The muses library; or a series of English poetry [T144866] [ecco]

DMI number:

596

Publication Date:

1741

ESTC number:

T144866

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW113848605

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Comments:

FULL TITLE: THE | MUSES | LIBRARY; | Or, a SERIES of | [i]English[/i] POETRY, | CONTAINING, | The Lives and Characters of all the known Writers; | the Names of their Patrons; Complete Episodes, | by way of Specimen of the larger Pieces, very near | the intire Works of some, and large Quotations | from others. | BEING | A General Collection of almost all the old valuable | Poetry extant, now so industriously enquir'd after, tho' rarely to | be found, but in the Studies of the Curious, and affording Enter-| tainment on all Subjects, Philosophical, Historical, Moral, Saty- | rical, Allegorical, Critical, Heroick, Pastoral, Gallant, Courtly, | and Sublime, | BY |[four columns] [column 1] [i]Langland, | Gower, | Chaucer, | Lidgate, | Occleve, | Harding, | Barclay, | Fabian, [/column 1] | [column 2] Skelton, | Howard[/i] Earl | of [i]Surrey,[/i] | Sir [i]T. Wyat,[/i] | Dr. [i]Bourd, | Sackville[/i] Earl | of [i]Dorset, | Churchyard, [/column 2] | [column 3] Higgens, | Warner, Gascoign, | Turbeville, | Nash,[/i] | Sir [i]Philip Sidney, | Grevill[/i] L. [i]Brook, | Spencer,[/i] [/column 3] | [column 4] Sir [i]John Har-|rington, | Chalkhill, | Fairfax,[/i] | Sir [i]John Davis[/i], | Sir [i]W. Raleigh,[/i] | Sir [i]Edw. Dyer, | Daniel[/i], &c. | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for JAMES HODGES, at the [i]Looking-Glass[/i], | overagainst St. [i]Magnus[/i] Church, [i]London-Bridge[/i]. | MDCCXLI. PAGINATION:?? PREFATORY MATTER: Dedication 'To the truly Honourable Society for the Encouragement of Learning' signed E. Cooper (4pp.); 'The Preface' pp. [vii]-xvi; Errata, p. xvi. CONTENTS: Most poems have a short prose introduction. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS: Reissue of T144867 with cancel title page. Final leaf is reset so vol. ends with 'Finis'. N.B. Case says that 'for the original title-page there have been substituted two leaves, the second and third pages of which carry a book-list and the new title-page, respectively'. However, this does not appear in ECCO copy. REFERENCES: Case 415 (d). MISCELLANY GENRE: collection of 15th-17th century verse.

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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:

Unknown

Comments:

Title:

The historical and poetical medley or muses library [T61451] [ecco]

Publication Date:

1738

ESTC No:

T61451

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Reissue

Comments:

Related People

Editor:

Elizabeth Cooper

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Editor:

William Oldys

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

According to ESTC record, Oldys assisted Cooper in editing the volume.

Publisher:

James Hodges

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

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:

p.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:

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:

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:

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:

pp.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:

p.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 Howsoeuer 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 Courtiers 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 Spenser

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:

Me thought I saw the grave where Laura lay

Page No:

p.270

Poem Title:

A Vision upon the Faerie Queene.

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, &.

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 Pedros 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