When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced'
389. 'Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea'
390. 'Tired with all these, for restful death I cry'
391. 'No longer mourn for me when I am dead"
392. 'That time of year thou mayst in me behold'
393. 'Why is my verse so barren of new pride'
394. 'Was it the proud full sail of his great verse'
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'Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing"
'Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now'
'They that have power to hurt and will do none'

'How like a winter hath my absence been'
'From you have I been absent in the spring'
'To me, fair friend, you never can be old'
'When in the chronicle of wasted time'
'Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul'
'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there'
'Your love and pity doth th'impression fill'
'Let me not to the marriage of true minds'
"Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed'
'If my dear love were but the child of state'
'Were't aught to me I bore the canopy'
'Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame'
'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'
'When my love swears that she is made of truth'
'Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press'
'Love is too young to know what conscience is'
The Phoenix and Turtle

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'Crabbed age and youth'
'Those eyes which set my fancy on a fire'
'A secret murder hath been done of late'
'Sought by the world'
'The brainsick race that wanton youth ensues'
'Feed still thy self, thou fondling, with belief
A Counterlove

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R O B E R T D E V E R E U X , E A R L O F E S S E X (1566-1601)

422. 'Happy were he'

608

ANONYMOUS

423. 'Were I a king'

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T H O M A S C A M P I O N (1567-1620)

424.
425.
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427.
428.
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430.

'What fair pomp'
'My sweetest Lesbia'
'I care not for these ladies'

'Follow thy fair sun'
'When to her lute Corinna sings'
'Follow your saint'
'The man of life upright'

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CONTENTS
431. 'Hark, all you ladies that do sleep'
432. 'When thou must home to shades of underground'

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T H O M A S N A S H E (l567-<.l6oi)

from
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434.
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436.

Summer's Last Will and Testament
'Fair summer droops, droop men and beasts therefore'
'Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king'
'Adieu, farewell earth's bliss'
'Autumn hath all the summer's fruitful treasure'

ANONYMOUS
[Madrigals set by Thomas Morley]
437. 'Cruel, you pull away too soon your lips whenas you kiss
438. 'Whither away so fast'
439. 'When, lo, by break of morning'
440. 'Sweet nymph, come to thy lover'
441. 'I go before, my darling'
442. 'Miraculous love's wounding!'
443. 'Now is the month of maying'
444. 'Sing we and chant it'
445. 'Lady, those cherries plenty'
446. 'Lo, where with flowery head and hair all brightsome'
447 'Damon and Phyllis squared'
448. 'Lady, you think you spite me'
449. 'You black bright stars, that shine while daylight lasteth'
450. 'Ladies, you see time fliedi'

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B A R N A B E B A R N E S (l56g?-l6o9)

from Parthenophil and Parthenophe
451. Ode II ('Lovely Maya, Hermes' mother')
452. Sestina ('Then first with locks dishevelled and bare')

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J O H N D O N N E (1572-1631)

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454.
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456.
457.

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459.
460.
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Satire i \A London street]
Satire 3 [The search for true religion}
The Perfume
The Bracelet
On his Mistress
To his Mistress Going to Bed
The Storm
The Calm
Hero and Leander
A Lame Beggar
To Sir Henry Wotton
Song ('Go, and catch a falling star')

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CONTENTS
465.
466.
467.
468.
469.
470.
471.

Song ('Sweetest love, I do not go')
The Apparition
The Computation
The Flea
The Will
A Lecture upon the Shadow
The Anniversary

SIR J O H N DAVIES (1569-1626)
from Orchestra or A Poem of Dancing
472. 'Where lives the man that never yet did hear'
from Gulling Sonnets
473. 'As when the bright cerulian firmament'
474. 'What eagle can behold her sunbright eye'

475. 'The sacred muse that first made love divine'
476. 'My case is this, I love Zepheria bright'
from Epigrams
477. 'Titus the brave and valorous gallant'
478. 'Cosmus hath more discoursing in his head'
479. 'The fine youth Ciprius is more terse and neat'
480. 'Amongst the poets Dacus numbered is'
481. 'Philo the gentleman, the fortune teller'
from Nosce Teipsum
482. Of Human Knowledge

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ANONYMOUS

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483. [Things forbidden}
G E O R G E P E E L E (1556-1596)

from
484.
485.
486.
487.
from
488.

The Old Wive's Tale
'Three merry men, and three merry men'
'When as the rye reach to the chin'
'Spread, table, spread'
[Voices from the Well of Life}
David and Fair Bethsabe
[Bethsabe's Song]

RICHARD BARNFIELD

from
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from

492.

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(1574-1627)

489. The Affectionate Shepherd
490. 'Man's life'
GEORGE CHAPMAN

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(l559?-l634)

Ovid's Banquet of Sense
['The Ears'Delight']
Hero and Leander
'New light gives new directions, fortunes new'

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CONTENTS
493. 'This told, strange Teras touched her lute, and sung'
from Achilles' Shield
494 [Thetis asks Vulcan to make a shield for Achilles]

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B A R T H O L O M E W G R I F F I N (d. 1602)

495. Venus and Adonis
496. Care-charmer sleep

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SIR F R A N C I S B A C O N (1561-1626)

497. [The life of man}

697

R O B E R T S I D N E Y (1563-1626)

498.
499.
500.
501.

'Alas, why say you I am rich'
'Ah dearest limbs, my life's best joy and stay'
'Forsaken woods, trees with sharp storms oppressed'
'The sun is set, and masked night'

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699
699

J O S E P H H A L L (1574-1636)

from Virgidemiae. Toothless Satires
502. [Advertisement for a Chaplain]
503. [A Drunkard arrives in Hades]
from Virgidemiae. Biting Satires
504. [Landlords and Tenants]

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W I L L I A M A L A B A S T E R (1567-1640)

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506.
507.
508.
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510.

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512.
513.

A Divine Sonnet
Upon the Ensigns of Christ's Crucifying
Of the Reed that the Jews Set in Our Saviour's Hand
Upon the Crucifix
To the Blessed Virgin
To Christ
Incarnatio est Maximum Dei Donum
'Away, fear, with thy projects'
Exaltatio Humanae Naturae

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T H O M A S B A S T A R D (1566-1618)

709

514. De Puero Balbutiente
J O S U A H SYLVESTER (1562 Or 1563-1618)

from The Divine Weeks and Works of Guillaume de Saluste
Sieur Du Bartas
515. [The Tower of Babel]

710

B E N J O N S O N (1572-1637)

516. [To Thomas Palmer, on his book 'The Sprite of
Trees and Herbs']
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CONTENTS
J O H N M A R S T O N (1576-1634)

from
517.
518.
519.
520.

The Scourge of Villainy
To Detraction ...
from Satire VII. A Cynic Satire
from Satire XI. Humours
To Everlasting Oblivion

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T H O M A S DEKKER (iM57O-C.l632)

from
521.
522.
from
523.
524.
from
525.
526.

The Shoemaker's Holiday
'O the month of May, the merry month of May'
'Cold's the wind, and wet's the rain'
Old Fortunatus
'Fortune smiles, cry holy day!'
'Virtue's branches wither, virtue pines'
Patient Grissil
'Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers?'
'Golden slumbers kiss your eyes'

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ANONYMOUS

[Lute Songs set by John Dowland]
527. 'Come away, come, sweet love'
528. 'Die not before thy day, poor man condemned'
529. 'I saw my lady weep'
530. 'Fine knacks for ladies'
531. 'Toss not my soul, O Love, 'twixt hope and fear'
532. 'Weep you no more, sad fountains'
[Madrigal set by John Farmer]
533. 'Take time while Time doth last'
[Madrigal set by John Bennet]
534. 'Thyrsis, sleepest thou? Holla! Let no sorrow stay us'
[Madrigals set by Thomas Weelkes]
535. 'Like two proud armies marching in the field'
536. 'Thule, the period of cosmography'
[Lute Song set by Robert Jones]
537. 'Farewell, dear love, since thou wilt needs be gone'

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735
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E D M U N D B O L T O N (l575?-l633?)

538. A Palinode
539. 'As to the blooming prime'

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S A M U E L R O W L A N D S (l57O?-l63O?)

540. Boreas
541. Thraso
542. Sir Revel

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E D W A R D F A I R F A X (d.

1635)

from Godfrey of Bulloigne (Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata)
543. [Erminia among the shepherds]
544. [The garden of Armida]
NOTES AND REFERENCES

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744
753

I N D E X OF FIRST L I N E S

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I N D E X OF AUTHORS

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