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THE PENGUIN BOOK OF RENAISSANCE VERSE

SELECTED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID NORBROOK

EDITED BY H. R. WOUDHUYSEN

PENGUIN BOOKS CONTENTS

In this list of contents, titles of poems generally follow those in the edition, with the exception that words in upper case have usually been reduced after the initial letter to lower case. When poems have been given titles from their first lines, the punctuation at the end of the line has been ignored. Titles which have been supplied and titles of works from which extracts have been taken are placed within square brackets.

Abbreviations Used in the Text xix Preface xxi Acknowledgements xliii Introduction 1 Note on the Text and Annotation 69

I THE PUBLIC WORLD

1 JOHN SKELTON [from A Lawde and Prayse Made for Our Sovereigne Lord the Kyng) 19 2 SIR THOMAS MORE De Principe Bono Et Malo 80 3 Quis Optimus Reipublicae Status 80 4 SIR DAVID LINDSAY [from The Dreme] The Complaynt of the Comoun weill of Scotland 82 5 SIR THOMAS WYATT [Who lyst his welth and eas Retayne] 83 6 In Spayn 84 7 [The piller pearisht is whearto I Lent] 85 8 HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY [Thassyryans king in peas with fowle desyre] 85 9 ANONYMOUS John Arm-strongs last good night 86 10 ROBERT CROWLEY Of unsaciable purchasers 89 11 JOHN HEYWOOD [from A Ballad on the Marriage of Philip and Mary] 90 12 WILLIAM BIRCH [from A songe betwene the Quenes majestie and Englande] 92 vi Contents

13 QUEEN ELIZABETH I [The dowbt off future foes exiles my present joye] 95 14 SIR [from The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia] 96 15 ANONYMOUS Of Sir Frauncis Walsingham Sir Phillipp Sydney, and Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancelor 91 16 GEORGE PUTTENHAM Her Majestie resembled to the crowned piller 98 17 ANNEDOWRICHE [from The French Historie] 99 18 SIR WALTER RALEGH [Praisd be Dianas faire and harmles light] 100 19 [from Fortune hath taken the away my love] 100 20 QUEEN ELIZABETH I [Ah silly pugge wert thou so sore afraid] 101 21 SIR WALTER RALEGH The 21th: and last booke of the Ocean to Scinthia 102 22 The Lie 116 23 ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE [Remembers thou in Msope of a taill] 119 24 SIR JOHN HARINGTON A Tragicall Epigram 119 25 Of Treason 120 26 FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE [from Caelica] Sonnet 78 120 27 GEORGE PEELE [from Anglorum Feriae] 121 28 JOHN DONNE The Calme 123 29 [from Satire 4] 125 30 ROBERT DEVEREUX, EARL OF ESSEX [Change thy minde since she doth change] 129 31 MARJ SIDNEY, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE [TO Queen Elizabeth] 131 « PDMUND S"NSER [from The Faerie Queene Book 5] 134 EOCHMDH 6 HE6GHUSA [On Maguire's Winter Campaign] 141

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38 ANONYMOUS PI L/r<"" BnUnnia'* Pastorals Book 2] 146 » ANONYMOUS ^K*?*»* U* "S ^Phonthe Duke of Buckingham] 149 Contents vii

40 SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE [from An Ode Upon occasion of His Majesties Proclamation in the yeare 1630] 149 41 JOHN CLEVELAND Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford 151 42 SIB Coopers Hill 152 43 MARTIN PARKER Upon defacing of White-hall 163 44 ROBERT HERRICK A King and no King 165 45 ANDREW MARVELL An Horatian Ode upon Cromwel's Return from Ireland 166 46 SIR WILLIAM MURE [from The Cry of Blood, and of a Broken Covenant] 170 47 KATHERINE PHILIPS On the 3. of September, 1651 171 48 JOHN MILTON TO the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652 172 49 To Sir Henry Vane the younger 173 50 ANDREW MARVELL [from The First Anniversary of the Government under O.C.] 174 51 ALEXANDER BROME On Sir G.B. his defeat 175

II IMAGES OF LOVE

52 ANONYMOUS [Westron wynde when wylle thow blow] 181 53 SIR THOMAS WYATT [They fle from me that sometyme did me seke] 181 54 [Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde] 182 55 [It may be good like it who list] 183 56 [My lute awake perfourme the last] 183 57 HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY [The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes] 185 58 ALEXANDER SCOTT [TO luve unluvit it is ane pane] 185 59 GEORGE TURBERVILE TO his Love that sent him a Ring wherein was gravde, Let Reason rule 186 60 ISABELLA WHITNEY I. W. To her unconstant Lover 187 61 GEORGE GASCOIGNE [A Sonet written in prayse of the brown beautie] 192 62 ANONYMOUS Anew Courtly Sonet, of the Lady Greensleeves 193 63 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY [from Certain Sonnets: 4] 196 64 [from The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia] 191 65 [from Astrophil and Stella] 1 199 66 [from Astrophil and Stella] 2 200 67 [from Astrophil and Stella] 9 201 viii Contents

68 [from Astrophil and Stella] 72 201 69 [from Astrophil and Stella] 81 202 70 [from Astrophil and Stella] 83 203 71 [from Astrophil and Stella] Eight song 203 72 [from Astrophil and Stella] Eleventh song 207 73 FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE [from Cxlica] Sonnet 22 208 74 [from Caelica] Sonnet 27 209 75 [from Caelica] Sonnet 39 210 76 [from Cslica] Sonnet 44 211 77 [from Caelica] Sonnet 84 212 78 MARK ALEXANDER BOYD Sonet 213 79 ROBERT GREENE Dorons description of Samela 213 80 [from The Faerie Queene Book 2] 214 81 [from The Faerie Queene Book 3] 220 82 [from The Faerie Queene Book 3] 224 83 [from Amoretti] Sonnet 23 231 84 [from Amoretti] Sonnet 64 231 85 [from Amoretti] Sonnet 67 232 86 [from Amoretti] Sonnet 70 233 87 [from Amoretti] Sonnet 11 233 88 Epithalamion 234 89 SIR WALTER RALEGH [AS you came from the holy land] 247 90 [from Delia] Sonnet 13 249 91 [from Delia] Sonnet 39 250 92 [from Delia] Sonnet 52 250 93 SIRJOHNDAVIES [from Gullinge Sonnets] 6 251 94 [Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes] 252 95 THOMAS NASHE The choise of valentines 253 % JOHN DONNE To his Mistress going to bed 263 97 BARNABE BARNES [from Parthenophil and Parthenophe] Sonnet 27 265 98 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE The passionate Sheepheard to his love 265 99 Hero and Leander 266 100 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [from Venus and Adonis] 290 101 [from Lucrece] 296 102 RICHARD BARNFIELD [from Cynthia] Sonnet 8 303 103 [from Cynthia] Sonnet 11 304 104 WILUAM SHAKESPEARE [from Sonnets] 19 304 105 [from Sonnets] 20 305 Contents ix

106 [from Sonnets] 29 306 107 [from Sonnets] 35 306 108 [from Sonnets] 36 307 109 [from Sonnets] 55 308 110 [from Sonnets] 56 308 111 [from Sonnets] 66 309 112 [from Sonnets] 74 310 113 [from Sonnets] 94 310 114 [from Sonnets] 121 311 115 [from Sonnets] 124 312 116 [from Sonnets] 129 312 117 [from Sonnets] 135 313 118 [from Sonnets] 138 314 119 [from Sonnets] 144 314 120 ROBERT SIDNEY, EARL OF LEICESTER Sonnet 21 315 121 Sonnet 25 316 122 Sonnet 31 316 123 Songe 17 311 124 GEORGE CHAPMAN [from Hero and Leander Sestiad 3] 377 125 JOHN MARSTON [from The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image] 322 126 THOMAS DELONEY [Long have I lov'd this bonny Lasse] 325 127 ANONYMOUS [from The wanton Wife of Bath] 326 128 [JOHN DOWLAND] [Fine knacks for ladies, cheape choise brave and new] 328 129 THOMAS CAMPION [Followe thy faire sunne unhappy shaddowe] 329 130 [Rose-cheekt Lawra come] 330 131 [There is a Garden in her face] 330 132 JOHN DONNE His Picture 331 133 The Sunne Rising 332 134 The Canonization 333 135 Loves growth 334 136 A Valediction of weeping 335 137 A Valediction forbidding mourning 336 138 [from Idea] 10 338 139 [from Idea] 61 338 140 To His Coy Love, A Canzonet 339 141 BENJONSON Why I Write Not Of Love 340 142 My Picture left in Scotland 340 x Contents

143 LADY MARY WROTH [from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus] 23 341 144 [from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus] 34 342 145 [from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus] A crowne of Sonetts dedicated to Love 342 146 [from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus] 2 349 147 [from The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania] 7 350 148 ROBERT HERRICK Delight in Disorder 351 149 The Vision 351 150 The silken Snake 352 151 Her Bed 352 152 Upon Julia's haire fill'd with Dew 353 153 Upon Sibilla 353 154 THOMAS CAREW The Spring 353 155 Ingratefull beauty threatned 354 156 [from A Rapture] 355 157 MARTIN PARKER [from Cupid's Wrongs Vindicated] 356 158 [from Well met Neighbour] 360 159 EDMUND WALLER The story of Phoebus and Daphne appli'd 362 160 Song 363 161 The Budd 363 162 SIR JOHN SUCKLING [Out upon it, I have lov'd] 364 163 JOHN CLEVELAND The Antiplatonick 365 164 RICHARD LOVELACE Song. To Lucasta, Going to the Warres 367 165 Gratiana dauncing and singing 368 166 To Althea, From Prison. Song 369 167 HerMuffe 370 168 [from On Sanazar's being honoured with six hundred Duckets by the Clarissimi of Venice, for composing an Elegiack Hexastick of The City. A Satyre] 371 169 ANDREW MARVELL TO his Coy Mistress 372 170 The Gallery 374 171 The Definition of Love 316 172 JAMES HARRINGTON Inconstancy 377 173 KATHERINE PHILIPS An Answer to another pcrswading a Lady to Marriage 37*

III TOPOGRAPHIES

174 ALEXANDER BARCLAY [from Certaync Eglogcs 5] 381 Contents xi

175 GEORGE BUCHANAN Calendae Maiae 383 176 ANONYMOUS [from Vox populi vox Dei] 384 177 ANONYMOUS [from Jack of the North] 381 178 ANONYMOUS The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield 389 179 BARNABE GOOGE Goyng towardes Spayne 391 180 SION PHYHP [from Yr Wylan] 392 181 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY [from The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia] 394 182 EDMUND SPENSER [from The Shepheardes Calender] Maye 395 183 ALEXANDER HUME [from Of the day Estivall] 40J 184 SIR JOHN DAVIES [from Epigrammes] In Cosmum 17 406 185 JOSEPH HALL [from Virgidemiarum Book 5] 406 186 EVERARD GUILPIN [from Skialetheia Satire 5] 408 187 ANONYMOUS A Songe bewailinge the tyme of Christmas, So much decayed in Englande 410 188 JOHN DONNE A nocturnall upon S.Lucies day, Being the shortest day 412 189 EMILIA LANYER The Description of Cooke-ham 414 190 BENJONSON To Penshurst 420 191 MICHAEL DRAYTON [from ] The Ninth Eglogue 423 192 [from Poly-Olbion Song 6] 428 193 To The Virginian Voyage 431 194 SAMUEL DANIEL [from Epistle. To Prince Henrie] 433 195 ANONYMOUS On Francis Drake 437 1% W. TURNER [from Turners dish of Lentten stuffe, or a Galymaufery] 437 197 JOHN TAYLOR [from The Sculler] Epigram 22 441 198 WILLIAM BROWNE [from Britannia's Pastorals Book 2] 442 199 EDWARD HERBERT, LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY Sonnet 443 200 RICHARD CORBETT A Proper New Ballad Intituled The Faeryes Farewell: Or God-A-Mercy Will 444 201 SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT The Countess of Anglesey lead Captive by the Rebels, at the Disforresting of Pewsam 446 202 GEORGE WITHER [from Britain's Remembrancer Canto 4] 441 203 JOHN MILTON Song On May morning 449 204 U Allegro 449 205 ROBERT HERRICK TO Dean-boum, a rude River in Devon, by which sometimes he lived 454 206 Corinna's going a Maying 455 207 To Meddowes 457 xii Contents

208 TheWassaile 458 209 RICHARD CRASHAW [from Bulla] 459 210 ABRAHAM COWLEY The Wish 463 211 ANONYMOUS [The Diggers' Song] 464 212 HENRY VAUGHAN [from To his retired friend, an Invitation to Brecknock] 466 213 RICHARD LOVELACE The Snayl 468 214 ANDREW MARVELL Bermudas 470 215 The Mower to the Glo-Worms 411 216 The Mower against Gardens 472 217 The Garden 473 218 [from Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax] 416 219 MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE Of many Worlds in this World 419 220 A Dialogue betwixt Man, and Nature 480 221 Similizing the Sea to Meadowes, and Pastures, the Marriners to Shepheards, the Mast to a May-pole, Fishes to Beasts 482 222 KATHERINE PHILIPS Upon the graving of her Name upon a Tree in Barnelmes Walks 483

IV FRIENDS, PATRONS AND THE GOOD LIFE

223 SIR THOMAS WYATT [Myn owne John poyntz sins ye delight to know] 481 224 GEORGE GASCOIGNE [Upon the theme: Magnum vectigal parcimonia] 490 225 [Gascoignes wodmanship] 492 226 EDWARD DE VERE, EARL OF OXFORD [Weare I a Kinge I coulde commande content] 497 227 THOMAS LODGE [from Scillaes Metamorphosis] 497 228 JOHN DONNE To Sir Henry Wotton 498 229 THOMAS DELONEY The Weavers Song 501 230 THOMAS DEKKER [Art thou poore yet hast thou golden Slumbers] 503 231 SAMUEL DANIEL TO the Lady Lucie, Countesse of Bedford 504 232 TO Lucy, Countesse of Bedford, with Mr. Donnes Satyres 507 233 Inviting A Friend To Supper 507 Contents xiii

234 [THOMAS RAVENSCROFT] [Hey hoe what shall I say] 509 235 [Sing we now merily] 509 236 A Belmans Song 510 237 THOMAS CAMPION [NOW winter nights enlarge] 510 238 ANONYMOUS The Mode of France 511 239 MICHAEL DRAYTON These verses weare made By Michaell Drayton Esquier Poett Lawreatt the night before hee dyed 512 240 EDMUND WALLER At Pens-hurst 513 241 RICHARD LOVELACE The Grasse-hopper. To my Noble Friend, Mr. Charles Cotton. Ode 514 242 ALEXANDER BROME [from The Prisoners] Written when O.C. attempted to be King 516 243 JOHN MILTON [TO Edward Lawrence] 516 244 KATHERINE PHILIPS Friendship's Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia 511 245 Friendship in Embleme, or the Seal. To my dearest Lucasia 518 246 To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship 521

V CHURCH, STATE AND BELIEF

247 JOHN SKELTON [from Collyn Clout] 525 248 ANNE ASKEW The Balade whych Anne Askewe made and sange whan she was in Newgate 527 249 LUKE SHEPHERD [from The Upcheringe of the Messe] 529 250 ANONYMOUS [A Lament for our Lady's Shrine at WalsinghamJ 531 251 JOHN HEY WOOD [from Epygrams] Of turnyng. 67 532 252 GEORGE PUTTENHAM [from Partheniades] Partheniad 11 Urania 533 253 ROBERT SOUTHWELL The burning Babe 535 254 HENRY CONSTABLE TO St Mary Magdalen 536 255 SIR JOHN HARINGTON A Groome of the Chambers religion in King Henry the eights time 536 256 JOHN DONNE Satyre 3 537 257 Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward 541 258 Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse 542 259 [from Holy Sonnets] 10 543 260 [Since she whome I lovd, hath payd her last debt] 544 261 [Show me deare Christ, thy spouse, so bright and deare] 545 xiv Contents

262 FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE \Jrom Cselica] Sonnet 89 546 263 [from Caelica] Sonnet 99 547 264 [from Caelica] Sonnet 109 548 265 GILES FLETCHER [from Christs Victorie, and Triumph in Heaven, and Earth, over, and after death] 549 266 EMILIA LANYER [from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum] 556 267 WILLIAM DRUMMOND [For the Baptiste] 558 268 [Content and Resolute] 559 269 PHINE AS FLETCHER [Vast Ocean of light, whose rayes surround] 559 270 JOHN MILTON On the morning of Christs Nativity 561 271 FRANCIS QUARLES [from Pentelogia] Fraus Mundi 57/ 272 [from Divine Fancies] On the contingencie of Actions 572 273 [from Divine Fancies] On the Needle of a Sun-diall 573 274 [from Divine Fancies] On the Booke of Common Prayer 573 275 [from Divine Fancies] On Christ and our selves 573 276 GEORGE HERBERT Perseverance 574 277 Redemption 575 278 Easter wings 576 279 Prayer 576 280 Deniall 577 281 Jordan 578 282 The Collar 579 283 The Flower 580 284 The Forerunners 582 285 Love 583 286 [from The Church Militant] 584 287 ANONYMOUS [Yet if his Majestie our Sovareigne lord] 585 288 SIDNEY GODOLPHIN [Lord when the wise men came from Farr] 586 289 JOHN TAYLOR [from Here folioweth the unfashionable fashion, or the too too homely Worshipping of God] 581 290 EDMUND WALLER Upon His Majesties repairing of Pauls 588 291 RICHARD CRASHAW A Hymne of the Nativity, sung by the Shepheards 591 292 To The Noblest and best of Ladyes, the Countesse of Denbigh 594 293 [from The Flaming Heart] 596 294 ANONYMOUS Upon Arch-bishop Laud, Prisoner in the Tower. 1641 597 Contents xv

295 ROBERT WILD [from Alas poore Scholler, whither wilt thou goe] 598 296 JOHN MILTON On the new forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament 601 297 MORGAN LLWYD [from The Summer] 602 298 LAURENCE CLARKSON [from A Single Eye All Light, no Darkness] 604 299 HENRY VAUGHAN The Retreate 605 300 The World 606 301 Cock-crowing 609 302 The Water-fall 610 303 SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT [from Gondibert Book 2] 612 304 ANNA TRAPNEL [from The Cry of a Stone] 613 305 AN COLLINS Another Song exciting to spirituall Mirth 614 306 ANDREW MARVELL The Coronet 616

VI ELEGY AND EPITAPH

307 JOHN SKELTON [from Phyllyp Sparowe] 621 308 HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY [Norfolk sprang thee, Lambeth holds thee dead] 627 309 [W. resteth here, that quick could never rest] 627 310 [from A funerall song, upon the deceas of Annes his moother] 629 311 CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE [My prime of youth is but a froste of cares] 630 312 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [The Phoenix and Turtle] 631 313 JOHN DONNE [from The Second Anniversarie] Of the Progres of the Soule 634 314 BEN JONSON On My First Sonne 637 315 To the immortall memorie, and friendship of that noble paire, Sir Lucius Cary, and Sir H. Morison 638 316 SIR WALTER RALEGH [Even suche is tyme that takes in trust] 643 317 WILLIAM BROWNE On the Countesse Dowager of Pembrooke 644 318 HENRY KING An Exequy To his matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind 644 319 GEORGE HERBERT [from Memoriae Matris Sacrum] 648 320 THOMAS CAREW Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villers 648 xvi Contents

321 SIR HENRY WOTTON Upon the death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife 649 322 ROBERT HERRICK TO the reverend shade of his religious Father 649 323 Upon himselfe being buried 650 324 Upon a child 650 325 JOHN MILTON Lycidas 651 326 [Methought I saw my late espoused Saint] 658 327 'ELIZA' TO my Husband 659 328 HENRY VAUGHAN [They are all gone into the world of light] 660 329 KATHERINE PHILIPS Epitaph. On her Son H. P. at St. Syth's Church where her body also lies Interred 661 330 Orinda upon little Hector Philips 662 331 JAMES SHIRLEY [The glories of our blood and state] 663

VII TRANSLATION

332 HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY [from Virgil's Aeneid Book 4] 667 333 RICHARD STANYHURST [from Virgil's Aeneid Book 4] 669 334 ARTHUR GOLDING [from Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 6] 67/ 335 EDMUND SPENSEK [from Ruines of Rome: by Bellay] 5 676 336 MARY SIDNEY, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE Quid gloriaris? Psalm 52 677 337 [from Psalm 89 Misericordias] 679 338 Voce mea ad Dominum Psalm 142 680 339 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE [from Ovids Elegies Book 1] Elegia. 13. Ad Auroram ne properet 681 340 [from Lucan's Pharsalia Book 1] 682 341 SIR JOHN HARINGTON [from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso Book 34] 683 342 EDWARD FAIRFAX [from Tasso's Godfrey of Bulloigne Book 4] 689 343 JOSUAH SYLVESTER [from Saluste du Bartas' Devine Weekes] 693 344 GEORGE CHAPMAN [from Homer's Iliad Book 12] 695 345 JOHN MILTON The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. / 698 Contents xvii

VIII WRITER, LANGUAGE AND PUBLIC

346 JOHN SKELTON [from A Replycacion] 101 347 THOMAS CHURCHYARD [from A Musicall Consort] 702 348 EDMUND SPENSER [from The Faerie Queene Book 6J 703 349 SIR JOHN HARINGTON Of honest Theft. To my good friend Master Samuel Daniel 109 350 JOHN DONNE The triple Foole 709 351 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [from Sonnets] 108 710 352 JOHN MARSTON [from The Scourge ofVillanie] In Lectores prorsus indignos 111 353 SAMUEL DANIEL [from Musophilus] 7/5 354 BENJONSON A Fit of Rime against Rime 7/7 355 An Ode. To himselfe 7/9 356 GEORGE CHAPMAN [from Homer's Iliad, To the Reader] 727 357 SIR WALTER RALEGH TO the Translator 722 358 WILLIAM BROWNE [from Britannia's Pastorals Book 2] 722 359 RACHEL SPEGHT [from The Dreame] 725 360 MICHAEL DRAYTON [from Idea] 25 727 361 To my most dearely-loved friend Henery Reynolds Esquire, of Poets and Poesie 128 362 [from The Muses Elizium] The Description of Elizium 734 363 JOHN MILTON [from At a Vacation Exercise] 738 364 JOHN TAYLOR [from A comparison betwixt a Whore and a Booke] 140 365 THOMAS CAREW An Elegie upon the death of the Deane of Pauls, Dr. John Donne 74/ 366 A Fancy 744 367 ROBERT HERRICK TO the Detracter 744 368 Posting to Printing 745 369 GEORGE WITHER [from Vox Pacifica] 745 370 SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT [from Gondibert Book 2] 149 371 MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE The Claspe 75/ 372 [The Common Fate of Books] 75/ 373 ABRAHAM COWLEY The Muse 752 374 HENRY VAUGHAN The Book 755