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CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

160

The passionate Shepherd to his Love . . . 161

ROBERT SOUTHWELL

162

Love's servile Lot

. 164

Look Home . .

. 165

. .

THOMAS WATSON

. 166

The Nymphs to their May Queen (from England's

Helicon) . . . . . . . ib.

Sonnet

. . . . 167

EDMUND) SPENSER . . . . 168

Fairy Queen, Book I. Canto III. . . . 177

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— Canto V.

Canto V. . . 181

, Book II. Canto VI. .

Sir Guyon, guided by the Palmer Temperance, passes

the Dangers of the Bower of Bliss . . . 196

Glauce and Britomart exploring the Cave of Merlin 208

Belphoebe finds Timias wounded, and conveys him to

her Dwelling (Book III. Canto V.) . . . 211

From his Sonnets. Sonnet LXXXVI. . . 217

Sonnet LXXXVIII. . . . . 218

POETRY OF UNCERTAIN AUTHORS OF THE END

OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY . . . 219

The Soul's Errand (from Davison's Poetical Rhapsody) 220

Canzonet (from Davison's Rhapsody, Edit. 1608) · 223

From the Phænix Nest, Edit. 1593 . . . 224

From the same. .

225

Songs. From Wilby's Madrigals, Edit. 1598

227

- From Bird's Collection of Songs, &c. 229

- From Weelkes's Madrigals, Edit. 1604 . 231

From Bateson's Madrigals, Edit. 1606 . . 233

To his Love (from England's Helicon) . .

JOHN LYLY . . . . . 235

Cupid and Campaspe . . . . . 236

Song. From Alexander and Campaspe . . 237

From Mother Bombie . . . . 238

ALEXANDER HUME

· · · · ib.

· Thanks for a Summer's Day . . . 240

THOMAS NASH . . . . . 248

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Despair of a poor Scholar (from Pierce Penniless) . 249

<D VERE, EARL OF OXFORD

. . 250

Fancy and Desire (from the Paradise of dainty De-

vices)

. . 251

Lines attributed to the Earl of Oxford (in a MS. of the

Bodleian Library) . . . . 252

THOMAS STORER

253

From the Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey . ib.

Wolsey's Ambition . . . . 254

Wolsey's Vision · · · · ib.

JOSEPH HALL .

256

Satire I. Book I.

262

Satire III. Book I.

. . . . 263

Satire V. Book III. . . . . . 265

Satire VII. Book III.

266

Satire VI. Book IV. . . . . . 269

WILLIAM WARNER

• . 272

Argentile and Curan (from Albion's England) . 273

SIR JOHN HARRINGTON . . . . 280

From his Epigrams. Of a precise Tailor . . ib.

FROM HENRY PERROT'S BOOK OF EPIGRAMS

(entitled Springes for Woodcocks, Edit. 1613) . 282

Ambitio Feminini Generis . . . . ib.

Nec Sutor ultra .

SIR THOMAS OVERBURY

283

From his Poem, the Wife .

284

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE

. . . 286

From his Sonnets. Sonnet II. . . . . ib.

Sonnet LIV. . . . 287

Sonnet CXVI.

ib.

Sonnet CXLV.

288

SIR WALTER RALEIGH . . . . . 289

The silent Lover . . . . . 292

A Nymph's Disdain of Love . . . . 293

A Vision upon the Fairy Queen . . . 294

The Shepherd's Description of Love. (Ascribed to

Sir W. Raleigh in England's Helicon)

. . 295

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Dulcina

· . 296

His Love admits no Rival . . . . 298

JOSHUA SYLVESTER ..

300

Stanzas from “ All is not Gold that glitters." To Re-

ligion . .

301

SAMUEL DANIEL

Richard the Second, the Morning before his Murder

in Pomfret Castle (from his Civil Wars) . 303

GILES AND PHINEAS FLETCHER . . . 305

Mercy dwelling in Heaven and pleading for the Guilty,

with Justice described by her Qualities (from Giles

Fletcher's Christ's Victory in Heaven) . . 308

Justice addressing the Creator . . . . 310

Mercy brightening the Rainbow . . . 311

The Palace of Presumption . . . . 313

Instability of Human Greatness (from Phineas

Fletcher's Purple Island, Canto VII.) . . 317

Happiness of the Shepherd's Life (from the same,

Canto XII. . . . . . 319

HENRY CONSTABLE .

320

Sonnet . . . . . . 321

NICHOLAS BRETON

' ib.

A Pastoral of Phillis and Corydon (from England's

Helicon) .

322

A sweet Pastoral (from the same) . . . 323

DR. THOMAS LODGE

. . . 325

Rosader's Sonetto (from his Romance, called En.

phues's golden Legacy) . . . . ib.

Another (from the same) . . . . 326

Rosalind's Madrigal (from the same)

327

BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER . . . 329

From the Maid's Tragedy . . . . 333

From the Tragedy of Philaster . . . 335

From the same, Act II. Scene I. . . . . . 336

From the same . . . . . 339

From the last Scene of the same . . . 344

The Reconcilement of Mr. Roger, the Curate, and

Abigail, (from the Scornful Lady, Scene I. Act IV.) 346

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Julio tantalized by Bustopha about the Fate of bis

Nephew Antonio (from the Maid of the Mill; Act

IV. Scene II.) . . . . . . 349

Edith pleading for the Life of her Father (from the

Tragedy of Rollo, Duke of Nermandy, Act IV.) . 354

Installation of the King of the Beggars, (from Beggars'

Bush, Act II. Scene I.) . . . . 358

Distant View of the Roman Army engaging the Britons

(from the Tragedy of Bonduca, Scene V. Act III.) 361

Bonduca attacked in her Fortress by the Romans (from

the same, Scene IV. Act IV.) . . . ib.

Caratach, Prince of the Britons, with his Nephew

Hengo asleep (from the same, Scene III. Act V.) 363

No Rivalship or Taint of Faith admissible in Love

(from the Custom of the Country) . . . 367

Arnoldo tempted by Hypolita (from the same) . 368

Scene in the Comedy of Monsieur Thomas . . 369

SIR JOHN DAVIES . . . . . . 377

The Vanity of Human Knowledge (from Nosce Teip-

sum, or a Poem on the Immortality of the Soul) .

That the Soul is more than a Perfection or Reflection

of the Sense

That the Soul is more than the Temperature of the

Hunours of the Body . . . . 383

In what Manner the Soul is united to the Body : 384

Reasons for the Soul's Immortality . . . 385

THOMAS GOFFE . . . . . 387

Scene from his Tragedy of Amurath, or the cou.

rageous Turk

k . . . . . 388

SIR FULKE GREVILLE ..

Knowledge (from his Treatise on Human Learning). ib.

Imagination · · · · · 393

Reason . . . . . . . ib.

Insufficiency of Philosophy . . . 394

Sonnet from Lord Brook's Caelica . . . ib.

SIR JOHN BEAUMONT . . . . 395

Richard before the Battle of Bosworth

396

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