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The Tale of the Coffers or Caskets, &c. (in the fifth Book of the "Confessio Amantis"). 76
Of the Gratification which the Lover's Passion receives from the Sense of Hearing (in
the sixth Book of the "Confessio Amantis")..............
77
Canace condemned to Death by her Father Æolus, sends to her guilty Brother Macareus
the last Testimony of her unhappy Passion (Book I. fol. 39)................................
78
Ode.-The Lover complaineth the Unkindness of his Love..................................
FROM HIS SONGS AND EPIGRAMS—
A Description of such a one as he would love...........
Of his Return from Spain...........
FROM HIS ODES-
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An earnest suit to his unkind Mistress not to forsake him.............
He lamenteth that he had ever Cause to doubt his Lady's Faith...............
To his Mistress....................................................
HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY.....................................................................
Prisoned in Windsor, he recounteth his Pleasure there passed........
Description of Spring..............
How each thing, save the Lover, in Spring reviveth to Pleasure...................................
LORD VAUX...........
Upon his white Hairs (from "The Aged Lover's Renunciation of Love")..........................................
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RICHARD EDWARDS................
He requesteth some friendly Comfort, affirming his Constancy.....
WILLIAM HUNNIS..........
The Love that is requited with Disdain............................................................................
THOMAS SACKVILLE, BARON BUCKHURST AND EARL OF DORSET...........
From his Induction to the Complaint of Henry Duke of Buckingham..........
Swiftness of Time........
100
From his "Grief of Joy"
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JOHN HARRINGTON.........
Verses on a most stony-hearted Maiden, who did sorely beguile the noble Knight, my
true Friend..........
Sir Guyon, guided by the Palmer Temperance, passes the Dangers of the Bower of Bliss 111
Glauce and Britomart exploring the Cave of Merlin...........................
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114
Belphoebe finds Timias wounded, and conveys him to her Dwelling (Book III. Canto V.).. 114
Sonnet LXXXVI.......
116
Sonnet LXXXVIII...
POETRY OF UNCERTAIN AUTHORS OF THE END OF THE SIXTEENTH
CENTURY.................
............. 116
The Soul's Errand (from Davison's "Poetical Rhapsody")........................................................
Canzonet (from Davison's "Rhapsody," Edit. 1608).......
Fancy and Desire (from "The Paradise of Dainty Devices")...............
Lines attributed to the Earl of Oxford (in a MS. of the Bodleian Library).................. 124
FROM HENRY PERROT'S BOOK OF EPIGRAMS (entitled "Springes for Woodcocks,"
The Shepherd's Description of Love. (Ascribed to Sir W. Raleigh in "England's
Helicon")
141
Stanzas from "All is not Gold that Glitters." To Religion..............
142
SAMUEL DANIEL...........
143
Richard the Second, the Morning before his Murder in Pomfret Castle...................................................... 143
Love in Infancy.......
GILES AND PHINEAS FLETCHER...........
144
Mercy dwelling in Heaven and pleading for the Guilty, with Justice described by her
Qualities (from Giles Fletcher's "Christ's Victory in Heaven").....
Instability of Human Greatness (from Phineas Fletcher's "Purple Island," Canto VII.) 146
Happiness. of the Shepherd's Life (from the same, Canto XII.)......
147
Rosader's Sonetto (from his Romance, called "Euphues's Golden Legacy")................. 148
Another (from the same).................
148
The Reconcilement of Mr. Roger, the Curate, and Abigail (from "The Scornful Lady,"
Scene I. Act IV.).
153
Julio tantalized by Bustopha about the Fate of his Nephew Antonio (from "The Maid
of the Mill," Act IV. Scene II.)....................................................
Edith pleading for the Life of her Father (from the Tragedy of "Rollo, Duke of Nor-
mandy," Act III.).....................................
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155
Installation of the King of the Beggars (from "Beggar's Bush," Act II. Scene I.).............. 155
Distant View of the Roman Army engaging the Britons (from the Tragedy of "Bon-
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156
duca," Scene V. Act III.).......
Bonduca attacked in her Fortress by the Romans (from the same, Scene IV. Act IV.).. 156
Caratach, Prince of the Britons, with his Nephew Hengo asleep (from the same, Scene
Arnoldo tempted by Hypolita (from "The Custom of the Country")..................................
No Rivalship or Taint of Faith admissible in Love (from the same)..
Scene in the Comedy of "Monsieur Thomas"..........................................
From "A King and No King," Act IV. Scene IV........
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SIR JOHN DAVIES..
The Vanity of Human Knowledge (from "Nosce Teipsum," or a Poem on the Immor-
tality of the Soul)......
162
Reasons for the Soul's Immortality......
In what Manner the Soul is united to the Body..............
163
That the Soul is more than the Temperature of the Humours of the Body.
That the Soul is more than a Perfection or Reflection of the Sense........
............. 163
THOMAS GOFFE...........
Scene from his Tragedy of “Amurath, or the Courageous Turk"..........
164