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CONTENTS.
ESSAY ON ENGLISH POETRY
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Prologue to the "Canterbury Tales"
JOHN GOWER
The Tale of the Coffers or Caskets, &c. (in the fifth Book of the "Confessio Amantis")
Of the Gratification which the Lover's Passion receives from the Sense of Hearing (in the
sixth Book of the "Confessio Amantis").
JOHN LYDGATE
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)
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15
LORD VAUX
Upon his white Hairs (from “The Aged Lover's Renunciation of Love")
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Prisoned in Windsor, he recounteth his Pleasure there passed Description of Spring
.
How each thing, save the Lover, in Spring reviveth to Pleasure
Vanity of Youth
Swiftness of Time
The Vanity of the Beautiful
JOHN HARRINGTON
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
Verses on a most stony-hearted Maiden, who did sorely beguile the noble Knight, my true
Friend
39
Sir Guyon, guided by the Palmer Temperance, passes the Dangers of the Bower of Bliss
Glauce and Britomart exploring the Cave of Merlin
52
Belphœbe finds Timias wounded, and conveys him to her Dwelling (Book III. Canto V.)
Sonnet LXXXVI.
Sonnet LXXXVIII.
POETRY OF UNCERTAIN AUTHORS OF THE END OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 57
The Soul's Errand (from Davison's "Poetical Rhapsody")
Canzonet (from Davison's "Rhapsody," Edit. 1608)
From "The Phoenix' Nest," Edit. 1593
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Fancy and Desire (from "The Paradise of Dainty Devices")
Lines attributed to the Earl of Oxford (in a MS. of the Bodleian Library)
THOMAS STORER.
From "The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey"
Wolsey's Ambition
Wolsey's Vision.
JOSEPH HALL
Satire I. Book I.
Satire III. Book I.
Satire V. Book III.
Satire VII. Book III.
Satire VI. Book IV.
WILLIAM WARNER
Argentile and Curan (from " Albion's England")
SIR JOHN HARRINGTON
FROM HIS EPIGRAMS.
Of a precise Tailor
FROM HENRY PERROT'S BOOK OF EPIGRAMS (entitled "Springes for Woodcocks,"
Edit. 1613)
Ambitio Feminini Generis
Nec Sutor Ultra
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78
The Shepherd's Description of Love. (Ascribed to Sir W. Raleigh in " England's Helicon") 77
Dulcina.
SAMUEL DANIEL
Richard the Second, the Morning before his Murder in Pomfret Castle (from his "Civil Wars")
GILES AND PHINEAS FLETCHER
Mercy dwelling in Heaven and pleading for the Guilty, with Justice described by her Qualities
(from Giles Fletcher's "Christ's Victory in Heaven")
Justice addressing the Creator.
Mercy brightening the Rainbow
The Palace of Presumption
Instability of Human Greatness (from Phincas Fletcher's "Purple Island," Canto VII.) Happiness of the Shepherd's Life (from the same, Canto XII.)
HENRY CONSTABLE
Sonnet
NICHOLAS BRETON
A sweet Pastoral (from "England's Helicon ")
A Pastoral of Phillis and Corydon (from the same)
DR. THOMAS LODGE
Rosader's Sonetto (from his Romance, called "Euphues's Golden Legacy ")
The Reconcilement of Mr. Roger, the Curate, and Abigail (from "The Scornful Lady,"
Scene I. Act IV.)
Julio tantalised 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 Normandy,"
Act IV.)
Installation of the King of the Beggars (from "Beggars' Bush," Act II. Scene I.)
Distant View of the Roman Army engaging the Britons (from the Tragedy of "Bonduca,"
Scene V. Act III.)
Bonduca attacked in her Fortress by the Romans (from the same, Scene IV. Act IV.)
Caratach, Prince of the Britons, with his Nephew Hengo asleep (from the same, Scene III.
Act V.)
No Rivalship or Taint of Faith admissible in Love (from "The Custom of the Country").
Arnoldo tempted by Hypolita (from the same)
80
The Vanity of Human Knowledge (from "Nosce Teipsum," or a Poem on the Immortality
of the Soul)
100
That the Soul is more than a Perfection or Reflection of the Sense
101
That the Soul is more than the Temperature of the Humours of the Body
Mortimer, Earl of March, and the Queen, surprised by Edward III. in Nottingham Castle
(from "The Barons' Wars," Book VI.)
107
Nymphidia, the Court of Fairy
109
The Quest of Cynthia
116
Description of Morning, Birds, and hunting the Deer (Poly-Olbion, Song XIII.).
XIII.).
JOHN MARSTON
From "Antonio and Mellida" (Act III. Scene I.)
From his Poems, entitled "The Temple, sacred Poems and pious Ejaculations'
From "Sophonisba," a Tragedy (Act V. Scene III.)
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A Son appeasing his Father by Submission, after a stolen Marriage (from the same)
Speech of Acolastus the Epicure (from "The Muse's Looking-Glass")
Colax, the Flatterer, between the dismal Philosopher Anaisthetus and the Epicure Acolastus,
The Praise of Woman (from his Miscellaneous Poems)
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