The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [T131617] [ecco]

DMI number:

601

Publication Date:

1738

Volume Number:

1 of 3

ESTC number:

T131617

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW111830323

Shelfmark:

ECCO - BOD

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Duodecimo

Comments:

FULL TITLE: THE | BRITISH MUSE, | OR, A Collection of THOUGHTS | [i]Moral, Natural,[/i] and [i]Sublime[/i], | OF OUR | ENGLISH POETS: | Who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. | With several curious TOPICKS, and beautiful | PASSAGES, never before extracted, from | SHAKESPEAR, JOHNSON, | BEAUMONT, | FLETCHER, and above a Hundred more. | The Whole digested Alphabetically under their | respective Heads, according to the Order of | TIME in which they wrote; to shew the | gradual IMPROVEMENTS of our [i]Poetry[/i] and | [i]Language[/i]. | [rule] | In THREE VOLUMES. | [rule] | By [i]THOMAS HAYWARD[/i], Gent. | [rule] | With an Historical and Critical REVIEW of THIS, and | all the COLLECTIONS of this Kind hitherto published. | [double rule] | [i]LONDON[/i], | Printed for F. COGAN, at [i]Middle Temple[/i] Gate | in [i]Fleetstreet[/i], and J. NOURSE, at the [i]Lamb[/i] without | [i]Temple-Bar[/i]. | [short rule] | M. DCC. XXVIII. PREFATORY MATTER: Dedication 'To the Right Honourable the Lady Mary Wortley Montagu' signed Thomas Hayward (4pp.); Preface pp.[iii]-xxiv. REFERENCES: Case 416 (1) (a) PAGINATION: ?? MISCELLANY GENRE: commonplace book-style collection.

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Title:

[vol. 3] The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries [vol III] [ECCO] [T131617]

Publication Date:

1738

ESTC No:

T131617

Volume:

None

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Title:

The Quintessence of English Poetry [T168447] [ECCO]

Publication Date:

1740

ESTC No:

T168447

Volume:

1 of 3

Relationship:

Unknown

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Related People

Dedicatee:

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Editor:

Thomas Hayward

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Editor:

William Oldys

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

ESTC notes that the preface is by Oldys; Case suggests that 'Oldys wrote the preface and did much of the editorial work: see his diary and the title-page of the second issue of this collection.'

Publisher:

F Cogan

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

John Nourse

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

I am no enemy to religion

Page No:

p.1

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

William Shakespear's Cromwell

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Religious houses are those hives where bees

Page No:

pp.2-3

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sam. Rowley's Noble Spanish Soldier

Attributed To:

Samuel Rowley

First Line:

For those walls which the credulous devout

Page No:

p.2

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Samuel Daniel's Rosamund

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Wearied with toil in seeking out some one

Page No:

p.2

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

William Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

Like as the culver on the bared bough

Page No:

p.3

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Edmund Spenser

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Though absent present in desires they be

Page No:

p.3

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Michael Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Dull sublunary lover's love

Page No:

pp.3-4

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. John Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

This holy cell

Page No:

p.3

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

It is as if a night should shade noon day

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ben. Johnson

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Stop the chased boar or play

Page No:

pp.4-5

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomas Carew

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew

First Line:

How sad and dismal sound the farewells which

Page No:

pp.6-7

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant's Platonick Lovers

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Wonder not if I stay not here

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Suckling

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Thus absence dies and dying proves

Page No:

pp.6-7

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

I do not doubt his love but I could wish

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Robert Mead's Combat of Love and Friendship

Attributed To:

Robert Mead

First Line:

Short absence hurt him more

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomas May's Henry II

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

If she be gone the world in my esteem

Page No:

p.7

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Crown's Ambitious Statesman

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Without your fight my life is less secure

Page No:

p.7

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Vestal Virgin

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Against diseases here the strongest fence

Page No:

p.7

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Robert Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

His life is parallelled

Page No:

p.7

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Measure for Measure

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

As the unthought on accident is guilty

Page No:

pp.7-8

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Winter's Tale.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Yet abstinence in things we must profess

Page No:

p.7

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

Convict me of my crime and as tis meet

Page No:

p.7

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomas Ford

Attributed To:

Thomas Forde

First Line:

Great works do oft yield grievous accidents

Page No:

p.8

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Give way make place room for the consul

Page No:

p.8

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

If we consider accident

Page No:

p.8

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant's Cruel Brother

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

His speech was answered with a general noise

Page No:

pp.8-9

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Beaumont

Attributed To:

Sir John Beaumont

First Line:

Good things that come of course far less do please

Page No:

p.8

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Give me the cups

Page No:

p.8

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Noble she is by birth made good by virtue

Page No:

p.9

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

George Chapman's Monsieur D' Olive

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

She is of the best blood yet betters it

Page No:

pp.9-10

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Robert Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

Away then work with boldness and with speed

Page No:

p.10

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Christopher Marloe's Lust's Dominion

Attributed To:

Christopher Marlowe

First Line:

Give me good proofs of what you have alleged

Page No:

p.10

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's First Part of Henry VI.

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

You would grow unjust unto yourself

Page No:

p.10

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant's Fair Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Checks and disasters

Page No:

p.10

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Things of this nature sprung

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's and Rowley's Fair Quarrel

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

William Rowley

First Line:

Yet is the office not to be despised

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

All their actions are governed by crude opinion

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Silent Woman

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

For good and well must in our actions meet

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

Let not the least act now of his at last

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Philotas

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Men find that action is another thing

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Good actions crown themselves with lasting bays

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heath's Clarastella

Attributed To:

Robert Heath

First Line:

Bring action hither

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Of every noble action the intent

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Captain

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Time will be waited on by majesty

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Charles Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Actions are weakened with too hasty speed

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

If thou dost ill the joy fades not the pains

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

George Herbert

Attributed To:

George Herbert

First Line:

The end of every act

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Blind Beggar of Alexandria

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Be well advised and wary council make

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomas Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

We can call

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomas Middleton's Mayor of Queenborough

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

As the new moon th' light of th' old devours

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

As in a ship some climb the shrouds t' unfold

Page No:

pp.13-14

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Action is honour's language swords are tongues

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sam. Rowley's Noble Spanish Soldier

Attributed To:

Samuel Rowley

First Line:

The body sins not tis the will

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

We no more can tell

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

William Cartwright

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

He that pursues an act that is attended

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomas Nabb's Unfortunate Mother

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

We may admire

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

All actions finely gilded over succeed

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Calisto

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Actions rare and sudden do commonly

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant's Cruel Brother

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Peace is the rust of minds brave souls refine

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Vestal Virgin

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

But our unsteady actions cannot be

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Vestal Virgin

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Be just in all thy actions and if joined

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

I was your friend when you were honest

Page No:

pp.15-16

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Ambitious Statesman.

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

You have layed

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's First Part of Biron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Tis often seen

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's All's well that ends well

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Advancement now doth not attend desert

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Alexander Earl of Sterline's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Yet miserable ourselves why should we deem

Page No:

pp.16-17

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

He who hath never warred with misery

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel, on Wriothesly Earl of Southampton

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Sweet are the uses of adversity

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's As you like it

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

That sir which serves for gain

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Lear

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Afflictions

Page No:

p.17

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge for Honour

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Man's senses barren were

Page No:

p.17

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

He that pines in grief

Page No:

p.17-18

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Robert Armin's Two Maids of More-clack

Attributed To:

Robert Armin

First Line:

Better were worse for no affliction

Page No:

p.17

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

Not one care-wanting hour my life had tasted

Page No:

p.17

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Samuel Brandon's Octavia

Attributed To:

Samuel Brandon

First Line:

You are flies away they that my winter fled

Page No:

p.17

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomas Heywood's Royal King

Attributed To:

Thomas Heywood

First Line:

Though I have lost my fortune and lost you

Page No:

p.18

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont's and Fletcher's Fair Maid of the Inn

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

We see that trees bear no such pleasant fruit

Page No:

p.18

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Through danger safety comes through trouble rest

Page No:

p.18

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Marston's Insatiate Countess

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Affliction then is ours

Page No:

p.18

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

George Herbert

Attributed To:

George Herbert

First Line:

Afflictions they most profitable are

Page No:

p.18

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Like a ball that bounds

Page No:

p.18

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabb's Microcosmus

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Though affliction at the first doth vex

Page No:

p.19

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant's Fair Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Your virtues have not more made crowns your due

Page No:

p.19

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard on Charles II.

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

The wise more active grow by being crossed

Page No:

p.19

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Roger Boyle's Earl of Orrery's Guzman

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

Adversity hurts none but only such

Page No:

p.19

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Let me you intreat

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Edmund Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

As they that are shaken with a fever

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Lilly's Alexander and Campaspe

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

Let him be so

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's London Prodigal

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

He chiefly willed me when he gave this land

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You are one of those that will not serve God

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Then all too late comes council to be heard

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Richard II

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Council's as much the office of a servant

Page No:

p.21

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

In great affairs and doubtful it behoves

Page No:

p.21

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

But yet beware of counsels when too full

Page No:

pp.21-22

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Know when to speak for many times it brings

Page No:

p.21

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

I counsel give according to my skill

Page No:

p.21

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Darius

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Tis easy for physicians for to tell

Page No:

p.21

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomas Goff's Courageous Turk

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

Heaven is just scorns are the hire of scorns

Page No:

p.22

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

How many ills spring from adultery

Page No:

pp.22-23

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Devil's Law-Case, or when Women go to Law, the Devil's full of Business

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Councils like seamen as they cause do find

Page No:

p.22

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Dover's Roman Generals

Attributed To:

John Dover

First Line:

Tis more than nature's mighty hand can do

Page No:

p.22

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge of Bussy d' Ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Nature too oft by bright does prefer

Page No:

p.22

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

If you did wed my sister for her wealth

Page No:

p.22

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Comedy of Errors

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Thou never meanst then

Page No:

p.23

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont's and Fletcher's Monsieur Thomas

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

What pity tis these pleasures are not lawful

Page No:

p.23

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

James Shirley's Love's Cruelty

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

What war so cruel or what siege so sore

Page No:

p.24

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Most wretched man

Page No:

p.24

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Adultery | Adultery Biancha such a guilt

Page No:

p.24

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Love's Sacrifice

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Thoughts that be offended

Page No:

p.25

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Sound moves a sound voice doth beget a voice

Page No:

pp.25-26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Affection is a fire

Page No:

p.25

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lilly's Alexander and Campaspe

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

When our diseased affections

Page No:

p.25

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Caesar and Pompey

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Affection is the savage beast

Page No:

p.25

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brandon's Octavia

Attributed To:

Samuel Brandon

First Line:

Of all the tyrants that the world affords

Page No:

p.25

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Earl of Sterline's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Our affections cannot be compelled

Page No:

p.26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cyril Tourneur's Atheist's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

I sought none of your alliance I

Page No:

pp.26-27

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's Damoiselle

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

O you much partial gods

Page No:

p.26.2

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lodovick Barrey's Ram-Alley

Attributed To:

Lording Barry

First Line:

For affections injured

Page No:

p.26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Broken Heart

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

That fire's not out which does in ashes burn

Page No:

p.26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Henry Glapthorne's Hollander

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

Affection is become a parasite

Page No:

p.26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant's Cruel Brother

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

See how affection sways though both our reasons

Page No:

p.26.5

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Stapylton's Step Mother

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Stapylton [Stapleton]

First Line:

Whoso doth of a prince alliance crave

Page No:

p.26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For all ambassadors

Page No:

p.27

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's First Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

The thirst of reign and sweetness of a crown

Page No:

pp.27-28

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marlo's First Part of Tamburlaine the Great

Attributed To:

Christopher Marlowe

First Line:

Ambassadors that cram into their breasts

Page No:

p.27

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Why stand you thus amazed methinks your eyes

Page No:

p.27

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ambition hath but two steps the lowest

Page No:

p.28

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lilly's Midas

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

Tis a common proof

Page No:

p.28

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

They that from youth do such at fortune's breast

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

How dost thou wear and weary out thy days

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Philotas

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Thriftless ambition that will ravin up

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Macbeth

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Those who delight in climbing high

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Darius

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Who soars too near the sun with golden wings

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cromwell

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

He is at no end of his actions blest

Page No:

pp.30-31

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Second Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Farewell for ever so have I discerned

Page No:

p.30.3

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Second Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

All other acts of worldlings are but toil

Page No:

p.30

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Ambition that near vice

Page No:

p.30

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Our natures are like oil

Page No:

p.31

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Loyal Subject

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Man was marked

Page No:

p.31

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Philip Massinger's Guardian

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Minds that will mount into superior state

Page No:

p.31

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nathaniel Richards's Messalina

Attributed To:

Nathanael Richards

First Line:

I shall behold

Page No:

p.31

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Glapthorne's Albertus Wallenstein

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

Th' ambitious maid at scornful distance stood

Page No:

p.31

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant's Playhouse to be let

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Be not with honours gilded baits beguiled

Page No:

p.31

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir. W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Boast not these titles of your ancestors

Page No:

pp.32-33

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

I'd as soon be

Page No:

p.32

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Ambitious Statesman

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

If ambition be his fault twas yours

Page No:

p.32

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Sophy

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Ambitious eyes

Page No:

p.32

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Rowland Watkyns

Attributed To:

Rowland Watkyns

First Line:

Tis poor and not becoming perfect gentry

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's and Shirley's Ball

Attributed To:

James Shirley

George Chapman

First Line:

And him besides rides fierce avenging wrath

Page No:

pp.33-34

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

I have no urns no dusty monuments

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

He that to ancient wreaths can bring no more

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Cleveland

Attributed To:

John Cleveland

First Line:

It is indeed a blessing when the virtues

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabb's Covent Garden

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Hear me for I will speak

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Anger is like

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Henry VIII

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Be advised

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Henry VIII.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Anger never

Page No:

p.35

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont's and Fletcher's Bloody Brother

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

The giddy head that sees with dazzled sight

Page No:

p.35

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

There is not in nature

Page No:

p.35

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Your more than manly soul I find

Page No:

pp.35-36

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomas Randolph's Muse's Looking Glass

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Madness and anger differ but in this

Page No:

p.36

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Charles Aleyn'd Crescey

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Where there's

Page No:

p.36

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Henry Killegrew's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

Henry Killigrew

First Line:

If I stay my rage

Page No:

p.36

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Glapthorne's Hollander

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

She | Plays with his rage and gets above his anger

Page No:

pp.36-37

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Sophy

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

My rage is not malicious like a spark

Page No:

p.36

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Careless Shepherdess

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

But how does his resolution take it

Page No:

p.37

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Henry Lord Viscount Falkland's Marriage-Night.

Attributed To:

Henry Cary

First Line:

These by their bloody marks in combat died

Page No:

p.37

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Anger | Is blood poured and perplexed into a froth

Page No:

p.37

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant's Just Italian.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Charge charge the battle is begun and now

Page No:

p.37

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Madagascar.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

You throw away your fury now as wildly

Page No:

pp.37-38

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Vestal Virgins

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

In mighty souls passions not soon suppressed

Page No:

p.37

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Francis Fane's Sacrifice

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

Why meet we then when either's mind

Page No:

p.38

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Hall

Attributed To:

John Hall

First Line:

Sooner the olive shall provoke

Page No:

p.38

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Hall

Attributed To:

John Hall

First Line:

You are learned in antiquity

Page No:

pp.38-39

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabb's Bride

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Some men there are love not a gaping pig

Page No:

p.38

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Merchant of Venice

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

They say he sits

Page No:

pp.39-40

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakerley Marmyon's Antiquary.

Attributed To:

Shackerley Marmion

First Line:

I come sir a suitor to you I hear

Page No:

pp.40-41

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marmyon's Antiquary

Attributed To:

Shackerley Marmion

First Line:

Well thou dost not know the estimation

Page No:

pp.41-43

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marmyon's Antiquary

Attributed To:

Shackerley Marmion

First Line:

Costly they habit as thy purse can buy

Page No:

p.43

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I had three suits in one year made three great

Page No:

pp.44-45

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Every man out of his humour

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

We will unto your father's

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Taming of the Shrew

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The fashion

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Much ado about nothing

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Still to be neat still to be dressed

Page No:

p.45

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Silent Woman

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

She frets that such attiring should belong

Page No:

p.45

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Sure this gay fresh suit as seems to me

Page No:

p.45

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Hymens Triumph

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

I am the same without all difference when

Page No:

p.45

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heywood's Royal King

Attributed To:

Thomas Heywood

First Line:

A garment made by cunning artsmen's skill

Page No:

pp.45-46

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heywood's Fair Maid of the Exchange

Attributed To:

Thomas Heywood

First Line:

Madam Superbia

Page No:

p.46

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph's Muse's Looking-glass

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Faith choosing of a wench in a huge farthingale

Page No:

p.46

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomas Middleton's Women beware Women

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Five hours ago I set a dozen of maids

Page No:

pp.46-47

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Meekness consists not in the clothes but heart

Page No:

pp.47-48

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cleveland

Attributed To:

John Cleveland

First Line:

A sweet disorder in the dress

Page No:

p.47

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

What clothes to wear the first occasion

Page No:

p.47

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Old Couple

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

Her garb did negligence express

Page No:

p.48

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Calisto

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Oh Cassius thou hast wandered far from youth

Page No:

p.48

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Caligula

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Your judgment is not competent

Page No:

pp.48-49

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's First Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

The nimble linnet

Page No:

p.48

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant's Platonick lovers.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Our English of their strings more care did take

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Crescey

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

The archers then begin

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Here lay an archer whom that arrow slew

Page No:

p.50

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

But all's not true that supposition saith

Page No:

p.50

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes

Page No:

pp.50-51

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herbert

Attributed To:

George Herbert

First Line:

His ranks he in a larger form displays

Page No:

p.50

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Beamont's Bosworth Field

Attributed To:

Sir John Beaumont

First Line:

For arguments like children should be like

Page No:

p.50

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomas Dekker's Satiromastix

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

His glittering armour shined far away

Page No:

pp.51-52

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

One in bright arms embattled full strong

Page No:

pp.52-53

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

The first day when he pitcheth down his tents

Page No:

p.53

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marlo's First Part of Tamburlaine the Great

Attributed To:

Christopher Marlowe

First Line:

I'll ride in golden armour like the sun

Page No:

p.53

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marlo's First Part of Tamburlaine the Great

Attributed To:

Christopher Marlowe

First Line:

All furnished all in arms

Page No:

p.53

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's First Part of King Henry IV.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

May thy armour be as it hath been

Page No:

p.54

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Maid's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

So great an host

Page No:

p.54

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marlo's First Part of Tamburlaine the Great

Attributed To:

Christopher Marlowe

First Line:

As many circumcised Turks we have

Page No:

p.54

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marlo's First Part of Tamburlaine the Great

Attributed To:

Christopher Marlowe

First Line:

Assurance now having armed all their hearts

Page No:

p.54

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's King Henry VII.

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

We may judge that all they do

Page No:

p.54

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant's Playhouse to be lett

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

They thought those that unarmed exposed frail life

Page No:

p.54

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Then drawing out his men he did commend

Page No:

p.55

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Andrugio lives and a fair cause of arms

Page No:

p.55

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's First Part of Antonio and Mellida

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

From camp to camp thorugh the foul womb of night

Page No:

p.55

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Henry V.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Learn you by me that count yourselves so wise

Page No:

pp.55-56

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What thing a right line is the learned know

Page No:

p.56

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Such is the strength of art rough things to shape

Page No:

p.56

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

James Howell

Attributed To:

James Howell

First Line:

In framing artists art hath thus decreed

Page No:

p.56

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Pericles

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

For though I must confess an artist can

Page No:

pp.56-57

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What in scorn of critical abuse

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

To which true end in every art there should

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Let others write for glory or reward

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Richard Corbet, Bishop of Norwich

Attributed To:

Richard Corbett

First Line:

And they who write to lords rewards to get

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

He that writes

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Prologue to Sir Robert Howard's Surprizal

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

A man in authority is but as

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Four Plays in one

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Greedy avarice by him did ride

Page No:

pp.58-59

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Not from grey hairs authority doth flow

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Authority kept up old age secures

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

My soul aches

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Coriolanus

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

This is his pardon purchased by such sin

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Measure for Measure

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Promise gold mountains and the covetous

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Devil is an Ass

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

See | The difference twixt the covetous and the prodigal

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Staple of News

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

If this be held the highway to get riches

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Volpone

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

When all sins are old in us

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's Second Part of the Honest Whore

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

Gross nurtured slaves who force their wretched souls

Page No:

p.60

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Love's Sacrifice

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Of age's avarice I cannot see

Page No:

p.60

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

His state is like the world's condition right

Page No:

p.60

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's More Dissemblers besides Women

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

When I was blind my son I did miscall

Page No:

p.60

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Old Couple

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

The year growing ancient

Page No:

p.60

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Winters Tale

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Whatever the wanton spring

Page No:

p.61

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford and Thomas Dekker's Sun's Darling

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

John Ford

First Line:

We banish you our territories

Page No:

p.61

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Richard II.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Oh to what purpose dost thou hoard thy words

Page No:

pp.61-62

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Richard II.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

There is no beast

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's King and no King

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Oh what a grief tis that a man should live

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

He promised he would banish him but what

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Thou nature art my goddess to thy law

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Lear

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Methinks the mother's shame is not to be

Page No:

p.64

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster and Rowley's Thracian Wonder.

Attributed To:

John Webster

William Rowley

First Line:

Indeed a bastard by nature should make cuckolds

Page No:

p.64

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

Why do I take

Page No:

p.64

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Devil's Law Case

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Our bastard children are but like to plate

Page No:

p.64

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick.

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

I cannot speak him home he stopped the fliers

Page No:

pp.64-65

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Coriolanus

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

For doughty handed are you and have fought

Page No:

p.64

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Antony and Cleopatra

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

He hath fought today

Page No:

p.65

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Antony and Cleopatra

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Go bear Patroclus' body to Achilles

Page No:

p.65

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

This battle fares like to the morning's war

Page No:

pp.65-66

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Third Part of King Henry VI

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The signal given

Page No:

p.66

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Laws of Candy

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Stout Ferrers aims to fix his mighty lance

Page No:

pp.66-67

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Beaumont's Bosworth Field

Attributed To:

Sir John Beaumont

First Line:

Now conquest with her wings fanned every side

Page No:

p.67

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

And now our drums so fill each adverse ear

Page No:

pp.67-68

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Madagascar

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

The eager armies meet to try their cause

Page No:

p.67

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Edward III

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

Fly oh fly these bed brokers unclean

Page No:

pp.68-69

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Rosamund

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Two lords armed like king John were in the field

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Black Prince.

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

For we cannot lodge and board a dozen

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Henry V

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

A bawd first for her profession or

Page No:

pp.69-70

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Dutch Courtezan

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Hence thou our sex's monster poisonous bawd

Page No:

p.69

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's First Part of the honest Whore.

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

What's that | A bawdy house

Page No:

p.70

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Mad Lover

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

A well practised bawd

Page No:

pp.70-71

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Barrey's Ram-Alley

Attributed To:

Lording Barry

First Line:

Nought under heaven so strongly doth allure

Page No:

pp.71-72

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Tush a beard never made Cato though many

Page No:

p.71

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's What you will

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

His beard is directly brick colour

Page No:

p.71

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's What you will

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

For his chin

Page No:

p.71

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Goblins

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

He wears a great round beard like a glover's

Page No:

p.71

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Merry Wives of Windsor

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

O old friend thy face is valanced since

Page No:

p.71

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Her sacred beauty hath enchanted heaven

Page No:

p.72

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marlo's Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great

Attributed To:

Christopher Marlowe

First Line:

Fair faces have no fruits if they have no

Page No:

p.72

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lilly's Sapho and Phao.

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

I relish not these philosophical feasts

Page No:

p.73

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's New Inn

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

If you be honest and fair you should

Page No:

p.73

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

O she doth teach the torches to burn bright

Page No:

p.73

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

As plays the sun upon the glassy stream

Page No:

p.73

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's First Part of King Henry VI

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Why did the gods give thee a heavenly form

Page No:

p.74

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Cynthia's Revels

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Our beauties are not ours

Page No:

p.74

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Cynthia's Revels

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

What greater torment ever could have been

Page No:

p.74

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Rosamund

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

O love and beauty how are you ordained

Page No:

p.74

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Arcadia

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

The merchant which in traffic spends his life

Page No:

pp.75-76

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Oh beauty thou an enemy professed

Page No:

p.75

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Rosamund

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Beauty sweet love is like the morning dew

Page No:

p.75

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

By her virtue learn to square

Page No:

p.76

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

So fair that had you beauty's picture took

Page No:

p.76

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII.

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Tis needless beauty should itself admire

Page No:

p.76

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Nature was here so lavish of her store

Page No:

p.76

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

For women sure were made to be beloved

Page No:

p.76

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

Do not idolatrize beauty's a flower

Page No:

p.76

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

William Smith's Hector of Germany

Attributed To:

William Smith

First Line:

What's beauty 'las

Page No:

pp.77-78

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Hall

Attributed To:

John Hall

First Line:

Beauty my lord tis the worst part of woman

Page No:

p.77

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Courageous Turk

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

No autumn nor no age ever approach

Page No:

p.78

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger and Field's Fatal Dowry

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

Nathan Field

First Line:

When beauty is

Page No:

p.78

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Duke of Milan

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

We can distinguish

Page No:

pp.78-79

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Royal Master

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

I've seen the fair outside of this tomb before

Page No:

p.78

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Will. Rowley's New Wonder

Attributed To:

William Rowley

First Line:

Women if no envy blind their eyes

Page No:

p.78

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph's Amyntas

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

I long not for the cherries on the tree

Page No:

p.78

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

For beauty like white powder makes no noise

Page No:

p.79

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cleveland

Attributed To:

John Cleveland

First Line:

There's no such thing as that we beauty call

Page No:

p.79

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Beauty's our grief but in the ore

Page No:

p.79

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

Fair while she was and when she was not fair

Page No:

p.79

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

Tell me not of a face that's fair

Page No:

p.80

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Alexander Brome

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

Why bashful maid will you your beauty hide

Page No:

p.80

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir. W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Now Laura's blood back to her liver fled

Page No:

p.80

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

This devil beauty is compounded strangely

Page No:

p.80

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Aglaura

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

I've seen admired adored yes and enjoyed

Page No:

pp.81-82

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's First Part of the Destruction of Jerusalem

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

She has trim and dazzle

Page No:

p.81

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Faulkland's Marriage Night

Attributed To:

Henry Cary

First Line:

Where is a lover's wealth what joy

Page No:

p.81

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Unfortunate Lovers.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Your looks will shortly too decay whilst by

Page No:

p.81

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Platonick Lovers

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

The heavens have clouds and spots are in the moon

Page No:

p.81

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Indian Queen

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

He that first does find

Page No:

p.81

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Great Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Heaven meant that beauty nature's greatest force

Page No:

p.81

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Orrery's Henry V

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

Small odds I often see

Page No:

p.82

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Mother Hubberd's Tale

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

For well I wot compared to all the rest

Page No:

p.82

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Mother Hubberd's Tale

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Art thou a man and shamest thou not to beg

Page No:

p.82

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Every Man in his Humour

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

When beggars grow thus bold

Page No:

p.82

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

When the receiver of a courtesy

Page No:

pp.83-84

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Prophetess

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

He that neglects a blessing though he want

Page No:

p.83

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Elder Brother

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

For he that's born to be a beggar know

Page No:

p.83

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heywood and Rowley's Fortune by Land and Sea

Attributed To:

Thomas Heywood

William Rowley

First Line:

A benefit upbraided forfeits thanks

Page No:

p.83

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lady Eliza. Carew's Mariam

Attributed To:

Cary [nee Tanfield] Elizabeth

First Line:

And tis not sure so full a benefit

Page No:

p.83

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lady Carew's Mariam

Attributed To:

Cary [nee Tanfield] Elizabeth

First Line:

What think you of turning beggars

Page No:

p.83

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Goblins

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Some benefits are odious so is this

Page No:

p.83

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Philotas

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

He makes a beggar first that first relieves him

Page No:

p.83

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heywood's Royal King

Attributed To:

Thomas Heywood

First Line:

Base worldlings that despise all such as need

Page No:

p.83

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heywood's Royal King

Attributed To:

Thomas Heywood

First Line:

If to receive a favour make a servant

Page No:

p.84

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger and Field's Fatal Dowry

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

Nathan Field

First Line:

To brag of benefits one hath bestown

Page No:

p.84

Poem Title:

[no titles]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's Novella

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

There are some natures

Page No:

p.84

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Guardian

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Twere much unfit

Page No:

p.84.2

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Great Duke of Florence

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

True gentry standeth in the trade

Page No:

p.84

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr Thomas Phaer in the Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Thomas Phaer [Phayer]

First Line:

Why should my birth keep down my mounting spirit

Page No:

p.85

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cromwell

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

For to be basely born

Page No:

p.86

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Fair Maid of the Inn

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Didst thou never read in difference of good

Page No:

p.86

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Case is alter'd

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Tis but in vain of my descent to boast

Page No:

p.86

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

I swear tis better to be lowly born

Page No:

p.86

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Henry VIII

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Madam you haply scorn the vulgar earth

Page No:

pp.86-87

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Habbington's Queen of Arragon

Attributed To:

William Habington

First Line:

Think not that your glories fall

Page No:

p.86

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

This shepherd sure is sprung from noble race

Page No:

p.87

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dover's Roman Generals

Attributed To:

John Dover

First Line:

Put off your giant titles then I can

Page No:

p.87

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Henry King, Bishop of Chichester

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

Where some time stood the beauty of this face

Page No:

p.88

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

The wretchedst thing the most despised beast

Page No:

p.88

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

This fellow must have a rare understanding

Page No:

p.88

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Example

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

He wealth not birth preferred to council's place

Page No:

p.88

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

O happiness of blindness now no beauty

Page No:

p.88

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Sophy

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

If valour dwell in vaunting

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Mad Lover

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

O Jove let it become me

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Where am I now

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Vestal Virgin

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

For then we wound our modesty and make

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's All's well that ends well

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Let them be burnt o how ridiculous

Page No:

pp.90-91

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Alas my miserable master what sudds

Page No:

p.90

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Fawne

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

The honour is overpaid

Page No:

p.90

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for Achilles's Armour

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

A book oh rare one

Page No:

p.90

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

He that vaunts

Page No:

p.90

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright's Royal Slave

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

Now for these instrumental following arts

Page No:

p.91

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

And as in grounds which salt by nature yield

Page No:

p.91

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

He loves books

Page No:

p.91

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Glapthorne's Wit in a Constable

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

Like one that thinks to bring his friend

Page No:

p.91

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

And though books madam cannot make this mind

Page No:

p.91

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

He used books so

Page No:

p.92

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Martin Lleuellin

Attributed To:

Martin Lluelyn

First Line:

Books much contribute to the public good

Page No:

p.92

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Books should to one of these four ends conduce

Page No:

p.92

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Learning is more profound

Page No:

p.92

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Robert Heath

Attributed To:

Robert Heath

First Line:

He that's liberal

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Spanish Curate

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

How fares it with our great and royal master

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

O blessed bounty giving all content

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Bounty and gifts lose more than they do find

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Philotas

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Tis pity bounty has not eyes behind

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Timon

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

For his bounty

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Antony and Cleopatra

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

What you require of him he partly begs

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Antony and Cleopatra

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Royal bounties

Page No:

p.94

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Emperour of the East

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

He that doth many good deeds it may fall

Page No:

p.94

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Bird in a Cage

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Thy bounties if I name I'll not admit

Page No:

p.94

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

As Hesiod sings spread water over thy field

Page No:

p.94

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

How soon from virtue and an honoured spirit

Page No:

p.94

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Old Couple

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

Justice herself that fitteth wimpled bout

Page No:

p.95

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lylly's Midas

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

You have condemned and noted Lucius Pella

Page No:

p.95

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Silver though white

Page No:

p.96

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton and Rowley's Fair Quarrel

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

William Rowley

First Line:

Decrees are bought and laws are sold

Page No:

p.96

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

When I go to hell

Page No:

p.96

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Tis gold must such an instrument procure

Page No:

p.96

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Who thinketh to buy villainy with gold

Page No:

p.96

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophonisba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

I wonder Zanthia why the custom is

Page No:

p.96

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophonisba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

A drudge may find more corners in the house

Page No:

p.96

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Ralph Freeman's Imperiale

Attributed To:

Sir Ralph Freeman

First Line:

The maid and thereby hangs a tale

Page No:

pp.97-98

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

While early light springs from the skies

Page No:

p.97

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright's Ordinary

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

Now that love's holiday is come

Page No:

pp.99-100

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cleveland

Attributed To:

John Cleveland

First Line:

She builds in gold and to the stars

Page No:

p.100

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

They had rather drown their substance

Page No:

p.100

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge of Bussey D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

See boys this gate

Page No:

p.100

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

A room prepared with pilasters she chose

Page No:

p.101

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Here the architect

Page No:

pp.101-102

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Carew

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew

First Line:

And his fair house raised high in envy's eye

Page No:

p.101

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

The neighbouring monarch wealthy and at ease

Page No:

pp.102-103

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Not walls but subjects love

Page No:

p.102

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Raging Turk

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

Calamity is man's true touchstone

Page No:

p.103

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Four Plays in one

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Cunning calamity

Page No:

p.103

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Calamity in Homer barefoot goes

Page No:

p.103

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Oh Craterus do not insult calamity

Page No:

p.103

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Philotas

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

There entering in they found the good man self

Page No:

p.104

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

How wisely fate ordained for human kind

Page No:

p.104

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Law against Lovers

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Know he that

Page No:

p.104

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Distresses

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Sir Scudamore there entering much admired

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Timely crooks that tree that will be a camock

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lilly's Endimion

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Second Part of King Henry VI

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Another shape appears

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sackville E. of Dorset, in the Mirror for Magistrates.

Attributed To:

Thomas Sackville

First Line:

When enemies bid enemies take heed

Page No:

p.106

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

In care they live that must for many care

Page No:

p.106

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Care that is entered once into the breast

Page No:

p.106

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Tale of a Tub

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Of all proceedings in this great affair

Page No:

p.106

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Glapthorne's Albertus Wallenstein

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

Although my cares do hang upon my soul

Page No:

p.106

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Glapthorne's Albertus Wallenstein

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

You now are destined to more watchful care

Page No:

p.106

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Care that in cloisters only seals her eyes

Page No:

p.106

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Care is no cure but rather corrosive

Page No:

p.106

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's First Part of King Henry VI.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

What bliss what wealth did ever the world bestow

Page No:

p.106

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Agrippina

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

T' anticipate the cause which makes one great

Page No:

p.107

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

We may | Accuse the powers above as partial when

Page No:

p.107

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Bashful Lover

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Justness of cause is nothing

Page No:

p.107

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Brennoralt

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

I say the cause and not the casual speed

Page No:

p.107

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

W. Baldwin in the Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

William Baldwin

First Line:

Circumstance must make it probable

Page No:

p.107

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabb's Hannibal and Scipio

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

But now so wise and wary was the knight

Page No:

pp.108-109

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Every cause

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Glapthorne's Hollander

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

This is a cause which our ambition fills

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Who scapes the snare

Page No:

p.109

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge for Honour

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

They that fear the adders sting will not come

Page No:

p.109

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Widow's Tears

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

None pities him that's in the snare

Page No:

p.109

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

O hard condition and twin born with greatness

Page No:

pp.109-110

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Henry V.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Those are but feeble brains which fancies load

Page No:

p.109

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Darius

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Ceremony was but devised at first

Page No:

p.110

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Timon

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

What's your true censure of his general worth

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman and Shirley's Admiral of France

Attributed To:

James Shirley

George Chapman

First Line:

Tis not a robe of lawn a hallowed verge

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Platonick Lovers

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

She can't be paralleled by art much less

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Robert Nevile's Poor Scholar

Attributed To:

Robert Neville

First Line:

There are a sort of fond effeminate men

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Covent Garden

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

There is a kind of character in thy life

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Measure for Measure

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Charity ever

Page No:

p.112

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Good works abound in Rome tis well they do

Page No:

p.112

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Francis Quarles

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

This is the charity of some rich men

Page No:

p.112

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Hide Park

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

His eyes and silent gesture spake his grief

Page No:

p.112

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Robert Dauborne's Poor Man's Comfort

Attributed To:

Robert Daborne

First Line:

Mongst all your virtues

Page No:

p.112

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Women beware Women

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Your chaste hearts my nymphs should resemble the

Page No:

p.113

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lilly's Gallathea

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

Fear it Ophelia fear it my dear sister

Page No:

p.113-114

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Where are all the poor

Page No:

p.113

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Old Couple

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

For true charity

Page No:

p.113

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Old Couple

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

I hear | Some vicious fool draw near

Page No:

p.114

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Th' Arabian bird that never is but one

Page No:

p.114

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Chastity's attire's

Page No:

p.114

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Rosamund

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Or if he wicked were

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Siege of Rhodes

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Thou my love art sweeter far than balmy

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Platonick Lovers

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

She's not turned whore is she

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Sad One

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Like will to like each creature loves his kind

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Continuance crowns desert she never can go

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Mayor of Quinborough

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Though heaven cannot allure you to do well

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's First Part of the Honest Whore

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

A woman honest first and then turned whore

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's First Part of the Honest Whore

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

If that the cause of this your languishment

Page No:

p.116

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Methinks their looks are amorous

Page No:

p.116

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marlo's Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great

Attributed To:

Christopher Marlowe

First Line:

Oh she is colder than the mountain's snow

Page No:

p.116

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's First Part of the Destruction of Jerusalem

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

For though she virtuous be

Page No:

p.116

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Calisto

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

What benefit can children be

Page No:

pp.117-118

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Wit without Money

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Things like ourselves as sensual vain unvented

Page No:

p.117

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Mad Lover

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

His children thy great lord may call his own

Page No:

p.117

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Some boughs grow crooked from the straightest tree

Page No:

p.117

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Why grow the branches when the root is gone

Page No:

p.117

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Richard III

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

We will adopt us sons

Page No:

p.118

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Maid's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Where is the glory of the goodliest trees

Page No:

p.118

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton and Rowley's Fair Quarrel

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

William Rowley

First Line:

If marriage be honourable then

Page No:

p.118

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Yorkshire Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

How adverse runs the destiny of some creatures

Page No:

p.118

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Chaste Maid of Cheapside

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

What's a son

Page No:

pp.118-119

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For tis the constant creed of most old fools

Page No:

p.119

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Ambitious Statesman

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

The children whose parents have been wronged

Page No:

p.119

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

Oh cursed age

Page No:

p.119

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heywood's Maiden-head well lost

Attributed To:

Thomas Heywood

First Line:

What many men desire that may be meant

Page No:

p.119

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Merchant of Venice

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

A wise man likes that best that is itself

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson, Fletcher and Middleton's Widow

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

John Fletcher

First Line:

We that are bound by vows and by promotion

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Hood an ass with reverend purple

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Volpone

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Now this he tastes then that he glances on

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

Show me a clergyman that is in voice

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Bussy D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

When better choices are not to be had

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Love and meekness lord

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Henry VIII

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Election is an act

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Make not the church to us an instrument

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Some raw divines no sooner are espoused

Page No:

pp.121-122

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

F. Quarles

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

I have heard some talk of divinity very much

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Devil's Law Case

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Who should afford salvation to afflicted consciences

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

George Wilkins's Miseries of enforced Marriage

Attributed To:

George Wilkins

First Line:

You should my lord be like the robes you wear

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sam. Rowley's Noble Spanish Soldier

Attributed To:

Samuel Rowley

First Line:

Poor princes how are they misled

Page No:

pp.122-123

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Sophy

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

An orator of rude but ready tongue

Page No:

pp.123-124

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

My trade is a fine easy gainful cheat

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's English Frier

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

With advice it must be managed

Page No:

pp.124-125

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Alphonsus

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

They must sweep my way

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

He with his train essayed

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

What course take you

Page No:

pp.125-126

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's New Way to pay Old Debts

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

We see that undermining more prevails

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

My pleasure gave thee life and it resumes

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Mason's Muleasses

Attributed To:

John Mason

First Line:

These base mechanics never keep their words

Page No:

p.126

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's New Inn

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

A broke winged shop keeper I nose him straight

Page No:

pp.126-127

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's New Inn

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

If all fail

Page No:

p.127

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

You have certain rich city chuffs

Page No:

p.127

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Devil's Law Case

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

This same honour with us citizens

Page No:

p.127

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Devil's Law Case

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

I smile to myself to hear

Page No:

pp.127-128

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Family of Love

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Indeed all our chief living is by fools

Page No:

p.127

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Phoenix

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

We're set here to please all customers

Page No:

p.127

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's First Part of the Honest Whore

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

We that had

Page No:

pp.128-129

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Gamester

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Take heed what you say sir

Page No:

p.128

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Gamester

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

It is a curse

Page No:

p.128

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright's Ordinary

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

The fawning citizen whose love's bought dearest

Page No:

p.128

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

The grey eyed morn braves me to my face

Page No:

p.128

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Family of Love

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

But beauty's other second element

Page No:

pp.129-130

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

Here is a haven yet to rest my soul on

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Maid's Revenge

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Your comforts

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Glapthorne's Albertus Wallenstein

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

So dying men receive vain comforts

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Fair Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

I never yet did hear

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

What is comfort

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Chaste Maid in Cheapside

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

All this is while she lives

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

When envy's gone

Page No:

pp.131-132

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

How can your griefs

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Unfortunate Lovers

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

For in a dearth of comforts we are taught

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Fair Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

What makes vain worldings so to swell with pride

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Darius

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Their pomps and triumphs stand them in no stead

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Darius

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Children unborn and priests not yet begotten

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

And if unfit for tomb or hearse

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne.

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

Why should we now their shady curtains draw

Page No:

pp.132-133

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Man how dearly ever parted

Page No:

pp.133-134

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

O hadst thou known the worth of heaven's rich gift

Page No:

p.134

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Cynthia's Revels

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Sick physicians seldom their own art

Page No:

p.134

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Thyself and thy belongings

Page No:

p.134

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Measure for Measure

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Communicated joys as sown do grow

Page No:

p.134

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

When a weary traveller that strays

Page No:

p.135

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

The precious stone most beautiful and rare

Page No:

p.135

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Your lord may there your souls compare for we

Page No:

p.135

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

For man does most by the comparative

Page No:

p.135

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

To pity one in grief doth work him ill

Page No:

p.135

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hard though they were and villains to all worth

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Never slave

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Take heed of pity pity was the cause

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Arcadia

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Pity is often like a mask

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brandon's Octavia

Attributed To:

Samuel Brandon

First Line:

My gracious liege this too much lenity

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Third Part of King Henry VI

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

For pity is the virtue of the law

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Timon

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I pity him but must not dare to show it

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's Queen and Concubine.

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

I do not hold thee brother for a man

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lewis Machen's Dumb Knight

Attributed To:

Lewis Machin

First Line:

There must be some proportion still to pity

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Fountain's Rewards of Virtue

Attributed To:

John Fountain

First Line:

Our sultan does his power from heaven derive

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Siege of Rhodes

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

A common pity does not love express

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Vestal Virgin

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Pity though it doth a kind affection show

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The wounded man which must abide the smart

Page No:

pp.137-138

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Banish all compliments but single truth

Page No:

p.138

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

We are invited to dinner together

Page No:

p.138

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Silent Woman

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Since wrongs must be complaints must show thee grieved

Page No:

p.138

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir. W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

To tell thy miseries will no comfort breed

Page No:

p.138

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Treachery oft lurks

Page No:

pp.138-139

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Tottenham-Court

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

A strong conceit is rich so most men deem

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's First Part of Antonio and Mellida

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Marry their wits were not so changeable

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Killegrew's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

Henry Killigrew

First Line:

There is no truth of any good

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's First Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

This self conceit is a most dangerous shelf

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Croesus

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

He's highly raised by flattering conceit

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Conceit the weakest things can fortify

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

So gnaws the grief of conscience evermore

Page No:

pp.140-141

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Dorset in the Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Thomas Sackville

First Line:

When tyrannizing pain shall stop

Page No:

p.141

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brandon's Octavia to Antonius

Attributed To:

Samuel Brandon

First Line:

Where's thy conscience now

Page No:

pp.141-142

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Richard III.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Men that are in fault

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Maid's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Conscience | Thou art but a terror first devised by the fears

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge for Honour

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

He that is round within himself and straight

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Foul whisperings are abroad unnatural deeds

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Macbeth

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

What muse what power or what thrice sacred hearse

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

There is a kind of conscience some men keep

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Quarles

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

Now what ails your conscience

Page No:

pp.143-144

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Ambitious Stateman

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

The sweetest cordial we receive at last

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Consider all thy actions and take heed

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Watkyns

Attributed To:

Rowland Watkyns

First Line:

Oh how his words now rail against a sin

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Orestes

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

Say you are constant or another or a third

Page No:

p.144

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Now are we entered and now to retire

Page No:

pp.144-145

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Robert Gomersall's Lodovick Sforza Duke of Milan

Attributed To:

Robert Gomersall

First Line:

Between the acting of a dreadful thing

Page No:

p.144

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

O conspiracy

Page No:

p.144

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My plots fall short like darts which rash hands throw

Page No:

p.145

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Vestal Virgin

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Constancy is that which marreth all

Page No:

p.145

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brandon's Octavia

Attributed To:

Samuel Brandon

First Line:

Provide what money and what arms you can

Page No:

p.145

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

I am as constant as the northern star

Page No:

pp.145-146

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

But his fair Gordon would not leave him there

Page No:

pp.146-147

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Sooner I'll think the sun would cease to cheer

Page No:

p.146

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

It is a noble constancy you show

Page No:

p.146

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Love but one

Page No:

p.146

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Arcadia

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

I made a deed of gift

Page No:

p.146

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

Such be the disgrace of their sex

Page No:

pp.147-148

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Jones's Adrasta

Attributed To:

John Jones

First Line:

When all things have their trial you shall find

Page No:

p.147

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Witty Fair One

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

First shall the heaven's bright lamp forget to shine

Page No:

p.147

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Howell

Attributed To:

James Howell

First Line:

Do you profess constancy and yet live alone

Page No:

p.147

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's More Dissemblers besides Women.

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

We call men constant when they're dull and tame

Page No:

p.148

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Caligula

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Who hath the mean with a contented mind

Page No:

p.148

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomas Blener Hasset in the Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Thomas Blenerhasset

First Line:

Is there in martyrdom no juster way

Page No:

p.148

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Brennoralt

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Lord who would live turmoiled in the court

Page No:

p.148

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Second Part of King Henry VI

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Yet oft we see that some in humble state

Page No:

p.149.2

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lady Carew's Mariam

Attributed To:

Cary [nee Tanfield] Elizabeth

First Line:

Oh calm hushed rich content

Page No:

p.149

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's First Part of Antonio and Mellida

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

O happy he who far from fame at home

Page No:

p.149

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Darius

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Since the corruption of one

Page No:

pp.150-151

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman and Shirley's Admiral of France

Attributed To:

James Shirley

George Chapman

First Line:

He that from dust of worldly tumults flies

Page No:

p.150

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Beaumont

Attributed To:

Sir John Beaumont

First Line:

The mind's content

Page No:

p.150

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Tottenham Court

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

How man's desire

Page No:

p.150

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Tottenham Court

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Contentment gives a crown

Page No:

p.150

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomas Ford's Love's Labyrinth

Attributed To:

Thomas Forde

First Line:

Each good mind doubles his own free content

Page No:

p.150

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Corruption is a tree whose branches are

Page No:

p.151

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

She shows you Curius

Page No:

p.151

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Stand | Firm for your country and become a man

Page No:

pp.151-152

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Tis a rare wench she in the blue stockings

Page No:

p.152

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Goblins

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

I can make any country mine I have

Page No:

p.152

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sam. Rowley's Noble Spanish Soldier

Attributed To:

Samuel Rowley

First Line:

Now for our mountain sport up to yon hill

Page No:

pp.152-153

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

This is a beautiful life now privacy

Page No:

p.154

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Nice Valour

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

I would not

Page No:

pp.154-155

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Lady of Pleasure

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Live among hinds and thick skinned fellows that

Page No:

p.154

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Royal Master

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Can you think that we

Page No:

pp.155-156

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Glapthorn's Wit in a Constable

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

What a fine man hath your tailor made you

Page No:

pp.156-157

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's City Madam

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

None can describe the sweets of country life

Page No:

p.156

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Agrippina

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

They say he's one was wise before he was

Page No:

pp.157-158

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Witty Fair One

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

You're a country gentleman a gallant

Page No:

p.157

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Covent-Garden

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

O happy woman of true pleasure sure

Page No:

p.158

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Alexandraean Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Who in some courts been bairns of Beliel

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir David Lindsay

Attributed To:

Sir David Lyndsay [Lindsay]

First Line:

Since each court is untrustworthy and transitory

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir David Lindsay

Attributed To:

Sir David Lyndsay [Lindsay]

First Line:

This vain ascence of court who will consider

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir David Lindsay

Attributed To:

Sir David Lyndsay [Lindsay]

First Line:

In courts men longest live and keep their ranks

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Philotas

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

And what are courts but camps of misery

Page No:

pp.159-160

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Our courtiers say all's savage but at court

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The eminent court to them that can be wise

Page No:

p.160

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Noble Gentleman

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

If you at court to credit would arise

Page No:

p.160

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Croesus

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Though ragged virtue oft may be kept out

Page No:

p.160

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heywood's Royal King

Attributed To:

Thomas Heywood

First Line:

Indeed the court to well composed natures

Page No:

p.161

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Devil's Law Case

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

O happy they that never saw the court

Page No:

p.161

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

The court is but a narrow circuit

Page No:

pp.161-162

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Brennoralt

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

How looks the court

Page No:

p.161

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

The court

Page No:

p.161

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Henry II

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

Tis but the same thing we do at court here's

Page No:

pp.162-163

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Aglaura

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Tis the court fashion still to discommend

Page No:

p.163

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Bishop King

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

The court does seem a ship where all are still

Page No:

pp.163-164

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Though poets are like eaglets bred to soar

Page No:

p.163

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

All the corruptions of a land repair

Page No:

p.164

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Caligula

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Court deeps but few can sound

Page No:

p.164

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Caligula

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

If virtue in a court itself advance

Page No:

p.164

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

'E. of Orrery's Tryphon

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

O cursed court where not to be the most in sight

Page No:

p.164

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

A free and honest nature may be oppressed

Page No:

p.165

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Forsooth to say it is no sort of life

Page No:

p.165

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Colin Clout is come home again

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

The Florentine delivered this position

Page No:

p.165

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

This Fredeline's a very saint so meek

Page No:

p.165

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Platonick Lovers

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

What fairer cloak than courtesy for fraud

Page No:

p.165

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Croesus

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

A stranger's kindness oft exceeds a friend's

Page No:

p.165

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Michaelmas Term

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

The elephant hath joints but none for courtesy

Page No:

p.165

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

We work with wiles the minds of men like wax

Page No:

p.166

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomas Churchyard in the Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Thomas Churchyard

First Line:

There be two

Page No:

p.167

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

I remember when the fight was done

Page No:

p.167

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's First Part of King Henry IV

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Thus are we soothers as all shadows be

Page No:

pp.168-169

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

True courtiers should be modest and not nice

Page No:

p.168

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Bussey D'Ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Yet princes must be served and with all sorts

Page No:

p.168

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Darius

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

He which did lay

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

I have been told that virtue in courtiers hearts

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

Tis common in such base fellows such court

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Day's Isle of Gulls

Attributed To:

John Day

First Line:

Let us call our spirits

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's Satiro-mastix

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

In court I have been told the very place transforms

Page No:

p.170

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Great Duke of Florence

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

He is a fine courtier flatters admirable kisses

Page No:

p.170

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's What you will

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

He that with safety would well lurk in courts

Page No:

p.170

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Fawn

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

He lived not there for serve himself but thee

Page No:

p.170

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randoph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Your courtier sir I pray

Page No:

p.171

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's City Wit

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

Here's a courtier that will not miss a hair

Page No:

p.171

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Bird in a Cage

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Oh you fill a place about his grace

Page No:

pp.171-172

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Gobblins

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Their everlasting business is slowly

Page No:

p.172

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Fair Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

My lord we need you here in court and are

Page No:

pp.172-173

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Fair Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

The first element of a courtier is

Page No:

p.172

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis a full court

Page No:

p.173

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Fair Favourite.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

If my precepts may persuade and I pray

Page No:

p.174

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lilly's Sapho and Phao

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

Say that she rail why then I'll tell her plain

Page No:

pp.174-175

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Taming of the Shrew

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

A man should not doubt to overcome

Page No:

pp.175-177

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Silent Woman

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Women are nice to woo sir

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Island Princess

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

A man's a fool

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Spanish Curate

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

It is your virtue being men to try

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

I cannot feel the tempest of a frown

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

For shame Amyntas let her go as she is

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Arcadia

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

I've seldom seen a wench stand upon stricter

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Mad World my Masters

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

The tree bows down his head

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton and Rowley's Spanish Gipsey

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

William Rowley

First Line:

Away you cashiered younger brother be gone

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Barry's Ram Alley

Attributed To:

Lording Barry

First Line:

I do not love

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Hide Park

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Some severe plot upon a maidenhead

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Aglaura

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

There is sir a critical minute in

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marmyon's Antiquary

Attributed To:

Shackerley Marmion

First Line:

Tis but a modest custom

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Bride

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

For shame thou everlasting wooer

Page No:

p.179

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cleveland

Attributed To:

John Cleveland

First Line:

Much joy to you sir you have made quick dispatch

Page No:

p.179

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Jasper Main's City Match

Attributed To:

Jasper Mayne

First Line:

Repent not then thy well placed love though she

Page No:

p.179

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heath's Clarastella

Attributed To:

Robert Heath

First Line:

Know that love a warfare is

Page No:

pp.179-180

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

But yet be wise

Page No:

pp.180-181

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Alexander Brome

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

I shall easily grant that we can love

Page No:

p.180

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mead's Combat of Love and Friendship

Attributed To:

Robert Mead

First Line:

Cowards and fainthearted runaways

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marlo's First Part of Tamburlaine the Great

Attributed To:

Christopher Marlowe

First Line:

Tis men alone that women's empire raise

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Dancer.

Attributed To:

John Dancer

First Line:

So so my love is in a fine condition

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Married Beau

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Distraction heartens fear in desperate deeds

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A base spirit has this vantage of a

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's King and No King

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Think not coward wit can hide the shame

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

A coward abuseth no man but makes

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Edw. Sharpham's Fleire

Attributed To:

Edward Sharpham

First Line:

But look for ruin when a coward wins

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Whom neither glory or danger can excite

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Fear is my vassal when I frown he flies

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Insatiate Countess

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Let valiant fools

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Example

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Am I a coward

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

All cowards must inconstant be of force

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

The christian church from me is not exempt

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Thy crime will have such a grim ghastly face

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Darius

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

He never stoops in person to subdue

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Caligula

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

All mankind

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Blind Lady

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

So vile a thing is craft in every heart

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Yet those who live contents without wit

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

This is the fruit of craft

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Michaelmas Term

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

For craft once known

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Michaelmas Term

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

For he

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Michaelmas Term

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

The good belief of mankind is a sea

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Hasty belief my lord hath hasty deeds

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

What should citizens do with kind hearts or

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's City Wit

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

How easy a thing it is to be undone

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's City Wit

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

Blessed credulity thou great god of error

Page No:

pp.185-186

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Machen's Dumb Knight

Attributed To:

Lewis Machin

First Line:

Your noblest natures are most credulous

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge of Bussey D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

For we that traffic with credulity

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Arcadia

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

O credulity

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mason's Muleasses

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Generous souls

Page No:

p.186

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Albovine

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

The wrath of kings doth seldom measure keep

Page No:

p.186

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Philotas

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Of those whose cruelty makes many mourn

Page No:

p.186

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Alexandrean Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

And though some make us to be loathed of one

Page No:

p.186

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Alexandraean Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

But cruelty can never scape the scourge

Page No:

p.186

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O whoever yet

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

No council from our cruel wills can win us

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Love's Sacrifice

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Strange cruelty so tyrants used to grant offenders life

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Glapthorne's Albertus Wallenstein

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

As horns are odious they are necessary

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's As you like it

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

They say for one cuckold to know that his

Page No:

p.188

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker and Webster's Westward Hoo

Attributed To:

John Webster

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

Cuckolds make cuckolds tis a pretty trade

Page No:

pp.188-189

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton and Rowley's World tost at Tennis

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

William Rowley

First Line:

For if he can prove his father was free

Page No:

p.188

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Monsieur D' Olive

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

What is a cuckold learn of me

Page No:

p.188

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Insatiate Countess

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

What should you do with a wife

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Barry's Ram Alley

Attributed To:

Lording Barry

First Line:

To be a cuckold is as natural

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Love's Sacrifice

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

A merchant newly married went to sea

Page No:

pp.189-190

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heath's Clarastella

Attributed To:

Robert Heath

First Line:

I would now ask

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabb's Covent Garden

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

It is the common condition

Page No:

p.190

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's Spargus Garden

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

Let me look back upon thee o thou wall

Page No:

pp.190-191

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Timon

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

A plague upon them wherefore should I curse them

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Second Part of King Henry VI

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I could

Page No:

p.192

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Love's Cruelty

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

I do not wish them Egypt's plagues but even

Page No:

p.192

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

But curses are like arrows shot upright

Page No:

p.192

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

That monster custom who all sense doth eat

Page No:

pp.192-193

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Custom in course of honour ever errs

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Poetaster

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

We endure the strokes like anvils or hard steel

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

But thus the horse at first bites at the bit

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Custom calls me to it

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Coriolanus

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

If custom lawful make

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Will. Rowley's New Wonder

Attributed To:

William Rowley

First Line:

Custom in ills that do affect the sense

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Microcosmus

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Corruption well may be generation's first

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Michaelmas Term

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Crows are fair with crows

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

'Dekker's Second Part of the Honest Whore

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

With him went danger clothed in raged weed

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Such days of joy before the marriage day

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Our woes made habits by the use or dare

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Tis base

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mead's Combat of Love and Friendship

Attributed To:

Robert Mead

First Line:

Oft bend the bow and thou with ease shalt do

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

What is danger

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Chances

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Be well aware quoth then that lady mild

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Our dangers and delights are near allies

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

See how mischances suddenly do fall

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Speak speak let terror strike slaves mute

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophonisba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

The absent danger greater still appears

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Cleopatra

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Send danger from the east unto the west

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's First Part of Henry IV

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Our god and soldier we alike adore

Page No:

p.196

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Quarles

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

He is blind hardy that will dangers slight

Page No:

p.196

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

On remote fires with small concern we gaze

Page No:

p.196

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Caligula

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Danger's a vain unbodied blast let it

Page No:

p.196

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Fair Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Who dangers seek are indigent of fame

Page No:

p.196

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Samuel Tuke's Adventures of Five Hours

Attributed To:

Sir Samuel Tuke

First Line:

Danger thou dwarf dressed up in giant clothes

Page No:

p.196

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Aglaura

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

All dangers clouded with the mist of fear

Page No:

p.196

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Beaumont's Bosworth-field

Attributed To:

Sir John Beaumont

First Line:

What frantic fit quoth he hath thus distraught

Page No:

pp.197-198

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Unhappy maid then answered she whose dread

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

A dumb dead corpse we saw

Page No:

pp.198-199

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Dorset in the Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Thomas Sackville

First Line:

It is too late the life of all his blood

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King John

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Death's a fearful thing

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Measure for Measure

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Spare him

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Measure for Measure

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

You have a consul

Page No:

p.200

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

The ports of death are sins of life good deeds

Page No:

p.200

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

What blasts of words hath learning found

Page No:

pp.200-201

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Cleopatra

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Cowards die many times before their deaths

Page No:

p.200

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

That life is better life past fearing death

Page No:

p.200

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Measure for Measure

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Death is unwelcome never

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Wife for a Month

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

If nature saw no cause of sudden ends

Page No:

p.201

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

For though the soul of man

Page No:

p.201

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

Unrighteous death why art thou but all one

Page No:

p.201

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Men never sooth the dead but where they do

Page No:

p.201

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

What life refused to gain by death he thought

Page No:

p.201

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Alexandraean Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Death is the port where all may refuge find

Page No:

p.201

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Alexandraean Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Keep your minds humble your devotions high

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Boudica

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Our lives cut off

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Atheist's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

Weary of life Warwick the plot embraced

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

O death why art thou feared why do we think

Page No:

pp.202-203

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Gomersall's Lodovick Sforza

Attributed To:

Robert Gomersall

First Line:

The worst can be but death and let it come

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Women beware Women

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

I buried sorrow for his death

Page No:

p.203

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger and Field's Fatal Dowry

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

Nathan Field

First Line:

The glories of our blood and state

Page No:

p.203

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Contention of Ajax and Ulysses

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Stars fall but in the grossness of our sight

Page No:

p.204

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Broken Heart

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

But death against the will

Page No:

pp.204-205

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Brennoralt

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

The bad man's death is horror but the just

Page No:

p.204

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Habbington's Castara

Attributed To:

William Habington

First Line:

The wisest men are glad to die no fear

Page No:

p.204

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Continuation of Lucan

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

Why should we not as well desire death

Page No:

p.205

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Frances Quarles

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

Yet he that kept his virtues from decay

Page No:

p.205

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Oh death death death thou art not half so cruel

Page No:

p.206

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fountain's Rewards of Virtue

Attributed To:

John Fountain

First Line:

But ask not bodies doomed to die

Page No:

p.206

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Just Italian

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Fond foolish man with fear of death surprised

Page No:

p.206

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Death is honourable advantageous

Page No:

p.206

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fane's Love in the dark.

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

In my school days when I had lost one shaft

Page No:

p.206

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Merchant of Venice

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Creditors my lord

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Laws of Candy

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

What man so wise what earthly wit so ware

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Oh how you wrong our friendship valiant youth

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lady Carew's Mariam

Attributed To:

Cary [nee Tanfield] Elizabeth

First Line:

He's a good debtor that pays when tis due

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Very Woman

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Dost think friend

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Example

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Though long it be years may repay the debt

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Yet well it fits for that sin ever must

Page No:

p.208

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Lords cold snow melts with the sun's hot beams

Page No:

p.208

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Second Part of King Henry VI

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

O serpent heart hid with a flowering face

Page No:

p.208

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Do not stand on quillets how to slay him

Page No:

p.208

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Second of Part King Henry VI

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

For some men

Page No:

p.208

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's First Part of the Honest Whore

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

Full little knowest thou that hast not tried

Page No:

p.209

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Mother Hubberd's Tales

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Thus sometimes to deceit deceit is known

Page No:

p.209

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's City Wit

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

He secretly

Page No:

p.209

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Ambitious Statesman

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

You have learned

Page No:

p.209

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Davenport's City Night Cap

Attributed To:

Robert Davenport

First Line:

What shalt thou expect

Page No:

p.209

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Look how against great rains a standing pool

Page No:

p.210

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Caesar and Pompey

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

And a man will play the fool and be a

Page No:

p.210

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Monsieur D'Olive

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Thinks he to make his firmest men his clouds

Page No:

p.210

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Second Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Can it be

Page No:

p.211

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

Who would rely upon these miserable

Page No:

p.211

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

I hate dependance on another's will

Page No:

pp.211-212

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Ambitious Statesman

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Alas what popular dependances

Page No:

p.211

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Philotas

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

He that intends well yet deprives himself

Page No:

p.212

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

The noble heart that harbours virtous thought

Page No:

p.212

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Be cheerful man for know that good intents

Page No:

p.212

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Renegado

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

I do believe you think what now you speak

Page No:

p.212

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

My free drift

Page No:

p.212

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Timon

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

When men's intents are wicked their guilt haunts them

Page No:

p.212

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Mad World my Masters

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

And as of Homer's verses many critics

Page No:

pp.213-214

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Twas dull and foolish to betray my flame

Page No:

p.213

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Vestal Virgin

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Honest designs

Page No:

p.213

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Great Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

When any great design thou dost intend

Page No:

p.213

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

O fierce desire the spring of sighs and tears

Page No:

p.213

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brandon's Octavia

Attributed To:

Samuel Brandon

First Line:

You do as chapmen do

Page No:

p.213

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Shall I thus fall I will not no my tears

Page No:

p.214

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Four Plays in one

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Thus we fondly flatter our desires

Page No:

p.214

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Tis most ignoble that a mind unshaken

Page No:

p.214

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

'Chapman's Revenge for Honour

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Desire that is of things ungot

Page No:

p.214

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Hymen's Triumph

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

How large are our desires and yet how few

Page No:

p.214

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Gomersall

Attributed To:

Robert Gomersall

First Line:

Things long desired so well esteemed are

Page No:

p.214

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

Despair is it

Page No:

p.215

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

That darksome cave they enter where they find

Page No:

p.215

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

To doubt

Page No:

p.215

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Duke of Milan

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

The same despair doth likewise let them fall

Page No:

p.215

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Philotas

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Despair we see doth thrust men on

Page No:

p.215

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Philotas

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Despair takes heart when there's no hope to speed

Page No:

p.215

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

The best said he that I can you advise

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

For in yourself your only help doth lie

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

He that declines himself

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Blind Lady

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Despair | Thou hast the noblest issues of all ill

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Blind Lady

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

The brave are still the makers of their fate

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Orrery's Black Prince

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

They talk as they are wont not as I merit

Page No:

pp.217-218

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Cynthia's Revels

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Tis not the wholsesome sharp morality

Page No:

p.217

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Poetaster

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Live virtuous empress mirror of our age

Page No:

p.217

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brandon's Virtuous Octavia

Attributed To:

Samuel Brandon

First Line:

Happy are they that hear their detractions

Page No:

p.217

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Much ado about nothing

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

No might nor greatness in mortality

Page No:

p.217

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Measure for Measure

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Let men beware how they true folk defame

Page No:

p.217

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

It is a kind of slander to trust rumour

Page No:

p.218

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

For such obloquies

Page No:

p.218

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

For times of faction times of slander be

Page No:

p.218

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

The insolent with vile seditious words

Page No:

p.218

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Thy generous thoughts

Page No:

p.218

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Raging Turk

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

He is from slander at securest rest

Page No:

p.218

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Courageous Turk

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

One grain of incense with devotion offered

Page No:

p.219

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Bashful Lover

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

The keep the feast

Page No:

p.219

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Jones's Adrasta

Attributed To:

John Jones

First Line:

Who stabs my name would stab my person too

Page No:

p.219

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Second Part of Henry VI

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

To you I shall no trophy raise

Page No:

p.219

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Bishop King

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

Praise is devotion fit for mighty minds

Page No:

p.219

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Heyho what a stream's here

Page No:

p.219

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fame's Love in the dark

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

We prostrate fall

Page No:

p.220

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's First Part of the Destruction of Jerusalem

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Ha at devotion still can the tired air

Page No:

p.220

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's First Part of the Destruction of Jerusalem

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

The extreme of height

Page No:

p.221

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman and Shirley's Admiral of France

Attributed To:

James Shirley

George Chapman

First Line:

These dignities

Page No:

p.221

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marloe's Lust's Dominion

Attributed To:

Christopher Marlowe

First Line:

Great honours are great burdens but on whom

Page No:

p.221

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

I know myself now and I feel within me

Page No:

p.221

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Henry VIII

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Are we not brothers

Page No:

p.221

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Where ambition of place goes before fitness

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman, Johnson, and Marston's Eastward Hoe

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

George Chapman

First Line:

When baseness is exalted do not bate

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herbert

Attributed To:

George Herbert

First Line:

Your highness hath a habit in perfection

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's First Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Well then I see who are so high above

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Philotas

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Men clearly shew what harbours in their breast

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Alexandraean Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

He that wears a brave soul and dares gallantly do

Page No:

p.223

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Alexander Brome

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

For at the beginning was no peasant or prince

Page No:

p.223

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Alexander Brome

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

Why is dissembling joined to their sex inseperable

Page No:

p.223

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lilly's Endimion

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

He was a man that would keep church so duly rise

Page No:

pp.223-224

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Puritan

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

For commonly all that do counterfeit

Page No:

p.223

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For commonly in all dissimulations

Page No:

p.223

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Vice never doth her just rage so provoke

Page No:

p.224

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Bussey D'Ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Away and mock the time with fairest show

Page No:

p.224

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Macbeth

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Why I can smile and murder while I smile

Page No:

p.224

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Third Part of K. Henry VI.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Your face my thane is as a book where men

Page No:

p.224

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Macbeth

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Oh you're a foul dissembling hypocrite

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton and Rowley's Fair Quarrel

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

William Rowley

First Line:

Disguise these passions lest you lose your end

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Her secret drift the wisest miss to find

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Hypocrisy's a delicate white devil

Page No:

pp.225-226

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Grateful Servant

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

It was the coverture of honesty

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Arcadia

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

First bait thy hook with deep dissembled love

Page No:

p.226

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Quarles's Virgin Widow

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

For most men

Page No:

pp.226-227

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heath

Attributed To:

Robert Heath

First Line:

Though custom calls

Page No:

p.226

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Tottenham Court

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Great nature that hast made a stone descry

Page No:

p.226

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

His name was doubt that had a double face

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

I'll never trust again

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Main's City Match

Attributed To:

Jasper Mayne

First Line:

The shape of virtue still can best deceive

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Vestal Virgin

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

You do seem to know

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Our doubts are traitors

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Measure fr Measure

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The wound of peace is surety

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Doubt of sincereness is the only mean

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Bloody Brother

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Tis good to doubt the worst

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster and Rowley's Thracian Wonder

Attributed To:

John Webster

William Rowley

First Line:

Many with trust with doubt few are undone

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Oft from new proofs and new phrase new doubts grow

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

Doubt wisely in strange way

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

Let not uncertain fears create new griefs

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Sad One

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

I see how doubt

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Arcadia

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Known mischiefs have their cure but doubts have none

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Cleopatra

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

Oh that men should put an enemy in

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

What fury of late is crept into our feasts

Page No:

p.229

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Drunkenness oh tis a most fluent and

Page No:

p.229

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Fawn

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Drunkenness that's a most gentleman like

Page No:

p.229

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fly drunkenness whose vile incontinence

Page No:

pp.230-231

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

The ploughman first his land doth dress and turn

Page No:

pp.231-232

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Indeed our parents take great care to make

Page No:

p.232

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lilly's Mother Bombie

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

Oh England full of sin but most of sloth

Page No:

pp.232-233

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herbert

Attributed To:

George Herbert

First Line:

The more politic sort

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Hall

Attributed To:

John Hall

First Line:

Man's like a barren and ingrateful soil

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Blind Lady

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Power above powers o heavenly eloquence

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

What is judicious eloquence to those

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Men are more eloquent than women made

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randloph's Amyntas

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Tis methinks a strange dearth of enemies

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Island Princess

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

I love Dinant mine enemy nay admire him

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Little French Lawyer

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Think you he fears to violate an oath

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster and Rowley's Thracian Wonder

Attributed To:

John Webster

William Rowley

First Line:

Let not thy foe still pass without controlling

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Crescey

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

All men affright their foes in what they may

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Poetaster

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

And wheresoever the subject's best the sense

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Bishop King

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

Scorn no man's love though of a mean degree

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herbert

Attributed To:

George Herbert

First Line:

Though all things do to harm him what they can

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

An enemy if it be well advised

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Darius

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

The fine and noble way to kill a foe

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

For he the devil's axiom did know

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

I can endure no sweets but what excel

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Caligula

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Enemies reconciled

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Killegrew's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

Henry Killigrew

First Line:

He is a foe to Rhodes and not to you

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Siege of Rhodes.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

There's not so much danger

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Hannibal and Scipio

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Still urge king Lewis with speed say they go on

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Henry II

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

King Henry's soul filled with grief and scorn the more

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Henry II

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

England is safe if true within itself

Page No:

p.237

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Third Part of King Henry VI

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Our countrymen

Page No:

pp.237-238

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

This royal throne of kings this sceptred isle

Page No:

p.237

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Richard II

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

If not at court

Page No:

p.238

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

O England model to thy inward greatness

Page No:

p.238

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Henry V

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Remember sir my liege

Page No:

p.238

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The English nation like the sea it governs

Page No:

p.239

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Second Part of Henry VI

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

I will no more return

Page No:

p.239

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King John

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Age cannot wither her nor custom stale

Page No:

pp.239-240

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Antony and Cleopatra

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Though every state by long experience finds

Page No:

p.239

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline to Prince Henry

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Bid us hope for victory

Page No:

p.239

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My dwarf shall dance

Page No:

p.240

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Volpone

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Thus partial judgments blindly aim amiss

Page No:

p.240

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Alexandraean Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Why she would hang on him

Page No:

p.240

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Kings use their loves as garments they have worn

Page No:

p.241

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Did the thing for which I sue

Page No:

p.241

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Carew

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew

First Line:

Tis a bliss above the feigned Elysium

Page No:

p.241

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Covent-Garden

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

After fruition once what is desire

Page No:

pp.242-243

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Bishop King

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

That monster expectation feeds too high

Page No:

p.242

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

When you the sunburnt pilgrim see

Page No:

p.242

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Carew

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew

First Line:

So full of life and soul our joys have been

Page No:

p.243

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's First Part of Henry VI

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Go to your banquet then but use delight

Page No:

p.243

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

And next to him malicious envy rode

Page No:

p.244

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

How often has our loves in groves and gardens

Page No:

p.244

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's First Part of Henry VI

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Envy is but the smoke of low estate

Page No:

p.245

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

His name was while he lived above all envy

Page No:

p.245

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

For the true condition of envy is

Page No:

p.245

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Every Man out of his Humour

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Envy with a pale and meager gace whose

Page No:

p.245

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lilly's Endimion

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

Where envy

Page No:

p.245

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Second Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Thus low his glory grew through great despite

Page No:

p.245

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Churchyard in the Mirror of Magistrates

Attributed To:

Thomas Churchyard

First Line:

Envy's a race in which the runners mind

Page No:

p.246

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

For envy doth invade

Page No:

p.246

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Great and good persons well may be

Page No:

p.246

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

Envy not greatness for thou makest thereby

Page No:

p.246

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herbert

Attributed To:

George Herbert

First Line:

Of all antagonists most charity

Page No:

pp.246-247

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Cruel Brother

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Beneath his feet pale envy bites her chain

Page No:

p.246

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Beaumont

Attributed To:

Sir John Beaumont

First Line:

Envy is proud not strikes at what is low

Page No:

p.246

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Gomersall

Attributed To:

Robert Gomersall

First Line:

For spiteful envy never doth repine

Page No:

p.246

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Still we love

Page No:

p.274 [i.e 247]

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Twixt unexpected and so dangerous ills

Page No:

pp.274[i.e 247]-248

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Thy wit thy valour and thy delicate form

Page No:

p.274 [i.e. 247]

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's First Part of Henry VI

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Before the curing of a strong disease

Page No:

p.274 [i.e 247]

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King John

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

There is some soul of goodness in things evil

Page No:

p.274 [i.e 247]

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Henry V

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

If he arm arm if he strew mines of treason

Page No:

p.248

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Bloody Brother

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

But never let the example of the bad

Page No:

p.248

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

A fault doth never with remorse

Page No:

p.248

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brandon's Antony to Octavia

Attributed To:

Samuel Brandon

First Line:

Heaven me such uses send

Page No:

p.248

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

By others harms who listeth take no heed

Page No:

p.248

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Churchyard in the Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Thomas Churchyard

First Line:

No age hath been since nature first began

Page No:

p.248

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let us all

Page No:

p.249

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Arcadia

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

For where there is no ear to be abused

Page No:

p.249

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

In others lives I'll see

Page No:

p.249

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Michaelmas Term

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

For as the light

Page No:

p.250

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Bussy D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Honour hath many wings chance hath no books

Page No:

p.250

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

So much o thou example dost effect

Page No:

p.250

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Shall I show you

Page No:

pp.250-251

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Women beware Women

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Actions of kings are precepts

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Exempli gratias teach not but compel

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

He is now

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Great Duke of Florence

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

But great examples keep some excellence

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Even good examples may so great be made

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Examples lead us and we likely see

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Come our stomachs

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Experience wounded is the school

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Nobody's healthful without exercise

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Long have I sailed through time's vexatious sea

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Experience is by industry achieved

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Two Gentlemen of Verona

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Practice hath taught me how to read mens souls

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Hannibal and Scipio

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Wit by experience bought foils wit at school

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Michaelmas Term

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

I know thy loyal heart and prudent head

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

But what endureth long that's violent

Page No:

pp.252-253

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Extremes though contrary have the like effects

Page No:

p.253

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's All Fools

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Those edges soonest turn that are most keen

Page No:

p.253

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Crescey

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

For who feeds to danger

Page No:

p.253

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's Love-sick Court

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

Extremes set off all actions thus

Page No:

p.253

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Phoenix

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Tis a true theme

Page No:

p.253

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Courageous Turk

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

These violent delights have violent ends

Page No:

p.253

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

They are as sick that surfeit with too much

Page No:

p.253

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Merchant of Venice

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Faction's craft wit

Page No:

p.254

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

For great wits forged into factious tools

Page No:

p.254

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Tis in worldly accidents

Page No:

p.254

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Sophy

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

So false is faction and so smooth a liar

Page No:

p.254

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

But here no Cato with a senate stood

Page No:

p.254

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Let wealth come in by comely thrift

Page No:

p.254

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Some of the great ones first came fairly on

Page No:

p.255

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

These strong court factions that do brook no checks

Page No:

p.255

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Factions amongst great men they are like

Page No:

p.255

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Here gallants you must make a stop for still

Page No:

pp.255-256

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Fair Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Seldom is factious ire in haughty minds

Page No:

p.255

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Henry II

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

Th' oft shaken tree grows faster at the root

Page No:

p.256

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Quarles

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

Some faiths are like those mills that cannot grind

Page No:

p.256

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Quarles

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

The being once deluded doth not bate

Page No:

p.256

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lady Cary's Mariam

Attributed To:

Cary [nee Tanfield] Elizabeth

First Line:

Where deeds pull down

Page No:

p.256

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Second Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

True faith and reason are the soul's two eyes

Page No:

p.257

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Quarles

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

That to great faithless wits can truth dispense

Page No:

pp.257-258

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

But as a prudent monarch seems alone

Page No:

p.257

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Rhodes is lost or else destroyed

Page No:

p.257

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Art's card is by their pilot faith refused

Page No:

pp.258-259

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

So down he fell and forth his life did breathe

Page No:

p.259

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

But hope the best true love will pass a veil

Page No:

p.259

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir F. Fane's Love in the Dark

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

I've touched the highest point of all my greatness

Page No:

p.259

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Henry VIII

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Some falls are means the happier to rise

Page No:

p.259

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Who would depend upon the popular air

Page No:

pp.260-261

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Farewell a long farewell to all my greatness

Page No:

p.260

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Henry VIII

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

As he that fells an elm must also sell

Page No:

pp.261-262

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

That weakness ever hath a glorious hand

Page No:

p.261

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

For when th' oppressed is once up to the chin

Page No:

p.261

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

We are

Page No:

p.261

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Though greater than the rest as of before

Page No:

p.261

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Alexandrean Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

When once a shaking monarchy declines

Page No:

p.262

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Charles VIII. of France

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Who bravely fall have this one happiness

Page No:

p.262

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Darius

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

If we must fall it is as good

Page No:

p.262

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Unfortunate Lovers

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

It is too late our ruin to recall

Page No:

p.262

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Indian Queen

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Let us be firm and like a mighty weight

Page No:

p.262

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Great Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

If I be false or swerve a hair from truth

Page No:

pp.262-263

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilous and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

What wit so sharp is found in age or youth

Page No:

p.262

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

They that are false to pious benefits

Page No:

p.263

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's False One

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Every man in this age has not a soul

Page No:

p.263

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

When truth and falshoods interlaced lie

Page No:

p.263

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Crescey

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Money and man a mutual falshood show

Page No:

p.263

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

This pack of hounds we call our passions

Page No:

p.263

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Ambitious Statesman

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

How false are men both in their heads and hearts

Page No:

p.263

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Caligula

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Truth is best found out by the time and eyes

Page No:

p.263

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Let fame that all hunt after in their lives

Page No:

p.264

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Love's Labour's Lost

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Then straight through all the world gan fame to fly

Page No:

p.264

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since men have left to do praiseworthy things

Page No:

p.265

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Epigrams

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

The life of fame is action understood

Page No:

p.265

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Chloridia

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

The voice of fame should be as loud as thunder

Page No:

p.265

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Masque of Queens

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Thus fame ascends by all degrees to heaven

Page No:

p.265

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson, Ibid

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Silly desires of self-abusing man

Page No:

p.265

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Musophilus

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Alas poor fame in what a narrow room

Page No:

p.265

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel, Ibid

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

For all should have a great respect to fame

Page No:

p.265

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Croesus

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Who worship fame commit idolatry

Page No:

p.266

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke, Ibid

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

If people only then distribute fame

Page No:

p.266

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke, Ibid

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

In humane commerce then let fate remain

Page No:

p.266

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke on Fame and Honour

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Men to the stars me guiding them do climb

Page No:

pp.266-268

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Duke of Normandy

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

We often find that fame in prime of youth

Page No:

p.268

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Quarles

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

Let good men for good deeds covet good fame

Page No:

p.268

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Invisibly as dreams fame's wings

Page No:

p.268

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Siege of Rhodes

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

For fame whose custom is to have a care

Page No:

p.268

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

I aimed at a great name and to transmit

Page No:

p.268

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

The fame that a man wins himself is best

Page No:

p.268

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Mayor of Quinborough

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

He's great in fame

Page No:

p.268

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Raging Turk

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

Those are the dreadful enemies we raise

Page No:

p.269

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Talk not to me of fond renown the rude

Page No:

p.269

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Second Part of the Destruction of Jerusalem

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

That man is miserably compelled that must

Page No:

p.269

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Example

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Your fame | Already fills the world and what is infinite

Page No:

p.269

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Sophy

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

He that in court secure will keep himself

Page No:

p.269

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cromwell

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

He that in bosom of a prince doth dwell

Page No:

p.269

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A prince's love is like the lightening's fume

Page No:

p.270

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Bussey D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Witness the Spensers Gavestone and Vere

Page No:

p.270

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil Wars

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Where private men but only fear their foes

Page No:

p.270

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Those minions oft to whom kings do extend

Page No:

p.270

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Darius

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Few favourites were there ever seen

Page No:

p.271

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

How gross your avarice eating up whole families

Page No:

p.271

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Cardinal

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

A prince's hate doth ruin where it falls

Page No:

p.271

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Cruel Brother

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Favourites are served in

Page No:

p.271

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Cruel Brother

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Kind rogues

Page No:

pp.271-272

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Great Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Minions too great argue a king too weak

Page No:

p.271

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

For fortune like herself does ever blind

Page No:

p.271

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Edward III

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

Some flowers seem more than other to rely

Page No:

p.272

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

For kings should not to too great subjects show

Page No:

p.272

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Tryphon

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

That subtle serpent servile flattery

Page No:

p.272

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant

Page No:

p.273

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

For he reposed safe in his own merit

Page No:

p.273

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Poetaster

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

He loves to hear

Page No:

p.273

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Do not think I flatter

Page No:

p.273

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in

Page No:

p.273

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Your bonnet to the right use tis for the head

Page No:

p.273

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Thus they thrive

Page No:

p.274

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster and Rowley's Thracian Wonder

Attributed To:

John Webster

William Rowley

First Line:

Flattery so like in all to duty shows

Page No:

p.274

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

My lord the clapper of my mouth's not glibbed

Page No:

p.274

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Second Part of Antonio and Mellinda

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

A mischief on your cogging tongue your smoothing

Page No:

p.274

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Fawn

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

And none we see were ever overthrown

Page No:

p.274

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

The flatterer merits worse of you

Page No:

p.274

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

More kings in chambers fall by flattery's charms

Page No:

p.274

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Darius

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Overflow in flattery fear no excess

Page No:

pp.275-276

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Married Beau

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

The wretches have no other use of tongues

Page No:

p.275

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Ambitious Statesman

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Tis the fate of princes that no knowledge

Page No:

p.275

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Sophy

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Alas they show him nothing

Page No:

p.275

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Sophy

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Those who their princes flatter may be thought

Page No:

p.275

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Tryphon

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

What is't that wastes a prince example shows

Page No:

p.275

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Do not forsake yourself for those that do

Page No:

p.276

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Though every fortitude deserves applause

Page No:

p.276

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Epigrams

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

The shame of slaves be fear

Page No:

p.276

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophonisba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

In the reproof of chance

Page No:

p.276

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

As a pine

Page No:

p.277

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Bonduca

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

This fortune swelled not Henry to a brave

Page No:

p.277

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Who fights

Page No:

p.277

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Very Woman

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Though in our miseries fortune hath a part

Page No:

p.277

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

So should worth act and they who dare to fight

Page No:

p.277

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Philotas

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Fortitude is not the appetite

Page No:

p.277

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Covent Garden

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

In vain said then old Melibee do men

Page No:

p.278

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

For tis some skill in innocence to bear

Page No:

p.278

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves

Page No:

p.278

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright's Lady Errant

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

All men that in affairs themselves employ

Page No:

pp.278-279

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who would trust slippery chance

Page No:

p.279

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

How fortune plies her sports when she begins

Page No:

p.279

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

This world is not for aye nor tis not strange

Page No:

p.279

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Fortune knows

Page No:

p.279

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Antony and Cleopatra

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Will fortune never come with both hands full

Page No:

p.279

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Second Part of K. Henry IV.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fortune the great commandress of the world

Page No:

p.280

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's All Fools

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

That fortune still must be with ill maintained

Page No:

p.280

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Good fortune doth in humour's market sit

Page No:

p.280

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brook's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

As when we see the early rising sun

Page No:

p.280

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Baron's Wars

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Fortune as blind as he whom she did lead

Page No:

pp.280-281

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's D. of Normandy

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

The old Scythians

Page No:

p.280

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Bussy D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

With a masculine constancy deride

Page No:

p.281

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's False One

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

A rich mind in a state indifferent

Page No:

p.281

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Wild-goose chace

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Fortune is blind You lie you lie

Page No:

p.281

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's What you will

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Oh fortune thou art not worth my least exclaim

Page No:

p.281

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

We meet with fortune's shocks and bear her weights

Page No:

p.282

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn, Ibid

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Fortune's a market if a while you stand

Page No:

p.282

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Be thou then only a deluding phantom

Page No:

p.282

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Carew's Coelum Britannicum

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew

First Line:

I love not thy fortunes since we know

Page No:

p.282

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

Fortune's an under power that is herself

Page No:

p.282

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Hannibal and Scipio

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

It often falls as here it erst befell

Page No:

pp.283-284

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Fortune means in him to show

Page No:

p.283

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

Methinks blind fortune ushers me too fast

Page No:

p.283

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Wits

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Let not one look of fortune cast you down

Page No:

p.283

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Henry V

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

Fortune's a blind profuser of her own

Page No:

p.283

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Such fortune is thy vast unlimited power

Page No:

p.283

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fools and knaves are the two poles on which the

Page No:

p.283

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hard is the doubt and difficult to deem

Page No:

p.284

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen'

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

For all things friendship excepted

Page No:

pp.284-285

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lilly's Endimion

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

A golden treasure is the tried friend

Page No:

p.284

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Happier is he that has no friend to feed

Page No:

p.285

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Timon

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

A word Lucilius

Page No:

pp.285-286

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

And hitherto doth love on fortune tend

Page No:

p.285

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Friendship is the cement of two minds

Page No:

p.286

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge of Bussey D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

I will take your friendship up at use

Page No:

p.286

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Atheist's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

Turn him and see his threads look if he be

Page No:

p.286

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Underwood

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

The more your friend dares trust the more deceive him

Page No:

p.286

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge of Bussey D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

True happiness

Page No:

p.286

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Cynthia's Revels

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

It is so safe and broad a beaten way

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Bloody Brother

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

The man that from thy friendship would be gone

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Crescey

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

O summer friendship

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Maid of Honour

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Lay this into your breast

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

The better part of love due to the living

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mason's Muleasses

Attributed To:

John Mason

First Line:

I do here entertain a friendship with thee

Page No:

pp.287-288

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Aglaura

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

A seasoned friend not tainted with design

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

A friend is gold if true he'll never leave thee

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

I see friends are like clothes laid up whilst new

Page No:

p.288

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Bishop King

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

He ought not to pretend to friendship's name

Page No:

p.288

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tuke's Adventures of Five Hours

Attributed To:

Sir Samuel Tuke

First Line:

Friendship's an empty name made to deceive

Page No:

p.288

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tuke's Adventures of Five Hours

Attributed To:

Sir Samuel Tuke

First Line:

Trust is the strongest bond upon the soul

Page No:

p.288

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Henry V

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

Friendship's above all ties does bind the heart

Page No:

p.288

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Hen. V

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle