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.
- 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
- Comments:
- 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:
- 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 MiddletonWilliam 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 ShirleyGeorge 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 DekkerJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 WebsterWilliam 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 MassingerNathan 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 HeywoodWilliam 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 MassingerNathan 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 MiddletonWilliam 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 ShirleyGeorge 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 MiddletonWilliam 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 MiddletonJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 ShirleyGeorge 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 MiddletonWilliam 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 BeaumontJohn 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 WebsterThomas 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 MiddletonWilliam 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 MassingerNathan 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 ShirleyGeorge 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 JonsonGeorge 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 MiddletonWilliam 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 BeaumontJohn 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 WebsterWilliam 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 WebsterWilliam 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 WebsterWilliam 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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
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