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
SIXTEENTHCENTURY
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 JONE S
OXFORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS
OXPORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Great Clarendon Street, Oxford 0x2 6DP
Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.
It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship,
and education by publishing worldwide in
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Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press
in the UK and in certain other countries
Published in the United States
by Oxford University Press Inc., New York
Introduction, Notes and Selection © Ernrys Jones 1991
The moral rights of the author have been asserted
Database right Oxford University Press (maker)
First published 1991
First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback 1992
Reissued 2002
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Data available
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
The New Oxford book of sixteenth century verse /
chosen and edited by Emrys Jones.
p. cm.
1. English poetry—Early modern, 15001700.
Jones, Emrys, 1931—
821'.308dc20 PR1205.N49 1992 9146612
ISBN 0192801953
1 3 5 7 9 1 0 8 6 4 2
Printed in Great Britain by
Clays Ltd, St Ives plc
CONTENTS
xxv
Introduction
J O H N SKELTON (c. 146015 2 9)
from The Garland of Laurel
1. To Mistress Isabel Pennell
2. To Mistress Margaret Hussey
3. [My darling dear, my daisy flower]
from The Bouge of Court
4. 'The sail is up, Fortune ruleth our helm'
from Philip Sparrow
5. 'Pla ce bar
from Magnificence
6. [Fancy's song and speech]
7. [The conclusion of the play]
from Elinour Rumming
8. [Visitors to the ale-house]
from Speak, Parrot
9. [The opening stanzas]
10. [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 (14911547)
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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ANONYMOUS
21. [The juggler and the baron's daughter]
50
SIR T H O M A S M O R E (1477 Or 14781535)
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.15031542)
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'
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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. 'When raging love'
57. 'The soote season'
58. 'Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green'
59. 'Alas, so all things now do hold their peace'
60. 'O happy dames'
from Certain Books of Virgil's '/Eneis'
61. [Creusa]
62. [Dido in love]
63. [The Happy Life]
64. 'So cruel prison'
65. An excellent epitaph of Sir Thomas Wyatt
66. 'Th'Assyrians' king'
67. [Epitaph for Thomas Clere]
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103
IO4
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108
109
109
in
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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 (15211546)
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?)
77. Description of Virtue
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THOMAS, LORD VAUX (15101556)
78. The Aged Lover Renounceth Love
79. [The Pleasures of Thinking]
80. [Death in Life]
81. [Age looks back at Youth]
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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 (15401594)
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 (15361608)
from The Mirror for Magistrates
87. The Induction
:
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ANONYMOUS
88. A Dialogue between Death and Youth
154
E D W A R D DE VERE, EARL OF OXFORD (15501604)
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'
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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 (£.15361605)
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]
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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.1544c.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]
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181
Q U E E N E L I Z A B E T H I (15331603)
107. 'The doubt of future foes'
from Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
108. 'All human kind on earth'
109. '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. 15671573)
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 (15341577)
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'
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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
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228
N I C H O L A S B R E T O N (c.1555-1626)
129. [Service is no Heritage]
130. 'In the merry month of May'
131. The Chess Play
132. A Report Song
133. 'Who can live in heart so glad'
134. 'In time of yore'
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E D M U N D S P E N S E R (c..1552-1599)
135. To ... Master Gabriel Harvey
from Mother Hubbard's Tale
136. [The Fox and the Ape go to Court]
from The Faerie Queene
137. [Guyon's Voyage to the Bower of Bliss]
138. [The House of Busyrane]
139. [The Vision of the Graces]
140. [Mutability claims to rule the world]
141. [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
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SIR P H I L I P S I D N E Y (15541586)
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 goatherd 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 heartstrings 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 farspent 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?']
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SIR E D W A R D DYER (d. 1607)
186. 'Prometheus, when first from heaven high'
321
A T T R I B U T E D T O S I R E D W A R D D Y E R
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 (15471618)
from The First Four Books of Virgil his /Eneis
191. [Polyphemus]
327
T H O M A S W A T S O N (£.15571592)
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
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345
J O H N LYLY (c.15541606)
from Campaspe
198. 'O for a bowl of fat Canary'
199. 'Cupid and my Campaspe played'
200. 'What bird so sings, yet so does wail?'
from Sapho and Phao
201. 'O cruel love, on thee I lay'
202. The Song in making of the Arrows
from Endimion
203. 'Stand! Who goes there?'
204. 'Pinch him, pinch him black and blue'
from Midas
205. 'My Daphne's hair is twisted gold'
206. 'Pan's Syrinx was a girl indeed'
207. "Las, how long shall F
208. 'Sing to Apollo, God of Day'
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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 Caelica
209. 'The world, that all contains, is ever moving'
210. 'I with whose colours Myra dressed her head'
211. 'All my senses, like beacon's flame'
212. 'When all this All doth pass from age to age'
213. 'Love is the peace, whereto all thoughts do strive'
214. 'The earth with thunder torn, with fire blasted'
215. 'When as man's life, the light of human lust'
216. 'Man, dream no more of curious mysteries'
217. 'Eternal Truth, almighty, infinite'
218. 'Wrapt up, O Lord, in man's degeneration'
219. 'Down in the depth of mine iniquity'
220. 'Three things there be in man's opinion dear'
221. 'Sion lies waste, and thy Jerusalem'
from Mustapha
222. [Chorus of Priests ('O wearisome condition of humanity')]
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S I R W A L T E R R A L E G H (
BOOK OF SIXTEENTH
CENTURY
EMRYS JONES,
Editor
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
THE NEW
OXFORD BOOK OF
SIXTEENTHCENTURY
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 JONE S
OXFORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS
OXPORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Great Clarendon Street, Oxford 0x2 6DP
Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.
It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship,
and education by publishing worldwide in
Oxford New York
Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai
Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata
Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi
Sao Paulo Shanghai Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto
with an associated company in Berlin
Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press
in the UK and in certain other countries
Published in the United States
by Oxford University Press Inc., New York
Introduction, Notes and Selection © Ernrys Jones 1991
The moral rights of the author have been asserted
Database right Oxford University Press (maker)
First published 1991
First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback 1992
Reissued 2002
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means,
without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press,
or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate
reprographics rights organizations. Enquiries concerning reproduction
outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department,
Oxford University Press, at the address above
You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover
and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Data available
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
The New Oxford book of sixteenth century verse /
chosen and edited by Emrys Jones.
p. cm.
1. English poetry—Early modern, 15001700.
Jones, Emrys, 1931—
821'.308dc20 PR1205.N49 1992 9146612
ISBN 0192801953
1 3 5 7 9 1 0 8 6 4 2
Printed in Great Britain by
Clays Ltd, St Ives plc
CONTENTS
xxv
Introduction
J O H N SKELTON (c. 146015 2 9)
from The Garland of Laurel
1. To Mistress Isabel Pennell
2. To Mistress Margaret Hussey
3. [My darling dear, my daisy flower]
from The Bouge of Court
4. 'The sail is up, Fortune ruleth our helm'
from Philip Sparrow
5. 'Pla ce bar
from Magnificence
6. [Fancy's song and speech]
7. [The conclusion of the play]
from Elinour Rumming
8. [Visitors to the ale-house]
from Speak, Parrot
9. [The opening stanzas]
10. [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 (14911547)
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 14781535)
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.15031542)
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'
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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. 'When raging love'
57. 'The soote season'
58. 'Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green'
59. 'Alas, so all things now do hold their peace'
60. 'O happy dames'
from Certain Books of Virgil's '/Eneis'
61. [Creusa]
62. [Dido in love]
63. [The Happy Life]
64. 'So cruel prison'
65. An excellent epitaph of Sir Thomas Wyatt
66. 'Th'Assyrians' king'
67. [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 (15211546)
74. The Ballad which Anne Askew made and sang
when she was in Newgate
SIR THOMAS SEYMOUR (BARON SEYMOUR OF SUDELEY)
75. 'Forgetting God'
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J O H N H E Y W O O D (c.1497-c.1580)
76. [A quiet neighbour]
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N I C H O L A S G R I M A L D (15 I9?-I562?)
77. Description of Virtue
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THOMAS, LORD VAUX (15101556)
78. The Aged Lover Renounceth Love
79. [The Pleasures of Thinking]
80. [Death in Life]
81. [Age looks back at Youth]
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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
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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]
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B A R N A B Y G O O G E (15401594)
84. To Doctor Bale
85. Of Money
86. Coming homeward out of Spain
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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 (15361608)
from The Mirror for Magistrates
87. The Induction
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ANONYMOUS
88. A Dialogue between Death and Youth
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E D W A R D DE VERE, EARL OF OXFORD (15501604)
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'
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ATTRIBUTED TO EDWARD DE VERE, EARL OF OXFORD
96. 'When I was fair and young'
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ANONYMOUS
97. The lover compareth himself to the painful falconer
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ARTHUR G O L D I N G (£.15361605)
from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'
98. [Ceyx and Alcyone]
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J O H N P I K E R Y N G (c.1567)
from The History of Herestes
99. [Haltersick's Song]
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100. [Song sung by Egistus and Clytemnestra]
101. [The Vice's Song]
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ANONYMOUS
102. 'Fain would I have a pretty thing'
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G E O R G E T U R B E R V I L L E (c.1544c.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]
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Q U E E N E L I Z A B E T H I (15331603)
107. 'The doubt of future foes'
from Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
108. 'All human kind on earth'
109. 'Ah, silly pug, wert thou so sore afraid?'
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ANONYMOUS
110. 'Christ was the Word that spake it'
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T H O M A S TUSSER (l524?158o)
from Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry
III. [December's Husbandry]
112. [Advice to Housewives]
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I S A B E L L A W H I T N E Y (fl. 15671573)
from The Manner of her Will and What she left to London ...
113. 'I whole in body and in mind"
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GEORGE G A S C O I G N E (15341577)
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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'
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122. Respice Finem
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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
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TIMOTHY KENDALL (fl. 1577)
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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
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N I C H O L A S B R E T O N (c.1555-1626)
129. [Service is no Heritage]
130. 'In the merry month of May'
131. The Chess Play
132. A Report Song
133. 'Who can live in heart so glad'
134. 'In time of yore'
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E D M U N D S P E N S E R (c..1552-1599)
135. To ... Master Gabriel Harvey
from Mother Hubbard's Tale
136. [The Fox and the Ape go to Court]
from The Faerie Queene
137. [Guyon's Voyage to the Bower of Bliss]
138. [The House of Busyrane]
139. [The Vision of the Graces]
140. [Mutability claims to rule the world]
141. [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
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SIR P H I L I P S I D N E Y (15541586)
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 goatherd 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 heartstrings 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 farspent 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?']
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SIR E D W A R D DYER (d. 1607)
186. 'Prometheus, when first from heaven high'
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187. In praise of a contented mind
ANONYMOUS
188. 'The lowest trees have tops, the ant her gall'
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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
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R I C H A R D S T A N Y H U R S T (15471618)
from The First Four Books of Virgil his /Eneis
191. [Polyphemus]
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T H O M A S W A T S O N (£.15571592)
192. My love is past
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193. Verses made by a Catholic in praise of Campion .. .
194. [Hymn to the Virgin]
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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 . . .
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ANONYMOUS
196. A new courtly sonnet of the Lady Greensleeves
197. A Nosegay
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from Campaspe
198. 'O for a bowl of fat Canary'
199. 'Cupid and my Campaspe played'
200. 'What bird so sings, yet so does wail?'
from Sapho and Phao
201. 'O cruel love, on thee I lay'
202. The Song in making of the Arrows
from Endimion
203. 'Stand! Who goes there?'
204. 'Pinch him, pinch him black and blue'
from Midas
205. 'My Daphne's hair is twisted gold'
206. 'Pan's Syrinx was a girl indeed'
207. "Las, how long shall F
208. 'Sing to Apollo, God of Day'
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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 Caelica
209. 'The world, that all contains, is ever moving'
210. 'I with whose colours Myra dressed her head'
211. 'All my senses, like beacon's flame'
212. 'When all this All doth pass from age to age'
213. 'Love is the peace, whereto all thoughts do strive'
214. 'The earth with thunder torn, with fire blasted'
215. 'When as man's life, the light of human lust'
216. 'Man, dream no more of curious mysteries'
217. 'Eternal Truth, almighty, infinite'
218. 'Wrapt up, O Lord, in man's degeneration'
219. 'Down in the depth of mine iniquity'
220. 'Three things there be in man's opinion dear'
221. 'Sion lies waste, and thy Jerusalem'
from Mustapha
222. [Chorus of Priests ('O wearisome condition of humanity')]
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