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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 Ama
Of the Gratification which the Lover's Passion receives from the Sense of Heari
sixth Book of the "Confessio Amantis")
JOHN LYDGATE
Canace condemned to Death by her Father Æolus, sends to her guilty Brother,
the last Testimony of her unhappy Passion (Book I. fol. 39)
SCOTTISH POETRY
CONTENTS.
LORD VAUX
Upon his white Hairs (from "The Aged Lover's Renunciation of Love")
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
GEORGE GASCOIGNE
The Arraignment of a Lover
From his "Grief of Joy"
Vanity of Youth
Swiftness of Time
The Vanity of the Beautiful
SIR PHILIP SYDNEY
ROBERT GREENE
JOHN HARRINGTON
Verses on a most stony-hearted Maiden, who did sorely beguile the noble Knight, my true
Friend
Sonnet on Isabella Markham
To Sleep (from "The Arcadia ")
Two Sonnets
Dorastus on Fawnia
Jealousy (from "Tully's Love")
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love
ROBERT SOUTHWELL
Love's servile Lot
Look Home
EDMUND SPENSER
THOMAS WATSON
The Nymphs to their May Queen (from " England's Helicon ")
Sonnet
.
(Una followed by the Lion)
From "The Phonix' Nest," Edit. 1593
From the same
Songs.
From Wilbye's "Madrigals," Edit. 1598
From Bird's Collection of Songs, &c.
From Weelkes's "Madrigals," Edit. 1604
From Bateson's "Madrigals," Edit. 1606
To his Love (From "England's Helicon ")
PAGE
34
45
Fairy Queen, Book I. Canto III.
47
Canto V.
48
Book II. Canto VI.
52
Sir Guyon, guided by the Palmer Temperance, passes the Dangers of the Bower of Bliss
Glauce and Britomart exploring the Cave of Merlin
54
Belphœbe finds Timias wounded, and conveys him to her Dwelling (Book III. Canto V.). 55
Sonnet LXXXVI,
57
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)
58
59
60
61
44
JOHN LYLY
Cupid and Campaspe
Song. From "Alexander and Campaspe"
From "Mother Bombie"
ALEXANDER HUME
Thanks for a Summer's Day
THOMAS NASH
Despair of a poor Scholar (from "Pierce Penniless")
THOMAS STORER.
EDWARD VERE, EARL OF OXFORD
Fancy and Desire (from "The Paradise of Dainty Devices")
Lines attributed to the Earl of Oxford (in a MS. of the Bodleian Library)
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY
FROM HENRY PERROT'S BOOK OF EPIGRAMS (entitled "Springes for We
Edit. 1613).
Ambitio Feminini Generis
Nec Sutor Ultra
From his Poem "The Wife"
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE
FROM HIS SONNETS
Sonnet II.
Sonnet LIV.
Sonnet CXVI.
Sonnet CXLV.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
The Silent Lover
JOSHUA SYLVESTER
A Nymph's Disdain of Love
A Vision upon
"The Fairy Queen"
The Shepherd's Description of Love. (Ascribed to Sir W. Raleigh in "England's
Dulcina.
His Love admits no Rival
Stanzas from "All is not Gold that glitters." To Religion
SAMUEL DANIEL
Richard the Second, the Morning before his Murder in Pomfret Castle (from his " Civil Wars")
Justice addressing the Creator.
Mercy brightening the Rainbow
The Palace of Presumption
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")
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 ")
Another (from the same)
Rosalind's Madrigal (from the same)
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER
Instability of Human Greatness (from Phineas Fletcher's "Purple Island," Canto VII.) 83 Happiness of the Shepherd's Life (from the same, Canto XII.)
HENRY CONSTABLE
From "The Maid's Tragedy"
From the Tragedy of "Philaster"
From the same, Act II. Scene I.
From the last Scene of the same
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)
Scene in the Comedy of "Monsieur Thomas"
From "A King and No King," Act IV. Scene IV.
That the Soul is more than the Temperature of the Humours of the Body
In what Manner the Soul is united to the Body
Reasons for the Soul's Immortality
THOMAS GOFFE
Scene from his Tragedy of " Amurath, or the Courageous Turk"
SIR JOHN DAVIES
The Vanity of Human Knowledge (from "Nosce Teipsum," or a Poem on the Immortality
of the Soul)
That the Soul is more than a Perfection or Reflection of the Sense
SIR FULKE GREVILLE
Knowledge (from his "Treatise on Human Learning")
Imagination
Reason
Insufficiency of Philosophy
Sonnet from "Caelica "
SIR JOHN BEAUMONT
Richard before the Battle of Bosworth
MICHAEL DRAYTON
Mortimer, Earl of March, and the Queen, surprised by Edward III. in Nottingham
(from "The Barons' Wars," Book VI.)
Nymphidia, the Court of Fairy
The Quest of Cynthia
Description of Morning, Birds, and hunting the Deer (Poly-Olbion, Song XIII.).
To his coy Love (from his Odes)
Ballad of Dowsabel
Sonnet to his Fair Idea
EDWARD FAIRFAX
From his Translation of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, Book XVIII.
GEORGE HERBERT
·
From his Poems, entitled "The Temple, sacred Poems and pious Ejaculations
JOHN MARSTON
GEORGE CHAPMAN
From "Sophonisba," a Tragedy (Act V. Scene III.)
From "Antonio and Mellida" (Act III. Scene I.)
From the same (Act IV.)
From the Comedy of " All Fools
Pride (from the same)
A Son appeasing his Father by Submission, after a stolen Marriage (from the same)
THOMAS RANDOLPH
Introductory Scene of " The Muse's Looking Glass"
Speech of Acolastus the Epicure (from "The Muse's Looking-Glass")
Colax, the Flatterer, between the dismal Philosopher Anaisthetus and the Epicure Ace
accommodating his Opinions to both
Colax to Philotimia, or the Proud Lady
The Praise of Woman (from his Miscellaneous Poems)