The historical and poetical medley or muses library [T61451] [ecco]
- DMI number:
- 675
- Publication Date:
- 1738
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T61451
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW111442099
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - Bod
- Full Title:
- THE | [i]Historical and Poetical Medley:[/i] | OR | MUSES LIBRARY; | BEING | A Choice and Faithful Collection of the best | Antient English Poetry, from the Times of | EDWARD the Confessor, to the Reign of | King JAMES the First. | WITH | The Lives and Character of the known Writers | taken from the most Authentick Memoirs. | BEING | The most valuable Collection of the Kind now | extant, affording Entertainment upon all Subjects | whatsoever. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for T. DAVIES, in [i]Duke's Court[/i] over-against St. [i]Martin's[/i] Church, in St. [i]Martin's Lane[/i]. 1738.
- Epigraph:
- [i]Nec veniam Antiquis sed honorem & praemia posci.[/i] Hor.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of 16th century verse and Collection of 17th century verse
- Format:
- Octavo
- Bibliographic details:
- Reissue of T144867 with cancel title page and final leaf.
- Comments:
- Contents: includes some prose discussion of the verse.
- Other matter:
- Address 'To the truly Honourable Society for the Encouragement of Learning' signed E. Cooper [4pp.]; Preface pp. [vii]-xvi; Errata p. xvi.
- References:
- Case 415 (c)
- Title:
- The muses library; or a series of English poetry [T144866] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1741
- ESTC No:
- T144866
- Volume:
- None
- Relationship:
- Reissue
- Comments:
- Title:
- The muses library; or a series of English poetry, from the Saxons, to the Reign of King Charles II [T144867] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1737
- ESTC No:
- T144867
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Reissue
- Comments:
- Editor:
- Elizabeth Cooper
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Thomas Davies
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- And whereto serves that wondrous trophy now
- Page No:
- pp.x-xi
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- the ingenious Mr. Daniel, in his Poem call'd Musophilus
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Daniel
- First Line:
- Perhaps the words thou scornest now
- Page No:
- p.ix-x
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- the ingenious Mr. Daniel, in his Poem call'd Musophilus
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Daniel
- First Line:
- Iche Edward Koning
- Page No:
- pp.1-2
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- a Conveyance of Edward the Confessor's
- Attributed To:
- Edward the Confessor
- First Line:
- Two tunne there beth of bras
- Page No:
- pp.3-4
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- The Author entirely unknown
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- King Henry is dead beauty of the world
- Page No:
- pp.4-5
- Poem Title:
- Verses on Henry I. wrote immediately after his Death,
- Attribution:
- the Author unknown.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As his chamberlain him brought as he rose on a day
- Page No:
- pp.5-6
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Robert of Gloucester.
- Attributed To:
- Robert of Gloucester
- First Line:
- In dreary verse my rhymes I make
- Page No:
- p.7
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Robert Baston.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Baston
- First Line:
- The founder of this city saith Polychronicon
- Page No:
- p.7
- Poem Title:
- On the City of Chester.
- Attribution:
- Henry Bradshaw.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Bradshaw
- First Line:
- Hereto assented Civil and Simony ne would
- Page No:
- pp.9-13
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Robert de Langland
- Attributed To:
- Robert Langland
- First Line:
- Envy with heavy heart asked after shrift
- Page No:
- pp.13-16
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Robert de Langland.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Langland
- First Line:
- And ye that seek St James and saints at Rome
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Robert de Langland.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Langland
- First Line:
- Then came Sloth all beslabberd with two slimy eyne
- Page No:
- pp.16-17
- Poem Title:
- Sloth.
- Attribution:
- Robert de Langland.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Langland
- First Line:
- Kind Conscience though heard and came out of the planets
- Page No:
- pp.17-18
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Robert de Langland
- Attributed To:
- Robert Langland
- First Line:
- Immediately a place
- Page No:
- pp.18-19
- Poem Title:
- Paradise Lost. Book II. Line 475.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Of Jupiter thus I find ywrite
- Page No:
- p.19-22
- Poem Title:
- Of the envious Man and the Miser.
- Attribution:
- Sir John Gower.
- Attributed To:
- John Gower
- First Line:
- O morall Gower this boke I directe
- Page No:
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Chaucer
- Attributed To:
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- First Line:
- Lordings quoth he in chirch when I preche
- Page No:
- pp.24-29
- Poem Title:
- The Pardoners Prologue.
- Attribution:
- Chaucer.
- Attributed To:
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- First Line:
- Out of the French I drough it of entent
- Page No:
- p.30
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- John Lidgate.
- Attributed To:
- John Lydgate
- First Line:
- But welaway is mine heart wo
- Page No:
- p.31
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Thomas Occleve, or Okeleafe
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Hoccleve [Occleve]
- First Line:
- Truly I herd Robert Irelesse say
- Page No:
- pp.32-33
- Poem Title:
- On the magnificent Houshold of King Richard II.
- Attribution:
- John Harding.
- Attributed To:
- John Hardyng
- First Line:
- To you these accord these unto you are due
- Page No:
- pp.34-36
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Alexander Barclay
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Barclay
- First Line:
- To ship gallants the sea is at the full
- Page No:
- pp.36-38
- Poem Title:
- The Clamour to the Fooles.
- Attribution:
- Alexander Barclay.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Barclay
- First Line:
- I am the first fool of all the whole navy
- Page No:
- pp.38-40
- Poem Title:
- The Book-Worm.
- Attribution:
- Alexander Barclay.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Barclay
- First Line:
- Here maketh mine author a special mention
- Page No:
- pp.41-44
- Poem Title:
- The Hypocrite.
- Attribution:
- Alexander Barclay
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Barclay
- First Line:
- When Saturn with his cold icy face
- Page No:
- pp.45-47
- Poem Title:
- Translated from the Latin of the unfortunate Edward the Second.
- Attribution:
- Robert Fabian.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Fabyan
- First Line:
- Who so him liketh these verses to read
- Page No:
- pp.47-48
- Poem Title:
- An Apology for having prais'd the City of London, in Verses, which he calls Ryme-Doggerel.
- Attribution:
- Robert Fabian.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Fabyan
- First Line:
- In autumn when the sun in virgin
- Page No:
- pp.49-55
- Poem Title:
- The Prologue to the Bouge of Court.
- Attribution:
- John Skelton
- Attributed To:
- John Skelton
- First Line:
- From Tuscane came my lady's worthy race
- Page No:
- p.57
- Poem Title:
- Description and Praise of his Love Geraldine.
- Attribution:
- Henry Howard Earl of Surrey.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Howard
- First Line:
- The soote season that bud and bloom forth brings
- Page No:
- pp.57-58
- Poem Title:
- Description of Spring, wherein eche thing renewes, save only the Lover.
- Attribution:
- Henry Howard Earl of Surrey
- Attributed To:
- Henry Howard
- First Line:
- When youth had led me half the race
- Page No:
- pp.58-59
- Poem Title:
- Description of the restless estate of a Lover.
- Attribution:
- Henry Howard Earl of Surrey.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Howard
- First Line:
- Brittle beauty that nature made so frail
- Page No:
- pp.59-60
- Poem Title:
- The frailtye and hurtfulnes of Beautie.
- Attribution:
- Henry Howard Earl of Surrey.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Howard
- First Line:
- Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green
- Page No:
- pp.60-61
- Poem Title:
- A Vowe to love faithfully Howsoever he be rewarded.
- Attribution:
- Henry Howard Earl of Surrey.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Howard
- First Line:
- So cruel prison how could betide alas
- Page No:
- pp.61-63
- Poem Title:
- Prisoner in Windsor, he recounteth his pleasure there passed.
- Attribution:
- Henry Howard Earl of Surrey.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Howard
- First Line:
- O happy dames that may embrace
- Page No:
- pp.63-65
- Poem Title:
- Complaint of the absence of her Lover being upon the Seas.
- Attribution:
- Henry Howard Earl of Surrey.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Howard
- First Line:
- Give place ye lovers here before
- Page No:
- pp.65-66
- Poem Title:
- A Praise of hys Love, wherein he reproveth them that compare their Ladies with his.
- Attribution:
- Henry Howard Earl of Surrey.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Howard
- First Line:
- Laid in my quiet bed in study as I were
- Page No:
- pp.67-69
- Poem Title:
- How no age is content with his owne estate, and how the age of Children is the happiest if they had skill to understand it.
- Attribution:
- Henry Howard Earl of Surrey.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Howard
- First Line:
- Martial the things that do attain
- Page No:
- p.67
- Poem Title:
- The meanes to attayne happy lyfe.
- Attribution:
- Henry Howard Earl of Surrey.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Howard
- First Line:
- My lute awake perform the last
- Page No:
- pp.70-72
- Poem Title:
- The Lover complaineth the unkindness of his love.
- Attribution:
- Sir Thomas Wyat
- Attributed To:
- Sir Thomas Wyatt
- First Line:
- In court to serve decked with fresh array
- Page No:
- p.72
- Poem Title:
- The Courtiers Life.
- Attribution:
- Sir Thomas Wyat.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Thomas Wyatt
- First Line:
- Mine own John Poines since ye delight to know
- Page No:
- pp.72-76
- Poem Title:
- Of the Courtier's life, written to John Poynes.
- Attribution:
- Sir Thomas Wyat.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Thomas Wyatt
- First Line:
- A spending hand that alway poureth out
- Page No:
- pp.77-80
- Poem Title:
- How to use the Court and himself therein, written to Sir Fraunces Bryan.
- Attribution:
- Sir Thomas Wyat.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Thomas Wyatt
- First Line:
- If right be racked and overrun
- Page No:
- pp.81-82
- Poem Title:
- They of the meane Estate are happiest.
- Attribution:
- the Authors of which are unknown, but suppos'd Contemporary with Lord Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyat.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The longer life the more offence
- Page No:
- pp.82-83
- Poem Title:
- Upon consideration of the State of this Life he wisheth Death.
- Attribution:
- the Authors of which are unknown, but suppos'd Contemporary with Lord Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyat
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A student at his book so placed
- Page No:
- p.83
- Poem Title:
- Of a New Married Studient that plaied fast and lose.
- Attribution:
- the Authors of which are unknown, but suppos'd Contemporary with Lord Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyat
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Give place you ladies and be gone
- Page No:
- pp.83-86
- Poem Title:
- A praise of his ladie
- Attribution:
- the Authors of which are unknown, but suppos'd Contemporary with Lord Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyat
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I am an Englishman and naked I stand here
- Page No:
- pp.86-88
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Andrew Bourd
- Attributed To:
- Andrew Boorde
- First Line:
- The wrathful winter hastening on apace
- Page No:
- pp.89-117
- Poem Title:
- Induction to the Mirror of Magistrates.
- Attribution:
- T. Sackville.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Sackville
- First Line:
- Among the rest by fortune overthrown
- Page No:
- pp.118-136
- Poem Title:
- Jane Shore.
- Attribution:
- Thomas Churchyard.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Churchyard
- First Line:
- If sloth and tract of time
- Page No:
- pp.137-142
- Poem Title:
- On the English Poets.
- Attribution:
- Thomas Churchyard
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Churchyard
- First Line:
- When summer sweet with all her pleasures past
- Page No:
- pp.142-148
- Poem Title:
- Second Induction to the Mirror of Magistrates.
- Attribution:
- John Higgins.
- Attributed To:
- John Higgins
- First Line:
- Who is more bold then is the Bayard blind
- Page No:
- pp.148-156
- Poem Title:
- The Prologue of Michael Joseph the Black-Smith.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Cauil.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The Brutons thus departed hence seven kingdoms here begun
- Page No:
- pp.157-168
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- William Warner.
- Attributed To:
- William Warner
- First Line:
- At beauty's bar as I did stand
- Page No:
- pp.169-171
- Poem Title:
- The Araignment of a Louer.
- Attribution:
- G. Gascoigne.
- Attributed To:
- George Gascoigne
- First Line:
- And now with care I can record those days
- Page No:
- p.172
- Poem Title:
- From his Dan Bartholomew, &c.
- Attribution:
- G. Gascoigne.
- Attributed To:
- George Gascoigne
- First Line:
- O loving youths this glass was made for you
- Page No:
- p.173
- Poem Title:
- From the same.
- Attribution:
- G. Gascoigne.
- Attributed To:
- George Gascoigne
- First Line:
- The poets old in their fond fable feign
- Page No:
- pp.173-180
- Poem Title:
- From the Fruits of War.
- Attribution:
- G. Gascoigne.
- Attributed To:
- George Gascoigne
- First Line:
- Why is't damnation to despair and die
- Page No:
- pp.181-182
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Thomas Nash.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Nashe
- First Line:
- Let all his faults sleep in his mournful chest
- Page No:
- p.183
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Were there no wars poor men should have no peace
- Page No:
- p.183
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Thomas Nash.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Nashe
- First Line:
- At length when reason saw
- Page No:
- pp.184-194
- Poem Title:
- The Speech of Reason against Love.
- Attribution:
- George Turberville.
- Attributed To:
- George Turbervile [Turberville]
- First Line:
- If merchants in their warped keels
- Page No:
- pp.194-198
- Poem Title:
- That Louers ought to shunne no paines to attaine their Loue.
- Attribution:
- George Turberville.
- Attributed To:
- George Turbervile [Turberville]
- First Line:
- Should no man write say you
- Page No:
- pp.198-200
- Poem Title:
- That no man should write but such as do excell.
- Attribution:
- George Turberville.
- Attributed To:
- George Turbervile [Turberville]
- First Line:
- P seems of Venus' stock to be
- Page No:
- pp.200-203
- Poem Title:
- In praise of Ladie P.
- Attribution:
- George Turberville.
- Attributed To:
- George Turbervile [Turberville]
- First Line:
- Poor painters oft with silly poets join
- Page No:
- pp.206-209
- Poem Title:
- The true Picture of Love.
- Attribution:
- Sir Philip Sidney.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Philip Sidney
- First Line:
- A neighbour mine not long ago there was
- Page No:
- pp.209-215
- Poem Title:
- A Receipt to make a Cuckold. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Sir Philip Sidney.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Philip Sidney
- First Line:
- The mind of man is this world's true dimension
- Page No:
- pp.217-239
- Poem Title:
- A Treatise of Humane Learning.
- Attribution:
- Sir Fulk Greville, Lord Brook
- Attributed To:
- Fulke Greville
- First Line:
- Now mark your charge each fury work his part
- Page No:
- pp.239-240
- Poem Title:
- Conclusion of the Prologue to the Tragedy of Alaham: Address'd by a Ghost to the Faries.
- Attribution:
- Sir Fulk Greville, Lord Brook
- Attributed To:
- Fulke Greville
- First Line:
- Oh wearisome condition of humanity
- Page No:
- pp.240-241
- Poem Title:
- Chorus Sacerdotum, at the End of the Tragedy of Mustapha.
- Attribution:
- Sir Fulk Greville, Lord Brook
- Attributed To:
- Fulke Greville
- First Line:
- I with whose colours Myra dressed her head
- Page No:
- pp.241-243
- Poem Title:
- Myra's Inconstancy.
- Attribution:
- Sir Fulk Greville, Lord Brook
- Attributed To:
- Fulke Greville
- First Line:
- Away with these self-loving lads
- Page No:
- pp.243-244
- Poem Title:
- Love for Love.
- Attribution:
- Sir Fulk Greville, Lord Brook
- Attributed To:
- Fulke Greville
- First Line:
- My senses all like beacon's flame
- Page No:
- pp.245-247
- Poem Title:
- The Dream.
- Attribution:
- Sir Fulk Greville, Lord Brook
- Attributed To:
- Fulke Greville
- First Line:
- Caelica when I did see you every day
- Page No:
- pp.247-248
- Poem Title:
- Caelica, always amiable.
- Attribution:
- Sir Fulk Greville, Lord Brook
- Attributed To:
- Fulke Greville
- First Line:
- Love I did send you forth enamelled fair
- Page No:
- p.248
- Poem Title:
- Loves Excuse.
- Attribution:
- Sir Fulk Greville, Lord Brook
- Attributed To:
- Fulke Greville
- First Line:
- The little hearts where light winged passion reigns
- Page No:
- pp.249-250
- Poem Title:
- Court Favourites.
- Attribution:
- Sir Fulk Greville, Lord Brook
- Attributed To:
- Fulke Greville
- First Line:
- Rewards of earth nobility and fame
- Page No:
- pp.250-251
- Poem Title:
- Nobilitie
- Attribution:
- Sir Fulk Greville, Lord Brook
- Attributed To:
- Fulke Greville
- First Line:
- Virgula divina sorcerers call a rod
- Page No:
- pp.251-252
- Poem Title:
- On the Same.
- Attribution:
- Sir Fulk Greville, Lord Brook
- Attributed To:
- Fulke Greville
- First Line:
- Isis in whom the poet's feigning wit
- Page No:
- pp.252-253
- Poem Title:
- The Asse of Authority.
- Attribution:
- Sir Fulk Greville, Lord Brook
- Attributed To:
- Fulke Greville
- First Line:
- The first was fancy like a lovely boy
- Page No:
- pp.256-264
- Poem Title:
- The Mask of Cupid, Fairy Queen, Book 3. Cant 12.
- Attribution:
- Edmund Spencer.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Spenser
- First Line:
- Yet the brave courtier in whose beauteous thought
- Page No:
- pp.264-267
- Poem Title:
- The brave Courtier, from Mother Hubberds Tale.
- Attribution:
- Edmund Spencer.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Spenser
- First Line:
- Sweet were the sauce would please each kind of taste
- Page No:
- pp.269-270
- Poem Title:
- Upon Gascoign's Poem, call'd The Steel-Glass.
- Attribution:
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Attributed To:
- Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
- First Line:
- The praise of meaner wits this work like profit brings
- Page No:
- pp.270-271
- Poem Title:
- On the same.
- Attribution:
- Sir Walter Raleigh.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
- First Line:
- If all the world and love were young
- Page No:
- pp.271-273
- Poem Title:
- The Nimphs Reply to the Shepheard. In Answer to some Stanzas of Marlows, Beginning, Come live with me &c.
- Attribution:
- Sir Walter Raleigh.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
- First Line:
- Passions are likened best to floods and streams
- Page No:
- pp.273-275
- Poem Title:
- The silent Lover.
- Attribution:
- Sir Walter Raleigh.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
- First Line:
- Prometheus when first from heaven high
- Page No:
- pp.275-276
- Poem Title:
- The Shepherd's Conceit of Prometheus.
- Attribution:
- Sir Ed. Dyer.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Edward Dyer
- First Line:
- Through a fair forest as I went
- Page No:
- pp.276-280
- Poem Title:
- The Wood-Man's Walke.
- Attribution:
- Shep. Tonie.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In peasecod time when hound to horn
- Page No:
- pp.281-287
- Poem Title:
- The Shepherd's Slumber.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come live me and be my dear
- Page No:
- pp.287-289
- Poem Title:
- In Imitation of C. Marlow.
- Attribution:
- Ignoto.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Phoebus delights to view his laurel tree
- Page No:
- pp.289-290
- Poem Title:
- The Shepherd's Solace.
- Attribution:
- Tho. Watson.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Watson
- First Line:
- A careful nymph with careless grief oppressed
- Page No:
- pp.290-291
- Poem Title:
- A Pastorall.
- Attribution:
- Shep. Tonie.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In pride of youth in midsts of May
- Page No:
- pp.291-294
- Poem Title:
- The Barginet of Antimachus.
- Attribution:
- Tho. Lodge.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Lodge
- First Line:
- In the merry month of May
- Page No:
- pp.294-295
- Poem Title:
- Phillida and Coridon.
- Attribution:
- N. Breton.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Breton [Britton]
- First Line:
- When lo the goodness and the power divine
- Page No:
- pp.298-305
- Poem Title:
- Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Book 15.
- Attribution:
- Sir John Harington.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Harington
- First Line:
- At last his guide him brings
- Page No:
- pp.305-310
- Poem Title:
- From the same, Book 34.
- Attribution:
- Sir John Harington.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Harington
- First Line:
- Of writers Sextus's known a true despiser
- Page No:
- p.310
- Poem Title:
- A Specimen of Sir John Harington's Epigrams. Against Sextus, a Scorner of Writers.
- Attribution:
- Sir John Harington.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Harington
- First Line:
- The readers and the hearers like my books
- Page No:
- p.310
- Poem Title:
- Against Writers that carp at other Mens Books.
- Attribution:
- Sir John Harington.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Harington
- First Line:
- Proud Paulus late advanced to high degree
- Page No:
- p.311
- Poem Title:
- Of one Paulus, a great Man, that expected to be followed.
- Attribution:
- Sir John Harington.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Harington
- First Line:
- A slave thou wert by birth of this I gather
- Page No:
- p.312
- Poem Title:
- Of Don Pedro.
- Attribution:
- Sir John Harington.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Harington
- First Line:
- Don Pedro's out of debt be bold to say it
- Page No:
- p.312
- Poem Title:
- Of Don Pedro's Debts.
- Attribution:
- Sir John Harington.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Harington
- First Line:
- I read that satire thou entitlest first
- Page No:
- p.312
- Poem Title:
- Against a foolish Satyrist.
- Attribution:
- Sir John Harington.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Harington
- First Line:
- In scorn of writers Faustus still doth hold
- Page No:
- pp.312-313
- Poem Title:
- Against Faustus.
- Attribution:
- Sir John Harington.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Harington
- First Line:
- My writings oft displease you what's the matter
- Page No:
- p.312
- Poem Title:
- Of plaine dealing.
- Attribution:
- Sir John Harington.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Harington
- First Line:
- A husband and a wife oft disagreeing
- Page No:
- p.313
- Poem Title:
- Of devout Parents and Children.
- Attribution:
- Sir John Harington.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Harington
- First Line:
- Fortune men say doth give too much to many
- Page No:
- p.314
- Poem Title:
- Of Fortune.
- Attribution:
- Sir John Harington.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Harington
- First Line:
- Lynus came late to me six crowns to borrow
- Page No:
- p.314
- Poem Title:
- Of Lynus, borrowing.
- Attribution:
- Sir John Harington.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Harington
- First Line:
- Treason doth never prosper what's the reason
- Page No:
- p.314
- Poem Title:
- Of Treason.
- Attribution:
- Sir John Harington.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Harington
- First Line:
- What curled pate youth is he that sitteth there
- Page No:
- pp.314-315
- Poem Title:
- In Cornutum.
- Attribution:
- Sir John Harington.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Harington
- First Line:
- Scarce was a whisper heard such a strange force
- Page No:
- pp.316-319
- Poem Title:
- The Arcadian-Golden-Age.
- Attribution:
- John Chalkhill, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- John Chalkhill
- First Line:
- Within a little silent grove hard by
- Page No:
- pp.319-321
- Poem Title:
- A Description of the Priestesses of Diana.
- Attribution:
- John Chalkhill, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- John Chalkhill
- First Line:
- A curious eye
- Page No:
- pp.321-322
- Poem Title:
- The Image of Jealousy.
- Attribution:
- John Chalkhill, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- John Chalkhill
- First Line:
- Down in a gloomy valley thick with shade
- Page No:
- pp.322-331
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- John Chalkhill, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- John Chalkhill
- First Line:
- Why did my parents send me to the schools
- Page No:
- pp.333-342
- Poem Title:
- Nosce Teipsum.
- Attribution:
- Sir John Davis.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- And with that word she smiled and neretheless
- Page No:
- pp.345-363
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Edward Fairfax, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Edward Fairfax
- First Line:
- Whilst on the rough and heath strewed wilderness
- Page No:
- pp.364-376
- Poem Title:
- Eclogue the Fourth. Eglon and Alexis.
- Attribution:
- Edward Fairfax, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Edward Fairfax
- First Line:
- Her lily hand her rosy cheeks lies under
- Page No:
- pp.376-377
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- William Shakespear.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- O opportunity thy guilt is great
- Page No:
- pp.377-380
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- William Shakespear.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- O beauty beam nay flame
- Page No:
- pp.382-386
- Poem Title:
- A Description of Beauty, translated out of Marino.
- Attribution:
- Samuel Daniel.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Daniel
- First Line:
- Come worthy greek Ulysses come
- Page No:
- pp.386-389
- Poem Title:
- Ulysses and the Syren.
- Attribution:
- Samuel Daniel.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Daniel
- First Line:
- Now Isabel the young afflicted queen
- Page No:
- pp.390-400
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Samuel Daniel.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Daniel
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