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Sixteenth Century Verse 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.
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