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 II] [T131617] [ecco]

DMI number:

618

Publication Date:

1738

Volume Number:

2 of 3

ESTC number:

T131617

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW111830640

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 graduak IMPROVEMENTS of our [i]Poetry[/i] and | [i]Language]. | [rule] | VOL. II. | [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 the [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. XXXVIII. PAGINATION: PREFATORY MATTER: 'A List of the Authors, Poems and Plays Cited in this Collection' (17pp.); List of 'Books printed for F. Cogan and J. Nourse' (1pp.) BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS: Title page in red and black. REFERENCES: MISCELLANY GENRE: printed commonplace book

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Editor:

Thomas Hayward

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Publisher:

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Publisher:

John Nourse

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Content/Publication

First Line:

The whole day

Page No:

p.1

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Underwoods

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

I would not have thee sell thy substance

Page No:

pp.1-2

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's Second Part of the Honest Whore

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

Hush pretty boy thy hopes might have been better

Page No:

p.1

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Yorkshire Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Hath sir Thomas lost five hundred pounds

Page No:

p.2

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Lady of Pleasure

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

If yet thou love game at so dear a rate

Page No:

p.2

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herbert

Attributed To:

George Herbert

First Line:

What had his arms been without my arm

Page No:

pp.3-4

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's First Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

This is the hell of all gamesters I think

Page No:

p.3

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Wilkins's Miseries of enforced Marriage

Attributed To:

George Wilkins

First Line:

Some play for gain to pass time others play

Page No:

p.3

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heath's Clarastella

Attributed To:

Robert Heath

First Line:

Who now beholds

Page No:

p.3

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Henry V'

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

A commander must

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Crescey

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Courageous Edward spurs their valour on

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Crescey

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

We may consider

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Hannibal and Scipio

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Yet did the king almost forsaken quite

Page No:

pp.4-5

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Edward III

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

How easy is a noble spirit discerned

Page No:

p.5

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

They that do

Page No:

pp.5-6

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Blind Lady

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Thou canst not reach the light that I shall find

Page No:

p.5

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Vestal Virgin

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

He covets less

Page No:

p.5

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Coriolanus

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Whose breast too narrow for her heart was still

Page No:

p.5

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Gentry and baseness in all ages jar

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heywood and Rowley's Fortune by Land and Sea

Attributed To:

William Rowley

Thomas Heywood

First Line:

For your behaviour let it be free and

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's May-Day

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

He that bears himself like a gentleman is

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's May-Day

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Nor stand so much upon your gentility

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Every Man in his Humour

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

It is unnatutal a generous mind

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Second Part of the Destruction of Jerusalem

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

He is the card or calendar of gentry

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I am a gentleman and by my birth

Page No:

p.6-7

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heywood's Woman kill'd with Kindness

Attributed To:

Thomas Heywood

First Line:

I am | A gentleman free born I never wore

Page No:

p.7

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Lady's Trial

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

He is a noble gentleman withal

Page No:

p.7

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Lady's Trial

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Win her with gifts if she respects not words

Page No:

p.7

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Two Gentlemen of Verona

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

You great benefactors sprinke our society

Page No:

pp.7-8

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Timon

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I never gave you aught

Page No:

p.7

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

To help the need

Page No:

p.8

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Underwoods

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

They are the noblest benefits and sink

Page No:

pp.8-9

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson, Ibid

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Nor in this will I imitate the world

Page No:

p.9

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Queen of Corinth

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

There the gift is free

Page No:

p.9

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Jones's Adrasta

Attributed To:

John Jones

First Line:

Free circumstance

Page No:

p.9

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Bishop King

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

In alms regard thy means and others merit

Page No:

p.9

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herbert

Attributed To:

George Herbert

First Line:

A princely gift but sir it comes too late

Page No:

p.9

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Brennoralt

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Gripe to me all when he is dead will give

Page No:

p.9

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heath's Clarastella

Attributed To:

Robert Heath

First Line:

Free without art or project giving still

Page No:

p.9

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

What time by torch light they attempt the cave

Page No:

p.10

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Barons Wars

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Not giving like to those whose gifts though scant

Page No:

p.10

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Than what thou meanst to give still promise less

Page No:

p.10

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

You thrust rather with the love

Page No:

p.10

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Philotas

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Glory is like a circle in the water

Page No:

p.10

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's First Part of King Henry VI

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

For all may have

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herbert

Attributed To:

George Herbert

First Line:

When this brittle glory thus is gotten

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke on Fame and Honour

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Never any state

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke, Ibid

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

For this world's glory

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Crescey

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Glories like glow worms afar shine bright

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Glory and pleasure in my breast contend

Page No:

pp.11-12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Calista

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

We at the sun's one moment's rest should more

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Tragedy of Mustapha

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

And by his side rode loathsome gluttony

Page No:

pp.12-13

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

I for my glory seize on regal crowns

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Caligula

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Guy eats all day and letchers all the night

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Epigrams

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

We don't use to bury in our bellies

Page No:

pp.13-15

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Game at Chess

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

His stomach's as insatiate as the grave

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's New Way to pay Old Debts

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Whose life's the table and the stage

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Killegrew's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

Henry Killigrew

First Line:

Lautus thy palate can be pleased with nought

Page No:

pp.15-16

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heath's Clarastella

Attributed To:

Robert Heath

First Line:

Will you still owe your virtues to your bellies

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright's Siege

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

Variety is sought for to delight

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randoph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Oh thou pampered jade what wouldst thou have

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of the gods we are forbid to dispute

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lilly's Endimion

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

Nothing could please your palate but

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Wits

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

It is not so with him that all things knows

Page No:

pp.16-17

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's All's well that ends well

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Though all the doors are sure and all our servants

Page No:

p.17

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Bussy D'Ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Can nature be so simple or malicious

Page No:

p.17

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Atheists Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

It did not please the gods who instruct the people

Page No:

p.17

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Gods nought foresee but see for to their eyes

Page No:

p.17

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophonisba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Tis hard to find god but to comprehend

Page No:

p.18

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

For government though high and low and lower

Page No:

pp.18-19

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Henry V

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Then tell me first if nature must forbear

Page No:

p.18

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

But as in calm a storm we nothing fear

Page No:

p.18

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As a cunning orator reserves

Page No:

p.19

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's First Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Each petty hand

Page No:

p.19

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Rule of itself's a toil and none would bear it

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Alex. Brome

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

Virtue did then men's hearts so much inflame

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Pierce Gaveston

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

He is unfit to manage public matters

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Fancy's Chaste and Noble

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Cannot your great men suffer others to

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Philotas

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

O madam | Your sex is too imperious to rule

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright's Royal Slave

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

A state well ruled the fame of kings doth raise

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Darius

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

The victor's solid recompence is rest

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Does the kind root bleed out his livelihood

Page No:

p.21

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger, Middleton and Rowley's Old Laws

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

Philip Massinger

First Line:

And you fresh bud of virtue springing fast

Page No:

p.21

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

The benefits he sowed in me met not

Page No:

pp.21-22

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Duke of Milan

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Could everyone that careless sits

Page No:

p.21

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Fair Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Here's a small amends

Page No:

p.21

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Rob Tailor's Hog hath lost his Pearl

Attributed To:

Robert Tailor

First Line:

As our joys grow

Page No:

p.21

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Chaste Maid in Cheapside

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

When these sad sights were overpast and gone

Page No:

p.22

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Visions of the World's Vanity

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

I find a pious gratitude disperse

Page No:

p.22

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Brothers

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

This is not ingratitude or if it be it does

Page No:

p.22

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Sad One

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Greatness hath its cankers worms and moths

Page No:

p.23

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Examples have the wisest warned oft

Page No:

p.23

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Churchyard in the Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Thomas Churchyard

First Line:

Greatness in sway of state gives wings t' aspire

Page No:

p.23

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis certain greatness once fallen out with fortune

Page No:

p.23

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Oh place oh form

Page No:

p.23

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Measure for Measure

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I have found

Page No:

p.24

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's First Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Fortune not reason rules the state of things

Page No:

p.24

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Bussey D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Greatness must keep those arts by which it grew

Page No:

p.25

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Thou dost not know what then will be thy mind

Page No:

p.25

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Now I see they but delude that praise us

Page No:

p.25

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Cleopatra

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Though the mountains make a mighty show

Page No:

p.25

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Alexandrean Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

As in fine fields weeds or fat earth abounds

Page No:

p.25

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

He's dead you say then

Page No:

p.26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Four Plays in One

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Since by your greatness you

Page No:

p.26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Atheist's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

Thus he was brought to act his fatal hour

Page No:

p.26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Hen. VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

The great are like the base nay they're the same

Page No:

p.26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Both flowers and weeds spring when the sun is warm

Page No:

p.26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Oh greatness scourge

Page No:

p.26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophonisba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Trust not a great man most of them dissemble

Page No:

p.27

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Grateful Servant

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Great men we are none

Page No:

p.27

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Bird in a Cage

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

They that are great and worthy to be so

Page No:

p.27

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Beaumont

Attributed To:

Sir John Beaumont

First Line:

It is the curse of greatness

Page No:

p.27

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Hannibal and Scipio

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Our envy never would great men pursue

Page No:

p.28

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Ambitious Statesman

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

I was born with greatness

Page No:

p.28

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Ambitious Statesman

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Be in thy greatness easy as thy brow

Page No:

p.28

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Greatness is but the shadow of the beams

Page No:

p.28

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Sad One

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

For double shame he doth deserve

Page No:

p.28

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brandon's Octavia

Attributed To:

Samuel Brandon

First Line:

Great men by small means oft are overthrown

Page No:

p.28

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

I stand like one

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Surprisal

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

That man | May safely venture to go on his way

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marmyon's Holland's Leaguer

Attributed To:

Shackerley Marmion

First Line:

For if of all the bodies parts the head

Page No:

pp.29-30

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's Satiromastix

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

The goodliest and most glorious strange built wonder

Page No:

pp.30-31

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's Satiromastix

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

Yet though cold age had frosted his fair hairs

Page No:

p.31

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Duke of Normandy

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

As in our heraldry we deem

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heath's Clarastella

Attributed To:

Robert Heath

First Line:

Her hair was rolled in many a curious fret

Page No:

p.31

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

Give me your hand this hand is moist my lady

Page No:

p.32

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Her hand | In whose comparison all whites are ink

Page No:

p.32

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The instrument of instruments the hand

Page No:

p.32

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I take thy hand this hand

Page No:

p.32

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Winter's Tale

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

It is the best felicity to be

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

All the good we have rests in the mind

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel to the Countess of Bedford

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

O how bitter a thing it is to look

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's As you like it

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

What thing so good which not some harm may bring

Page No:

p.33.3

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Darius

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

He that makes gold his wife but not his whore

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's Second Part of the honest Whore

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

Happy are those

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Bondsman

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

O happiness | Of those that know not pride or lust of city

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophonisba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Happiness is a stranger to mankind

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tuke's Adventures of Five Hours

Attributed To:

Sir Samuel Tuke

First Line:

Over all men hangs a double fate

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Indian Queen

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Tis with our souls

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Sophy

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Physicians say repletion springs

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

That happiness does still the longest thrive

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

For hatred hatched at home is a tame tiger

Page No:

p.35

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Bloody Brothers

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Spite thou impostume of aspiring hearts

Page No:

p.35

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

O there's a further cause of hate their breasts

Page No:

p.35

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Thou kingdom's corrosive home begotten hate

Page No:

p.35.6

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Pierce Gaveston

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

For as a surfeit of the sweetest things

Page No:

p.35

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Midsummer-night's Dream

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

No hate more harms than that which looks like love

Page No:

p.35

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Now let us hear how she the ears employs

Page No:

pp.36-37

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

It is the wit the policy of sin

Page No:

p.36

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Just Italian

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Haply the fire of hate is quite extinct

Page No:

p.36

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

There's a perpetual spring perpetual youth

Page No:

p.37

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger and Dekker's Virgin Martyr

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

We to heaven

Page No:

p.37

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's St Patrick for Ireland

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

What a poor value do men set of heaven

Page No:

pp.37-38

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's St. Patrick for Ireland

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Blessed heaven how are thy ways just like thy orbs

Page No:

p.38

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fountain's Rewards of Virtue

Attributed To:

John Fountain

First Line:

There is a heaven

Page No:

p.38

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Regulus

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Heaven is a great way off and I shall be

Page No:

p.38

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Duke's Mistress

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

This law the heavens inviolably keep

Page No:

p.38

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Glapthorne's Albertus Wallenstein

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

Now grandsire you that hold me at hard meat

Page No:

pp.38-39

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Mad World my Masters

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Since in my time and knowledge so many rich children

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Wit at several Weapons

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Divines and dying men may talk of hell

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Yorkshire Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Thy father hoards up gold for thee to spend

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Hell gives us art to reach the depths of sin

Page No:

p.40

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Queen of Corinth

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

A place there is upon no centre placed

Page No:

p.40

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

There is a place in a black and hollow vault

Page No:

p.40

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's 'Tis pity she's a Whore

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

The chronicles to know I thee exhort

Page No:

pp.40-41

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir David Lindsay

Attributed To:

Sir David Lyndsay [Lindsay]

First Line:

Downhill we run climb upward a slow pace

Page No:

p.40

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

W. Rowley's All lost by Lust

Attributed To:

William Rowley

First Line:

Tis worthy praise I grant to write the ends

Page No:

p.41

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

But seeing causes are the chiefest things

Page No:

p.41

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

But story writers ought for neither glory

Page No:

p.41

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For hitherto sly writers wily wits

Page No:

pp.41-42

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A chronicler should well in diverse tongues be seen

Page No:

pp.42-43

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Higins in the Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

John Higgins

First Line:

O wouldst thou add like hand to all the rest

Page No:

p.43

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Epigrams

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Who hath a book of all monarchs done

Page No:

p.43

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Pericles

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

There is a history in all men's lives

Page No:

p.43

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Second Part of King Henry IV

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Would god our times had had some sacred wight

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

For know great prince when you shall come to know

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel on Prince Henry

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Now he over all will spread your praises forth

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Croesus

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Yet registers of memorable things

Page No:

p.45

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline to Prince Henry

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Ah be not those most miserable souls

Page No:

p.45

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline to Prince Henry

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Historians to some courts have had recourse

Page No:

p.45

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers.

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

I remember in the age of Assaracus

Page No:

pp.45-46

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The style is full and princely

Page No:

pp.46-47

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Agrippina

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

This is a great fault in a chronologer

Page No:

p.46

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Chronologers many of them are so fantastic

Page No:

p.46

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A good man should and must

Page No:

p.47

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

The noblest spur unto the sons of fame

Page No:

p.47

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Hall on Charles Aleyn

Attributed To:

John Hall

First Line:

Historians only things of weight

Page No:

p.47

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heath

Attributed To:

Robert Heath

First Line:

Take note oh world

Page No:

p.47

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

An honest soul is like a ship at sea

Page No:

p.48

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

He that would mount to honour must not make

Page No:

pp.48-49

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Tis honesty you urge what's honesty

Page No:

p.48

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur, Ibid

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

For if charity

Page No:

p.48

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Atheist's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

Good honourable fool

Page No:

p.48

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

Lands mortgaged may return and more esteemed

Page No:

p.48

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Trick to catch the Old One

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Who so in pomp of proud estate quoth she

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

He says he'll keep his honesty damned sot

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Ambitious Statesman

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Virtue and honour I allow you names

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Imposture

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Man is like pliant wax

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Blind Lady

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

An honest man is still an unmoved rock

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Davenport's City Night-Cap

Attributed To:

Robert Davenport

First Line:

Ha concubine who does prince Philip mean

Page No:

p.50

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marloe's Lust's Dominion

Attributed To:

Christopher Marlowe

First Line:

Mine honour is my life both grow in one

Page No:

p.50

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Richard II

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

By Jove I am not covetous of gold

Page No:

p.50

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Henry V

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Though we lay these honours on this man

Page No:

pp.50-51

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

He can no way worthily maintain

Page No:

p.51

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Second Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Is there no way to get unto our lives

Page No:

p.51

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Philotas

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

For vile is honour amd a title vain

Page No:

p.51

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Let none presume

Page No:

p.51

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Merchant of Venice

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

That is honour's scorn

Page No:

p.51

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's All's Well that ends Well

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Excess of honour done to them that die

Page No:

p.52

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

For we like dews drawn to be clouds above

Page No:

p.52

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Thou idol honour which we fools adore

Page No:

p.52

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Barons Wars

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Honour is so sublime perfection

Page No:

pp.52-53

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

You still insist upon that idol honour

Page No:

p.53

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Valentinian

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Speak the height of honour

Page No:

p.53

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger, Ibid

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Honour is | Virtue's allowed ascent honour that clasps

Page No:

p.53

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Very Woman

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Honour and virtue

Page No:

p.53

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heywood's Second Part of the Fair Maid of the West

Attributed To:

Thomas Heywood

First Line:

His honour's linked

Page No:

p.54

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tatham's Distracted State

Attributed To:

John Tatham

First Line:

He taught them honour virtue's bashfulness

Page No:

p.54

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Vain honour is a play of diverse parts

Page No:

p.54

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Beaumont

Attributed To:

Sir John Beaumont

First Line:

Love's common unto all the mass of creatures

Page No:

p.54

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright's Siege

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

Tis equal sure

Page No:

pp.54-55

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Fair Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

We were too proud no use to make

Page No:

p.54

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Siege of Rhodes

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

For honour's a prize and who wins it may wear it

Page No:

p.55

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Alex. Brome

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

Riches and poverty shall be no more

Page No:

p.55

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Thomas Higgons on the Restauration

Attributed To:

Sir Thomas Higgons

First Line:

Frighted men at sea

Page No:

p.55

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Rob. Howard's Vestal Virgin

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Honour is like a goodly old house which

Page No:

p.55

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Davenport's City Night-Cap

Attributed To:

Robert Davenport

First Line:

With him went hope in rank a handsome maid

Page No:

p.56

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

In other worlds devotion may have bliss

Page No:

p.56

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Juliana

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

True hope is swift and flies with swallows wings

Page No:

p.56

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Richard III

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The ample proposition that hope makes

Page No:

p.56

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

It never yet did hurt

Page No:

pp.56-57

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Second Part of King Henry IV.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Our hopes I see resemble much the sun

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge for Honour

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

These hopes are poor for fear is with them mixed

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

I do confess it is a strict injunction

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's New Inn

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Hope

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Volpone

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Hope is a poor salad

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Custom of the Country

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Hope in great actions is too weak a hold

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Crescey

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

But O I see our hoped good deceives us

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Matilda to K. John

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

And now her hope a weak physician seems

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

When once the main spring hope is fallen into

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Aglaura

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

What can we not endure

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Microscomus

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Things that we daily see th'affections cloy

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Orestes

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

Is there no room for hope in any breast

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir. W. Davenant's Siege of Rhodes

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

I shall take other courses with my wealth

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Gentleman of Venice

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Alas fears are so powerful

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Rob. Howard's Blind Lady

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

What are our hopes

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Davenport's King John and Matilda

Attributed To:

Robert Davenport

First Line:

Be wise

Page No:

p.60

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Duke of Milan

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

But as oft alchymists do coiners prove

Page No:

p.60

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

All that these mighty men of Milan got

Page No:

p.60

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Love and Honour

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Take heed of overweening and compare

Page No:

p.60.2

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

You have worth

Page No:

pp.60-61

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph's Muses Looking-Glass

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

There are some that use

Page No:

p.61

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Sophy

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

I see those who are lifted highest on

Page No:

p.61

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomas Ford's Loves Labyrinth

Attributed To:

Thomas Forde

First Line:

Trees that tallest grow do take the deepest

Page No:

p.61

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Albovine

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Would I had trod the humble path and made

Page No:

p.61

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Cruel Brother.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

This I'll promise you a piece of venison

Page No:

pp.62-63

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Sir John Oldcastle

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Huntsman I charge thee tender well my hounds

Page No:

p.62

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Taming of the Shrew

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I was with Hercules and Cadmus once

Page No:

p.62

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Midsummer-Night's dream

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Perseus Castor Pollux and the rest

Page No:

p.63.2

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Masques

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Thou in the winter huntst the flying hare

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Forest

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Many a poor huntsman with a merry heart

Page No:

p.64

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Beggar's Bush

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Men hunt hares to death for their sports but the

Page No:

p.64

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Widow's Tears

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

The forest music is to hear the hounds

Page No:

p.64

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Day's Isle of Gulls]

Attributed To:

John Day

First Line:

I pity these poor beasts

Page No:

p.64

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Day's Isle of Gulls

Attributed To:

John Day

First Line:

What think you then

Page No:

p.65

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Devil's Law Case

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

A pack of the bravest Spartan dogs in the world

Page No:

p.65

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Henry Shirley's Martyred Soldier

Attributed To:

Henry Shirley

First Line:

A boar so fierce and large

Page No:

pp.65-66

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Playhouse to be lett

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Thou hast thy hounds to hunt the timorous hare

Page No:

p.65

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Look here upon this picture and on this

Page No:

pp.66-67

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The lady Olivia has no folly

Page No:

p.66

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Twelfth Night

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I have ever found it most true in mine

Page No:

pp.67-68

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker and Webster's Westward Hoe

Attributed To:

John Webster

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

You are too amorous too obsequious

Page No:

p.67

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Every Man out of his Humour

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

As out of wormwood bees suck honey

Page No:

p.67

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's First Part of the Honest Whore

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

What are husbands read the new world's wonders

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Rule a Wife and have a Wife

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

He that dares strike against the husband's freedom

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Rule a Wife and have a Wife

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Marry no faith husbands are like lots in

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Courtezan

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Some children look most sweetly at their birth

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's Match me in London

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

For oft a loving husband's aweful eye

Page No:

p.69

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sharpham's Fleire

Attributed To:

Edward Sharpham

First Line:

A narrow minded husband is a thief

Page No:

p.69

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Lady of Pleasure

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Young wenches

Page No:

p.69

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Glapthorne's Wit in a Constable

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

Know then | As women owe a duty so do men

Page No:

p.69

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Wilkins's Miseries of enforced Marriage

Attributed To:

George Wilkins

First Line:

To all married men be this a caution

Page No:

p.69

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Picture

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

We hear you are

Page No:

p.70

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Main's City Match

Attributed To:

Jasper Mayne

First Line:

I'd rather | Lie with an ancient tomb or embrace

Page No:

pp.70-71

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Main's City Match

Attributed To:

Jasper Mayne

First Line:

No man's condition is so base as his

Page No:

p.71

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Quarles

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

At length they chanced to meet upon the way

Page No:

p.71

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Husbands are used as properties in scenes

Page No:

p.71

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The first that all the rest did guide

Page No:

p.72

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Who doth to sloth his younger days engage

Page No:

p.72

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

See the issue of your sloth

Page No:

p.73

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman, Johnson and Marston's Eastward Hoe

Attributed To:

George Chapman

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Secure and idle spirits never thrive

Page No:

p.73

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Caesar and Pompey

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

If we should do nothing

Page No:

pp.73-74

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Alexander Brome's Cunning Lovers

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

When that he dies that lived a shade

Page No:

p.73

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Killegrew's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

Henry Killigrew

First Line:

What is a man | If his chief good and market of his time

Page No:

p.73

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves

Page No:

p.73

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

If you will needs say I am an old man

Page No:

p.73

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Second Part of Henry IV

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

An idle life a sad condition breeds

Page No:

p.74

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Watkyns

Attributed To:

Rowland Watkyns

First Line:

Had it pleased heaven

Page No:

p.74

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I think my wife is honest and think she is not

Page No:

p.74

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Shakespear's Othello]

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Is he not jealous

Page No:

p.74

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Oh beware my lord of jealousy

Page No:

pp.75-76

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Avaunt be gone thou'st set me on the rack

Page No:

pp.76-77

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Wretched and foolish jealousy

Page No:

pp.77-78

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Underwoods

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Unneccessary jealousies make more whores

Page No:

p.78

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Little French Lawyer

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

O jealousy daughter of envy and of love

Page No:

p.78

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Rosamond

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

The devil gives this jealousy to a man

Page No:

p.78

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I would not wrong him for all the sea's drowned

Page No:

pp.78-79

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

They that have the yellow jaundice think

Page No:

pp.79-80

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

It seems you are jealous I'll show you the

Page No:

p.79

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

I pity all the fortunes of poor women

Page No:

p.79

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Mayor of Quinborough

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Distrust from others springs Timagoras

Page No:

p.80

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Bondman

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

O let their beds be chaste and banish thence

Page No:

pp.80-81

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

All jealousy must still be strangled in its birth or time

Page No:

p.81

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Cruel Brother

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Of all | Our passions I wonder nature made

Page No:

p.81

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Brennoralt

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Oh jealousy | Love's eclipse thou art in thy disease

Page No:

p.81

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Davenport's City Night-Cap]

Attributed To:

Robert Davenport

First Line:

Thou wondrous yellow fiend

Page No:

p.81

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Davenport's City Night-Cap

Attributed To:

Robert Davenport

First Line:

The foolish world does jealousy mistake

Page No:

p.81

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Siege of Rhodes

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

This cursed jealousy what is't

Page No:

pp.81-82

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Siege of Rhodes

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Hold he is innocent and she may be

Page No:

pp.82-83

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Darius

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

When this disease of jealousy can find

Page No:

p.82

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Vestal Virgin

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Through a false optic madam still we look

Page No:

p.82

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Black Prince

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

But fate thou are unjust in making me

Page No:

p.82

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Henry V.

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

And now and then breaks a dry biscuit jest

Page No:

p.83

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Every Man out of his Humour

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

When thou dost tell another's jest theirin

Page No:

p.83

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herbert

Attributed To:

George Herbert

First Line:

Laugh not too much the witty man laughs least

Page No:

pp.83-84

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herbert

Attributed To:

George Herbert

First Line:

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony

Page No:

p.83

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Love's Labour's Lost

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I have said so much to cure your jealousy

Page No:

p.83

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's The Man's the Master

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

At last with creeping crooked pace forth came

Page No:

p.84

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

My trade is jesting now or quibble speaking

Page No:

p.84

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph's Pedlar

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

The wit and courage of his talk now rests

Page No:

p.84

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ignorance that sometimes makes the hypocrite

Page No:

p.85

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Ignorance | Thinks she doth herself advance

Page No:

p.85

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Masques

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Ignorance when it hath purchased honour

Page No:

p.85

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Oh to confess we know not what we should

Page No:

p.85

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

But tis some justice to ascribe to chance

Page No:

pp.85-86

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant on E. of Orrery

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Tis nought but shows that ignorance esteems

Page No:

p.85

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Heaven pities ignorance

Page No:

p.85

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's No Help like a Woman's

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Can unjust ignorance offer so much

Page No:

p.85

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May on Rutter's Shepherd's Holyday

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

My brain methinks is like an hourglass

Page No:

p.86

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Every Man in his Humour

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains

Page No:

p.86

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Midsummer Night's Dream

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I alas was ignorant of thee

Page No:

p.86

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Fair Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Whilst yet mine eyes do surfeit with delight

Page No:

p.87

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Ideas

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Th' overwatched weakness of the sick conceit

Page No:

p.87

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Matilda to King John

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Imagination works how she can frame

Page No:

p.87

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Subtle opinion | Working in man's decayed faculties

Page No:

p.87

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Day's Law Tricks

Attributed To:

John Day

First Line:

Odds in conceit conceit an instrument

Page No:

p.88

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

For as these towers our bodies do enclose

Page No:

p.88

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Jane Grey to Gildford Dudley

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Nay thou be sure I'll well requite thy kindness

Page No:

p.88

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Third Part of King Henry VI

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The little Ethiop infant had not been

Page No:

p.88

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright's Ordinary

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

Captivity

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger and Field's Fatal Dowry

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

Nathan Field

First Line:

How like | A prison's to a grave when dead we are

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Maid of Honour

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Why should we murmur to be circumscribed

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Court Secret

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

O that I were no further sensible

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger, Ibid

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear

Page No:

p.90

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Lady's Trial

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Sweet fellow prisoners twas a cruel art

Page No:

p.90

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Bird in a Cage

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

A prison is in all things like a grave

Page No:

p.90

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Bishop King

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

Death is the pledge of rest and with one bail

Page No:

p.90

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Bishop King

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

Dost thou use me as fond children do

Page No:

p.90

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Unfortunate Lovers

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Her sweetness is imprisoned now

Page No:

pp.90-91

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Love and Honour

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Nature in spite of fortune gave us minds

Page No:

p.90

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Ralph Freeman's Imperiale

Attributed To:

Sir Ralph Freeman

First Line:

O fair Cynthia why do others term thee

Page No:

pp.91-92

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lilly's Endimion

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

But oh | This dismal place brings it again to thought

Page No:

p.91

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Sir W. Davenant's Love and Honour]

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Captivity | Is the inheritance of all things finite

Page No:

p.91

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now thou hast loved me one whole day

Page No:

pp.92-93

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

Even as one heat another heat expels

Page No:

p.92

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Two Gentlemen of Verona

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

It is the lesser blot modesty finds

Page No:

p.92

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Shakespear's Two Gentlemen of Verona]

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

There is no music in a voice

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Joseph Rutter's Shepherds Holiday

Attributed To:

Joseph Rutter

First Line:

Let us examine all the creatures read

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Traytor

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Truth on men's tongues she says does seldom sit

Page No:

pp.93-94

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

In thy fair breast and once fair soul

Page No:

pp.94-95

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Oh men oh manners what a medley's this

Page No:

p.94

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heath

Attributed To:

Robert Heath

First Line:

For I'm a schismatic in love

Page No:

p.95

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Alex. Brome.

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

The sight whereof in his congealed flesh

Page No:

p.96

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Lust is a sprite which whosoever doth raise

Page No:

p.96

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Atheist's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

Lust carries her sharp whip

Page No:

p.96

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Take this as firmest sense

Page No:

p.96

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Courtezan

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Lust never takes joy in what is due

Page No:

p.96

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Octatvia to Antonius

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Lust's voyage hath if not this course this cross

Page No:

p.96

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's Second Part of the Honest Whore

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

Letchery scorns to be beholden too

Page No:

p.96

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Virtue as it never will be moved

Page No:

p.96

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Learn from this example there is no trust

Page No:

p.97

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Duke of Milan

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Lust is a vice

Page No:

p.97

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mason's Muleasses

Attributed To:

John Mason

First Line:

In some countries I hear whole lordships are

Page No:

pp.97-98

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Henry Shirley's Martyred Soldier

Attributed To:

Henry Shirley

First Line:

Unclothe me | Of sin's gay trappings the proud livery

Page No:

p.97

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Renegado

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

An old man's venery is very chargeable

Page No:

p.97

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Mad World my Masters

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Lust is like an over swollen river that breaks

Page No:

p.97

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Note but the end of all your lustful pleasures

Page No:

pp.98-99

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richards's Messallina

Attributed To:

Nathanael Richards

First Line:

Wenching why tis the top branch the heart the

Page No:

p.98

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

James Shirley's Grateful Servant

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

My lord bad custom is become

Page No:

p.98

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Glapthorne's Albertus Wallenstein

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

Lust is a gilded pill

Page No:

p.98

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Tottenham-Court

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Unlawful lust immoderate often brings

Page No:

p.99

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Quarles

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

Men that lust women once no more endure them

Page No:

p.99

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Anthony Brewer's Love-Sick King

Attributed To:

Anthony Brewer

First Line:

For lust in reading beauty solemn grows

Page No:

p.99

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Rip up the end of the intent and see

Page No:

p.99

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Davenport's City Night-Cap

Attributed To:

Robert Davenport

First Line:

O traitor lust that leads us with encouragement

Page No:

p.99

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Cruel Brother

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie

Page No:

p.99

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's All's well that ends well

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The sweat of industry would dry and die

Page No:

p.99

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

See what these times are grown to before twenty

Page No:

pp.100-101

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Wit at several Weapons

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Like clocks one wheel another on must drive

Page No:

p.100

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge for Honour

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Virtue though chained to earth will still live free

Page No:

p.100

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Masques

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Here you look about

Page No:

p.100

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

The chiefest action for a man of spirit

Page No:

p.100

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Devil's Law Case

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Shortly his fortune shall be lifted higher

Page No:

p.100

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cromwell

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

As when the moon hath comforted the night

Page No:

pp.101-102

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's First Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Where the victory can reap

Page No:

p.101

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Perkin Warbeck

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

And to be rich be diligent move on

Page No:

p.101

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

If little labout little are our gains

Page No:

p.101

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

We have not | Received into our bosom and our grace

Page No:

p.101

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Great Duke of Florence

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Industrious wisdom often does prevent

Page No:

p.101

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

We're sorry | His violent act has even drawn blood of honour

Page No:

p.102

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

Your grace hath spoke like to your silver years

Page No:

p.102

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

What grief can be but time doth make it less

Page No:

p.102

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Rosamund to Henry

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Merit by ingratitude cracked

Page No:

p.103

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Second Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Such the rewards of great employment are

Page No:

p.103

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Philotas

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Shame ever sticks close to the ribs of honour

Page No:

p.103

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Mayor of Quinborough

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

He breaths most accursed

Page No:

p.103

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton, Ibid

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

This is the world's soul

Page No:

p.103

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Timon

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I am rapt and cannot

Page No:

p.103

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Timon

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

They that do pull down churches and deface

Page No:

p.104

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's New Inn

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

If light wrongs touch me not

Page No:

p.104

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's New Inn

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

He that doth public good for multitudes

Page No:

p.104

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophonisba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Good service | To a malicious and ingrateful prince

Page No:

p.104

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Glapthorne's Albertus Wallenstein

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

None are ingrate who have no favour found

Page No:

p.104

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

There's even the general thanks of all aspirers

Page No:

p.104

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Mayor of Quinborough

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

For vicious natures where they once begin

Page No:

p.104

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Agrippina

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

Though I am tame and bred up with my wrongs

Page No:

pp.105-106

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Maid's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

The purpose of an injury tis to vex

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson, Ibid

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

A just man cannot fear

Page No:

pp.106-107

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Poetaster

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

For evils which are gainst another done

Page No:

p.106

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Wilkins's Miseries of enforced Marriage

Attributed To:

George Wilkins

First Line:

Men of your ranks

Page No:

p.106

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dauborne's Poor Man's Comfort

Attributed To:

Robert Daborne

First Line:

Experience teacheth us

Page No:

pp.106-107

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Locrine

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted

Page No:

p.106

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Second Part of K. Hen. VI.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The lion licks the sores of silly wounded sheep

Page No:

p.106

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis a knavish piece of work but what of

Page No:

p.106

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

All your attempts | Shall fall on me like brittle shafts on armour

Page No:

p.107

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger and Field's Fatal Dowry

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

Nathan Field

First Line:

O innocence the sacred amulet

Page No:

p.107

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's First Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

That innocence is not enough to save

Page No:

p.107

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

I have no other hope who bears a spotless breast

Page No:

p.107

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dauborne's Poor Man's Comfort

Attributed To:

Robert Daborne

First Line:

We must have doves and serpents in our heart

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Quarles

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

Since still my duty did my actions steer

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

I'd rather to a punishment submit

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Tryphon

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

Misfortune may benight the wicked she

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Habbington's Queen of Arragon

Attributed To:

William Habington

First Line:

Innocence unmoved | At a false accusation

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Bride

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Tis modesty in sin to practice every

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Cruel Brother

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

She never saw courts yet courts could have undone

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Innocence | Concealed is the stolen pleasure of the gods

Page No:

p.109

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fountain's Rewards of Virtue

Attributed To:

John Fountain

First Line:

Death I fear me

Page No:

p.109

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Your voice our music when you speak we give

Page No:

p.109

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant to the Queen

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Our wanton humour with best council sits

Page No:

p.109

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If to do were as easy as to know

Page No:

p.109

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Merchant of Venice

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Joys that are born unlooked for are born dumb

Page No:

p.110

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker and Webster's Westward Hoe

Attributed To:

John Webster

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

True joy is only hope put out of fear

Page No:

p.110

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Swell swell my joys and faint not to declare

Page No:

p.110

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Indeed true gladness doth not always speak

Page No:

p.110

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson on the Coronation

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Joys are not joys that always stay

Page No:

p.110

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Alex. Brome

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

All showed as fresh and fair and innocent

Page No:

p.110

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Joy never feasts so high

Page No:

p.110

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Aglaura

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Gently my joys distil

Page No:

p.110

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Goblins

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Oh there was a time

Page No:

p.110

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fane's Sacrifice

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

For danger's sauce gives joy a better taste

Page No:

p.110

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

He hath such a judge a man so learned

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman and Shirley's Admiral of France

Attributed To:

James Shirley

George Chapman

First Line:

Wise heaven doth see it as fit

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fountain's Rewards of Virtue

Attributed To:

John Fountain

First Line:

There is no state in which the bounteous gods

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Darius

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Wonder and joy so fast together flow

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Indian Queen

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

My joys like men in crowds press out so fast

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Vestal Virgin

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

So constantly the judges construe laws

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I have seen | When after execution judgment hath

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Measure for Measure

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

This one more lesson out of the events

Page No:

p.112

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman and Shirley's Admiral of France

Attributed To:

James Shirley

George Chapman

First Line:

He was then a judge and in Cathedra

Page No:

pp.112-113

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman and Shirley's Admiral of France

Attributed To:

James Shirley

George Chapman

First Line:

Fly judges fly corruptions in your court

Page No:

p.113

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

T. Lodge and R. Green's Looking-glass for Lond. and Eng.

Attributed To:

Thomas Lodge

Robert Greene

First Line:

It well becomes that judge to nod at crimes

Page No:

p.113

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

This is the court sure whose eminence proclaims

Page No:

p.113-114

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dauborne's Poor Man's Comfort

Attributed To:

Robert Daborne

First Line:

He speaks with others tongues and hears mens suits

Page No:

p.114

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Men that eminent are in law are wont

Page No:

p.114

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Honoria and Mammon

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Who painted justice blind did not declare

Page No:

p.114

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heath's Clarastella

Attributed To:

Robert Heath

First Line:

What can innocence hope for

Page No:

p.114

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Maid of Honour

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

When superior justice

Page No:

p.114

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Hannibal and Scipio

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

For in a government

Page No:

p.114

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Microcosmus

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Men's judgment sway on that side fortune leans

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Widow's Tears

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

How can you judgment as profound as seas

Page No:

pp.115-116

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant on the Restauration

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Your reason and your will are much the same

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mead's Combat of Love and Friendship

Attributed To:

Robert Mead

First Line:

Give every man thine ear but few thy voice

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

You bring a judgment deeper than the sea

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant on the Restauration

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Take our good meaning for our judgment sits

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

If justice could in solemn dulness lie

Page No:

p.116

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant on the Restauration

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Justice hath laid her sword within your reach

Page No:

p.116

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Just Italian

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Nought is on earth more sacred or divine

Page No:

pp.117-118

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Let none direct thee what to do or say

Page No:

p.117

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

There's no needle

Page No:

pp.118-119

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman and Shirley's Admiral of France

Attributed To:

James Shirley

George Chapman

First Line:

Just men are only free the rest are slaves

Page No:

p.118

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Caesar and Pompey

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

The gods | Grow angry with your patience tis their care

Page No:

p.118

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

May one be pardoned and retain th'offence

Page No:

p.118

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Yet some show pity

Page No:

p.118

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Measure for Measure

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

If what were best for them that do offend

Page No:

p.119

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Justice that makes princes like the gods draws

Page No:

p.119

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Insatiate Countess

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Offences urged in public are made worse

Page No:

p.119

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Clear eyed Astrea next with reverend brow

Page No:

p.119

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Goddesses

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

If but one virtue did adorn a king

Page No:

p.119

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Darius

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

When just revenge hath a right level made

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

This noble youth a stranger t' everything

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Goblins

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

The miser's gold the painted cloud

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's News from Plymouth

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

With an equal scale

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Justice like lightning ever should appear

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou mayst not they condemn and those absolve

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Justice must be from violence exempt

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Among all other pastime and pleasure

Page No:

pp.121-122

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir David Lindsay

Attributed To:

Sir David Lyndsay [Lindsay]

First Line:

And since the definition of a king

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir David Lindsay

Attributed To:

Sir David Lyndsay [Lindsay]

First Line:

Right is of itself most strong

Page No:

p.122

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marlo's Lust's Dominion

Attributed To:

Christopher Marlowe

First Line:

The love of kings is like the blowing of

Page No:

pp.122-123

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lilly's Alexander and Campaspe

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

Let justice mixed with mercy them amend

Page No:

p.122

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Sir David Lindsay]

Attributed To:

Sir David Lyndsay [Lindsay]

First Line:

Tis greater care to keep than get a crown

Page No:

p.122

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brandon's Octavia

Attributed To:

Samuel Brandon

First Line:

But who dares tell a prince he goes aside

Page No:

p.122

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brandon's Octavia

Attributed To:

Samuel Brandon

First Line:

Abuse of power abaseth princes all

Page No:

p.122

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When the Romans first did yield themselves

Page No:

pp.123-124

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Kings are earth's gods in vice their law's their will

Page No:

p.123

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Pericles

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow

Page No:

p.123

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Second Part of King Henry IV

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

It is the curse of kings to be attended

Page No:

p.123

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King John

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

She tells him first that kings

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson on King James

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Men are deceived who think there can be thrall

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

For though by right and benefit of times

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson on King James

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

When sovereign princes dare

Page No:

pp.125-126

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman and Shirley's Admiral of France

Attributed To:

James Shirley

George Chapman

First Line:

What monstrous humours feed a prince's blood

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's First Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Tell your king that he neglects

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Chapman's First Part of Byron's Conspiracy]

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

That prince doth high in virtue's reckoning stand

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's First Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Princes that would their people should do well

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Cynthia's Revels

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Good princes soar above their fame

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Masques

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

He knew that those who would with love command

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Johnson on King James]

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

We see although the king be head

Page No:

p.126

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Daniel's Civil War]

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Which too himself made him with grief inveigh

Page No:

pp.126-127

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

For great men overgraced much rigour use

Page No:

p.126

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

For though this bounty and this liberalness

Page No:

p.126

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Daniel's Civil War]

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

O stormy state of kings vain mortals choice

Page No:

pp.127-128

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Darius

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

And while they live we see their glorious actions

Page No:

p.127

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Darius

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Kings for their safety must not blame mistrust

Page No:

p.128

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Kings govern people overrack them not

Page No:

p.128

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Oh happy men that know not or else fear

Page No:

p.129

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Like as strong winds do work upon the sea

Page No:

p.129

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Ah humorous kings how are you tossed like waves

Page No:

p.129

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Let him account his bondage from that day

Page No:

pp.129-130

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Barons Wars

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

One crown is guarded with a thousand swords

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Dudley to Jane Grey

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

While kings are strong

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophonisba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Why man I never was a prince till now

Page No:

pp.130-131

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's First Part of Antonio and Mellida

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Alas what are we kings

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

The lives of princes should like dials move

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster, Ibid

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Misery of princes

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

That king stands surest who by's virtue rises

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Phoenix

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Wretched state of kings that standing high

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's Match me in London

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

For a king | Not to be forced is a glorious state

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Some would think the souls

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

And what is't makes this blessed government

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Kings do often grant

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dauborne's Poor Man's Comfort

Attributed To:

Robert Daborne

First Line:

That's an unhappy state

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Courageous Turk

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

Happy's that prince that ere he rules shall know

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Wherefore pay you

Page No:

pp.133-134

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Emperor of the East

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Oh the miserable

Page No:

p.133

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Emperor of the East

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Oh why do princes love to be deceived

Page No:

p.133

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh happy kings

Page No:

p.134

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Perkin Warbeck

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

When kings leave | Their justice and throw shame upon deservers

Page No:

p.134

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Young Admiral

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

I bow and give

Page No:

p.134

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Politician

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

A king that fosters me so dipped in blood

Page No:

p.134

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sam. Rowley's Noble Spanish Soldier

Attributed To:

Samuel Rowley

First Line:

O tis our folly folly my dear friend

Page No:

pp.134-135

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Gomersall's Lodovick Sforza

Attributed To:

Robert Gomersall

First Line:

A prince governs now which has the name of

Page No:

p.135

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Killegrew's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

Henry Killigrew

First Line:

Tis true indulgency and flattery

Page No:

p.135

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marmyon's Antiquary

Attributed To:

Shackerley Marmion

First Line:

Tis not enough to be

Page No:

p.135

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

Oh the state of princes

Page No:

p.135

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou art deceived twas not his hand

Page No:

pp.136-137

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Jones's Adrasta

Attributed To:

John Jones

First Line:

Tis but a doglike madness in bad kings

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

That prince must govern with a gentle hand

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Herrick]

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

The faults kings do

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Hemmings's Fatal Contract

Attributed To:

William Heminges [Heming]

First Line:

Kings arm their subjects when they break their laws

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Hemmings, Ibid

Attributed To:

William Heminges [Heming]

First Line:

Reason sit still enthroned in thine own state

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Kings raised to heaven by an unskilful pen

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant to the King

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

For from the monarch's virtue subjects take

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant on the Restauration

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

O you are wise

Page No:

pp.137-138

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Fair Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Kings are but royal slaves and prisoners too

Page No:

p.138

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Alexander Brome

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

What poor things are kings

Page No:

p.138

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fountain's Rewards of Virtue

Attributed To:

John Fountain

First Line:

The gods that in my fortunes were unkind

Page No:

p.138

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir R. Howard's Indian Queen

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

And when the crown's once gained there needs no fears

Page No:

p.138

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir R. Howard's Blind Lady

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Henceforth sir be everybody's king

Page No:

p.138

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir R. Howard's Great Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

For nothing can old monarchs more offend

Page No:

p.138

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

Kiss the tear from her lip you'll find the rose

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Devil's Law Case

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

We'll point our speech

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's First Part of Antonio and Mellida

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

The kiss | Which at the face began transplanted is

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

You hate a prince unless he'll tamely bear

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Caligula

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

He kissed her with that greediness of affection

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's More Dissemblers besides Women

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Then kissed me hard

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

If I prophane with my unworthy hand

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Kiss you at first my lord tis no fair fashion

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Mad Lover

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

May I taste | The nectar of her lip I do not give it

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Emperor of the East

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Never man before

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

Whose kisses raise between them such a fire

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Now you that taste of Hymen's cheer

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

What for practice sake

Page No:

p.141

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Main's City Match

Attributed To:

Jasper Mayne

First Line:

Thus while she sleeps gods do descend and kiss

Page No:

p.141

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright's Siege

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

Now let us kiss would you be gone

Page No:

p.141

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Through knowledge we behold the world's creation

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

What's to do I must blush a while

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's City Politicks

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Her kisses faster though unknown before

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert]

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Why did my parents send me to the schools

Page No:

pp.142-144

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

Kissing and bussing differ both in this

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Kiss me tremble not

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Hemings' Fatal Contract

Attributed To:

William Heminges [Heming]

First Line:

Thus spake she and with fixed continued sight

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Another's knowledge

Page No:

pp.144-145

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman and Shirley's Admiral of France

Attributed To:

James Shirley

George Chapman

First Line:

The mind of man is this world's true dimension

Page No:

p.145

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke on Human Learning

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

For knowledge kindles calentures in some

Page No:

p.145

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

Oh how the soul with all her might

Page No:

p.145

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Croesus

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Before by death you never knowledge gain

Page No:

pp.146-148

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Philosopher to the Christian

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

There's nothing makes man feel his miseries

Page No:

p.146

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Mayor of Quinborough

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Those only may be truly said to know

Page No:

p.146

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For in much wisdom lies much grief and those

Page No:

p.148

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Alex. Brome

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

Though knowledge does beget both joy and love

Page No:

p.148

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir R. Howard's Vestal Virgins

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

If our lives motions theirs must imitate

Page No:

p.148

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

We for their knowledge men inspired adore

Page No:

p.148

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant, Ibid

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Since I am free

Page No:

p.149

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Bussy D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

We have strict statutes and most biting laws

Page No:

p.149

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Measure for Measure

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

We must not make a scarecrow of the law

Page No:

p.149

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's, Ibid

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Laws the next pillars be with which we deal

Page No:

p.150

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Since multitude of laws are signs either of

Page No:

p.150

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Fawn

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Since her interpretations and our deeds

Page No:

p.150

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel on Lord Keeper Egerton

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

You oft call parliaments and there enact

Page No:

pp.150-151

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's Match me in London

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

Tell me what has made thee so melancholy

Page No:

p.151

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

This wretch that loved before his food his strife

Page No:

p.151

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Phoenix

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Still in law | I had not breathed else now tis very marrow

Page No:

pp.152-154

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Phoenix

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

The good needs fear no law

Page No:

p.154

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger, Middleton, and Rowley's Old Law

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

Philip Massinger

First Line:

We are of the condition of some great

Page No:

p.154

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's St. Patrick for Ireland

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Strict laws are like steel bodice good for growing limbs

Page No:

pp.154-155

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fane's Love in the dark

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

Dead falls the cause if once the hand be mute

Page No:

p.154

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

We see | Thieves daily hanged for robberies yet some

Page No:

p.154

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's English Moor

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

If we offend the law

Page No:

p.154

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Covent-Garden

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Your clemency has taught us to believe

Page No:

p.154

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant on the Restauration

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

For that is made a righteous law by time

Page No:

p.155

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

Yet since on all war never needful was

Page No:

p.155

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Why all delights are vain but that most vain

Page No:

pp.155-156

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Love's Labour's lost

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Man must not therefore rashly science scorn

Page No:

p.156

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke on Human Learning

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

His learning savours not the school-like gloss

Page No:

p.156

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Poetaster

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Learning was first made pilot to the world

Page No:

pp.156-157

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Day's Law Tricks

Attributed To:

John Day

First Line:

Long absence in far distant place

Page No:

p.156

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Learning and arts are theories no practicks

Page No:

p.157

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton and Rowley's World toss'd at Tennis

Attributed To:

William Rowley

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

How does learning flourish now

Page No:

pp.157-158

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Jones's Adrasta

Attributed To:

John Jones

First Line:

Learning is an addition beyond

Page No:

p.157

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Lady of Pleasure

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

What fabulous errors learning is attended with

Page No:

p.157

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Covent Garden

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

The learned teach but what they teach not do

Page No:

p.158

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Think upon the deed

Page No:

pp.158-159

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Old Couple

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

Whoever said he in thy first story looks

Page No:

p.158

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Since they dare not speak the pillars now

Page No:

pp.159-160

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

I gave when last I was about to die

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant to Endimion Porter

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Interpret counter what is cross rehearsed

Page No:

p.160

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cleveland

Attributed To:

John Cleveland

First Line:

For like a lion that escapes his bound

Page No:

pp.160-161

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War.

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

You are the only man whose wealthy muse

Page No:

p.160

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Cruel Brother

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Whence comes this restraint

Page No:

p.160

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Measure for Measure

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

But reason sworn in general to sense

Page No:

p.161

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham.

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Liberty is devolved to the son

Page No:

p.161

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Our falcon's kind cannot the cage endure

Page No:

p.161

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Duke of Suffolk to Queen Margaret

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Oh happy men born under good stars

Page No:

p.161

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Fawn

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

What's the quarrel

Page No:

p.161

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Bennoralt

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

A show of liberty

Page No:

p.161

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Cleopatra

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

If we retain the glory of our ancestors

Page No:

p.162

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tatham's Distracted State

Attributed To:

John Tatham

First Line:

For subjects getting liberty

Page No:

p.162

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant to George Porter

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Let all go on still in the public name

Page No:

p.162

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Brennoralt

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

This a more innocent and happy chase

Page No:

pp.162-163

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Cooper's Hill

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

I love my freedom yet strong prisons can

Page No:

p.163

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Watkyns

Attributed To:

Rowland Watkyns

First Line:

Those ills that mortal men endure

Page No:

p.163

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

The longer life I wote the greater sin

Page No:

p.164

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Be absolute for death or death or life

Page No:

pp.164-165

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Measure for Measure

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The web of our life is of a mingled

Page No:

p.164

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's All's Well that ends Well

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Life doth her great actions spell

Page No:

p.165

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Underwoods

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

He makes a state

Page No:

p.166

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Epigrams

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

But men at once life seem to love and loath

Page No:

p.166

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War.

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Her days are peace and so she ends her breath

Page No:

p.166

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Rosamund

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Count not how many years he is bereaved

Page No:

p.166

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

Then let us live since all change below

Page No:

p.166

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. E. of Sterline's Julius Caesar]

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Men by all means this blast of breath prolong

Page No:

p.166

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Our life is nothing but a winter's day

Page No:

p.167

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Quarles

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

As clouds of incense 'bove the altars come

Page No:

p.167

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lleuellin

Attributed To:

Martin Lluelyn

First Line:

Tis a sport to live

Page No:

p.167

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Lover's Melancholy

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Life ill preserved is worse than basely lost

Page No:

p.167

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Siege of Rhodes

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Whose life with care is overcast

Page No:

p.167

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

You'll tell me man never dies but changeth life

Page No:

p.167

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's Damoiselle

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

O trivial property of life some do

Page No:

pp.167-168

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Just Italian

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Like to the falling of a star

Page No:

p.168

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Bishop King

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

Our date how short soever must us content

Page No:

p.168

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Yet first he cast by treaty and by trains

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser, Ibid

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Then hark ye gentle knights and ladies free

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

The eagle's feathers consume the feathers

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lilly's Gallathea

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

A heart full of coldness a sweet full of

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lylly, Ibid

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

For love I must and love I will

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brandon's Antony to Octavia

Attributed To:

Samuel Brandon

First Line:

They say base men being in love have then

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

We'll speak of love no more

Page No:

p.170

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear and Rowley's Birth of Merlin

Attributed To:

William Rowley

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Not that I think you did not love your father

Page No:

p.170

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

She never told her love

Page No:

p.170

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Twelfth Night

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Things base and vile holding no quantity

Page No:

p.170

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Midsummer-Night's Dream

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Come my Celia let us prove

Page No:

p.171

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Volpone

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Didst thou but know the inly touch of love

Page No:

p.171

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Shakespear's two Gentlemen of Verona]

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Oh how this spring of love resembleth

Page No:

p.171

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's two Gentlemen of Verona

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I know I love in vain strive against hope

Page No:

p.171

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's All's Well that ends Well

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The body's love is frail subject to change

Page No:

p.172

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's New Inn

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

If I freely may discover

Page No:

p.172

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Poetaster

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Angry Cupid bolting from her eyes

Page No:

p.172

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Volpone

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Cupid conquers ere he doth invade

Page No:

p.172

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Masques

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

In love of women my affection first

Page No:

pp.173-174

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge of Bussy D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Love's service is much like our humorous lords

Page No:

p.173

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's All Fools

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Love's wars are harmless for whoever does yield

Page No:

p.173

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge for Honour

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

I could renew those times when first I saw

Page No:

p.173

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Underwoods

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Read it sweet maid though it be done but slightly

Page No:

p.174

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Sonnets

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

How oft do they miscarry in their love

Page No:

pp.174-175

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Hymen's Triumph

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

For love is still | In haste and as a lord that rules alone

Page No:

p.174

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Love is a sickness full of woes

Page No:

p.175

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Daniel's Hymen's Triumph]

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Ah I remember well and how can I

Page No:

pp.175-176

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Hymen's Triumph

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Reason must judge of love not love of it

Page No:

p.176

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Love spreads the wit to play but not to arm

Page No:

p.176

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Art thou offended that thou art beloved

Page No:

p.176

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Black Prince to the Countess of Salisbury

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Love is a joy which upon pain depends

Page No:

p.176

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Croesus

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Love's but a card play all is lost

Page No:

p.176

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's Wonder of a Kingdom

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

Triumphant Cupid that sleeps on the soft cheek

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Marston's Fawn]

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Soul I must love her destiny is weak to my affection

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Dutch Courtezan

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Still I'm thy captive yet thy thoughts are free

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Insatiate Countess

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

He that loveth many if once known

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Fawn

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Ah what a trifle is a heart

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

I'll tell you just how long love's bred in the blood

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Day's Law Tricks

Attributed To:

John Day

First Line:

I have forgot all vain desires

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Beaumont and Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess]

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

O hapless love which being answered ends

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Equality is no rule in love's grammar

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Maid in the Mill

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Whoever loves if he do not propose

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

Perfection is in unity prefer

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

Young wenches loves

Page No:

p.179

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Monsieur Thomas

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Hear ye ladies that despise

Page No:

p.179

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Valentinian

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

What is there good in woman to be loved

Page No:

p.179

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Women beware Women

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Hear me exemplify love's latin word

Page No:

pp.179-180

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Family of Love

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Love is a god

Page No:

p.180

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mason's Muleasses

Attributed To:

John Mason

First Line:

Who most doth love must seem most to neglect it

Page No:

p.180

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Cook's Green's Tu quoque

Attributed To:

John Cooke

First Line:

Young men's love is like ivy it must have

Page No:

p.180

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Middleton's Family of Love]

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

In mine eye he's a most delicate youth

Page No:

p.180

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Any thing for a quiet Life

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

For this is held a principle in schools

Page No:

p.180

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Love is a law a discord of such force

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster and Rowley's Thracian Wonder

Attributed To:

William Rowley

John Webster

First Line:

Love that is often crossed at length obtained

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster and Rowley's Thracian Wonder

Attributed To:

William Rowley

John Webster

First Line:

For love good mistress is much like to wax

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Barrey's Ram-Alley

Attributed To:

Lording Barry

First Line:

Love is a region full of fires

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Beaumont

Attributed To:

Sir John Beaumont

First Line:

Such is the posie love composes

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

Love's fire is of a nature which by turns

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Brown's Pastorals]

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

But where's the fortress that can love debar

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Brown's Pastorals]

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

They swell with love that are with valour filled

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Crescey

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Let us love temperately things violent last not

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Duke of Milan

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Thus can the flame of heaven with subtle art

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Shirleys Sisters]

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Love is above all law of nature blood

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Maid's Revenge

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Love is but a straggling from our reason

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Witty Fair One

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

All men that are in love deal with the devil

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Sisters

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Do not too much aggravate the crime

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Panthers may hide their heads not change the skin

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Lover's Melancholy

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Love's measure is extreme the comfort pain

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Tis pity she's a Whore

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Love's measure is the mean sweet his annoys

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. John Ford's Tis pity she's a Whore]

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Love like to sin inveterate is strong

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Witty Fair One

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Love I see you will not entertain

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

For they may say that say thou blind canst be

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Randolph]

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Mark how the bashful morn in vain

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Carew

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew

First Line:

Love is such a wealth

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Glapthorne's Albertus Wallenstein

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

Tis a pure love

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Habbington's Queen of Arragon

Attributed To:

William Habington

First Line:

For though we care not for the lover yet

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Habbington's Queen of Arragon

Attributed To:

William Habington

First Line:

Love's kingdom is founded

Page No:

pp.184-185

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright's Lady Errant

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

Young men fly when beauty darts

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Carew

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew

First Line:

Give me a lover bold and free

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cleveland

Attributed To:

John Cleveland

First Line:

Wisdom and love at once were never yet

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright's Lady Errant

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

The vine that climbs

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright's Royal Slave

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

For oft we find that storms and sorrows prove

Page No:

p.186

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Machen's Dumb Knight

Attributed To:

Lewis Machin

First Line:

Tell me what you think on earth

Page No:

p.186

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Rutter's Shepherd's Holyday

Attributed To:

Joseph Rutter

First Line:

Love's like a landscape which doth stand

Page No:

p.186

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cleveland

Attributed To:

John Cleveland

First Line:

Such gentle rape thou actst upon my soul

Page No:

p.186

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Aglaura

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Love can't be mastered sir

Page No:

p.186

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nevile's Poor Scholar

Attributed To:

Robert Neville

First Line:

There never yet was honest man

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

How weak is lovers laws

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Love that can flow and can admit increase

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Lovers in favour are gamesters in good

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Brennoralt

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Loves a chameleon that lives on mere air

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

It is ill done Semanthe to plead bankrupt

Page No:

p.188

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Aglaura

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

He that is content with lasses clothed in plain woollen

Page No:

p.188

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

She quite overcame

Page No:

pp.188-189

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mead's Combat of Love and Friendship

Attributed To:

Robert Mead

First Line:

Even he that knows not to possess

Page No:

pp.189-190

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Hall

Attributed To:

John Hall

First Line:

Love thou art well compared to fire which where

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Richard Brome's Love-Sick Court]

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

For Cupid's scholars are more exquisite

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's Love-Sick Court

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

So rich a bondage is Poppaea's love

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Agrippina

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

How powerful's love which like a flame

Page No:

p.190

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Hall

Attributed To:

John Hall

First Line:

Tis a child of fancy's getting

Page No:

pp.190-191

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heath's Clarastella

Attributed To:

Robert Heath

First Line:

A lover's like a hunter

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Peter Hausted's Rival Friends

Attributed To:

Peter Hausted

First Line:

How are you sure constancy

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Main's Amorous War

Attributed To:

Jasper Mayne

First Line:

Love asks no dull probation but like light

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Bishop King

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

Hear ye virgins and I'll teach

Page No:

pp.191-192

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Love's a cement

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fond men that blame the love that ever ranges

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ah Goltho who love's fever can assuage

Page No:

p.192

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

And our uncertain love

Page No:

p.192

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Siege of Rhodes

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

When love's afraid do not that fear despise

Page No:

p.192

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's The Man's the Master

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Why in these ladies do you lengthen pain

Page No:

p.192

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

She the payment he of love would make

Page No:

p.192

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Love he had liked yet never lodged before

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

But mighty Julius who had thoughts so high

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant to the Queen

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Since you have spoke so humbly of yourself

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Law against Lovers

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

There's nothing but a lover pleased with sufferings

Page No:

pp.194-195

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir R. Howard's Blind Lady

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

He that would hide love kindled once within

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir R. Howard's Blind Lady

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Love in what poison is thy dart

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

If love's just power he did not early see

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Tis not her birth her friends nor yet her treasure

Page No:

pp.195-196

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Alexander Brome

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

Love like a shadow while youth shines is shown

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir R. Howard's Great Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Can you my heart for want of friendship blame

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Sir R. Howard's Great Favourite]

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Late love like late repentance seldom's true

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Alexander Brome

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

There is no failing of women at their

Page No:

p.196

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fane's Love in the Dark

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

Lovers will wind themselves by words to passion

Page No:

p.196

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fane's Sacrifice

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

Cupid I scorn to beg the art

Page No:

p.196

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fane's Love in the dark

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

Oh why is love called nature's highest law

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Henry V

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

Love is a fate which every one must taste

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. E. of Orrrery's Tryphon]

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

Love is a god and cannot be withstood

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

Love never was to reason's rules confined

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. E. of Orrery's Black Prince]

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

Ah twas not love if ought could conquer it

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. E. of Orrery's Tryphon]

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

Blushes a woman's passion may reveal

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Tryphon

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

He who to love aspires

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Black Prince

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

The fire of love like to the common fire

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dover's Roman Generals

Attributed To:

John Dover

First Line:

Love's a foundation that will never decay

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Dover's Roman Generals]

Attributed To:

John Dover

First Line:

Were worlds betwixt you bigger than all this

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's First Part of the Destruction of Jerusalem

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

What do the wounded and the dying do

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Crown's First Part of the Destruction of Jerusalem]

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Moderate delight is but a waking dream

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Caligula

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

A most harmonious friendship this must prove

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Calisto

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Twas not allowed to Jove

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tuke's Adventures of five Hours

Attributed To:

Sir Samuel Tuke

First Line:

To think well of ourselves if we deserve

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Wit without Money

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Who govern men if they will stay above

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Self love never yet could look on truth

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Cynthia's Revels

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Ill painters when they draw and poets write

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Who live but for themselves are but for show

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's Queen and Concubine

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

Selflove my liege is not so vile a sin

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Henry V

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Though loyalty well held to fools does make

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Antony and Cleopatra

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

On foreign foes

Page No:

p.200

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Valentinian

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Consider | We're but shadows motions others give us

Page No:

pp.200-201

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Valentinian

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

To wear your loyal habit still

Page No:

p.200

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Chapman's First Part of Byron's Conspiracy]

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

The bounds of loyalty are made of glass

Page No:

p.200

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's First Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Think you it not as strong a point of faith

Page No:

p.200

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Second Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

God gives to kings the honour to command

Page No:

p.200

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Philotas

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

No more my worthy friend though these be truths

Page No:

p.201

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Beaumont and Fletcher's Valentinian]

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Love with bounty levied

Page No:

pp.201-202

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Emperor of the East

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Allegiance | Tempted too far is like the trial of

Page No:

p.201

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Great Duke of Florence

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

We will eat such at a meal

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Volpone

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

I will have all my beds blown up not stuffed

Page No:

pp.202-203

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Alchemist

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Allegiance in me like the string of a watch

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Aglaura

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

You are guarded

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Unfortunate Mother

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

We'll therefore go withal and live

Page No:

pp.203-204

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Alchemist

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Who yieldeth unto pleasures and to lust

Page No:

p.204

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Knight of Malta

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Men may talk of country christmasses and

Page No:

p.204

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's City Madam

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Gather all the flowers

Page No:

pp.204-205

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Microcosmus

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Thy life hath hitherto been my dear husband

Page No:

p.205

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Henry Shirley's Martyr'd Soldier

Attributed To:

Henry Shirley

First Line:

It is a shame that man that has the seeds

Page No:

pp.205-206

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marmyon's Holland's Leaguer

Attributed To:

Shackerley Marmion

First Line:

There in her den lay pompous luxury

Page No:

p.205

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Henry II

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

Tilting the day masquing the night chased thence

Page No:

pp.206-207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

Take heed of lies truth though it trouble some minds

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Lies hide our sins like nets like perspectives

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Lover's Progress

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

That ordinary commotioner the lie

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton and Rowley's Fair Quarrel

Attributed To:

William Rowley

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Dare to be true nothing can need a lie

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herbert

Attributed To:

George Herbert

First Line:

He will lie like a lapwing when she flies

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge of Bussey D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

War destroys men but luxury mankind

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Caligula

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Two beggars told me

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

When Mendacio hath invention on the

Page No:

p.208

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In the city I'm honoured like a god

Page No:

pp.208-209

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Man is a foolish pamphlet full of lies

Page No:

p.209

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Second Part of the Destruction of Jerusalem

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

But if a frenzy do possess the brain

Page No:

p.210

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

O gentle son

Page No:

p.210

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Surely we are all mad people and they

Page No:

p.211

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

Why sir madness is not such a discredit

Page No:

p.211

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's School of Compliments

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Madmen sometimes on sudden flashes hit

Page No:

p.211

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant On one that prophesy'd

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

See that noble and most sovereign reason

Page No:

p.211

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The king is mad how stiff is my vile sense

Page No:

p.211

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Lear

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

As budding branch rent from the native tree

Page No:

p.212

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Twas no false heraldry when madness drew

Page No:

p.212

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Oh what is man great maker of mankind

Page No:

p.212

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

We are men my liege

Page No:

pp.212-213

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Macbeth

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Oh my soul here's something tells me that these

Page No:

p.213

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear and Rowley's Birth of Merlin

Attributed To:

William Rowley

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Lo here the man

Page No:

pp.213-214

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Cynthia's Revels

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

He was a man take him for all in all

Page No:

p.213

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

They say best men are moulded out of faults

Page No:

p.213

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Measure for Measure

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Man is a tree that hath no top in cares

Page No:

p.214

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Bussy D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

These our times

Page No:

p.214

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Men are not good but for necessity

Page No:

p.214

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Oh wearisome condition of humanity

Page No:

p.215

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Oh wretched men which under shame are layed

Page No:

p.215

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

For our defects in nature who sees not

Page No:

p.215

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke of Human Learning

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

All other creatures follow after kind

Page No:

p.215

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Queen Margaret to Duke of Suffolk

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

First seeds of every creature are in us

Page No:

pp.215-216

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

This mass of thought this animated slime

Page No:

p.215

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Croesus

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Man is a crafty creature hard to know

Page No:

p.215

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Alexandrean Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Tis the deepest art to study man

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

To be man | Is to be but the exercise of cares

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Lover's Melancholy

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

As there is by nature

Page No:

pp.216-217

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Lover's Melancholy

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

As man is of the world the heart of man

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Dr. Donne]

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

Man's curse is things forbid still to pursue

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dauborne's Christian turned Turk

Attributed To:

Robert Daborne

First Line:

Nature and all those universal powers

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Courageous Turk

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

Man is an actor and the world a stage

Page No:

p.217

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richards's Messalina

Attributed To:

Nathanael Richards

First Line:

How poor a thing is man whom death itself

Page No:

p.217

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph's Jealous Lovers

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

From outward actions man should not derive

Page No:

p.217

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Hannibal and Scipio

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Man is to man a monster hearted stone

Page No:

p.218

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richards's Messalina

Attributed To:

Nathanael Richards

First Line:

Nor is this lower world but a huge inn

Page No:

p.218

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Howell

Attributed To:

James Howell

First Line:

Much of man's sand through time's wide glass does run

Page No:

p.218

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

Horses get their livings by their backs

Page No:

p.218

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's City Wit

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

To study god god's student man was made

Page No:

pp.218-219

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant to Ogilby

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

What is a man a congregation

Page No:

p.219

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Darius

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Mankind upon each other's ruins rise

Page No:

p.219

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir R. Howard's Vestal Virgin

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

We worldly folk account him very wise

Page No:

p.219-220

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis strange to see the impiety of parents

Page No:

p.220

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's May-Day

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

O fortunate poor maids that are not forced

Page No:

pp.220-221

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophonisba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

It is a sign that nothing shall assuage

Page No:

p.220

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lilly's Sapho and Phao

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

For see how many discontented beds

Page No:

p.220

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Rosamund

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Reverend and honourable matrimony

Page No:

pp.221-222

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Phoenix

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Some man unworthy to be possessor

Page No:

p.221

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Is it enough to use adulterous thefts

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Women beware Women

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Holy ceremonies

Page No:

pp.222-223

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Women beware Women

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

It is the married woman if you mark it

Page No:

p.223

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Wit at several Weapons

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Fie upon these | Unsanctified matches they make us loath

Page No:

p.223

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Webster's Devil's Law Case]

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

For women's resolutions in such deeds

Page No:

p.223

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Devil's Law Case

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

I am that even course that must be kept

Page No:

p.223

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph's Muse's Looking-glass

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Who for his wife his harlot doth prefer

Page No:

p.223

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Michaelmas-Term

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

How near am I now to a happiness

Page No:

p.223

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Middleton's Women beware Women]

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

what do you think of marriage

Page No:

p.224

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

How many shepherds daughters who in duty

Page No:

p.224

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

Take thus much of my council marry not

Page No:

p.224

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Broken Heart

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Tis a fault | That men not guided by the tract of reason

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Constant Maid

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

The wiving vine that bout the friendly elm

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Glapthorne's Albertus Wallenstein

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

Who weds as I have to enforced sheets

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Wilkin's Miseries of inforced Marriage

Attributed To:

George Wilkins

First Line:

Fie this engrossment is but mere conceit

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

Wedlock to his age will bring him home

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's Damoiselle

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

Men shall abandon pride and jealousy

Page No:

p.226

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Machen's Dumb Knight

Attributed To:

Lewis Machin

First Line:

Faith tis no age to be put off

Page No:

p.226

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Main's City Match

Attributed To:

Jasper Mayne

First Line:

True matrimony's nothing else indeed

Page No:

p.226

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph's Muse's Looking Glass

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

But you will say the comfort of a life

Page No:

pp.226-227

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

The grey eyed morn smiles on the frowning night

Page No:

p.226

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

For wealth has married wealth with youth age joins

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's To one marry'd to an old Usurer

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Our gallant friend

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

I esteem it | No marriage but a well named rape where friends

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mead's Combat of Love and Friendship

Attributed To:

Robert Mead

First Line:

Why is marriage legal

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's cruel Brother

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Marriage is but a church device that would

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Tatham's Distracted State

Attributed To:

John Tatham

First Line:

And wisely ancients by this needful snare

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Sir this is the great market of matrimony

Page No:

pp.228-229

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fane's Love in the Dark

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

These marriages in earnest come time enough

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fane's Love in the Dark

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

Men should look with eyes and not

Page No:

pp.229-230

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Guzman

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

Though your structure be

Page No:

p.230

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fountain's Rewards of Virtue

Attributed To:

John Fountain

First Line:

The hour of marriage ends the female reign

Page No:

pp.230-231

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's English Fryar

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

The master which in passion kills his slave

Page No:

p.231

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Unnatural Combat

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Ants live safely till they have gotten wings

Page No:

pp.231-232

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lilly's Alexander and Campaspe

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

By children servants neighbours so esteemed

Page No:

p.231

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Stand who so list for me

Page No:

p.231

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brandon's Octavia

Attributed To:

Samuel Brandon

First Line:

An equal master whose sincere intents

Page No:

p.231

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

We must in passing to our wished ends

Page No:

p.232

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's First Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Thou art a ferryman Phao yet

Page No:

p.232

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lylly's Sapho and Phao

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

Oh mediocrity | Thou prizeless jewel only mean men have

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Queen of Corinth

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Had I been born a servant my low life

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tell me sweet lord what is't that takes from thee

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's First Part of K. Henry IV.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I'll bear me in some strain of melancholy

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

That melancholy | Though ending in distraction should work

Page No:

pp.234-235

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Duke of Milan

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

This foul melancholy

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Oh melancholy | Who ever yet could sound thy bottom

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I am as melancholy as a gib cat

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's First Part of K. Henry IV

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I have neither the scholars melancholy

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's As you like it

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I have sat with him in his cabin a day together

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Unnatural Combat

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Melancholy is | The root as well of every apish frenzy

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Lover's Melancholy

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Melancholy | Is not as you conceive an indisposition

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. John Ford's Lover's Melancholy]

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

See the strange working of dull melancholy

Page No:

pp.235-236

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of melancholy | Which some define is weakness in a lord

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Jones's Adrasta

Attributed To:

John Jones

First Line:

To these high powers a store house doth pertain

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Sir John Davies]

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

This ledger book lies in the brain behind

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

Remember thee | Ay thou poor ghost while memory holds a seat

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh it comes over my memory

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

None grow so old

Page No:

pp.237-238

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

I remember you not

Page No:

p.237

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Michaelmas Term

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Could her tomb | Stand whilst I lived so long that it might not

Page No:

p.237

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's First Part of the Honest Whore

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

No man cares for anamestes or remembrance

Page No:

p.237

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou hast almost

Page No:

p.238

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Sophy

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Had memory been lost with innocence

Page No:

p.238

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Mercy is not itself that oft looks so

Page No:

p.238

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Tis necessary he should die

Page No:

p.238

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Timon

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Why all the souls that were were forfeit once

Page No:

p.238

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Shakespear's Measure for Measure]

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

If there be nothing worthy you can see

Page No:

p.239

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Underwoods

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Dispense sometime with stern severity

Page No:

pp.239-240

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Attend our will

Page No:

p.239

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The quality of mercy is not strained

Page No:

p.239

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Merchant of Venice

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy

Page No:

p.240

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Lovers Progress

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Mercy is the highest reach of wit

Page No:

p.240

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Great minds erect their never failing trophies

Page No:

p.240

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Emperor of the East

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Nor takes it from the justice of a prince

Page No:

p.240

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Gamester

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

If they are gods pity's a banquet to them

Page No:

p.240

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright's Royal Slave

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

O think think upward on the thrones above

Page No:

pp.240-241

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Siege of Rhodes

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Mercy itself but rarely does bestow

Page No:

p.241

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Tryphon

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

My lord I will use them according to

Page No:

p.241

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

To kill shows fear dares not more fears endure

Page No:

p.241

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

You bring such clemency as shows you have

Page No:

p.241

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant on the Restauration

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Oh your desert speaks loud and I should wrong it

Page No:

pp.241-242

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Measure for Measure

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

True gold will any trial stand untouched

Page No:

p.242

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Second Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

So rare are true deservers loved or known

Page No:

p.242

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's First Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Ourself have ever vowed to esteem

Page No:

p.242

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Johnson's Cynthia's Revels]

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Potential merit stands for actual

Page No:

p.242

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Cynthia's Revels

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

To those all great men friends most frankly prove

Page No:

p.242

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Alexandrean Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

His life's example was so true

Page No:

p.243

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Atheist's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

When no fair aspect shineth on deserts

Page No:

p.243

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Why should your fair eyes with such sovereign grace

Page No:

p.243

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Ideas

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

O tis base

Page No:

p.243

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Day's Law Tricks

Attributed To:

John Day

First Line:

Seem not too conscious of thy worth nor be

Page No:

pp.243-244

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

On my own treasure of desert I live

Page No:

p.244

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Calisto

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

In a base commonwealth

Page No:

p.244

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Regulus

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

For human excellence hath this ill fate

Page No:

p.244

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant to Mr. Benlowes

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Who does to merit trust

Page No:

p.244

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Sad One

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

His fate is nobler who deserves but fails

Page No:

p.244

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Black Prince

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

Our honours and our commendations be

Page No:

p.244

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

The settled mind is free from fortune's power

Page No:

pp.244-245

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Churchyard in the Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Thomas Churchyard

First Line:

Perhaps something repugnant to her kind

Page No:

pp.245-246

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

All things received do such proportion take

Page No:

p.245.2

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

Besides as Homer's gods gainst armies stand

Page No:

p.245

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Sir John Davies]

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

The mind and not the man doth make or mar

Page No:

p.245

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomas Blener Hasset in the Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Thomas Blenerhasset

First Line:

Know sir that the wings

Page No:

p.246

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Elder Brother

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Sick minds are like sick men that burn with fevers

Page No:

p.246

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Poetaster

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

A merrier man

Page No:

p.246

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Love's Labour's Lost

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

From the crown of his head to the sole of

Page No:

p.246

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Much ado about Nothing

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Tis mirth that fills the veins with blood

Page No:

p.247

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Knight of the Burning Pestle

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Tis nought but mirth

Page No:

p.247

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Beamont and Fletcher's Knight of the Burning Pestle]

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

See the event this will prove good mirth

Page No:

p.247

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Barrey's Ram-Alley

Attributed To:

Lording Barry

First Line:

Sometimes when my face was full of smiles

Page No:

p.247

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Our mirth shall be the quintessence of pleasure

Page No:

p.247

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marmyon's Antiquary

Attributed To:

Shackerley Marmion

First Line:

A merry harmless mischief whose relation

Page No:

p.247.5

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Bride

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Mischief overflows my thoughts and like a sea

Page No:

p.248

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Lord Brooke's Alaham]

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Mischief that may be helped is hard to know

Page No:

p.248

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Lord Brooke's Alaham]

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

For he that for himself would ruin all

Page No:

p.248

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Now you begin | When crimes are done and past and to be punished

Page No:

p.248

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Volpone

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Goltho by nature was of music made

Page No:

p.248

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Others' mirth | And not mine own it is that feeds me that

Page No:

p.248

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's Antipodes

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

They are mandrakes groans and still

Page No:

p.248

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Play-House to be Lett

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

God can rip up secret mischiefs wrought

Page No:

p.248

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Mischief against goodness aimed is like a stone

Page No:

p.249

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Flethcer's Queen of Corinth

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Mischief is like the cockatrice's eyes

Page No:

p.249

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Lord Brooke's Mustapha]

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Mischief while her head shows in a cloud

Page No:

p.249

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Whom you do employ

Page No:

p.249

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

The hidden powers of heaven they make and bend

Page No:

p.249

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Aleyn's Henry VII]

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Mischiefs | Are like the visits of Franciscan friars

Page No:

p.249

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Devil's Law Case

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

That dart sure hits which clouds did hide

Page No:

p.249

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Killegrew's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

Henry Killigrew

First Line:

He that may hinder mischief

Page No:

p.249

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Freeman's Imperiale

Attributed To:

Sir Ralph Freeman

First Line:

In mischief there's content

Page No:

p.249

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Bride

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

We search for serpents but being found destroy them

Page No:

p.249

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's Match me in London

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

Tempestuous fortune hath spent all her spite

Page No:

p.250

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

I have seen sudden starts to mischief grow

Page No:

p.250

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir R. Howard's Vestal Virgin

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Tis easy to accuse

Page No:

pp.250-251

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Cleopatra

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

He jests at scars that never felt a wound

Page No:

p.250

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

If fortune were so firm as she is frail

Page No:

p.250

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes

Page No:

p.250

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Coriolanus

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Where is your ancient courage you were used

Page No:

p.250

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Coriolanus

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Nothing is a misery

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

If that a man be thrust into a well

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

What power can make me wretched what evil

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophonisba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

We lay aside distinctions if our fates

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Wedding

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

We worldly men when we see friends and kinsmen

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's New Way to pay old Debts

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

I pray sir deal with men in misery

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heywood's Royal King

Attributed To:

Thomas Heywood

First Line:

Death waits at home disgrace and ruin here

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Juliana

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

From this unhappy place let us fly

Page No:

pp.252-253

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Andromache

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Healthy men | Know how t' afford good counsel unto others

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Henry Burnell's Landgartha

Attributed To:

Henry Burnell

First Line:

The disgrace that waits upon misfortune

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Sophy

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Though good things answer many good intents

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Misfortune brings | Sorrow enough tis envy to ourselves

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Habbington's Queen of Arragon

Attributed To:

William Habington

First Line:

Ill luck for speed of all things else is chief

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastoral

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

The thrifty heavens mingle our sweets with gall

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomas Rawlins's Rebellion

Attributed To:

Thomas Rawlins

First Line:

For he that does | Most honour to his mistress well may boast

Page No:

p.253

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Caesar and Pompey

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

As in some countries far remote from hence

Page No:

pp.253-254

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Idea

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Twas told me you were rough and coy and sullen

Page No:

p.253

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Shakespear's Taming of the Shrew]

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Yourself and all the world

Page No:

p.253

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Taming of the Shrew

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

You do not know what it is to be a

Page No:

p.254

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Love's Cruelty

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Among the gods she hath her place

Page No:

p.254

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

William Hawkins's Apollo Shroving

Attributed To:

William Hawkins

First Line:

Here's a health to her that best deserves

Page No:

pp.254-255

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Covent-Garden

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

When she was born nature in sport began

Page No:

p.255

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

I have a mistress for perfection rare

Page No:

pp.255-256

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

The soldier that joins conquest to his name

Page No:

pp.256-257

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

If when the sun at noon displays

Page No:

p.256

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Carew

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew

First Line:

Of all flowers methinks a rose is best

Page No:

pp.257-258

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear and Rowley's Two Noble Kinsmen

Attributed To:

William Rowley

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Men's eyes are dim but women's blind to excellence

Page No:

p.257

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Ambitious Statesman

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Some fragrant flowers the smell some trees the sight

Page No:

p.257

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Watkins

Attributed To:

Rowland Watkyns

First Line:

You are so bashful

Page No:

pp.258-259

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Wit without Money

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Strange cross in nature purest virgin shame

Page No:

p.258

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge of Bussy D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

A modest silence though't be thought

Page No:

p.258

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophonisba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

I ask that I might waken reverence

Page No:

p.258

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

What is't you doubt her coyness that's but the

Page No:

p.259

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

If I do shun you tis

Page No:

p.259

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Aglaura

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

O useless shame officious bashfulness

Page No:

p.259

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

I could wish that everything I touched might

Page No:

pp.260-261

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lilly's Mydas

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

Still you recoil like the chaste indian plant

Page No:

p.260

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Love and Honour

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Neither a borrower nor a lender be

Page No:

p.261

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

O thou sweet king killer and dear divorce

Page No:

p.261

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Timon

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

That I might live alone once with my gold

Page No:

p.262

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson his Case is alter'd

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Come forth state and wonder

Page No:

p.262

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Staple of News

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

What is here | Gold yellow glittering precious gold

Page No:

p.262

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Timon

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

These are the stars the ministers of fate

Page No:

p.263

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Atheist's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

Puissant gold red earth at first made man

Page No:

p.263

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Divine money the soul of all things sublunary

Page No:

pp.263-264

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Bird in a Cage

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Money thou bane of bliss and source of woe

Page No:

p.263

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herbert

Attributed To:

George Herbert

First Line:

Pray sir what turned you turk

Page No:

p.263

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dauborne's Christian turn'd Turk

Attributed To:

Robert Daborne

First Line:

Oh powerful gold whose influence doth win

Page No:

p.263

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Raging Turk

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

Gold is of use to every sort of knave

Page No:

p.264

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Ambitious Statesman

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

And many ready hands she straight doth find

Page No:

pp.264-265

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

See what money can do that can change

Page No:

p.264

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's Weeding of Covent-Garden

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

By this the northern waggoner had set

Page No:

p.265

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

From whence it proceeds

Page No:

p.265

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Bondman

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Woe to the worldly men whose covetous

Page No:

p.265

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Bishop King

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

At last the golden oriental gate

Page No:

p.266

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

It is methinks a morning full of fate

Page No:

p.266

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Look the morn in russet mantle clad

Page No:

p.266

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

How bloodily the sun begins to peer

Page No:

p.266

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's First Part of King Henry IV.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

See how the morning opes her golden gates

Page No:

p.266

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Third Part of King Henry VI

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Yon grey lines

Page No:

p.266

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

'Shakespear's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The glow worm shows the matin to be near

Page No:

p.266

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Shakespear's Hamlet]

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Yet hath the morning sprinkled through the clouds

Page No:

p.267

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Humorous Day's Mirth

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

See the dapple grey coursers of the morn

Page No:

p.267

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Second Part of Antonio and Melida

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Is not yon gleam the shuddering morn that flakes

Page No:

p.267

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's First Part of Antonio and Melida

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Stay o sweet and do not rise

Page No:

p.267

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

Now gins the fair dew-dabbling blushing morn

Page No:

pp.267-268

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Hawkins's Apollo Shroving

Attributed To:

William Hawkins

First Line:

See Aurora puts on her crimson blush

Page No:

p.268

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lewis Sharp's Noble Stranger

Attributed To:

Lewis Sharpe

First Line:

The muses friend grey eyed aurora

Page No:

p.268

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

Now night by grief neglected hastes away

Page No:

p.269

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Besides another motive doth arise

Page No:

pp.269-270

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

The rosy fingered morn did there disclose

Page No:

p.269

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Baron]

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

By this the choristers of the wood did shake

Page No:

p.269

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

The morn begins her glory in the east

Page No:

p.269

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Play-House to be lett

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

This strain of mourning with sepulchre like

Page No:

pp.270-271

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Widow's Tears

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

If I don't do the mourner as lively

Page No:

p.270

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Widow's Tears

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

We all must die | And leave our selves it matters not where when

Page No:

p.271

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Valentinian

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

At your banquets | When I am gone if any chance to number

Page No:

p.271

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Beaumont and Fletcher's Valentinian]

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

For blacks are often such dissembling mourners

Page No:

pp.271-272

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger, Middleton, and Rowley's Old Law

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

Philip Massinger

First Line:

I rushed amongst the thickest of their crowds

Page No:

pp.272-273

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marlo's Lust's Dominion

Attributed To:

Christopher Marlowe

First Line:

To mourn for we know not whom and when

Page No:

p.272

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Jones's Adrasta

Attributed To:

John Jones

First Line:

He who wears blacks and mourns not for the dead

Page No:

p.272

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

They truly mourn that mourn without a witness

Page No:

p.272

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

Mourn as thou pleasest for me plainness shows

Page No:

p.272

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright's Ordinary

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

Why should your closer mournings more be worn

Page No:

p.272

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

But people's voice is neither shame nor praise

Page No:

p.272

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What would ye have ye curs

Page No:

p.273

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Shakespear's Coriolanus]

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The commonwealth is sick of their own choice

Page No:

pp.273-274

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Second Part of King Henry IV

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

There have been many great men that have flattered

Page No:

p.273

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Coriolanus

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

For the rumour | As it grows bigger will incense the multitude

Page No:

p.274

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Unfortunate Mother

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Who trusts their idle murmur

Page No:

p.274

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Orestes

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

This common body

Page No:

p.274

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Antony and Cleopatra

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The giddy multitude who never fear

Page No:

pp.275-276

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Charles VIII. of France

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

But this rough tide the meeting multitude

Page No:

p.275

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Hast thou not seen the ragged multitude

Page No:

p.275

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

W. Hemmings's Jews Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Heminges [Heming]

First Line:

The multitude which cannot one thing long

Page No:

p.275

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O horror horror horror

Page No:

pp.276-277

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Macbeth

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Horror pursues the homicide's sad soul

Page No:

p.276

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

She must die else she'll betray more men

Page No:

p.276

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Stars hide your fires

Page No:

p.276

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Macbeth

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Blood though it sleep a time yet never dies

Page No:

p.277

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Widow's tears

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh

Page No:

p.277

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Shakespear's Second Part of King Henry VI]

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

See how the blood is settled in his face

Page No:

p.277

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Second Part of King Henry VI

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

When murderers shut deeds close this curse does seal them

Page No:

p.278

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

There's great suspicion of the murder

Page No:

p.278

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Murder is open mouthed and as the sea

Page No:

p.278

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mason's Muleasses

Attributed To:

John Mason

First Line:

Blood hath strange organs to discourse withal

Page No:

pp.278-279

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Gomersall's Lodovick Sforza

Attributed To:

Robert Gomersall

First Line:

Murder itself is past all expiation

Page No:

p.278

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Orestes

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

And those who to themselves loved life deny

Page No:

p.279

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Siege of Rhodes

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Who by blood offends

Page No:

p.279

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph's Amyntas

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

To be or not to be that is the question

Page No:

pp.279-280

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The gods avert from every Roman mind

Page No:

pp.280-281

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Caesar and Pompey

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Let's reason with the worst that may befall

Page No:

p.280

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

What more speaks | Greatness of man than valiant patience

Page No:

p.282

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

This roman resolution of self-murder

Page No:

p.282

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Maid of Honour

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

I'll make myself in a capacity

Page No:

pp.282-283

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Contention of Ajax and Ulysses

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

This strong desire of death that hath possessed

Page No:

p.283

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Jones's Adrasta

Attributed To:

John Jones

First Line:

What may not man unlock this cabinet

Page No:

pp.283-285

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Self murder that infernal crime

Page No:

pp.285-286

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fane's Sacrifice

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

I cannot leave thee to

Page No:

p.285

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Distresses

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

For nature crescent does not grow alone

Page No:

p.286

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Each thing by nature tendeth to the same

Page No:

p.286

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Phaer in the Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Thomas Phaer [Phayer]

First Line:

Oh noble strain | O worthiness of nature breed of greatness

Page No:

p.286

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

'Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

What nature lent

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

For it follows well

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Atheist's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

Nature hath made nothing so base but can

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Crescey

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Nature is motion's mother

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Masques

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Nature is impartial

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Tottenham-Court

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Nor let us say some things gainst nature be

Page No:

pp.287-288

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Henry II

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

Wise nature from this face of ground

Page No:

p.288

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Barons Wars

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Nature's an ocean endlessly profound

Page No:

p.288

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Second Part of the Destruction of Jerusalem

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Heaven study more in nature than in schools

Page No:

p.288

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Nature is so kind

Page No:

p.288

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Prologue to Sir R. Howard's Indian Queen

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Tis the first sanction nature gave to man

Page No:

p.288

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

There nature wanton was and the high way

Page No:

p.288

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

By armies stowed in fleets exhausted Spain

Page No:

p.289

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Siege of Rhodes

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

For this effectual day his art revealed

Page No:

pp.289-290

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Tis necessity | To which the gods must yield and I obey

Page No:

p.290

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's False One

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Fatal necessity is never known

Page No:

p.290

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

The art of our necessities is strange

Page No:

p.290

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Lear

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Those men are fools

Page No:

p.291

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Captain

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

When a needs must commands us to begin

Page No:

p.291

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

For though that tales be told that hope might geed

Page No:

p.291

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cavil in the Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

H. Cavell

First Line:

When fear admits no hope of safety then

Page No:

p.291

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Tis some man's luck to keep the joys he likes

Page No:

p.291

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Women beware Women

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news

Page No:

p.291

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Second Part of King Henry IV

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Ill news hath wings and with the wind doth go

Page No:

p.292

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Barons Wars

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Ill news like a contagion spreads too fast

Page No:

p.292

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dover's Roman Generals

Attributed To:

John Dover

First Line:

And as dire thunder rolling over heaven's vault

Page No:

p.292

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Midnight was come when every vital thing

Page No:

pp.292-293

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Dorset in the Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Thomas Sackville

First Line:

Why tenderst thou that paper to me with

Page No:

p.292

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

When griesly night with visage deadly sad

Page No:

p.293

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Fair eldest child of love thou spotless night

Page No:

p.293

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marloe's Lust's Dominion

Attributed To:

Christopher Marlowe

First Line:

Who can express the horror of that night

Page No:

p.293

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brandon's Octavia

Attributed To:

Samuel Brandon

First Line:

Gallop apace you fiery footed steeds

Page No:

pp.293-294

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

For night hath many eyes

Page No:

p.294

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

The sullen night had her black curtain spread

Page No:

pp.294-295

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Barons Wars

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Dark night that from the eye his function takes

Page No:

p.294

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Midsummer-Night's Dream

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Now silent night in pitchy vapours clad

Page No:

p.294

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Darius

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

The night doth summon all to sleep

Page No:

p.295

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Ideas

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Now barks the wolf against the full cheeked moon

Page No:

p.295

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Second Part of Antonio and Mellida

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

See the heavy clouds low falling

Page No:

p.296

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

If every trick were told that's dealt by night

Page No:

p.296

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

Stand night upon thy noonstead and attend

Page No:

pp.296-297

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mason's Muleasses

Attributed To:

John Mason

First Line:

Soul lurk in shades and shun the lightsome skies

Page No:

p.296

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Malecontent

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

The sable mantle of the silent night

Page No:

p.297

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

Night that doth basely keep the door of sin

Page No:

p.297

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For there's no difference twixt the king and clown

Page No:

pp.297-298

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Yonder's the night too stealing away

Page No:

p.298

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Goblins

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Night's silent reign had robbed the world of light

Page No:

p.298

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Continuation of Lucan

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

Those who the greatest wanderer are

Page No:

p.298

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Siege of Rhodes

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

It most behoves the honourable race

Page No:

p.299

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Tears of the Muses

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Ne do they care to have the ancestry

Page No:

p.299

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser, Ibid

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

What doth avail to have a princely place

Page No:

p.299

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

They are the breathing sepulchres of nobleness

Page No:

pp.300-301

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge of Bussy D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Why are we rich or great except to show

Page No:

p.300

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Underwood

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Idle regards of greatness he did scorn

Page No:

pp.301-302

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Robert Duke of Normandy

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Though we come not to plead our birthright here

Page No:

p.301

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Alexandrean Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Before that Aulicus was made a lord

Page No:

p.302

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Quarles

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

Thou an earl | Why thou enjoyst as much of happiness

Page No:

p.302

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Perkin Warbeck

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

It is great sin to swear unto a sin

Page No:

p.302

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Second Part of K. Henry VI

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

It was an ill oath better broke than kept

Page No:

p.303

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tateham's Rump

Attributed To:

John Tatham

First Line:

We will have his oath you have my solemn oath

Page No:

p.303

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Regulus

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Though we need nothing to strengthen

Page No:

p.303

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Killegrew's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

Henry Killigrew

First Line:

Sir I beseech you say not your oaths were such

Page No:

p.303

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Wilkins's Miseries of enforced Marriage

Attributed To:

George Wilkins

First Line:

Begone I say the gods have heard me swear

Page No:

p.303

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The king must rule and we must learn t'obey

Page No:

p.304

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear and Rowley's Birth of Merlin

Attributed To:

William Rowley

William Shakespeare

First Line:

And while none dare show kings they go amiss

Page No:

p.304

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e.'Lord Brooke's Mustapha]

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

For as we see when sickness deeply root

Page No:

p.304

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Next in order sad old age we found

Page No:

pp.304-305

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Dorset in the Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Thomas Sackville

First Line:

Before we knew not

Page No:

p.304

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Cleopatra

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

On a grey head age was authority

Page No:

pp.305-306

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Every Man in his Humour

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Kind keepers of my weak decaying age

Page No:

p.305

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's First Part of K. Henry VI

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

For age with shame of youths fond deeds struck blind

Page No:

p.305

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

These old fellows

Page No:

p.305

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Timon

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

It is as proper to our age

Page No:

p.305

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I'm reading sir of a short treatise here

Page No:

pp.306-307

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Humourous Lieutenant

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

The other are considerations

Page No:

p.306

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Silent Woman

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Good feeble king he could not do much harm

Page No:

p.306

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Mary the French Queen to D. of Suffolk

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Have we no brain

Page No:

p.306

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Fawn

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

What dost thou stand on this that he is old

Page No:

p.306

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Rosamund

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

His snowy age o old Andronicus

Page No:

pp.307-308

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cheerful his age not tedious or severe

Page No:

p.308

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant to the Countess of Carlisle

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Cacilius vainly said each day we spend

Page No:

pp.308-309

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

I know not what this old man is like unless

Page No:

p.308

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

We happier are than they who but desired

Page No:

p.309

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Denham]

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

When I reflect on age I find there are

Page No:

p.309

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Denham]

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

In age to wish for youth is full as vain

Page No:

p.309

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Denham]

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Th'art yet in thy green May twenty seven summers

Page No:

p.309

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Davenport's King John and Matilda

Attributed To:

Robert Davenport

First Line:

Opinion the blind goddess of fools foe

Page No:

p.310

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Widow's Tears

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Oh sir my reason is not dim with age

Page No:

p.310

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Thyestes

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

My father's old what then age like a caterpillar

Page No:

p.310

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Ambitious Statesman

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

O malecontent seducing guest

Page No:

p.310

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Cleopatra

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Whilst great men do as tossed on th' ocean groan

Page No:

pp.310-311

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Alexandrean Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Opinion's but a fool that makes us scan

Page No:

p.310

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Pericles

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

There's nothing simply good or ill alone

Page No:

p.311

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

Opinion is that high and mighty dame

Page No:

p.311

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Howel

Attributed To:

James Howell

First Line:

How can you rest where power is still alarmed

Page No:

p.311

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant to the King

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Who gets th' opinion of a virtuous name

Page No:

p.311

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Mad World my Masters

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Let not opinion make thy judgment err

Page No:

p.311

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

There is a certain season if we hit

Page No:

p.312

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Valentinian

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

We must abide our opportunity

Page No:

p.312

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Opportunity to statesmen is as the just degree

Page No:

p.312

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Brennoralt

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Secureful thoughts do foster fond delay

Page No:

p.312

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

There is a tide in the affairs of men

Page No:

p.312

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare