A Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions [S102575]

DMI number:

1784

Publication Date:

1578

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

S102575

EEBO/ECCO link:

http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:99838347

Shelfmark:

EBBO

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of 16th century verse, Collection of ballads, and Collection of songs

Format:

Quarto

Comments:

VMO FULL TEXT: http://versemiscellaniesonline.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/texts/gorgeous-gallery/index/

Content/Publication

First Line:

See Gallants see this Gallery of delights

Page No:

sig. Aiir

Poem Title:

A. M. Unto all young Gentlemen, in commendation of this Gallery and workmen thereof.

Attribution:

A.M.

Attributed To:

Anthony Munday

First Line:

The busy bees whose pains do never miss

Page No:

sig. Aiir-Aiiv

Poem Title:

Owen Roydon to the curious company of sycophants

Attribution:

Owen Roydon

Attributed To:

Owen Roydon

First Line:

Some women fain that Paris was

Page No:

sig. Aiijr-Aiijv

Poem Title:

To a Gentlewoman that said: All men be false they think not what they say.

Attribution:

O. R.

Attributed To:

Owen Roydon

First Line:

Health I thee send if he may give that which himself doth miss

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sig. Aiiiir-Aiiiiv

Poem Title:

The lamentable lover abiding in the bitter bale of direful doubts towards his Lady's loyalty, writeth unto her as followeth.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twice hath my quaking hand withdrawn this pen away

Page No:

sig. Bir-Biijr

Poem Title:

A loving Epistle, written by Ruphilus a young Gentleman, to his best beloved Lady Elriza, as followeth.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To stay thy musing mind he did this pistle frame

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sig. Biijr-Biiiiv

Poem Title:

Narsetus a woeful youth, in his exile writeth to Rosanna his beloved mistress, to assure her of his faithful constancy, requiring the like of her.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Even he that whilom was thy faithful friend most just

Page No:

sig. Biiiiv-Ciiv

Poem Title:

The Lover forsaken, writeth to his Lady a desperate farewell

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How can the cripple get in running race the game

Page No:

sig. Ciijr

Poem Title:

The Lover in distress exclaimeth against Fortune.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In doubtful dreading thoughts as I gan call to mind

Page No:

sig. Ciijr-Ciijv

Poem Title:

Another complaint on Fortune

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The hugie heap of cares that in this world I find

Page No:

sig. Ciijv-Ciiiiv

Poem Title:

The lover being newly caught in Cupid's snares, complaineth on the Gods of love, and compareth his grief as followeth.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Desire hath driven from me my will

Page No:

sig. Ciiiiv-Dir

Poem Title:

The Lover extolleth, as well the rare virtues of his Lady beloved, as also her incomparable beauty.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though Fortune cannot favour

Page No:

sig. Dir

Poem Title:

The Lovers farewell, at his departure, persuadeth his beloved to constancy in his absence.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The glittering shows of Flora's dames

Page No:

sig. Div

Poem Title:

A proper ditty. To the tune of lusty Gallant.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Be steadfast to thine own

Page No:

sig. Diir

Poem Title:

The Lover persuadeth his beloved, to beware the deceits and allurements of strange suiters.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Would god I had never seen

Page No:

sig. Diiv-Diijr

Poem Title:

The Lady beloved exclaimeth of the great untruth of her lover.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since needs thee will me sing give ear unto the voice

Page No:

sig. Diijr-Diijv

Poem Title:

The Lover declareth his painful plight for his beloved sake.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Deem as thee list upon good cause

Page No:

sig. Diijv-Diiiir

Poem Title:

The Lover having his beloved in suspicion declareth his doubtfull mind.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Pass forth in doleful dumps my verse

Page No:

sig. Diiiir-Eir

Poem Title:

An excellent Sonnet, wherein the Lover exclaimeth against Detraction, being the principle cause of his care. To the tune, when Cupid scaled first the Fort.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When shall relief release my woe

Page No:

sig. Ci-Civ

Poem Title:

The Lover in bondage looketh for the releasement and longeth for the relief of his wedding day.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Like as the Hawk is led by lure to draw from tree to tree

Page No:

sig. Civ

Poem Title:

A fine and friendly Letter, of the Lover to his beloved.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

All wealth I must forsake and pleasures eke forgo

Page No:

sig. Eiir [EV = Ciir]

Poem Title:

The Lovers fatal farewell at his death.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You graves of grisly ghosts

Page No:

sig. Ciir-Ciiir

Poem Title:

The Lover complaineth of his Lady's inconstancy to the Tune of I lothe that I did love.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Too feeble is the thread

Page No:

sig. Eiijr

Poem Title:

The Lover, having sustained overmuch wrong at his Lady's hand wisheth speedy death.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Not light of love lady

Page No:

sig. Eiijv-Eiiivr

Poem Title:

The Lover exhorteth his Lady to be constant. To the Tune of Attend thee go play thee.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If pity once may move thy heart

Page No:

sig.Eivr-Fiv

Poem Title:

The Lover wounded with his Lady's beauty craveth mercy. To the tune of where in the life that late I led.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If ever wight had cause to moan

Page No:

sig. Fiv-Fijv

Poem Title:

A Caveat to young men to shun the snares of Cupid's crafty slights.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why askest thou the cause

Page No:

sig. Fijv

Poem Title:

The aged Lover's note, at length to learn to die.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My joyful days be past

Page No:

sig. Fiijr

Poem Title:

The desperate lover exclaimeth his lady's cruelty and threatneth to kill himself.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since that thou didest me love

Page No:

sig. Fiijr-Fiijv

Poem Title:

The Lover being blinded with the faithless love of his Lady is contented to remit her fault upon the promise of amendment.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When that I way with wit and eke consider now

Page No:

sig. Fiijv-Fiiijr

Poem Title:

A worthy comparison of Virtue against all worldly pomp.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Each thing must have a time and time doth try men's troath

Page No:

sig. Fiiijr-Fiiijv

Poem Title:

Of a happy wished time

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If only sight suffice my heart to loose or bind

Page No:

sig. Fiiijv

Poem Title:

The Lover persuadeth himself to patience against envy and slanderous tongues.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since thou unjust hast caught a lust

Page No:

sig. Gir-Giv

Poem Title:

The lover grievously complaineth against the unjust dealing of his lady beloved.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh heavy heart whose harms be hid

Page No:

sig. Giv-Giir

Poem Title:

The lover in great distress comfortheth himself with hope.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The faithful cannot fly nor wander to nor fro

Page No:

sig. Giir

Poem Title:

In the commendation of faithful love.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I would I were Acteon whom Diana did disguise

Page No:

sig. Giiv

Poem Title:

The Lover wishesth himself an Hart in the Forest (as Acteon was) for his lady's sake.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The grisley ghosts which walk below in black Cocytus lakes

Page No:

sig. Giiv-Giiir

Poem Title:

An Epitaph upon the death of Arthur Fletcher of Bangor Gent.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh wretched wight whom henceforth may I trust

Page No:

sig. Giiir-ivr

Poem Title:

A Lady writeth unto her Lover wherein she most earnestly chargeth him with ingratitude.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For beauty's sake though love doth dread thy might

Page No:

sig. Givr

Poem Title:

The Lover unto his Lady beloved, of her disdainfulness toward him.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Not she for whom proud Troy did fall and burn

Page No:

sig. Givv

Poem Title:

The Lover in the praise of his beloved and comparison of her beauty.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Behold you Dames that reign in fames whose looks mens hearts do lead

Page No:

sig. Givv-Hir

Poem Title:

In the praise of a beautiful and vituous Virgin, whose name begins with M.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The heat is past that did me fret

Page No:

sig. Hir-Hiv

Poem Title:

The Lover deceived by his lady's inconstancy, writeth unto her as followeth.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ask what love is It is a passion

Page No:

sig. Hiv-Hiir

Poem Title:

A true description of love

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O cruel heart with falsehood infect of force I must complain

Page No:

sig. Hiir.

Poem Title:

The Lover to his beloved, by the name of fair, and false.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The slave of servile sort that born is bond by kind

Page No:

sig. Hiir-Hiiir

Poem Title:

The Lover describeth his painful plight, and requireth speedy redess, or present death.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear heart as erst I was so will I still remain

Page No:

sig. Hiiir-Hivr

Poem Title:

The Lady beloved, assureth her Lover to be his own, and not to change, while life doth last.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If Chaucer yet did live whose English tongue did pass

Page No:

sig. Hiiivr-Hiiivv

Poem Title:

In the praise of rare beauty and manifold virtues of Mistress D. as followeth

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I spake when I meant not in speeding to gain

Page No:

sig. Iir

Poem Title:

Pretty parables, and proverbs of love

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A sovereign salve there is for each disease

Page No:

sig. Iiv

Poem Title:

Of Patience

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

An everlasting bondage doth he choose

Page No:

sig. Iiv

Poem Title:

Of lawless lust

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I count this conquest great

Page No:

sig. Iiv

Poem Title:

Of will, and reason.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Three things who seeks for praise must fly

Page No:

sig. Iv

Poem Title:

Of three things to be shunned

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Chastity a virtue rare

Page No:

sig. Iiv

Poem Title:

Of beauty and chastity

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who seeketh the renown to have

Page No:

sig. Iv

Poem Title:

Of wisdom

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A conscience pure withouten spot

Page No:

sig. Iiir

Poem Title:

Of a pure conscience.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The friendship found by chance is such

Page No:

sig. Iiir

Poem Title:

Of friendship found by chance

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

But I suppose the same good will

Page No:

sig. Iiir

Poem Title:

Of good will got by due desert.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The finest tongue can tell the smoothest tale

Page No:

sig. Iiir

Poem Title:

Of flatterers and faithful friends.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

God wot my friend our life full soon decays

Page No:

sig. Iiir

Poem Title:

Of a virtuous life, age and death.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fancy is fierce desire is bold

Page No:

sig. Iiir

Poem Title:

A proper posie for a Handkercher.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With speedy wings my feathered woes pursues

Page No:

sig. Iiiv

Poem Title:

The lover being overmuch wearied with servile life, compareth it to a labyrinth.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though that my years full far do stand aloft

Page No:

sig. Iiiir

Poem Title:

How to choose a faithful friend.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To seem for to revenge each wrong in hasty wise

Page No:

sig. Iiiir-Iiiiv

Poem Title:

The Lover being accused of suspicion of flattery, pleadeth not guilty, and yet is wrongfully condemned.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Behold these high and mighty men

Page No:

sig. Iiiiv-Iivv

Poem Title:

The lover describeth the dangerous state of ambition.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The bitter sweet that strains my yielded heart

Page No:

sig. Iivv

Poem Title:

The painful plight of a Lover remaining in doubtful hope of his lady's favour.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My fancy feeds upon the sugared gall

Page No:

sig. Kir

Poem Title:

The Lover recounteth his faithful diligence toward his beloved, with the rewards that he reapeth thereof.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Imagine when these blurred lines thus scribbled out of frame

Page No:

sig. Kiv-Kiiv

Poem Title:

A Letter written by a young gentlewoman and sent to her husband unawares (by a friend of hers) into Italy.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To thee I write whose life and death thy faith may save or spill

Page No:

sig. Kiiir

Poem Title:

A Letter sent from beyond seas to his Lover, persuading her to continue her love towards him.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Because my heart is not mine own but resteth now with thee

Page No:

sig. Kiiiv

Poem Title:

An other loving letter.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Leave fading plumes no more vaunt gallant youth

Page No:

sig. Kivr

Poem Title:

Proctor's Precepts

Attribution:

Thomas Proctor

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The greedy man whose heart with hate doth swell

Page No:

sig. Kivv

Poem Title:

Invidus alterius rebus macrescit opimis.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From Limbo Lake where dismal fiends do lie

Page No:

sig. Lir-Liv

Poem Title:

The reward of whoredom by the fall of Helen.

Attribution:

T.P.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The tedious toil the cares which Lovers taste

Page No:

sig. Liv-Liir

Poem Title:

A Lover's Life.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My love what misliking in me do you find

Page No:

sig. Liir-Liiiv

Poem Title:

A Lover approving his Lady unkind. Is forced unwilling to utter his mind.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now cease to sing your siren songs I leave each brave delight

Page No:

sig. Liiiv

Poem Title:

A gloze of fawning friendship.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who goes to gaze of every gallant girl

Page No:

sig. Livr

Poem Title:

A Maze of Maidens

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear Lady decked with comeliness

Page No:

sig. Livv

Poem Title:

A short Epistle written in the behalf of N.B. to M.H.

Attribution:

N.B

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What motion more may move a man to mind

Page No:

sig. Mir-Miv

Poem Title:

A View of Vainglory

Attribution:

T.P.

Attributed To:

Thomas Proctor

First Line:

Behold me here whose youth to withered years

Page No:

sig. Miir-Miiv

Poem Title:

The Fall of Folly, exampled by needy Age

Attribution:

T.P.

Attributed To:

Thomas Proctor

First Line:

Ay me ay me I sigh to see the scythe afield

Page No:

sig. Miiir

Poem Title:

A proper sonnet, how time consumeth all earthly things.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Shall clammy clay shrowd such a gallant gloze

Page No:

sig. Miiiv

Poem Title:

The Mirror of Mortality

Attribution:

T.P.

Attributed To:

Thomas Proctor

First Line:

To darksome cave where crawling worms remain

Page No:

sig. Mivr

Poem Title:

A brief dialogue between sickness and worldly desire.

Attribution:

T.P.

Attributed To:

Thomas Proctor

First Line:

The wealthy chuffe for all his wealth

Page No:

sig. Mivv-Niv

Poem Title:

Aeger dives habet nummos, sed non habet ipsum.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who sees the ill and seeks to shun the same

Page No:

sig. Niv-Niir

Poem Title:

Win fame and keep it.

Attribution:

T.P.

Attributed To:

Thomas Proctor

First Line:

Lo here the state of every mortal wight

Page No:

sig. Niir

Poem Title:

Respice finem.

Attribution:

T.P.

Attributed To:

Thomas Proctor

First Line:

Try ere thou trust unto a fawning friend

Page No:

sig. Niiv

Poem Title:

A brief Caudat, to shun fawning friends

Attribution:

T.P.

Attributed To:

Thomas Proctor

First Line:

Through beauty's sugared baits

Page No:

sig. Niiir

Poem Title:

Beauty is a pleasant path to distruction.

Attribution:

T.P.

Attributed To:

Thomas Proctor

First Line:

Farewell my friend whom fortune forced to fly

Page No:

sig. Niiiv

Poem Title:

T.P. his farewell unto his faithful and approved friend. F.S.

Attribution:

T.P.

Attributed To:

Thomas Proctor

First Line:

In Babylon a stately seat of high and mighty kings

Page No:

sig. Nivr-Piiv

Poem Title:

The History of Pyramis and Thisbe

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A doubtful dying doleful Dame

Page No:

sig. Piiv-Pivv [acc. EV]

Poem Title:

The lamentation of a Gentlewoman upon the death of her late deceased friend William Gruffith Gent

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed