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MICHAEL DRAYTON....
Mortimer, Earl of March, and the Queen, surprised by Edward III. in Nottingham
Castle (from "The Barons' Wars," Book VI.)........................
Nymphidia, the Court of Fairy................................
The Quest of Cynthia............
Ballad of Dowsabel......
To his coy Love (from his Odes)...........
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Sonnet to his Fair Idea........
Description of Morning, Birds, and hunting the Deer (Poly-Olbion, Song XIII.)........ 177
EDWARD FAIRFAX.
From his Translation of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, Book XVIII......
SAMUEL ROWLANDS.
Like Master, like Man (from "The Knave of Spades")............
Tragedy of Smug the Smith (from "The Night Raven").....
The Vicar (from his Epigrams)...........................................
Fools and Babes tell True (from "The Knave of Spades”)...............................................
The married Scholar.........
JOHN DONNE, d.d..
The Break of Day...
183
From his Poems, entitled "The Temple, sacred Poems and pious Ejaculations"..
The Quip............
184
A Son appeasing his Father by Submission, after a stolen Marriage (from the same)..... 190
Speech of Valeria to Rynaldo, in Answer to his bitter Invective against the Sex......... 191
Pride (from the Comedy of "All Fools").................
........ 191
THOMAS RANDOLPH.........
191
Introductory Scene of "The Muse's Looking-Glass"....
192
Speech of Acolastus the Epicure (from "The Muse's Looking-Glass")...................................................
Colax, the Flatterer, between the dismal Philosopher Anaisthetus and the Epicure
THOMAS MIDDLETON..........................
196
Leantio approaching his Home (from the Tragedy of "Women beware Women")......... 196
Leantio's Agony for the Desertion of his Wife (from the same)......................................
Scene from "The Roaring Girl".....
197
Fathers comparing Sons.-Benefit of Imprisonment to a wild Youth (from the same).. 198
Devotion to Love (from the Play of "Blurt, Master-Constable")..
Indignation at the Sale of a Wife's Honour (from "The Phoenix")....
Law (from the same)..............
199
On the sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset (the favourite of James I.) then falling
216
The Happy Life..................................
A Meditation (from Sanscroft's Collection)...........
Vittoria, the Mistress of Brachiano, relating her Dream to him (from "Vittoria Corom-
Scene from the Comedy of "A New Wonder, or a Woman never Vext".....
223
Stephen, a reclaimed Gamester, newly married to the over-fortunate Widow............... 224
Marcelia tempted by Francisco (from "The Duke of Milan," a Tragedy)........................................
Parting Scene of Leosthenes, a young Nobleman of Syracuse, and Cleora, Daughter to
the Prætor of the City (from "The Bondman").........
228
229
Pisander declaring his Passion for Cleora, in the Insurrection of the Slaves of Syracuse
(from the same)...........................................
231
Pisander holding a Parley with the Chiefs of Syracuse at the head of the Insurgents
(from the same)..................
Leosthenes's Return to Cleora (from the same).....................
232
From "The Bondman," Act V. Scene III.............................
234
Giovanni, Nephew to the Duke of Florence, taking Leave of Lydia, the Daughter of
his Tutor Charomonte (from "The Great Duke of Florence")..
From "The Fatal Dowry," Act II. Scene I...................................................................................................................................................
236
ANONYMOUS............
237
The Oxford Riddle on the Puritans (from a single Sheet printed at Oxford in 1643)...... 237
Grief of Frankford, after discovering his Wife's Infidelity, and dismissing her (Scene in
the Tragedy "A Woman killed with Kindness")....................................................
247
Death of Mrs. Frankford (from the same)......
248
A Witling set up by a Poet's Legacy (from "The Fair Maid of the Exchange")........... 248
Song of Nymphs to Diana (from "The Golden Age")..................................
......... 249
Song by Love and the Virtues to Physander and Bellanima (from "Microcosmus," a
Masque, 1637).............................
..... 251
The Queen insulting the Wife and Father of the accused Admiral in their Misfortunes
(from "Chabot, Admiral of France," written by Shirley and Chapman)....
Death's Conquest.....
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281
ANONYMOUS.............
From "Select Ayres and Dialogues" by Lawes, 1659...................................
Song (from "Cromwell's Conspiracy," a Tragi-comedy, 1660)...............
Loyalty confined.—Ascribed to Roger L'Estrange. (From "The Rump").................. 282
Upon Ambition.-Occasioned by the Accusation of the Earl of Strafford in 1640 (from
the same, 1662)..................................................
282