A Poetical Rhapsody [1621] [S109387]
- DMI number:
- 1798
- Publication Date:
- 1621
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- S109387
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:99845035
- Shelfmark:
- EEBO
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of 16th century verse and Collection of literary verse
- Format:
- Octavo
- First Line:
- Great Earl whose brave heroic mind is higher
- Page No:
- A3r
- Poem Title:
- To the most noble, honourable, and worthy lord William earl of Pembroke, lord Herbert of Cardiff, Marmion and Saint Quintine.
- Attribution:
- Fra. Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- He who first did institute holy wedlock
- Page No:
- A8v
- Poem Title:
- Epithalamion upon the spousals of W.A. and I.A.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Love is foolery if it be not founded
- Page No:
- A8v
- Poem Title:
- Another of the same
- Attribution:
- Another of the same
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Long have I lived in court yet learned not all this while
- Page No:
- B1r-B2v; pp. 1-4
- Poem Title:
- Yet other twelve wonders of the world, never before published, by John Davies.
- Attribution:
- John Davis
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- Wife Widow well met whither go you today
- Page No:
- B3r-B8r; pp. 5-15
- Poem Title:
- II. Poem. A contention betwixt a wife, a widow, and a maid.
- Attribution:
- Iohn Davis
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- It chanced of late a shepherd's swain
- Page No:
- B8r-C1r; pp. 15-17
- Poem Title:
- III. Poem. A Fiction how Cupid made a Nymph wound her self with his Arrows.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye ghastly groves that hear my woeful cries
- Page No:
- C1r-C2v; pp. 17-20
- Poem Title:
- IIII. Poem. A complaint, of which all the staves end with the words of the first, like a Sestina.
- Attribution:
- F.D.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- While thou didest love me and that neck of thine
- Page No:
- C2v-C3r; pp. 20-21
- Poem Title:
- V. Poem. A Dialogue in Imitation of that between Horace and Lidia, beginning, Donec, gratus eram tibi &c.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Cupid at length I spy thy crafty wile
- Page No:
- C3r-C4r; pp. 21-23
- Poem Title:
- VI. Poem. Cupid shoots light, but wounds sore.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If love be nothing but an idle name
- Page No:
- C4r-C4v; pp. 23-24
- Poem Title:
- VII. Poem. A true description of love, paraphrastically translated out of Petrarch's 103 sonnet beginning S'Amor non e che dunque e quel ch'io sento.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My wanton muse that whilome wont to sing
- Page No:
- C5r-C6r; pp. 25-27
- Poem Title:
- VII. Poem. Upon an heroical poem which he had begun (in imitation of Virgil) of the first inhabiting this famour isle by Brute, and the Troyans.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O trifling toys that toss the brains
- Page No:
- C6r-C7r; pp. 27-29
- Poem Title:
- IX. Poem. Or a Meditation upon the frailty of this life.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Conceit begotten by the eyes
- Page No:
- C7r-C7v; pp. 29-30
- Poem Title:
- X. Poem. A posey to prove affection is not love.
- Attribution:
- W.R.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
- First Line:
- When I to you of all my woes complain
- Page No:
- C7v; p. 30
- Poem Title:
- XI. Poem.
- Attribution:
- F.D.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- If wrong by force had justice put to flight
- Page No:
- C7v-C8r; pp. 30-31
- Poem Title:
- XII. Poem.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If stepdame nature have been scant
- Page No:
- C8r-C8v; pp. 31-32
- Poem Title:
- XIII. Poem. A Poem in the nature of an Epitaph of a friend.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Death is my doom awarded by disdain
- Page No:
- C8v-D1r; pp. 32-33
- Poem Title:
- XIIII. Poem. Loves contentment
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though late my heart yet turne at last
- Page No:
- D1v-D2r; pp. 34-35
- Poem Title:
- XV. Poem. A repentent Poem.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Diverse rare gems in thee oh union shine
- Page No:
- D2r-D3v; pp. 35-38
- Poem Title:
- XVI. Poem. Union's Jewel.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Great king since first this isle by Jove's own hand
- Page No:
- D3v-D5r; pp. 38-41
- Poem Title:
- XVII. Poem. Or Panegyricke to my Soveraigne Lord the King.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Charles Best
- First Line:
- Cynthia queen of seas and lands
- Page No:
- D5v-D6r; pp. 42-43
- Poem Title:
- I. Device. A lottery presented before the late queen's majesty at the lord chancellor's house, 1601
- Attribution:
- I.D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- Fortune must now no more on triumph ride
- Page No:
- D6r-D8r; pp. 43-47
- Poem Title:
- The Lots
- Attribution:
- I.D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- Ye woeful sires whose causeless hate hath bred
- Page No:
- D8r; p. 47
- Poem Title:
- II. Device. Inscriptions. Thisbe
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Hold hold thy hand vile son of viler mother
- Page No:
- D8r-D8v; pp. 47-48
- Poem Title:
- Clytemnestra to her son Orestes, coming to kill her for murdering his father Agamemnon.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- This sword is mine or will Laertes Sonne
- Page No:
- D8v; p. 48
- Poem Title:
- Ajax
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- No common womb was fit me forth to bring
- Page No:
- D8v; p. 48
- Poem Title:
- Romulus
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- My famous country values gold far less
- Page No:
- E1r; p. 49
- Poem Title:
- Fabritius Curio, who refused gold of the Samnites, and discovered to King Pyrrhus his Phistion that offered to poison him.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Caesar thou hast o'ercome to thy great fame
- Page No:
- E1r; p. 49
- Poem Title:
- Cato Utican who slew himself because he would not fall into Caesar's hands
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Dust is lighter than a feather
- Page No:
- E1v; p. 50
- Poem Title:
- III. Device. Quid pluma leuius? Puluis, Quid puluere? Ventus. Quid vento? Mulier. Quid muliere? Nihil. Translated thus.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Speak gentle heart where is thy dwelling place
- Page No:
- E1v-F2r; pp. 50-51
- Poem Title:
- IIII. Device. Or a Dialogue betweene the Lover and his heart.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets by T.W.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Watson
- First Line:
- Come gentle Death D Who calls L One that's oppressed
- Page No:
- E2r-F2v; pp. 51-52
- Poem Title:
- V. Device. Or a Dialogue betweene a Lover, Death, and Love.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets by T.W.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Watson
- First Line:
- Time nor place did I want what held me tongue-tied
- Page No:
- E2v; p. 52
- Poem Title:
- VI. Device. Phaleuciaks I.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How or where have I lost my life unhappy
- Page No:
- E3r; p.53
- Poem Title:
- VII. Device. Phaleuciacke II.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Muse not lady to read so strange a metre
- Page No:
- E3r; p.53
- Poem Title:
- Lenvoy in riming Phaleuciacs.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Wisdom warns me to shun that once I sought for
- Page No:
- E3v; p. 54
- Poem Title:
- VIII Device. Phaleuciacs.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My Muse by thee restored to life
- Page No:
- E4r; p. 55
- Poem Title:
- An Altar and Sacrifice to disdaine, for freeing him from love.
- Attribution:
- Certaine Poemes vpon diuerse Subiects by the same Author
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Spelman
- First Line:
- Begin and half is done yet half undone remains
- Page No:
- E4v; p. 56
- Poem Title:
- X. Device. Upon beginning without making an end.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ay me poor soul whom bound in sinful chains
- Page No:
- E4v; p. 56
- Poem Title:
- XI. Device. Or a Dialogue between the Soul and the Body.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hatred eternal furious revenging
- Page No:
- E5r; p. 57
- Poem Title:
- XI. Device. Sapphickes upon the Passion of Christ.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Lady my flame still burning
- Page No:
- E5r-E5v; pp. 57-58
- Poem Title:
- XIII. Device. A Dialogue betwixt the Lover and his Lady
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sweet Lord your flame still burning
- Page No:
- E5v; p. 58
- Poem Title:
- Her answere.
- Attribution:
- Ignoto.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Yonge
- First Line:
- The poor man beloved for virtue approved right blessed is he
- Page No:
- E6v-E7v; pp. 60-62
- Poem Title:
- Of the fall of man in Adam.
- Attribution:
- Addit. per Cha. Best. Arm.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Best
- First Line:
- But Jove omnipotent all things by his word who created
- Page No:
- E7v-E8r; pp. 62-63
- Poem Title:
- Of the restoring of man by Christ.
- Attribution:
- Addit. per Cha. Best. Arm.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Best
- First Line:
- When traiterous Photine Caesar did present
- Page No:
- E8v; p. 62
- Poem Title:
- I. Sonnet
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- While love in you did live I only lived in you
- Page No:
- F1r; p. 63
- Poem Title:
- II. Sonnet.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Phoebus of all the gods I wish to be
- Page No:
- F1r-F1v; pp. 63-66
- Poem Title:
- III. Sonnet. To Mistress Diana.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- If my harsh humble style and rhymes ill dressed
- Page No:
- F1v; p. 66
- Poem Title:
- IIII. Sonnet. Dedication of these Rhymes, to his first Love.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- I bend my wits and beat my weary brain
- Page No:
- F2r; p. 63
- Poem Title:
- V. Sonnet. That he cannot hide or desemble his affection.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- The fairst eye oh eyes in blackness fair
- Page No:
- F2r-F2v; p63-66
- Poem Title:
- VI. Sonnet. Upon his absence from her.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Who in these lines may better claim a part
- Page No:
- F2v-F3r; pp. 66-67
- Poem Title:
- VII. Sonnet. Upon presenting her with the speech of Gray's Inn Masque, at the court, 1594, consisting of three parts. The story of Proteus' transformations, the wonders of the adamantine Rock, and a speech to her majesty.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Wake pity wake for thou hast slept too long
- Page No:
- F3r; p. 67
- Poem Title:
- VIII. Sonnet. To Pitie.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- If love conjoyned with worth and great desert
- Page No:
- F3r-F3v; pp. 67-70
- Poem Title:
- IX. Sonnet. Upon her acknowledging his desert, yet reiecting his affection.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- If your fond love want worth and great desert
- Page No:
- F3v-F4r; pp. 70-67
- Poem Title:
- X. Sonnet. Her answere in the same Rhymes.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Praise you those barren rhymes long since composed
- Page No:
- F4r; p. 67
- Poem Title:
- XI. Sonnet. Upon her commending (though most undeservedly) his verses to his first Love.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Worthily famous Lord whose virtues rare
- Page No:
- F4v; p70
- Poem Title:
- XII. Sonnet. To a worthy Lord (now dead) upon presenting him for a New-years gift, with Caesar's Commentaries and Cornelius Tacitus
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Let not sweet Saint let not these lines offend you
- Page No:
- F4v-F5r; pp. 70-71
- Poem Title:
- XIII. Sonnet. He demands pardon, for looking, loving, and writing.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- But if my lines may not be held excused
- Page No:
- F5r-F5v; pp. 71-74
- Poem Title:
- XIIII. Sonnet. Love and justice punishable only with like love.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Fair is thy face and great thy wits perfection
- Page No:
- F5v; p. 74
- Poem Title:
- XV. Sonnet. He calls his ears, eyes, and heart as witnesses of her sweet voice, beauty and inward virtuous perfections.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- I bend my wit but wit cannot devise
- Page No:
- F6r; p. 71
- Poem Title:
- XVI. Sonnet. Praise of her eyes, excelling all comparison.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Reason and love lately at strife contended
- Page No:
- F6r-F6v; pp. 71-74
- Poem Title:
- XVII. Sonnet. Contention of Love and Reason for his heart.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Let fate my Fortune and my stars conspire
- Page No:
- F6v-F7r; pp. 74-75
- Poem Title:
- XVIII. Sonnet. That she hath greater power over his happiness and life, than either Fortune, Fate or Stars.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- What need I say how it doth wound my breast
- Page No:
- F7r; p. 75
- Poem Title:
- XIX Sonnet. Of his Lady's weeping.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Sweet to my cursed life some favour show
- Page No:
- F7r-F7v; pp. 75-80
- Poem Title:
- XX. Sonnet. He paints out his torment.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- I have entreated and I have complained
- Page No:
- F7v-F8r; pp. 80-75
- Poem Title:
- XXI. Sonnet. His sighs and tears are bootless.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Wounded with grief I weep and sigh and plain
- Page No:
- F8r; p. 75
- Poem Title:
- XXII. Sonnet. Her beauty makes him live even in despaire.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Oft do I plain and she my plaints doth read
- Page No:
- F8r-F8v; pp. 75-80
- Poem Title:
- XXIII. Sonnet. Why her lips yeeld him no words of comfort
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Like a sea-tossed bark with tackling spent
- Page No:
- F8v-G1r; pp. 80-81
- Poem Title:
- XXIIII. Sonnet. Comparison of his heart to a tempest beaten Ship.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- How can my love in equity be blamed
- Page No:
- G1r; p. 81
- Poem Title:
- XXV. Sonnet. That he cannot leave to love, though commanded.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Must my devoted heart desist to love her
- Page No:
- G1r-G1v; pp. 81-82
- Poem Title:
- XXVI. Sonnet. He desires leave to write of his Love.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Time wasteth years and months and dayes and hours
- Page No:
- G1v-G2r; pp. 82-83
- Poem Title:
- XXVII. Sonnet. That time hath no power to end or diminish his love.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets by T.W.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Watson
- First Line:
- Look how the pale Queene of the silent night
- Page No:
- G2r; p. 83
- Poem Title:
- XXVIII. Sonnet. Of the Monne.
- Attribution:
- Cha. Best.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Best
- First Line:
- Some men they say are poets born by kind
- Page No:
- G2v; p. 84
- Poem Title:
- XXIX. Sonnet.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What moved me then Say Love for thou canst tell
- Page No:
- G2v-G3r; pp. 84-85
- Poem Title:
- XXX. Sonnet.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thus am I free from lawes that other binde
- Page No:
- G3r; p. 85
- Poem Title:
- XXXXI. Sonnet.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Wronged by desire I yielded to disdain
- Page No:
- G3v; p. 86
- Poem Title:
- XXXII. Sonnet. Desire hath conquered revenge.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Unhappy eyes the causer of my pain
- Page No:
- G3v-G4r; pp. 86-87
- Poem Title:
- XXXIII. Sonnet. To his eyes
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oft did I hear our eyes the passage were
- Page No:
- G4r-G4v; pp.87-88
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet 1. Upon Love's entring by the ears.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets to Philomel / I. D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- O why did Fame my heart to love betray
- Page No:
- G4v; p. 88
- Poem Title:
- XXXV. Sonnet.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets to Philomel / I. D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- Sickness intending my love to betray
- Page No:
- G5r; p. 89
- Poem Title:
- XXXVI. Sonnet. Of his own, and of his Mistress sickness at one time.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets to Philomel / I. D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- Pale Death himself did love my Philomel
- Page No:
- G5r-G5v; pp. 89-90
- Poem Title:
- XXXVII. Sonnet. Another of her sickness and recovery.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets to Philomel / I. D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- My love is sailed aganst dislike to fight
- Page No:
- G5v; p. 90
- Poem Title:
- XXXVIII. Sonnet 5. Allusion to Theseus voyage to Crete, against the Minotaur.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets to Philomel / I. D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- Once did my Philomel reflect on me
- Page No:
- G6r; p. 91
- Poem Title:
- XXXIX. Sonnet. Upon her looking secretly out at a window as he passed by
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets to Philomel / I. D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- When time nor place would let me often view
- Page No:
- G6r-G6v; pp. 91-92
- Poem Title:
- XI. Sonnet.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets to Philomel / I. D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- When as the sun eclipsed is some say
- Page No:
- G6v; p. 92
- Poem Title:
- XLI. Sonnet. To the Sun of his Mistress beauty eclipsed with frowns.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets to Philomel / I. D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- If you would know the love which I you bear
- Page No:
- G7r; p. 93
- Poem Title:
- XLII. Sonnet. Upon sending her a gold ring, with this poesie, pure and endless.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets to Philomel / I. D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- My cruel dear having captived my heart
- Page No:
- G7r-G7v; pp. 93-94
- Poem Title:
- XLIII. Sonnet. The heart's captivity
- Attribution:
- I.D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- Only sweet love afford me but thy heart
- Page No:
- G7v; p. 94
- Poem Title:
- XLIIII. Sonnet. For her heart only.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Best pleased she is when love is most expressed
- Page No:
- G8r; p. 95
- Poem Title:
- XLV. Sonnet.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When a weak child is sick and out of quiet
- Page No:
- G8r-G8v; p. 95-96
- Poem Title:
- XLVI. Sonnet.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Were I as base as is the lowly plain
- Page No:
- G8v; p. 96
- Poem Title:
- XLVII. Sonnet.
- Attribution:
- I.S.
- Attributed To:
- Joshua Sylvester
- First Line:
- The poets fain that when the world began
- Page No:
- G8v-H1r; pp. 96-97
- Poem Title:
- XLVIII. Sonnet
- Attribution:
- I.S.
- Attributed To:
- Joshua Sylvester
- First Line:
- Mine eye with all the deadly sins is fraught
- Page No:
- H1r-H1v; pp. 97-98
- Poem Title:
- XLIX. Sonnet. Loves seven deadly sinnes.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye sister-muses do not you repine
- Page No:
- H1v; p. 98
- Poem Title:
- L. Sonnet. To two most Honourable and virtuous Ladies and sisters, the Ladie Margaret Countess of Cumberland, the Ladie Anne Countess of Warwick.
- Attribution:
- H.C.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dearling of these of future times the glory
- Page No:
- H2r; p. 99
- Poem Title:
- LI. Sonnet. To my Lord the Prince.
- Attribution:
- Addit. per Cha. Best. Arm.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Best
- First Line:
- Fair virtue's gem set in most royal gold
- Page No:
- H2r-H2v; pp. 99-100
- Poem Title:
- LII. Sonnet. To the excellent Lady Elizabeth her Grace.
- Attribution:
- Addit. per Cha. Best. Arm.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Best
- First Line:
- Go soul the body's guest
- Page No:
- H2v-H4r; pp. 100-103
- Poem Title:
- I. Canzonet. The Lie
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
- First Line:
- The virtuous man is free though bound in chains
- Page No:
- H4r-H4v; pp. 103-104
- Poem Title:
- II. Canzonet. The Christian Stoic.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- fairst and kindest of all woman-kind
- Page No:
- H4v; p. 104
- Poem Title:
- III. Canzonet. Upon seeing his face in her eye.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Heart Shun not sweet breast to see me all of fire
- Page No:
- H4v-H5r; pp. 104-105
- Poem Title:
- IIII. Canzonet. A Dialogue betweene a Lover's flaming heart, and his Lady's frozen breast.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- If you reward my love with love again
- Page No:
- H5r; p. 105
- Poem Title:
- V. Canzonet. Or Quatrain.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Oh most unhappy Dido
- Page No:
- H5v; p. 106
- Poem Title:
- VI. Canzonet. An inscription for the Statue of Dido.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- If Love had lost his shafts and Iove down threw
- Page No:
- H5v-H6r; pp. 106-107
- Poem Title:
- VII. Canzonet. Love's Hyperboles.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets by T.W.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Watson
- First Line:
- Love is a sour delight a sugared grief
- Page No:
- H6r-H6v; pp. 107-108
- Poem Title:
- VIII. Canzonet. An invective against Love.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets by T.W.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Watson
- First Line:
- I joy not peace where yet no war is found
- Page No:
- H6v-H7r; pp. 108-109
- Poem Title:
- VIII. Canzonet. Petrarch's Sonnet translated. Pace non troue, & non hoda sar guera
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets by T.W.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Watson
- First Line:
- In that I thirst for such a goddess grace
- Page No:
- H7r-H7v; pp. 109-110
- Poem Title:
- XI. Canzonet. He proves himselfe to endure the hellish torments of Tantalus, Ixion, Titius, Sisyphus, and the Belides.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets by T.W.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Watson
- First Line:
- Where heat of love doth once possess the heart
- Page No:
- H7v-H8r; pp. 110-111
- Poem Title:
- X. Canzonet. Love's discommodities.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets by T.W.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Watson
- First Line:
- The soldier worn with wars delights in peace
- Page No:
- H8r; p. 111
- Poem Title:
- XI. Canzonet. Allegory of his Love to a Ship.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets by T.W.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Watson
- First Line:
- I curse the time wherein these lips of mine
- Page No:
- H8v; p. 112
- Poem Title:
- XII. Canzonet. Execration of his passed love.
- Attribution:
- T.W.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Watson
- First Line:
- The Sun doth make the Marigold to flowrish
- Page No:
- I1r; p. 113
- Poem Title:
- XIII. Canzonet. Of the sun: A jewel, being a sun shining upon the marigold closed in a heart of gold sent to his mistress, named Mary.
- Attribution:
- Cha. Best.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Best
- First Line:
- Fain would I learn of thee thou murdering eye
- Page No:
- I1v; p. 114
- Poem Title:
- XIIII. Canzonet. To her eyes.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My heart was found within my Lady's breast
- Page No:
- I2r; p. 115
- Poem Title:
- XV. Canzonet. His heart arraigned of theft, and acquitted.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sweet thoughts the food on which I feeding starve
- Page No:
- I2v; p. 116
- Poem Title:
- XVII. Canzonet. Deadly sweeteness.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oft have I mused the cause to find
- Page No:
- I2v-I3r; pp. 116-117
- Poem Title:
- XVIII. Canzonet. Lady's eyes serve Cupid both for darts and fire.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I smile sometimes amidst my greatest grief
- Page No:
- I3r-I3v; pp. 117-118
- Poem Title:
- XIX. Canzonet. Love's contrarieties.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Smooth are thy looks so is thy deepest stream
- Page No:
- I3v; p. 118
- Poem Title:
- XX. Canzonet. Her outward gesture deceiving his inward hope.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The love of change hath changed the world throughout
- Page No:
- I4r-I4v; pp. 119-120
- Poem Title:
- XXI. Canzonet. That he is unchangable
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The summer sun that scalds the ground with heat
- Page No:
- I4v-I5r; pp. 120-121
- Poem Title:
- XXIII. Canzonet. Upon her absence.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The frozen snake oppressed with heaped snow
- Page No:
- I5r-I5v; pp. 121-122
- Poem Title:
- XXIIII. Canzonet. The lover absence kils me, her presence cures me
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fair is thy face and that thou knowest too well
- Page No:
- I6r-I6v; pp. 123-124
- Poem Title:
- XXV. Canzonet. Fair Face, and hard Heart.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All is not gold that shineth bright in show
- Page No:
- I6v-I7r; pp. 124-125
- Poem Title:
- XXVI. Canzonet. An invective against Love.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In happy time the wished fair is come
- Page No:
- I7r-I7v; pp. 125-126
- Poem Title:
- XXVII. Canzonet. Upon his lady's buying strings for her Lute.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My heavy heart with grief and hope torment
- Page No:
- I7v-I8r; pp. 126-127
- Poem Title:
- XXVIII. Canzonet. Care will not let him live, nor hope let him die.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The golden sun that brings the day
- Page No:
- I8r-I8v; pp. 127-128
- Poem Title:
- XXIX. Canzonet. In praise of the sun
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Mine eyes have spent their tears and now are dry
- Page No:
- I8v-K1r; pp. 128-129
- Poem Title:
- XXX. Canzonet. Death in love.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Break heavy heart and rid me of this pain
- Page No:
- K1r-K1v; pp. 129-130
- Poem Title:
- XXXI. Canzonet. Break heavy heart
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Where wit is over-ruled by will
- Page No:
- K1v-K2r; pp. 130-131
- Poem Title:
- XXXII. Canzonet. Desire's government
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twixt heat and cold t'wixt death and life
- Page No:
- K2r; p. 131
- Poem Title:
- XXXIII. Canzonet. Love's properties.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If means be none to end my restless care
- Page No:
- K2v; p. 132
- Poem Title:
- XXXIIII. Canzonet. Living Death
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye walls that shut me up from sight of men
- Page No:
- K2v-K3r; pp. 132-133
- Poem Title:
- XXXV. Canzonet. The passionate Prisoner
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though naked trees seeme dead to sight
- Page No:
- K3r-K3v; pp. 133-134
- Poem Title:
- XXXVI. Canzonet. Hopeless desire soon withers and dies
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The lowest trees have tops the ant her gall
- Page No:
- K3v; p. 134
- Poem Title:
- XXXVII. Canzonet. Natural comparisons with perfect love.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Compare the bramble with the cedar tree
- Page No:
- K3v-K4r; p. 134-135
- Poem Title:
- XXXVIII. Canzonet. An answer to the first staff, that love is unlike in beggars and in kings
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Bright shines the sun play beggars play
- Page No:
- K4v; p. 136
- Poem Title:
- XXXIX. Canzonet. A song in praise of a beggar's life.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Eternal time that wasteth without waste
- Page No:
- K5r; p. 137
- Poem Title:
- XL. Canzonet. To Time.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Praise pleasure profit is that threefold band
- Page No:
- K5v-K6r; pp. 138-139
- Poem Title:
- XLI. Canzonet. A hymn in praise of Music.
- Attribution:
- I.D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- Of Neptune's empire le us sing
- Page No:
- K6v; p. 140
- Poem Title:
- XLII. Canzonet. Or a Hymn in praise of Neptune.
- Attribution:
- Th. Campion
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Campion
- First Line:
- And would you see my mistress face
- Page No:
- K7r-K7v; pp. 141-142
- Poem Title:
- XLIII. Canzonet. Or a Hymne that was sung by Amphitryte, Thamesis, & other Sea Nimphs in Gray's Inn Masque at the Court. 1594. Of his Mistress's face.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Blame not my cheeks though pale with love they be
- Page No:
- K7v; p. 142
- Poem Title:
- XLIIII. Canzonet. Upon her paleness.
- Attribution:
- Tho. Campion
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Campion
- First Line:
- When to her lute Corinna sings
- Page No:
- K8r; p. 143
- Poem Title:
- XLV. Canzonet. Of Corinna's singing.
- Attribution:
- Tho. Campion
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Campion
- First Line:
- Cruel and unpartial sickness
- Page No:
- K8r-K8v; pp. 143-144
- Poem Title:
- XLVI. Canzonet. Upon his Lady's sickness of the pox.
- Attribution:
- Th. Spilman.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Her face her tongue her wit so fair so sweet so sharpe
- Page No:
- K8v-L1r; pp. 144-145
- Poem Title:
- XLVII. Canzonet. In the grace of wit, of tongue and face.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Are women fair I wondrous fair to see too
- Page No:
- L1r-L1v; pp. 145-146
- Poem Title:
- XLVIII. Canzonet. An invective against women.
- Attribution:
- Ignoto.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Philip Sidney
- First Line:
- Who gives a gift to bind a friend thereby
- Page No:
- L1v; p. 146
- Poem Title:
- XLIX. Canzonet. This song was sung before her sacred Maiestie at a show on horseback, wherewith the right Honourable the Earl of Cumberland presented her Highness on May day last. Of love gift.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Now what is love I pray thee tell
- Page No:
- L2r-L2v; pp. 147-148
- Poem Title:
- L. Canzonet. The Anatomy of Love.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The fairest pearls that Northern seas do breed
- Page No:
- L2v-L3r; pp. 148-149
- Poem Title:
- LI. Canzonet. Love the only price of love
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Join mates in mirth to me
- Page No:
- L3v-L4v; pp. 150-152
- Poem Title:
- Two pastorals, made by Sir Philip Sidney. Upon his meeting with two worthy friends, and fellow poets, Sir Edward Dyer and M. Fulke Greville.
- Attribution:
- Sir Phil Sidney
- Attributed To:
- Sir Philip Sidney
- First Line:
- Walking in bright Phoebus blaze
- Page No:
- L4v-L6r; pp. 152-155
- Poem Title:
- II. Pastoral. Dispraise of a Courtly life
- Attribution:
- S. Ph. Sidney
- Attributed To:
- Sir Philip Sidney
- First Line:
- Then I sing divine Astreas praise
- Page No:
- L6v-L7v; pp. 156-158
- Poem Title:
- III. Pastoral. A Dialogue betweene two Shepherds, Thenot, and Piers, in praise of Astrea.
- Attribution:
- Mary Countesse of Pembreoke
- Attributed To:
- Mary Herbert [nee Sidney]
- First Line:
- Oh wither shall I turn me
- Page No:
- L7v-M1r; pp. 158-161
- Poem Title:
- IIII. Pastoral. A roundelay in inverted Rhymes, betweene the two friendly rivals, Strephon and Klaius, in the presence of Urania, mistress to them both.
- Attribution:
- Walter Davison.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Sweet I do not pardon crave
- Page No:
- M1r-M2r; pp. 161-163
- Poem Title:
- V. Pastoral. Or Strephon's Palinode.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since true penance hath suspended
- Page No:
- M2r-M2v; pp. 163-164
- Poem Title:
- Urania's answer in inverted rhymes, staff for staff.
- Attribution:
- Fra. Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- A shepherd poor Eubulus called he was
- Page No:
- M2v-M8r; pp. 164-175
- Poem Title:
- VI. Pastoral.
- Attribution:
- F. D.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- A little herd-groom for he was no better
- Page No:
- M8r-N1v; pp. 175-178
- Poem Title:
- VII. Pastoral. Eclogue intituled Cuddy.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Perin areed what new mischance betide
- Page No:
- N2r-N6r; pp. 179-187
- Poem Title:
- VIII. Pastoral. Made long since upon the death of Sir Philip Sidney.
- Attribution:
- A.W.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come gentle herdman sit by me
- Page No:
- N6r-N8v; pp. 187-192
- Poem Title:
- IX. Pastoral.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- For when thou are not as thou wont of y'ore
- Page No:
- N8v-O2r; pp.192-195
- Poem Title:
- X. Pastoral. The beginning and end of this eclogue are wanting. Concerning old Age.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sitting at board sometimes prepared to eat
- Page No:
- O2v-O3r; pp. 196-197
- Poem Title:
- Of Elegys. I. Elegy. He renounceth his food, and former delight in Music, Poesie, and painting.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Dear why hath my long love and faith unfained
- Page No:
- O3r-O3v; pp. 197-198
- Poem Title:
- II. Elegy. For what cause he obtains his Lady's favour.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Even as my hand my pen and paper lays
- Page No:
- O4r-O5r; pp. 199-201
- Poem Title:
- III. Elegy. To his lady who had vowed virginity.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- She only is the pride of natures skill
- Page No:
- O5v; p. 202
- Poem Title:
- IIII. Elegy. Her praise is in her wont.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O faithless world and thy most faithless part
- Page No:
- O5v-O6r; pp. 202-203
- Poem Title:
- V. Elegy. Of a woman's heart.
- Attribution:
- H.W.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Henry Wotton
- First Line:
- Unhappy verse The witness of unhappy state
- Page No:
- O6r-O6v; pp. 203-204
- Poem Title:
- VI. Elegy. Loves Embassie in an Iambicke Elegy.
- Attribution:
- Edmund Spencer.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Spenser
- First Line:
- Though you be not content
- Page No:
- O7r; p. 205
- Poem Title:
- I. Madrigal.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- He's rich enough whose eyes behold thee
- Page No:
- O7r; p. 205
- Poem Title:
- II. Madrigal. Borrowed out of a Greek Epigram
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Oh fair yet murdering eyes
- Page No:
- O7v; p. 206
- Poem Title:
- III. Madrigal. Upon her dreaming that she saw him dead.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Sure dear I love you not for he that loveth
- Page No:
- O7v-O8r; pp. 206-207
- Poem Title:
- IIII. Madrigal. Upon his departure.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Love if a God thou art
- Page No:
- O8r; p. 207
- Poem Title:
- V. Madrigal. To Cupid.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- In health and ease am I
- Page No:
- O8v; p. 208
- Poem Title:
- VI. Madrigal. Upon his Mistress sickness, and his own health.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Sorrow slowly killeth any
- Page No:
- O8v; p. 208
- Poem Title:
- VII. Madrigal. He begs a kiss.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Since I your cherry lips did kiss
- Page No:
- P1r; p. 209
- Poem Title:
- VIII. Madrigal. Upon a kiss received.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- The wretched life I live
- Page No:
- P1r-P1v; pp. 209-212
- Poem Title:
- IX. Madrigal. Allusion to the confusion of Babel.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Oh hand of all hands living
- Page No:
- P1v; p. 212
- Poem Title:
- X. Madrigal. To her hand, upon her giving him her glove.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Ah Cupid I mistook thee
- Page No:
- P1v-P2r; pp.212-211[NB non sequential pagination]
- Poem Title:
- XI. Madrigal. Cupid proved a Fencer.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Like to the silly fly
- Page No:
- P2r; p. 211
- Poem Title:
- XII. Madrigal. He compares himself to a candle fly.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- If I behold your eyes
- Page No:
- P2r-P2v; pp. 211-212
- Poem Title:
- XIIII. Madrigal. Answers to her question, what love was.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Are lovers full of fire
- Page No:
- P2v; p. 212
- Poem Title:
- XIIII. Madrigal. Upon his timerous silence in her presence.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- If this most wretched and infernal anguish
- Page No:
- P2v-P3r; pp. 212-213
- Poem Title:
- XV. Madrigal. Upon her long absence.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Go wailing accents go
- Page No:
- P3r; p. 213
- Poem Title:
- XVI. Madrigal. Upon her hiding her face from him.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Whosoever longs to try
- Page No:
- P3r; p. 213
- Poem Title:
- XVII. Madrigal. Upon her beauty and Inconstancy.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Thine eyes so bright
- Page No:
- P3v; p. 214
- Poem Title:
- XVIII. Madrigal.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If love be made of words as woods of trees
- Page No:
- P3v; p. 214
- Poem Title:
- XIX. Madrigal. Verbal love.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Faustina hath the fair face
- Page No:
- P4r; p. 215
- Poem Title:
- XX. Madrigal. In praise of two.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Garden more than Eden blessed
- Page No:
- P4r-P4v; pp. 215-216
- Poem Title:
- XXI. Madrigal. To his Lady's garden, being absent far from her.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Love is the link the knot the band of unity
- Page No:
- P4v-P5r; pp. 216-217
- Poem Title:
- XXII. Madrigal. The True love's knot.
- Attribution:
- Ignoto
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My love in her attire doth show her wit
- Page No:
- P5r; p. 217
- Poem Title:
- XXIII. Madrigal.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Passions may my judgement blear
- Page No:
- P5v; p. 218
- Poem Title:
- I. Ode. That only her beauty and voice please him.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Lady you are with the beauties so enriched
- Page No:
- P6r; p. 219
- Poem Title:
- II. Ode. Upon her protestation of kind affection, having tried his sincere fidelity.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Your presence breeds my anguish
- Page No:
- P6v; p. 220
- Poem Title:
- III. Ode. His restless estate.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- My only star
- Page No:
- P6v-P8r; pp. 220-221
- Poem Title:
- IIII. Ode. Being by his absence in Italy deprived of her looks, words, and gestures, he desireth her to write unto him.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Sweet if you like and love me still
- Page No:
- P8r-P8v; pp. 221-224]
- Poem Title:
- V. Ode. His farewell to his unkind and unconstant mistress.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- I dare not in my master's bosom rest
- Page No:
- P8v; p. 224
- Poem Title:
- VI. Ode. A Prosopopoeia, Wherein his heart speaks to his second lady's breast
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Lady of matchless beauty
- Page No:
- Q1r-Q1v; pp. 215-216
- Poem Title:
- VIII. Ode. Upon her giving him back the paper wherein the former song was written, as though it had been an answer thereunto.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Some there are as fair to see too
- Page No:
- Q1v; p. 226
- Poem Title:
- VIII. Ode. Commendation of her beauty, stature, behaviour and wit.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- In heaven the blessed angels have their being
- Page No:
- Q2r; p. 227
- Poem Title:
- IX. Ode. That all other Creatures have their abiding in heaven, hell, earth, air, water or fire, but he in all of them.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- As she is fair so faithful I
- Page No:
- Q2v-Q3r; pp. 228-229
- Poem Title:
- X. Ode. His Lady to be condemned of ignorance or cruelty.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- At her fair hands how have I grace entreated
- Page No:
- Q3r-Q3v; pp. 229-230
- Poem Title:
- XI. Ode. A Dialogue between him and his heart.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Sweet Love mine only treasure
- Page No:
- Q4r-Q4v; pp. 231-232
- Poem Title:
- XII. Ode. Where his Lady keeps his heart.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As soone may water wipe me dry
- Page No:
- Q4v-Q5r; pp. 232-233
- Poem Title:
- XIII. Ode. The more favour he obtains, the more he desires.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Desire and Hope have moved my minde
- Page No:
- Q5r-Q5v; pp. 233-234
- Poem Title:
- XIIII. Ode. Desire and hope.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The night say all was made to rest
- Page No:
- Q5v-Q6r; pp. 234-235
- Poem Title:
- XV. Ode. Upon visiting his Lady by moon-light
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When will the fountain of my teares be dry
- Page No:
- Q6r-Q6v; pp. 235-236
- Poem Title:
- XVI. Ode. Petition to have her leave to die.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If my decay be your encrease
- Page No:
- Q6v-Q7v; pp. 236-238
- Poem Title:
- XVII. Ode. The kind Lover's complaint in finding nothing but folly for his faithfulnesse.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Close your lids unhappy eyes
- Page No:
- Q7v-Q8r; pp. 238-239
- Poem Title:
- XVIII. Ode. Unhappy eyes
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Disdain that so doth fill me
- Page No:
- Q8r-Q8v; pp. 239-240
- Poem Title:
- XIX. Ode. Disdain at variance with desire.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A newfound match is made of late
- Page No:
- Q8v-R1r; pp. 240-241
- Poem Title:
- XX. Ode. Cupid's Marriage with dissimulation.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If love be life I long to die
- Page No:
- R1v-R2r; pp. 242-243
- Poem Title:
- XXI. Ode. Dispraise of Love, and Lovers follyes.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Rest good my Muse and give me leave to rest
- Page No:
- R2r-R2v; pp. 243-244
- Poem Title:
- XXII. Ode. To his Muse.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Nay nay thou striv'st in vain my heart
- Page No:
- R2v-R3r; pp. 244-245
- Poem Title:
- XXIII. Ode. To his heart.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Now have I learned with much ado at last
- Page No:
- R3v; p. 246
- Poem Title:
- XXIIII. Ode. A defiance to disdainful love.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Venus saw desire must die
- Page No:
- R4r-R4v; pp. 247-248
- Poem Title:
- XXV. Ode. The Tomb of dead Desire.
- Attribution:
- Certaine Poemes vpon diuerse Subiects by the same Author
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Spelman
- First Line:
- Of Atreus sons fain would I write
- Page No:
- R4v; p. 248
- Poem Title:
- XXVI. Ode. Three Odes translated out of Anacreon, the Greek Lyric Poet.
- Attribution:
- Certaine Poemes vpon diuerse Subiects by the same Author
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Spelman
- First Line:
- The bull by nature hath his horns
- Page No:
- R5r; p. 249
- Poem Title:
- XXVII. Ode. A comparison betwixt the strength of beasts, and the wisdom of man, and the beauty of a woman's heart.
- Attribution:
- Certaine Poemes vpon diuerse Subiects by the same Author
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Spelman
- First Line:
- Of late what time the bear turned round
- Page No:
- R5r-R6r; pp. 249-251
- Poem Title:
- XXVIII. Ode.
- Attribution:
- Certaine Poemes vpon diuerse Subiects by the same Author
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Spelman
- First Line:
- Nature in her work doth give
- Page No:
- R6r; p. 251
- Poem Title:
- XXIX. Ode. Anacreon's second Ode, otherwise
- Attribution:
- T.S.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Spelman
- First Line:
- Cupid abroad was lated in the night
- Page No:
- R6v; p. 252
- Poem Title:
- XXX: Ode. Anacreon's third Ode, otherwise.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Absence hear thou my protestation
- Page No:
- R7r; p. 253
- Poem Title:
- XXXI. Ode. That time and absence proves. Rather helps then hurts to loves.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The ancient readers of heaven's book
- Page No:
- R7v; p. 254
- Poem Title:
- XXXII. Ode. Of Cynthia.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Four teeth of late you had both black and shaking
- Page No:
- R8r; p. 255
- Poem Title:
- Ad Aelian. 76. L. I.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Naso let none drink in his glass but he
- Page No:
- R8v; p. 256
- Poem Title:
- A Monsieur Naso, Verole
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I muse not that your dog turds oft doth eat
- Page No:
- R8v; p. 256
- Poem Title:
- De Manuella. 51. L. 1
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Milo lives long in France and while he's there
- Page No:
- R8v; p. 256
- Poem Title:
- De Milone.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Codrus although but of mean estate
- Page No:
- S1r; p. 257
- Poem Title:
- De Codro. Li. 15.3
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Thy lawful wise fair Laelia needs must be
- Page No:
- S1r; p. 257
- Poem Title:
- Ad Quintum. 117. L. 5.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Rich Chremes whiles he lives will nought bestow
- Page No:
- S1r; p. 257
- Poem Title:
- To A. S.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Fail ye of wealth of wealth ye still will fail
- Page No:
- S1r; p. 257
- Poem Title:
- To all poor Scholars
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- My just demands so one grant or soon deny
- Page No:
- S1r-S1v; p. 257-258
- Poem Title:
- In Cinnam. 42. 42. L.7.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- What so'ere you coggingly require
- Page No:
- S1v; p.258
- Poem Title:
- In Cinnam. 107. L. 5.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Philo swears he ne're eats at home a nights
- Page No:
- S1v; p.258
- Poem Title:
- De Philone. 48. L.5.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- You promise mountains still to me
- Page No:
- S1v; p. 258
- Poem Title:
- 12. L 12.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Why do your wife and you so ill agree
- Page No:
- S2r; p. 259
- Poem Title:
- Ad Pessimos Conjuges. 35. L. 8.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- He that will thrive in court must oft become
- Page No:
- S2r; p. 259
- Poem Title:
- A Rule for Courtiers.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Whosoever sayeth thou sellest all doth jest
- Page No:
- S2r; p. 259
- Poem Title:
- On a painted Courtesan
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Her sons rich Aula terms her lechers all
- Page No:
- S2r-S2v; p. 259-260
- Poem Title:
- In Aulam.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- If thou be fair thy beauties beautify
- Page No:
- S2v; p. 260
- Poem Title:
- For a looking glass.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Thou still wert wont in earnest or in jest
- Page No:
- S2v; p. 260
- Poem Title:
- In Asinium
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Thou evermore dost ancient poets blame
- Page No:
- S2v; p. 260
- Poem Title:
- On a limping Cuckold.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- By want of shift since lice at first are bred
- Page No:
- S2v; p. 260
- Poem Title:
- On a Crambo a lousy shifter.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Quintus is burnt and may thereof by glad
- Page No:
- S3r; p 261
- Poem Title:
- In Quintum.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Why will not Saba in a glass behold
- Page No:
- S3r; p 261
- Poem Title:
- In Sabam.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Aulus gives nought men say though much he crave
- Page No:
- S3r; p 261
- Poem Title:
- In Aulum.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Cambridge worthy Philip by this verse builds thee an altar
- Page No:
- S3r; p 261
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram to Sir Philip Sidney in Elegiacal verse, translated out of Jodelle, the French Poet.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What can I now suspect or what can I fear any longer
- Page No:
- S3v; p. 262
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram in Hexameters, upon the never enough praised Sir Philip Sidney
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What strange adventure what now unlook't for arrival
- Page No:
- S3v; p. 262
- Poem Title:
- Another Epigram upon the same.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whom can I first accuse whose fault account I the greatest
- Page No:
- S4r-S4v; pp. 263-264
- Poem Title:
- Other Epigrams upon the same.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whether thy choice or chance thee hither brings
- Page No:
- S5r; p. 265
- Poem Title:
- To the Epitaph upon the heart of Henry the third, late King of France and Poland: slain 1589 by a Jacobin Friar. Upon the Tomb of his heart in the church of St. Clou, near Paris, adjoining to the house where he was slain.
- Attribution:
- F.D.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- That we should more bewail the hap of Kings
- Page No:
- S5r-S5v; pp. 265-266
- Poem Title:
- An Epitaph on Henry the fourth, the last King of France
- Attribution:
- Addit. per Cha. Best. Arm.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Best
- First Line:
- Eliza that great maiden Queen lies here
- Page No:
- S5v; p. 266
- Poem Title:
- An Epitaph on Queen Elizabeth.
- Attribution:
- Addit. per Cha. Best. Arm.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Best
- First Line:
- My dearest sweet if these sad lines do hap
- Page No:
- S5v-S8v; pp. 266-272
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
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