THE NEWOXFORD BOOK OF

SIXTEENTHCENTURY

VERSE

Chosen and edited by

EMRYS JONES

OXFORDUNIVERSITY PRESS

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Introduction

JOHN SKELTON (c.1460-1529)from The Garland of Laurel

1. To Mistress Isabel Pennell 12. To Mistress Margaret Hussey 23. [My darling dear, my daisy flower] • 3

from The Bouge of Court4. 'The sail is up, Fortune ruleth our helm' 4

from Philip Sparrow5. 'Pla ce boP 9

from Magnificence6. [Fancy's song and speech] 187. [The conclusion of the play] 20

from Elinour Rumming8. [Visitors to the ale-house] 22

from Speak, Parrot9. [The opening stanzas] 26

10. [The conclusion] . 30

ANONYMOUS11. The Nutbrown Maid 32

STEPHEN HAWES (l47S?-I523?)from The Pastime of Pleasure

12. [The epitaph of graunde amoure] 43

13. [Against Swearing] 43

ANONYMOUS14. Western Wind 4415. 'By a bank as I lay' 45

H E A T H (first name and dates unknown)

16. 'These women all' 46

ATTRIBUTED TO KING HENRY VIII (1491-1547)17. 'Pastime with good company' 4718. 'Whereto should I express' 4819. 'Green groweth the holly' 48

WILLIAM CORNISH (d. 1523)20. 'You and I and Amyas' 49

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ANONYMOUS21. [The juggler and the baron's daughter] 50

SIR THOMAS MORE (1477 or 1478-1535)22. A Lamentation of Queen Elizabeth 5223. Certain metres written by master Thomas More ...for

The Book of Fortune'. 55

ALEXANDER BARCLAYfrom Eclogues

24. ['The Miseries of Courtiers'... Eating in Hall] 62

ANONYMOUSfrom Scottish Field

25. [The Battle of Flodden] 67

SIR THOMAS WYATT (£.1503-1542)26. 'And wilt thou leave me thus?'27. 'Madam, withouten many words'28. 'In aetemum'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'

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ATTRIBUTED TO SIR THOMAS WYATT54. 'I am as I am and so will I be' 97

ANONYMOUSfrom The Court of Love

55. [The birds' matins and conclusion of the poem] 98

HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1517^-1547)56. 'When raging love' 10257. 'The soote season' , 10258. 'Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green' 10359. 'Alas, so all things now do hold their peace' 10360. 'O happy dames' 104

from Certain Books of Virgil's 'AZneis'61. [Creusa] 10562. [Dido in love] 10863. [The Happy Life] 10964. 'So cruel prison' . 10965. An excellent epitaph of Sir Thomas Wyatt 11166. 'Th'Assyrians'king1 11267. [Epitaph for Thomas Clere] 113

ROBERT COPLAND (/?. 1508-1547)

from The High Way to the Spital House68. 'To write of Sol in his exaltation' 113

JOHN HARINGTON (d. 1582)69. To his mother . 11970. [Husband to wife] 12071. [Wife to husband] 12172. A sonnet written upon my Lord Admiral Seymour 122

ANONYMOUS73. [How to obtain her] ~ 122

ANNE ASKEW (1521-1546)74. The Ballad which Anne Askew made and sang

when she was in Newgate 123

SIR THOMAS SEYMOUR (BARON SEYMOUR OF SUDELEY) (l508?-I549)75. 'Forgetting God' 125

JOHN HEYWOOD (C.I497-CI580)76. \A quiet neighbour] 126

NICHOLAS GRIMALD (l5I9?-I562?)77•. Description of'Virtue 127

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THOMAS, LORD VAUX (15IO-I556)78. The Aged Lover Renounceth Love 12779. [The Pleasures of Thinking] 12980. [Death in Life] 13081. [Age looks back at Youth] 130

GEORGE CAVENDISH (l499?-I56l?)82. An Epitaph of our late Queen Mary 131

THOMAS PHAER (l5IO?-I5OO)from The nine first books of the Eneidos

83. [Euryalus and Nisus meet their deaths] 135

BARNABY GOOGE (154O-I594)84. To Doctor Bale 13785. Of Money 13886. Coming homeward out of Spain 138

THOMAS SACKVILLE, EARL OF DORSET (1536-1608)from The Mirror for Magistrates

87. The Induction 139

ANONYMOUS88. A Dialogue between Death and Youth 154

EDWARD DE VERE, EARL OF OXFORD (1550-1604)89. 'The lively lark stretched forth her wing' 15790. 'If women could be fair and yet not fond' 15791. 'The labouring man, that tills the fertile soil' 15892. 'Sitting alone upon my thought' 15993. [A Court Lady addresses her Lover] 16094. 'When wert thou born, Desire?' 16195. 'What cunning can express' - 162

ATTRIBUTED TO EDWARD DE VERE, EARL OF OXFORD96. 'When I was fair and young' 163

ANONYMOUS97. The lovercompareth himselfto the painful falconer 164

ARTHUR GOLDING (f.1536-1605)from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

98. [Ceyx and Alcyone] 165

JOHN PIKERYNG (f.1567)

from The History ofHorestes99. [Haltersick's Song] 174

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100. [Song sung by Egistus and Clytemnestra] 175101. [The Vice's Song] 177

ANONYMOUS

102. 'Fain would I have a pretty thing' 178

GEORGE TURBERVILLE (c.1544-^.1597)103. A poor Ploughman to a Gentleman for whom hehad taken a little pains 179104. To his friend P. of courting, travelling,dicing, and tennis 180105. [Epigram from Plato] 180106. [A Letter from Russia] 181

QUEEN ELIZABETH I (1533-1603)

107. 'The doubt of future foes' 183from Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy108. 'All human kind on earth' 184109. 'Ah, silly pug, wert thou so sore afraid?' 185

ANONYMOUS

110. 'Christ was the Word that spake it' 185

THOMASTUSSERfrom Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandryi n . [Decembers Husbandry] 186112. [Advice to Housewives] 189

ISABELLA WHITNEY {ft. 1567-I573)from The Manner of her Will and What she left to London ...113. 'I whole in body and in mind' 192

GEORGE GASCOIGNE (1534-1577)114. Gascoigne's Woodmanship 196115. Magnum vectigal parsimonia 200116. Gascoigne's Lullaby 202117. Gascoigne's Good Morrow 203118. Gascoigne's Goodnight 205119. [No haste but good] 206120. The Green Knight's Farewell to Fancy 209

BEWE (first name unknown) (ft. c.1576)121. 'I would I were Actaeon' 211

THOMAS PROCTOR (ft. CI578)122. Respice Finem 212

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THOMAS CHURCHYARD (l52O?-l6O4)123. A Tale of a Friar and a Shoemaker's Wife 213

TIMOTHY KENDALL (ft. 1577)

from Flowers of Epigrams124. The difference between a King and a Tyrant 227125. A Tyrant in sleep, naught differeth from a common man 227126. Of a good prince and an evil 228127. Desire of Dominion 228128. Upon the grave of a beggar 228

NICHOLAS BRETON (f.1555-1626)129. [Service is no Heritage] 229130. 'In the merry month of May' 232131. The Chess Play 232132. A Report Song 235133. 'Who can live in heart so glad' 235134. 'In time of yore' , 237

EDMUND SPENSER (c.1552-1599)135. 7b . . . Master Gabriel Harvey 238from Mother Hubbards Tale136. [The Fox and the Ape go to Court] 239from The Faerie Queene137. [Guyon's Voyage to the Bower of Bliss] 246138. [The House ofBusyrane] 255139. [The Vision of the Graces] 262140. [Mutability claims to rule the world] 268141. [A Faerie Queene Miscellany]

(i) 'He making speedy way through spersed ayre' 277(ii) 'By this the Northerne wagoner had set' 278(iii) 'The noble hart, that harbours vertuous thought' 278(iv) 'Right well I wote most mighty Soueraine' 278(v) 'And is there care in heauen? and is there loue' 279(vi) 'Nought vnder heauen so strongly doth allure' 280(vii) 'When I bethinke me on that speech whyleare' 280

from Amoretti142. 'New year, forth looking out of Janus' gate' 281143. 'Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day' . 281144. 'One day I wrote her name upon the strand' 282145. 'Lacking my love, I go from place to place' 282146. Epithalamion . 282147. Pmthalamion 293

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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586)from The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia148. 'My sheep are thoughts, which I both guide and serve' 297149. 'O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness' 297150. 'My true love hath my heart, and I have his' 298151. 'Why dost thou haste away' 299152. 'Ye goat-herd gods, that love the grassy mountains' 299from Certain Sonnets153. 'Ring out your bells' 302from Astrophil and Stella154. 'Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show' 303155. 'Let dainty wits cry on the sisters nine' 303156. 'It is most true, that eyes are formed to serve' 304157. 'Some lovers speak, when they their muses entertain' 304158. 'Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend' 304159. 'You that do search for every purling spring" 305160. 'With what sharp checks I in myself am shent' 305161. 'On Cupid's bow how are my heart-strings bent' 306162. 'Fly, fly, my friends, I have my death wound, fly' 306163. 'Your words, my friend, right healthful caustics, blame' 306164. 'The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness' 307165. 'Because I oft, in dark abstracted guise' 307166. 'You that with allegory's curious frame' . " 307167. 'Whether the Turkish new moon minded be' 308168. 'With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies' 308169. 'Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace' 309170. 'As good to write, as for to lie and groan' 309171. 'Stella oft sees the very face of woe' • 309172. 'In martial sports I had my cunning tried' 310173. 'Because I breathe not love to every one' 310174. 'Who will in fairest book of nature know' 310175. 'Have I caught my heavenly jewel' 311176. 'I never drank of Aganippe well' 312177. 'Of all the kings that ever here did reign' 312178. 'Only joy, now here you are' 312179. 'In a grove most rich of shade' 314180. 'Go, my flock, go get you hence' 317181. 'Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame' 318182. 'Be your words made, good sir, of Indian ware' 318183. 'When far-spent night persuades each mortal eye' 319184. 'Who is it that this dark night' 319from The Psalms of David Translated into English Verse185. Psalm 13 ['How long, O lord, shall I forgotten be?'] 320

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SIR EDWARD DYER (d. 1607)186. 'Prometheus, when first from heaven high' 321

ATTRIBUTED TO SIR EDWARD DYER187. In praise of a contented mind 322

ANONYMOUS188. 'The lowest trees have tops, the ant her gall' 323

HUMPHREY GIFFORD (fl. C.1580)189. For Soldiers 324190. In the praise of music 325

RICHARD STANYHURST (1547-1618)from The First Four Books of Virgil his dZneis191. [Polyphemus] 327

THOMAS WATSON (c.1557-1592)192. My love is past 331

ANONYMOUS193. Verses made by a Catholic in praise of Campion . . . 3 3 21 9 4 . [Hymn to the Virgin] 337

THOMAS GILBART (fl. f.1583)195. A declaration of the death of John Lewes ... 339

ANONYMOUS196. A new courtly sonnet of the Lady Greensleeves 343197. A Nosegay 345

JOHN LYLY (c.1554-1606)from Campaspe198. 'O for a bowl of fat Canary' 349199. 'Cupid and my Campaspe played' 349200. 'What bird so sings, yet so does wail?' 350from Sapho and Phao201. 'O cruel love, on thee I lay' 350202. Tne Song in making of the Arrows 350from Endimion203. 'Stand! Who goes there?' 351204. 'Pinch him, pinch him black and blue' 352from Midas205. 'My Daphne's hair is twisted gold' 352206. 'Pan's Syrinx was a girl indeed' 352207. "Las, how long shall I' 353208. 'Sing to Apollo, God of Day* 353

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from Caelica209. 'The world, that all contains, is ever moving' 354210. 'I with whose colours Myra dressed her head' 355211. 'All my senses, like beacon's flame' 355212. 'When all this All doth pass from age to age' 357213. 'Love is the peace, whereto all thoughts do strive' 357214. 'The earth with thunder torn, with fire blasted' 358215. 'When as man's life, the light of human lust' 358216. 'Man, dream no more of curious mysteries' 359217. 'Eternal Truth, almighty, infinite' 359218. 'Wrapt up, O Lord, in man's degeneration' 360219. 'Down in the depth of mine iniquity' 360220. 'Three things there be in man's opinion dear' 361221. 'Sion lies waste, and thy Jerusalem' 362from Mustapha222. [Chorus of Priests ('0 wearisome condition of humanity')] 362

SIR WALTER RALEGH (f.1552-1618)223. 'Praised be Diana's fair and harmless light' 363224. 'Like truthless dreams' 364225. 'Like to a hermit poor' . 364226. 'Conceit begotten by the eyes' 365227. Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen 366228. 'As you came from the holy land' 367229. 'If all the world and love were young' 368230. Sir Walter Ralegh to his son 369231. 'Farewell false love, the oracle of lies' 370232. A Vision upon this Conceit of The Faerie Queene' 371233. The Lie 371234. 'Fortune hath taken thee away, my love' 373235. The Ocean to Cynthia 374Translations from The History of the World236. from Catullus ('The sun may set and rise') 389237. from Euripides ('Heaven and Earth one form did bear') 389238. from Ausonius ('I am that Dido which thou here dost see') 389239. 'What is our life?' 390240. Verses made the night before he died 390241. On the snuff of a candle, the night before he died 391

ATTRIBUTED TO SIR WALTER RALEGH242. To his love when he had obtained her 391

SIR ARTHUR GORGES (1557-1625)

243. [Dialogue from Desportes] 392

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CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE (d. 1586)244. Tichbome's Elegy 393

ROBERT SOUTHWELL SJ (1561-1595)245. The Burning Babe 394246. New Prince, New Pomp 395247. A Vale of Tears 396248. Decease release 398249. Man's civil war 399250. Look home 400251. Times Go by Turns 401252. Loss in Delays 402253. Content and Rich 403

ANONYMOUS254. Upon the Image of Death 405[Songs set by William Byrd]255- 'I i°y n o t m n o earthly bliss' 407256. 'What pleasure have great princes' 407257. 'Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses' 408from Six Idillia ... chosen out of... Theocritus ^258. Cyclops 409259. Neatherd 411260. Adonis 412

LODOWICK BRYSKETT (LODOVICO BRUSCHETTO) (1546-1612)261. A Pastoral Eclogue upon the death of Sir Philip Sidney Knight 413

ANONYMOUS262. 'Like to a ring without a finger' 417

ROBERT GREENE (1558-I592)263. [Phillis and Coridon] 420264. 'Weep not, my wanton' 421265. The Description of the Shepherd and His Wife 422266. [The Shepherd's Wife's Song] 423267. \A Night Visitor] 425268. The Palmer 425269. 'Old Menalcas on a day' 426270. 'Deceiving world' 427271. The Description of Sir Geoffrey Chaucer , 428

WILLIAM WARNER (£.1558-1609)from Albion's England272. A Tale of the beginning of Friars and Cloisterers 429

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SIR HENRY LEE (1530-1610)273. [Farewell to the Court] 432

THOMAS LODGE (1558-1625)274. 'Love in my bosom like a bee' 433275. 'Love guards the roses of thy lips' 434276. 'My Phillis hath the morning sun' 434277. The Shepherd's Sorrow, being disdained in love 435278. [Animal Weather-forecasting] 437

ANONYMOUS279. ['Hopeless desire soon withers and dies'] 439280. 'Were I as base' 440281. [Anacreon, Ode 3 ('Of late, what timethe Bear turned round')] 440

FRANCIS TREGIAN (1548-1608)

282. [An imprisoned recusant writes to his wife] 441

SIR JOHN HARINGTON (1560-1612)from 'Orlando Furioso' in English Heroical Verse283. [The beginning of Orlando's madness] 443284. \Astolfo recovers Orlando's wits] 450285. Of Treason 458286. Of the wars in Ireland 459287. A Groom of the Chamber's Religion in KingHenry the eighth's time 459288. Sir John Raynsjbrd's Confession 460

ANONYMOUS289. The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage 461

HENRY CONSTABLE (1562-1613)290. To the Marquess of Piscat's Soul 463291. To Sir Philip Sidney's Soul , 463292. To God the Holy Ghost 464 •293. To the Blessed Sacrament 464294. To Our Blessed Lady 465295. To Stjohn Baptist 465296. To St Peter and St Paul 466297. To St Mary Magdalen 466298. To St Maty Magdalen 467299. To St Margaret 467

MARY HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE (1561-1621)300. Psalm 52 ('Tyrant, why swell'st thou thus') 468

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301. Psalm 5# ('And call ye this to utter what is just") 469302. Psalm 59 ('Save me from such as me assail') . 470303. Psalm 73 ('It is most true that God to Israel') 472304. Psalm 134 ('You that Jehovah's servants are') 475305. Psalm 139 ('O Lord, in me there lieth nought') 475

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593), from All Ovid's Elegies

306. Elegia FV ('Thy husband to a banquet goes with me') 478307. Elegia V ('In summer's heat, and mid-time of the day') 480308. Elegia XIII ('Now o'er the sea from her old love comes she') 480309. Elegia XV ('Envy, why carp'st thou my time is spent so ill?') 482310. The Passionate Shepherd to his Love 483from Lucan's First Book, translated line for line311. [The causes of the civil war] 484312. [Caesar summons his forces from Gaul] 486313. Hero and Leander . 488

SIR HENRY WOTTON (1568-1639)

314. A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his youth 507315. [To John Donne] 507

SAMUEL DANIEL (c.1563-1619)from Delia316. 'Look, Delia, how we steem the half-blown rose' 508317. 'But love whilst that thou mayst be loved again' 509318. 'When men shall find thy flower, thy glory, pass' 509319. 'When winter snows upon thy golden hairs' 510320. 'Thou canst not die whilst any zeal abound' 510321. 'Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew' 510322. 'Care-charmer sleep, son of the sable night' 511323. 'Let others sing of knights and paladins' 511324. Ode ('Now each creature joys the other') 512from The Civil Wars325. [King Richard II is taken into custody] 512from Musophilus326. 'Fond man, Musophilus, that thus dost spend' 519327. 'Sacred Religion, mother of form and fear' 524328. 'Behold how every man, drawn with delight' 526329. 'Power above powers, O heavenly Eloquence' 530

MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563-1631)from The Shepherds' Garland330. The eighth eclogue 532

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from Idea's Mirror331. 'The golden sun upon his fiery wheels' 539from Idea332. 'Love, in a humour, played the prodigal' 540333. 'As other men, so I myself do muse' 540334. 'An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still' 540335. 'As Love and I, late harboured in one inn' 541336. 'Truce, gentle Love, a parley now I crave' 541from England's Heroical Epistles337- (0 Queen Katherine to Owen Tudor 542

(ii) Owen Tudor to Queen Katherine 546

ANONYMOUS338. [The Ruins of Walsingham] 550

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)from Venus and Adonis339. [The Death of Adonis] 551from The Rape ofLucrece340. [Before the Rape] 560341. [Lucrece's Death] 563from lite Two Gentlemen of Verona342. 'Who is Silvia? what is she' - , 569from Love's Labour's Lost343. 'When daisies pied and violets blue' 569344. 'When icicles hang by the wall' 570from A Midsummer Night's Dream345. 'You spotted snakes with double tongue' 570346. 'The ousel cock, so black of hue' 571from The Merchant of Venice347. 'Tell me where is fancy bred' 571from Much Ado About Nothing348. 'Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more' 571349. 'Pardon, goddess of the night' 572from As You Like It350. 'Under the greenwood tree' 572351. 'Blow, blow, thou winter wind' 573352. 'What shall he have that killed the deer?' 573353. 'It was a lover and his lass' 573from Twelfth Night354. 'O mistress mine, where are you roaming?' 574355. 'Come away, come away, death' 575356. 'When that I was and a little tiny boy' 575from Hamlet357. 'Why, let the strucken deer go weep' 576

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358. 'How should I your true-love know' 576359. 'Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's day" 576360. 'And will 'a not come again?' 577from Measure for Measure361. 'Take, O take those lips away' 577from Antony and Cleopatra362. 'Come, thou monarch of the vine' 577from Cymbeline363. 'Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings' 578364. 'Fear no more the heat o' th' sun' 578from The Winter's Tale365. 'When daffadils begin to peer' 579366. 'Jog on, jog on, the footpath way' 579367. 'Lawn as white as driven snow' 579from The Tempest368. 'Come unto these yellow sands' 580369. 'Full fathom five thy father lies' 580370. 'Where the bee sucks, there suck P . 580from The Two Noble Kinsmen371. 'Roses, their sharp spines being gone' 581from Sonnets372. 'When forty winters shall besiege thy brow' 581373. 'When I do count the clock that tells the time' 582374. 'When I consider every diing that grows' . 582375. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' 583376. 'Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws' 583377. 'A woman's face, with Nature's own hand painted' 584378. 'As an unperfect actor on the stage' 584379. 'Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed' 585380. 'When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes' , 585381. 'When to the sessions of sweet silent thought' 585382. 'Full many a glorious morning have I seen' 586383. 'No more be grieved at that which thou hast done' 586384. 'What is your substance, whereof are you made' 587385. 'Not marble, nor the gilded monuments' 587386. 'Being your slave, what should I do but tend' 588387. 'Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore' 588388. 'When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced' 588389. 'Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea' 589390. 'Tired with all these, for restful death I cry' 589391. 'No longer mourn for me when I am dead' 590392. 'That time of year thou mayst in me behold' 590393. 'Why is my verse so barren of new pride' 591394. 'Was it the proud full sail of his great verse' 591

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. 395- 'Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing' 592396. 'Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now' 592397. 'They that have power to hurt and will do none' 592398. 'How like a winter hath my absence been' 593399. 'From you have I been absent in the spring' 593400. 'To me, fair friend, you never can be old' 594401. 'When in the chronicle of wasted time' 594402. 'Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul' 595403. 'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there' 595404. 'Your love and pity doth th'impression fill' 596405. 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds' 596406. "Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed' 597407. 'If my dear love were but the child of state' 597408. 'Were't aught to me I bore the canopy' 598409. 'Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame' 598410. 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun' 599411. 'When my love swears that she is made of truth' . 599412. 'Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press' 599413. 'Love is too young to know what conscience is' 600414. The Phoenix and Turtle 600

ANONYMOUS415. 'Crabbed age and youth' . 603416. 'Those eyes which set my fancy on a fire' 603417. 'A secret murder hath been done of late' 604418. 'Sought by the world' 604419. 'The brainsick race that wanton youth ensues' 605420. 'Feed still thy self, thou fondling, with belief 605421. A Counterlove 606

ROBERT DEVEREUX, EARL OF ESSEX (1566-1601)422. 'Happy were he' 608

ANONYMOUS423. 'Were I a king' 608

THOMAS CAMPION (1567-1620)424. 'What fair pomp' 609425. 'My sweetest Lesbia' 610426. 'I care not for these ladies' 610427. 'Follow thy fair sun' 611428. 'When to her lute Corinna sings' 612429. 'Follow your saint' 612430. 'The man of life upright' 613

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431. 'Hark, all you ladies that do sleep' 613432. 'When thou must home to shades of undeVground' 614

THOMAS NASHE (1567-C.1601)from Summer's Last Will and Testament433. 'Fair summer droops, droop men and beasts therefore' 615434. 'Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king' 615435. 'Adieu, farewell earth's bliss' 616436. 'Autumn hath all the summer's fruitful treasure' 617

ANONYMOUS[Madrigals set by Thomas Morley]437. 'Cruel, you pull away too soon your lips whenas you kiss me' 617438. 'Whither away so fast' 617439. 'When, lo, by break of morning' 618440. 'Sweet nymph, come to thy lover' 618441. 'I go before, my darling' 618442. 'Miraculous love's wounding!' . 618443. 'Now is the month of maying' 619444. 'Sing we and chant it' 619445. 'Lady, those cherries plenty' 619446. 'Lo, where with flowery head and hair all brightsome' 620447 'Damon and Phyllis squared' 620

. 448. 'Lady, you think you spite me' 620449. 'You black bright stars, that shine while daylight lasteth' 620450. 'Ladies, you see time flieth' 620

BARNABE BARNESfrom Parthenophil and Parthenophe451. Ode II ('Lovely Maya, Hermes' mother') 621452. Sestina ('Then first with locks dishevelled and bare') 623

JOHN DONNE (1572-1631)453. Satire 1 [A London street] 626454. Satire 3 [The search for true religion] 629455. The Perfume 631456. The Bracelet 633457. On his Mistress 636458. To his Mistress Going to Bed 638459. The Storm 639460. The Calm 641461. Hero and Leander 642462. A Lame Beggar 642463. To Sir Henry Wotton 643464. Song ('Go, and catch a falling star') 645

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465. Song ('Sweetest love, I do not go') 645466. The Apparition 646467. The Computation 647468. The Flea 647469. The Will 648470. A Lecture upon the Shadow . 650471. The Anniversary 650

SIR JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626)from Orchestra or A Poem of Dancing472. 'Where lives the man that never yet did hear' 651from Gulling Sonnets473. 'As when the bright cerulian firmament' 663474. 'What eagle can behold her sunbright eye' 664475. 'The sacred muse that first made love divine' 664476. 'My case is this, I love Zepheria bright' 664from Epigrams477. 'Titus the brave and valorous gallant' . 665478. 'Cosmus hath more discoursing in his head' 665479. 'The fine youth Ciprius is more terse and neat' 665480. 'Amongst the poets Dacus numbered is' 666481. 'Philo the gentleman, the fortune teller' 666from Nosce Teipsum482. Of Human Knowledge 667

ANONYMOUS483. [Things forbidden] 672

GEORGE PEELE (1556-1596)from The Old Wwe's Tale484. 'Three merry men, and three merry men' 673485. 'When as the rye reach to the chin' 673486. 'Spread, table, spread' . .. 673487. [Voices from the Well of Life] 673from David and Fair Bethsabe488. [Bethsabe's Song] 674

RICHARD BARNFIELD (1574-1627)489. The Affectionate Shepherd 674490. 'Man's life' 681

GEORGE CHAPMAN (l559?-l634)from Ovid's Banquet of Sense491. ['The Ears'Delight"] 681from Hero and Leander492. 'New light gives new directions, fortunes new' 686

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493. 'This told, strange Teras touched her lute, and sung' 690from Achilles' Shield494 [Thetis asks Vulcan to make a shield for Achilles] 692

BARTHOLOMEW GRIFFIN (d. 1602)495. Venus and Adonis - 696496. Care-charmer sleep . 696

SIR FRANCIS BACON (1561-1626)497. [The life of man] 697

ROBERT SIDNEY (1563-1626)498. 'Alas, why say you I am rich' . 698499. 'Ah dearest limbs, my life's best joy and stay' 698500. 'Forsaken woods, trees with sharp storms oppressed' 699501. 'The sun is set, and masked night' 699

JOSEPH HALL (1574-1636)

from Virgidemiae. Toothless Satires502. [Advertisement for a Chaplain] 700503. [A Drunkard arrives in Hades] 700from Virgidemiae. Biting Satires504. [Landlords and Tenants] 701

WILLIAM ALABASTER (1567-1640)505. A Divine Sonnet 705506. Upon the Ensigns of Christ's Crucifying 705507. Of the Reed that the Jews Set in Our Saviour's Hand 706508. Upon the Crucifix 706509. To the Blessed Virgin 707510. To Christ 707511. Incarnatio est Maximum Dei Donum 708512. 'Away, fear, with thy projects' - 708513. Exaltatio Humanae Naturae 709

THOMAS BASTARD (1566-1618)514. De Puero Balbutiente . 709

JOSUAH SYLVESTER (1562 Or 1563-1618)from The Divine Weeks and Works ofGuillaume de SalusteSieur Du Bartas515. [The Tower of Babel] 710

BEN JONSON (1572-1637)

516. [To Thomas Palmer, on his book The Sprite ofTrees and Herbs'] . . 717

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JOHN MARSTON (1576-1634)from The Scourge of Villainy517. To Detraction . . .518. from Satire VII. A Cynic Satire519. from Satire XI. Humours520. To Everlasting Oblivion

THOMAS DEKKER fc.i570-tf.l632)from The Shoemaker's Holiday521. 'O the month of May, the merry month of May' 728522. 'Cold's the wind, and wet's the rain' 728from Old Fortunatus523. 'Fortune smiles, cry holy day!' 729524. 'Virtue's branches wither, virtue pines' . 729from Patient Grissil525. 'Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers?' 730526. 'Golden slumbers kiss your eyes' 731

ANONYMOUS[Lute Songs set by John Dowland]527. 'Come away, come, sweet love' 731528. 'Die not before thy day, poor man condemned' 732529. 'I saw my lady weep' 732530. 'Fine knacks for ladies' 733531. 'Toss not my soul, O Love, 'twixt hope and fear' 733532. 'Weep you no more, sad fountains' 733[Madrigal set by John Fanner]533. 'Take time while Time doth last' 734[Madrigal set by John Bennet]534. 'Thyrsis, sleepest thou? Holla! Let no sorrow stay us' 734[Madrigals set by Thomas Weelkes]535. 'Like two proud armies marching in~the field' 735536. 'Thule, the period of cosmography' 735[Lute Song set by Robert Jones]537. 'Farewell, dear love, since thou wilt needs be gone' 735

EDMUND BOLTON (l575?-l633?)538. A Palinode 737539. 'As to the blooming prime' 737

SAMUEL ROWLANDS (l57O?-l63O?)540. Boreas 738541. Thraso 739542. Sir Revel 739

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EDWARD FAIRFAX (d. 1635)

from Godfrey ofBulloigne (Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata)543. [Erminia among the shepherds] 740544. [The garden ofArmida] 744

NOTES AND REFERENCES 750

INDEX OF FIRST LINES . 757

INDEX OF AUTHORS 765

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