THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF SIXTEENTH CENTURY VERSE
Chosen and edited by EMRYS JONES
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS CONTENTS
Introduction
JOHN SKELTON (c.1460-1529) from The Garland of Laurel 1. To Mistress Isabel Pennell 1 2. To Mistress Margaret Hussey 2 3. [My darling dear, my daisy flower] • 3 from The Bouge of Court 4. 'The sail is up, Fortune ruleth our helm' 4 from Philip Sparrow 5. 'Pla ce boP 9 from Magnificence 6. [Fancy's song and speech] 18 7. [The conclusion of the play] 20 from Elinour Rumming 8. [Visitors to the ale-house] 22 from Speak, Parrot 9. [The opening stanzas] 26 10. [The conclusion] . 30
ANONYMOUS 11. The Nutbrown Maid 32
STEPHEN HAWES (l47S?-I523?) from The Pastime of Pleasure 12. [The epitaph of graunde amoure] 43 13. [Against Swearing] 43
ANONYMOUS 14. Western Wind 44 15. 'By a bank as I lay' 45
HEATH (first name and dates unknown) 16. 'These women all' 46
ATTRIBUTED TO KING HENRY VIII (1491-1547) 17. 'Pastime with good company' 47 18. 'Whereto should I express' 48 19. 'Green groweth the holly' 48
WILLIAM CORNISH (d. 1523) 20. 'You and I and Amyas' 49 CONTENTS
ANONYMOUS 21. [The juggler and the baron's daughter] 50 SIR THOMAS MORE (1477 or 1478-1535) 22. A Lamentation of Queen Elizabeth 52 23. Certain metres written by master Thomas More ...for The Book of Fortune'. 55
ALEXANDER BARCLAY from Eclogues 24. ['The Miseries of Courtiers'... Eating in Hall] 62 ANONYMOUS from Scottish Field 25. [The Battle of Flodden] 67
SIR THOMAS WYATT (£.1503-1542) 26. 'And wilt thou leave me thus?' "74 27. 'Madam, withouten many words' 74 28. 'In aetemum' 75 29. 'Whoso list to hunt' 76 30. 'Farewell, Love' 76 31. 'Forget not yet' 77 32. 'Is it possible' 77 33. 'My lute, awake!' 78 34. 'They flee from me' 80 35. 'With serving still' 80 36. 'What should I say' 81 37. 'In court to serve' 82 38. 'Sometime I fled the fire' 82 39. 'Quondam was I' 82 40. 'Who list his wealth and ease retain' 83 41. 'In mourning wise' 84 42. 'Tagus, farewell' 86 43. 'If waker care' 86 44. 'The pillar perished is' 86 45. 'Lucks, my fair falcon' 87 46. 'Sighs are my food' 87 47. 'Throughout the world, if it were sought' 87 48. 'Fortune doth frown' 88 49. [Part of a Chorus from Seneca's Thyestes] 88 50. Psalm 130 ['From depth of sin and from a deep despair'] 88 51. 'Mine own John Poyntz' 89 52. 'My mother's maids when they did sew and spin' 92 53. 'A spending hand that alway poureth out' 95
VI CONTENTS ATTRIBUTED TO SIR THOMAS WYATT 54. 'I am as I am and so will I be' 97
ANONYMOUS from The Court of Love 55. [The birds' matins and conclusion of the poem] 98
HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1517^-1547) 56. 'When raging love' 102 57. 'The soote season' , 102 58. 'Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green' 103 59. 'Alas, so all things now do hold their peace' 103 60. 'O happy dames' 104 from Certain Books of Virgil's 'AZneis' 61. [Creusa] 105 62. [Dido in love] 108 63. [The Happy Life] 109 64. 'So cruel prison' . 109 65. An excellent epitaph of Sir Thomas Wyatt 111 66. 'Th'Assyrians'king1 112 67. [Epitaph for Thomas Clere] 113 ROBERT COPLAND (/?. 1508-1547) from The High Way to the Spital House 68. 'To write of Sol in his exaltation' 113
JOHN HARINGTON (d. 1582) 69. To his mother . 119 70. [Husband to wife] 120 71. [Wife to husband] 121 72. A sonnet written upon my Lord Admiral Seymour 122
ANONYMOUS 73. [How to obtain her] ~ 122
ANNE ASKEW (1521-1546) 74. The Ballad which Anne Askew made and sang when she was in Newgate 123
SIR THOMAS SEYMOUR (BARON SEYMOUR OF SUDELEY) (l508?-I549) 75. 'Forgetting God' 125 JOHN HEYWOOD (C.I497-CI580) 76. \A quiet neighbour] 126
NICHOLAS GRIMALD (l5I9?-I562?) 77•. Description of'Virtue 127
vii CONTENTS
THOMAS, LORD VAUX (15IO-I556) 78. The Aged Lover Renounceth Love 127 79. [The Pleasures of Thinking] 129 80. [Death in Life] 130 81. [Age looks back at Youth] 130
GEORGE CAVENDISH (l499?-I56l?) 82. An Epitaph of our late Queen Mary 131
THOMAS PHAER (l5IO?-I5OO) from The nine first books of the Eneidos 83. [Euryalus and Nisus meet their deaths] 135
BARNABY GOOGE (154O-I594) 84. To Doctor Bale 137 85. Of Money 138 86. Coming homeward out of Spain 138
THOMAS SACKVILLE, EARL OF DORSET (1536-1608) from The Mirror for Magistrates 87. The Induction 139 ANONYMOUS 88. A Dialogue between Death and Youth 154
EDWARD DE VERE, EARL OF OXFORD (1550-1604) 89. 'The lively lark stretched forth her wing' 157 90. 'If women could be fair and yet not fond' 157 91. 'The labouring man, that tills the fertile soil' 158 92. 'Sitting alone upon my thought' 159 93. [A Court Lady addresses her Lover] 160 94. 'When wert thou born, Desire?' 161 95. 'What cunning can express' - 162
ATTRIBUTED TO EDWARD DE VERE, EARL OF OXFORD 96. 'When I was fair and young' 163
ANONYMOUS 97. The lovercompareth himselfto the painful falconer 164
ARTHUR GOLDING (f.1536-1605) from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' 98. [Ceyx and Alcyone] 165
JOHN PIKERYNG (f.1567) from The History ofHorestes 99. [Haltersick's Song] 174
viii CONTENTS 100. [Song sung by Egistus and Clytemnestra] 175 101. [The Vice's Song] 177
ANONYMOUS 102. 'Fain would I have a pretty thing' 178 GEORGE TURBERVILLE (c.1544-^.1597) 103. A poor Ploughman to a Gentleman for whom he had taken a little pains 179 104. To his friend P. of courting, travelling, dicing, and tennis 180 105. [Epigram from Plato] 180 106. [A Letter from Russia] 181
QUEEN ELIZABETH I (1533-1603) 107. 'The doubt of future foes' 183 from Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy 108. 'All human kind on earth' 184 109. 'Ah, silly pug, wert thou so sore afraid?' 185
ANONYMOUS 110. 'Christ was the Word that spake it' 185
THOMASTUSSER from Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry in. [Decembers Husbandry] 186 112. [Advice to Housewives] 189 ISABELLA WHITNEY {ft. 1567-I573) from The Manner of her Will and What she left to London ... 113. 'I whole in body and in mind' 192
GEORGE GASCOIGNE (1534-1577) 114. Gascoigne's Woodmanship 196 115. Magnum vectigal parsimonia 200 116. Gascoigne's Lullaby 202 117. Gascoigne's Good Morrow 203 118. Gascoigne's Goodnight 205 119. [No haste but good] 206 120. The Green Knight's Farewell to Fancy 209 BEWE (first name unknown) (ft. c.1576) 121. 'I would I were Actaeon' 211 THOMAS PROCTOR (ft. CI578) 122. Respice Finem 212 ix CONTENTS THOMAS CHURCHYARD (l52O?-l6O4) 123. A Tale of a Friar and a Shoemaker's Wife 213
TIMOTHY KENDALL (ft. 1577) from Flowers of Epigrams 124. The difference between a King and a Tyrant 227 125. A Tyrant in sleep, naught differeth from a common man 227 126. Of a good prince and an evil 228 127. Desire of Dominion 228 128. Upon the grave of a beggar 228
NICHOLAS BRETON (f.1555-1626) 129. [Service is no Heritage] 229 130. 'In the merry month of May' 232 131. The Chess Play 232 132. A Report Song 235 133. 'Who can live in heart so glad' 235 134. 'In time of yore' , 237
EDMUND SPENSER (c.1552-1599) 135. 7b ... Master Gabriel Harvey 238 from Mother Hubbards Tale 136. [The Fox and the Ape go to Court] 239 from The Faerie Queene 137. [Guyon's Voyage to the Bower of Bliss] 246 138. [The House ofBusyrane] 255 139. [The Vision of the Graces] 262 140. [Mutability claims to rule the world] 268 141. [A Faerie Queene Miscellany] (i) 'He making speedy way through spersed ayre' 277 (ii) 'By this the Northerne wagoner had set' 278 (iii) 'The noble hart, that harbours vertuous thought' 278 (iv) 'Right well I wote most mighty Soueraine' 278 (v) 'And is there care in heauen? and is there loue' 279 (vi) 'Nought vnder heauen so strongly doth allure' 280 (vii) 'When I bethinke me on that speech whyleare' 280 from Amoretti 142. 'New year, forth looking out of Janus' gate' 281 143. 'Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day' . 281 144. 'One day I wrote her name upon the strand' 282 145. 'Lacking my love, I go from place to place' 282 146. Epithalamion . 282 147. Pmthalamion 293 CONTENTS SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586) from The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia 148. 'My sheep are thoughts, which I both guide and serve' 297 149. 'O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness' 297 150. 'My true love hath my heart, and I have his' 298 151. 'Why dost thou haste away' 299 152. 'Ye goat-herd gods, that love the grassy mountains' 299 from Certain Sonnets 153. 'Ring out your bells' 302 from Astrophil and Stella 154. 'Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show' 303 155. 'Let dainty wits cry on the sisters nine' 303 156. 'It is most true, that eyes are formed to serve' 304 157. 'Some lovers speak, when they their muses entertain' 304 158. 'Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend' 304 159. 'You that do search for every purling spring" 305 160. 'With what sharp checks I in myself am shent' 305 161. 'On Cupid's bow how are my heart-strings bent' 306 162. 'Fly, fly, my friends, I have my death wound, fly' 306 163. 'Your words, my friend, right healthful caustics, blame' 306 164. 'The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness' 307 165. 'Because I oft, in dark abstracted guise' 307 166. 'You that with allegory's curious frame' . " 307 167. 'Whether the Turkish new moon minded be' 308 168. 'With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies' 308 169. 'Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace' 309 170. 'As good to write, as for to lie and groan' 309 171. 'Stella oft sees the very face of woe' • 309 172. 'In martial sports I had my cunning tried' 310 173. 'Because I breathe not love to every one' 310 174. 'Who will in fairest book of nature know' 310 175. 'Have I caught my heavenly jewel' 311 176. 'I never drank of Aganippe well' 312 177. 'Of all the kings that ever here did reign' 312 178. 'Only joy, now here you are' 312 179. 'In a grove most rich of shade' 314 180. 'Go, my flock, go get you hence' 317 181. 'Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame' 318 182. 'Be your words made, good sir, of Indian ware' 318 183. 'When far-spent night persuades each mortal eye' 319 184. 'Who is it that this dark night' 319 from The Psalms of David Translated into English Verse 185. Psalm 13 ['How long, O lord, shall I forgotten be?'] 320
XI CONTENTS
SIR EDWARD DYER (d. 1607) 186. 'Prometheus, when first from heaven high' 321
ATTRIBUTED TO SIR EDWARD DYER 187. In praise of a contented mind 322
ANONYMOUS 188. 'The lowest trees have tops, the ant her gall' 323 HUMPHREY GIFFORD (fl. C.1580) 189. For Soldiers 324 190. In the praise of music 325
RICHARD STANYHURST (1547-1618) from The First Four Books of Virgil his dZneis 191. [Polyphemus] 327 THOMAS WATSON (c.1557-1592) 192. My love is past 331
ANONYMOUS 193. Verses made by a Catholic in praise of Campion ... 332 194. [Hymn to the Virgin] 337 THOMAS GILBART (fl. f.1583) 195. A declaration of the death of John Lewes ... 339
ANONYMOUS 196. A new courtly sonnet of the Lady Greensleeves 343 197. A Nosegay 345 JOHN LYLY (c.1554-1606) from Campaspe 198. 'O for a bowl of fat Canary' 349 199. 'Cupid and my Campaspe played' 349 200. 'What bird so sings, yet so does wail?' 350 from Sapho and Phao 201. 'O cruel love, on thee I lay' 350 202. Tne Song in making of the Arrows 350 from Endimion 203. 'Stand! Who goes there?' 351 204. 'Pinch him, pinch him black and blue' 352 from Midas 205. 'My Daphne's hair is twisted gold' 352 206. 'Pan's Syrinx was a girl indeed' 352 207. "Las, how long shall I' 353 208. 'Sing to Apollo, God of Day* 353
xii CONTENTS FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE (1554-1628) from Caelica 209. 'The world, that all contains, is ever moving' 354 210. 'I with whose colours Myra dressed her head' 355 211. 'All my senses, like beacon's flame' 355 212. 'When all this All doth pass from age to age' 357 213. 'Love is the peace, whereto all thoughts do strive' 357 214. 'The earth with thunder torn, with fire blasted' 358 215. 'When as man's life, the light of human lust' 358 216. 'Man, dream no more of curious mysteries' 359 217. 'Eternal Truth, almighty, infinite' 359 218. 'Wrapt up, O Lord, in man's degeneration' 360 219. 'Down in the depth of mine iniquity' 360 220. 'Three things there be in man's opinion dear' 361 221. 'Sion lies waste, and thy Jerusalem' 362 from Mustapha 222. [Chorus of Priests ('0 wearisome condition of humanity')] 362
SIR WALTER RALEGH (f.1552-1618) 223. 'Praised be Diana's fair and harmless light' 363 224. 'Like truthless dreams' 364 225. 'Like to a hermit poor' . 364 226. 'Conceit begotten by the eyes' 365 227. Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen 366 228. 'As you came from the holy land' 367 229. 'If all the world and love were young' 368 230. Sir Walter Ralegh to his son 369 231. 'Farewell false love, the oracle of lies' 370 232. A Vision upon this Conceit of The Faerie Queene' 371 233. The Lie 371 234. 'Fortune hath taken thee away, my love' 373 235. The Ocean to Cynthia 374 Translations from The History of the World 236. from Catullus ('The sun may set and rise') 389 237. from Euripides ('Heaven and Earth one form did bear') 389 238. from Ausonius ('I am that Dido which thou here dost see') 389 239. 'What is our life?' 390 240. Verses made the night before he died 390 241. On the snuff of a candle, the night before he died 391 ATTRIBUTED TO SIR WALTER RALEGH 242. To his love when he had obtained her 391 SIR ARTHUR GORGES (1557-1625) 243. [Dialogue from Desportes] 392 xiii CONTENTS CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE (d. 1586) 244. Tichbome's Elegy 393
ROBERT SOUTHWELL SJ (1561-1595) 245. The Burning Babe 394 246. New Prince, New Pomp 395 247. A Vale of Tears 396 248. Decease release 398 249. Man's civil war 399 250. Look home 400 251. Times Go by Turns 401 252. Loss in Delays 402 253. Content and Rich 403
ANONYMOUS 254. Upon the Image of Death 405 [Songs set by William Byrd] 255- 'I i°y not m no earthly bliss' 407 256. 'What pleasure have great princes' 407 257. 'Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses' 408 from Six Idillia ... chosen out of... Theocritus ^ 258. Cyclops 409 259. Neatherd 411 260. Adonis 412
LODOWICK BRYSKETT (LODOVICO BRUSCHETTO) (1546-1612) 261. A Pastoral Eclogue upon the death of Sir Philip Sidney Knight 413
ANONYMOUS 262. 'Like to a ring without a finger' 417
ROBERT GREENE (1558-I592) 263. [Phillis and Coridon] 420 264. 'Weep not, my wanton' 421 265. The Description of the Shepherd and His Wife 422 266. [The Shepherd's Wife's Song] 423 267. \A Night Visitor] 425 268. The Palmer 425 269. 'Old Menalcas on a day' 426 270. 'Deceiving world' 427 271. The Description of Sir Geoffrey Chaucer , 428
WILLIAM WARNER (£.1558-1609) from Albion's England 272. A Tale of the beginning of Friars and Cloisterers 429
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SIR HENRY LEE (1530-1610) 273. [Farewell to the Court] 432
THOMAS LODGE (1558-1625) 274. 'Love in my bosom like a bee' 433 275. 'Love guards the roses of thy lips' 434 276. 'My Phillis hath the morning sun' 434 277. The Shepherd's Sorrow, being disdained in love 435 278. [Animal Weather-forecasting] 437
ANONYMOUS 279. ['Hopeless desire soon withers and dies'] 439 280. 'Were I as base' 440 281. [Anacreon, Ode 3 ('Of late, what time the Bear turned round')] 440
FRANCIS TREGIAN (1548-1608) 282. [An imprisoned recusant writes to his wife] 441
SIR JOHN HARINGTON (1560-1612) from 'Orlando Furioso' in English Heroical Verse 283. [The beginning of Orlando's madness] 443 284. \Astolfo recovers Orlando's wits] 450 285. Of Treason 458 286. Of the wars in Ireland 459 287. A Groom of the Chamber's Religion in King Henry the eighth's time 459 288. Sir John Raynsjbrd's Confession 460 ANONYMOUS 289. The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage 461
HENRY CONSTABLE (1562-1613) 290. To the Marquess of Piscat's Soul 463 291. To Sir Philip Sidney's Soul , 463 292. To God the Holy Ghost 464 • 293. To the Blessed Sacrament 464 294. To Our Blessed Lady 465 295. To Stjohn Baptist 465 296. To St Peter and St Paul 466 297. To St Mary Magdalen 466 298. To St Maty Magdalen 467 299. To St Margaret 467
MARY HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE (1561-1621) 300. Psalm 52 ('Tyrant, why swell'st thou thus') 468
xv CONTENTS 301. Psalm 5# ('And call ye this to utter what is just") 469 302. Psalm 59 ('Save me from such as me assail') . 470 303. Psalm 73 ('It is most true that God to Israel') 472 304. Psalm 134 ('You that Jehovah's servants are') 475 305. Psalm 139 ('O Lord, in me there lieth nought') 475
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593) , from All Ovid's Elegies 306. Elegia FV ('Thy husband to a banquet goes with me') 478 307. Elegia V ('In summer's heat, and mid-time of the day') 480 308. Elegia XIII ('Now o'er the sea from her old love comes she') 480 309. Elegia XV ('Envy, why carp'st thou my time is spent so ill?') 482 310. The Passionate Shepherd to his Love 483 from Lucan's First Book, translated line for line 311. [The causes of the civil war] 484 312. [Caesar summons his forces from Gaul] 486 313. Hero and Leander . 488
SIR HENRY WOTTON (1568-1639) 314. A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his youth 507 315. [To John Donne] 507
SAMUEL DANIEL (c.1563-1619) from Delia 316. 'Look, Delia, how we steem the half-blown rose' 508 317. 'But love whilst that thou mayst be loved again' 509 318. 'When men shall find thy flower, thy glory, pass' 509 319. 'When winter snows upon thy golden hairs' 510 320. 'Thou canst not die whilst any zeal abound' 510 321. 'Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew' 510 322. 'Care-charmer sleep, son of the sable night' 511 323. 'Let others sing of knights and paladins' 511 324. Ode ('Now each creature joys the other') 512 from The Civil Wars 325. [King Richard II is taken into custody] 512 from Musophilus 326. 'Fond man, Musophilus, that thus dost spend' 519 327. 'Sacred Religion, mother of form and fear' 524 328. 'Behold how every man, drawn with delight' 526 329. 'Power above powers, O heavenly Eloquence' 530
MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563-1631) from The Shepherds' Garland 330. The eighth eclogue 532
xvi CONTENTS from Idea's Mirror 331. 'The golden sun upon his fiery wheels' 539 from Idea 332. 'Love, in a humour, played the prodigal' 540 333. 'As other men, so I myself do muse' 540 334. 'An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still' 540 335. 'As Love and I, late harboured in one inn' 541 336. 'Truce, gentle Love, a parley now I crave' 541 from England's Heroical Epistles 337- (0 Queen Katherine to Owen Tudor 542 (ii) Owen Tudor to Queen Katherine 546 ANONYMOUS 338. [The Ruins of Walsingham] 550
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) from Venus and Adonis 339. [The Death of Adonis] 551 from The Rape ofLucrece 340. [Before the Rape] 560 341. [Lucrece's Death] 563 from lite Two Gentlemen of Verona 342. 'Who is Silvia? what is she' - , 569 from Love's Labour's Lost 343. 'When daisies pied and violets blue' 569 344. 'When icicles hang by the wall' 570 from A Midsummer Night's Dream 345. 'You spotted snakes with double tongue' 570 346. 'The ousel cock, so black of hue' 571 from The Merchant of Venice 347. 'Tell me where is fancy bred' 571 from Much Ado About Nothing 348. 'Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more' 571 349. 'Pardon, goddess of the night' 572 from As You Like It 350. 'Under the greenwood tree' 572 351. 'Blow, blow, thou winter wind' 573 352. 'What shall he have that killed the deer?' 573 353. 'It was a lover and his lass' 573 from Twelfth Night 354. 'O mistress mine, where are you roaming?' 574 355. 'Come away, come away, death' 575 356. 'When that I was and a little tiny boy' 575 from Hamlet 357. 'Why, let the strucken deer go weep' 576
xvii CONTENTS 358. 'How should I your true-love know' 576 359. 'Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's day" 576 360. 'And will 'a not come again?' 577 from Measure for Measure 361. 'Take, O take those lips away' 577 from Antony and Cleopatra 362. 'Come, thou monarch of the vine' 577 from Cymbeline 363. 'Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings' 578 364. 'Fear no more the heat o' th' sun' 578 from The Winter's Tale 365. 'When daffadils begin to peer' 579 366. 'Jog on, jog on, the footpath way' 579 367. 'Lawn as white as driven snow' 579 from The Tempest 368. 'Come unto these yellow sands' 580 369. 'Full fathom five thy father lies' 580 370. 'Where the bee sucks, there suck P . 580 from The Two Noble Kinsmen 371. 'Roses, their sharp spines being gone' 581 from Sonnets 372. 'When forty winters shall besiege thy brow' 581 373. 'When I do count the clock that tells the time' 582 374. 'When I consider every diing that grows' . 582 375. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' 583 376. 'Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws' 583 377. 'A woman's face, with Nature's own hand painted' 584 378. 'As an unperfect actor on the stage' 584 379. 'Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed' 585 380. 'When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes' , 585 381. 'When to the sessions of sweet silent thought' 585 382. 'Full many a glorious morning have I seen' 586 383. 'No more be grieved at that which thou hast done' 586 384. 'What is your substance, whereof are you made' 587 385. 'Not marble, nor the gilded monuments' 587 386. 'Being your slave, what should I do but tend' 588 387. 'Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore' 588 388. 'When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced' 588 389. 'Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea' 589 390. 'Tired with all these, for restful death I cry' 589 391. 'No longer mourn for me when I am dead' 590 392. 'That time of year thou mayst in me behold' 590 393. 'Why is my verse so barren of new pride' 591 394. 'Was it the proud full sail of his great verse' 591
xviii CONTENTS . 395- 'Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing' 592 396. 'Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now' 592 397. 'They that have power to hurt and will do none' 592 398. 'How like a winter hath my absence been' 593 399. 'From you have I been absent in the spring' 593 400. 'To me, fair friend, you never can be old' 594 401. 'When in the chronicle of wasted time' 594 402. 'Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul' 595 403. 'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there' 595 404. 'Your love and pity doth th'impression fill' 596 405. 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds' 596 406. "Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed' 597 407. 'If my dear love were but the child of state' 597 408. 'Were't aught to me I bore the canopy' 598 409. 'Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame' 598 410. 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun' 599 411. 'When my love swears that she is made of truth' . 599 412. 'Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press' 599 413. 'Love is too young to know what conscience is' 600 414. The Phoenix and Turtle 600
ANONYMOUS 415. 'Crabbed age and youth' . 603 416. 'Those eyes which set my fancy on a fire' 603 417. 'A secret murder hath been done of late' 604 418. 'Sought by the world' 604 419. 'The brainsick race that wanton youth ensues' 605 420. 'Feed still thy self, thou fondling, with belief 605 421. A Counterlove 606
ROBERT DEVEREUX, EARL OF ESSEX (1566-1601) 422. 'Happy were he' 608
ANONYMOUS 423. 'Were I a king' 608
THOMAS CAMPION (1567-1620) 424. 'What fair pomp' 609 425. 'My sweetest Lesbia' 610 426. 'I care not for these ladies' 610 427. 'Follow thy fair sun' 611 428. 'When to her lute Corinna sings' 612 429. 'Follow your saint' 612 430. 'The man of life upright' 613
xix CONTENTS 431. 'Hark, all you ladies that do sleep' 613 432. 'When thou must home to shades of undeVground' 614
THOMAS NASHE (1567-C.1601) from Summer's Last Will and Testament 433. 'Fair summer droops, droop men and beasts therefore' 615 434. 'Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king' 615 435. 'Adieu, farewell earth's bliss' 616 436. 'Autumn hath all the summer's fruitful treasure' 617
ANONYMOUS [Madrigals set by Thomas Morley] 437. 'Cruel, you pull away too soon your lips whenas you kiss me' 617 438. 'Whither away so fast' 617 439. 'When, lo, by break of morning' 618 440. 'Sweet nymph, come to thy lover' 618 441. 'I go before, my darling' 618 442. 'Miraculous love's wounding!' . 618 443. 'Now is the month of maying' 619 444. 'Sing we and chant it' 619 445. 'Lady, those cherries plenty' 619 446. 'Lo, where with flowery head and hair all brightsome' 620 447 'Damon and Phyllis squared' 620 . 448. 'Lady, you think you spite me' 620 449. 'You black bright stars, that shine while daylight lasteth' 620 450. 'Ladies, you see time flieth' 620
BARNABE BARNES from Parthenophil and Parthenophe 451. Ode II ('Lovely Maya, Hermes' mother') 621 452. Sestina ('Then first with locks dishevelled and bare') 623
JOHN DONNE (1572-1631) 453. Satire 1 [A London street] 626 454. Satire 3 [The search for true religion] 629 455. The Perfume 631 456. The Bracelet 633 457. On his Mistress 636 458. To his Mistress Going to Bed 638 459. The Storm 639 460. The Calm 641 461. Hero and Leander 642 462. A Lame Beggar 642 463. To Sir Henry Wotton 643 464. Song ('Go, and catch a falling star') 645
xx CONTENTS 465. Song ('Sweetest love, I do not go') 645 466. The Apparition 646 467. The Computation 647 468. The Flea 647 469. The Will 648 470. A Lecture upon the Shadow . 650 471. The Anniversary 650 SIR JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626) from Orchestra or A Poem of Dancing 472. 'Where lives the man that never yet did hear' 651 from Gulling Sonnets 473. 'As when the bright cerulian firmament' 663 474. 'What eagle can behold her sunbright eye' 664 475. 'The sacred muse that first made love divine' 664 476. 'My case is this, I love Zepheria bright' 664 from Epigrams 477. 'Titus the brave and valorous gallant' . 665 478. 'Cosmus hath more discoursing in his head' 665 479. 'The fine youth Ciprius is more terse and neat' 665 480. 'Amongst the poets Dacus numbered is' 666 481. 'Philo the gentleman, the fortune teller' 666 from Nosce Teipsum 482. Of Human Knowledge 667 ANONYMOUS 483. [Things forbidden] 672 GEORGE PEELE (1556-1596) from The Old Wwe's Tale 484. 'Three merry men, and three merry men' 673 485. 'When as the rye reach to the chin' 673 486. 'Spread, table, spread' . .. 673 487. [Voices from the Well of Life] 673 from David and Fair Bethsabe 488. [Bethsabe's Song] 674
RICHARD BARNFIELD (1574-1627) 489. The Affectionate Shepherd 674 490. 'Man's life' 681 GEORGE CHAPMAN (l559?-l634) from Ovid's Banquet of Sense 491. ['The Ears'Delight"] 681 from Hero and Leander 492. 'New light gives new directions, fortunes new' 686 xxi CONTENTS 493. 'This told, strange Teras touched her lute, and sung' 690 from Achilles' Shield 494 [Thetis asks Vulcan to make a shield for Achilles] 692
BARTHOLOMEW GRIFFIN (d. 1602) 495. Venus and Adonis - 696 496. Care-charmer sleep . 696
SIR FRANCIS BACON (1561-1626) 497. [The life of man] 697
ROBERT SIDNEY (1563-1626) 498. 'Alas, why say you I am rich' . 698 499. 'Ah dearest limbs, my life's best joy and stay' 698 500. 'Forsaken woods, trees with sharp storms oppressed' 699 501. 'The sun is set, and masked night' 699
JOSEPH HALL (1574-1636) from Virgidemiae. Toothless Satires 502. [Advertisement for a Chaplain] 700 503. [A Drunkard arrives in Hades] 700 from Virgidemiae. Biting Satires 504. [Landlords and Tenants] 701
WILLIAM ALABASTER (1567-1640) 505. A Divine Sonnet 705 506. Upon the Ensigns of Christ's Crucifying 705 507. Of the Reed that the Jews Set in Our Saviour's Hand 706 508. Upon the Crucifix 706 509. To the Blessed Virgin 707 510. To Christ 707 511. Incarnatio est Maximum Dei Donum 708 512. 'Away, fear, with thy projects' - 708 513. Exaltatio Humanae Naturae 709
THOMAS BASTARD (1566-1618) 514. De Puero Balbutiente . 709
JOSUAH SYLVESTER (1562 Or 1563-1618) from The Divine Weeks and Works ofGuillaume de Saluste Sieur Du Bartas 515. [The Tower of Babel] 710
BEN JONSON (1572-1637) 516. [To Thomas Palmer, on his book The Sprite of Trees and Herbs'] . . 717
xxii CONTENTS JOHN MARSTON (1576-1634) from The Scourge of Villainy 517. To Detraction ... 518. from Satire VII. A Cynic Satire 519. from Satire XI. Humours 520. To Everlasting Oblivion
THOMAS DEKKER fc.i570-tf.l632) from The Shoemaker's Holiday 521. 'O the month of May, the merry month of May' 728 522. 'Cold's the wind, and wet's the rain' 728 from Old Fortunatus 523. 'Fortune smiles, cry holy day!' 729 524. 'Virtue's branches wither, virtue pines' . 729 from Patient Grissil 525. 'Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers?' 730 526. 'Golden slumbers kiss your eyes' 731
ANONYMOUS [Lute Songs set by John Dowland] 527. 'Come away, come, sweet love' 731 528. 'Die not before thy day, poor man condemned' 732 529. 'I saw my lady weep' 732 530. 'Fine knacks for ladies' 733 531. 'Toss not my soul, O Love, 'twixt hope and fear' 733 532. 'Weep you no more, sad fountains' 733 [Madrigal set by John Fanner] 533. 'Take time while Time doth last' 734 [Madrigal set by John Bennet] 534. 'Thyrsis, sleepest thou? Holla! Let no sorrow stay us' 734 [Madrigals set by Thomas Weelkes] 535. 'Like two proud armies marching in~the field' 735 536. 'Thule, the period of cosmography' 735 [Lute Song set by Robert Jones] 537. 'Farewell, dear love, since thou wilt needs be gone' 735
EDMUND BOLTON (l575?-l633?) 538. A Palinode 737 539. 'As to the blooming prime' 737
SAMUEL ROWLANDS (l57O?-l63O?) 540. Boreas 738 541. Thraso 739 542. Sir Revel 739 xxiii CONTENTS EDWARD FAIRFAX (d. 1635) from Godfrey ofBulloigne (Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata) 543. [Erminia among the shepherds] 740 544. [The garden ofArmida] 744
NOTES AND REFERENCES 750 INDEX OF FIRST LINES . 757 INDEX OF AUTHORS 765
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