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The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse 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 PHILIP SIDNEY [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 Written uP°n the dea* of the most Noble * US UpOn *e sudden Restraint of the Earle of 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 JOHN DENHAM 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 EDMUND SPENSER [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 SAMUEL DANIEL [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 MICHAEL DRAYTON [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 Pastorals] The Ninth Eglogue 423 192 [from Poly-Olbion Song 6] 428 193 To The Virginian Voyage 431 194 SAMUEL DANIEL [from Epistle.
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