[vol. 3] The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries [vol III] [ECCO] [T131617]

DMI number:

644

Publication Date:

1738

ESTC number:

T131617

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW111830973

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod

Full Title:

THE | BRITISH MUSE, | OR, | A Collection of THOUGHTS | [i]Moral, Natural,[/i] and [i]Sublime[/i], | OF OUR | ENGLISH POETS: | Who flourished in the | Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. | With several curious TOPICKS, and beautiful | PASSAGES, never before extracted, from | SHAKESPEAR, JOHNSON, BEAUMONT, | FLETCHER, and above a Hundred more. | The Whole digested Alphabetically under their | respective Heads, according to the Order of | TIME in which they wrote; to shew the | gradual IMPROVEMENTS of our [i]Poetry[/i] and | [i]Language[/i]. | [rule] | VOL. III. | [rule] | By [i]THOMAS HAYWARD[/i], Gent. | [rule] | With an Historical and Critical REVIEW of THIS, and | all the COLLECTIONS of this Kind hitherto published. | [double rule] | [i]LONDON[/i], | Printed for F. COGAN, at the [i]Middle Temple[/i] Gate | in [i]Fleetstreet[/i], and J. NOURSE, at the [i]Lamb[/i] without | [i]Temple-Bar[/i]. | [short rule] | M.DCC.XXXVIII.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Duodecimo

Comments:

Notes: "Titlepages in red and black. The review is by W. Oldys. Published in 1740 as ’The quinte-ssence of English poetry’" (ESTC).

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Title:

The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [T131617] [ecco]

Publication Date:

1738

ESTC No:

T131617

Volume:

1 of 3

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Related People

Editor:

Thomas Hayward

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

F Cogan

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

John Nourse

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

I'm kept for pleasure though I never taste it

Page No:

p.[1]

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Insatiate Countess

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

At best tis but a goodly pandarism

Page No:

pp.[1]-2

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Fancy chast and noble

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Pimps manage the great business of the nation

Page No:

p.2

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Sir Courtly Nice

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

But you are | The squire of dames devoted to the service

Page No:

p.2

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Emperor of the East

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

May you a better feast never behold

Page No:

pp.2-3

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Timon

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Ah when the means are gone that buy this praise

Page No:

p.2

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Timon

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

O your parasite | Is a most precious thing dropped from above

Page No:

p.3

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Volpone

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

When I call to memory our long friendship

Page No:

pp.4-5

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton and Rowley's Fair Quarrel

Attributed To:

William Rowley

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Tis true that swayed by strong necessity

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Volpone

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

A tassel that hangs at my purse strings he dogs

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's What you will

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

The higher those great powers have raised you

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Couragious Turk

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

Twice saying pardon doth not pardon twain

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's K. Richard II.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

When Kent was in commotion I know

Page No:

pp.5-6

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

But by his heralds first he pardons sent

Page No:

p.5

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Fathers that deny their daughters lawful

Page No:

pp.6-7

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Elder Brother

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

If Rome could pardon sins as Romans hold

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Quarles

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

Parents are overseen | When with too strict a rein they do hold in

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Robert Taylour's Hog hath lost his Pearl

Attributed To:

Robert Tailor

First Line:

Have you no words but what are only good

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Law against Lovers

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Unreasonable creatures feed their young

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Third Part of King Henry VI.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

And by the way the sundry purpose found

Page No:

p.7

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Oh the blindness of a covetous wretched

Page No:

p.7

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's School of Compliments

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Honour thy parents to prolong thine end

Page No:

p.7

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Parting is such sweet sorrow

Page No:

p.7

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I would have thee gone | And yet no further than a wanton's bird

Page No:

pp.7-8

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

With his head over his shoulder turned

Page No:

p.8

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

So long | As he could make me with this eye or ear

Page No:

p.8

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I did not take my leave of him but had

Page No:

p.8

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

As in September when our year resigns

Page No:

p.9

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Queen Margaret to Duke of Suffolk

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Sweetest love I do not go

Page No:

p.9

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

With that wringing my hand he turns away

Page No:

p.9

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Arcadia

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

I make no doubt as I shall take the course

Page No:

pp.9-10

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Women beware Women

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Behold the image of mortality

Page No:

p.10

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

But though the apprehensive power do pause

Page No:

pp.10-11

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

Passions are desperate | And tempt with uncouth woe as well as joy

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Passions are oft mistaken and misnamed

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Fear seeing all fears it of all is spied

Page No:

pp.11-12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Lady Geraldine to the Earl of Surrey

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Who would the title of true worth were his

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Darius

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Most necessary tis that we forget

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The grief that melts to tears by itself is spent

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Atheist's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

The gods from passions might have made us free

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir R. Howard's Vestal Virgin

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

These starts are the convulsions of weak reason

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. 'Sir R. Howard's Vestal Virgin']

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Passions without power

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Sophy

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Oh these passions | Are but the cracks and splinters of the soul

Page No:

pp.12-13

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fane's Love in the dark

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

Each small breath | Disturbs the quiet of poor shallow waters

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Habbington's Queen of Arragon

Attributed To:

William Habington

First Line:

Passions are like thieves | That watch to enter undefended places

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir R. Howard's Blind Lady

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

What fortune hurts let sufferance only heal

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Duke of Suffolk to Queen Margaret

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Tis hard to say what men whom reason guides

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fountain's Rewards of Virtue

Attributed To:

John Fountain

First Line:

We oft by lightning read in darkest nights

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's First Part of Henry VI

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Oh sir your passion's dead and you are weaving

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Second Part of Henry VI

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

For he whose breast is tender blood so cool

Page No:

pp.13-14

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's First Part of the Honest Whore

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

What cannot be preserved when fortune takes

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Patience unmoved no marvel though she pause

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Comedy of Errors

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Tis an easy thing for him that has no

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Atheist's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

He that's besotted to his fear or ease

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tatham's Distracted State

Attributed To:

John Tatham

First Line:

I have heard you with that patience

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's Damoiselle

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

Patience grows fury that is often stirred

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Couragious Turk

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

How many great ones may remembered be

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Ruins of Time

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

O grief of grief o gall of all good hearts

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser, Ibid [i.e. from 'Spenser's Ruins of Time']

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

And to invite great men from foreign parts

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Crescey

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Who graced the muses which her times became

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Patience in cowards is tame hopeless fear

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir R. Howard's Indian Queen

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Now all's peace no danger now what follows

Page No:

pp.16-17

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge of Bussey D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Let me have war say I it exceeds peace

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Coriolanus

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

A peace is of the nature of a conquest

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Second Part of King Henry IV

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The misery of peace only outsides

Page No:

pp.17-18

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Thus mighty rivers quietly do glide

Page No:

p.17

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Panegyrick to the King

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

The people thus in time of peace agree

Page No:

p.17

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Pox of peace

Page No:

p.18

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Captain

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Surfeited with fulsome ease and wealth

Page No:

pp.18-19

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Ambitious Statesman

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Men are unhappy when they know not how

Page No:

p.18

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir R. Howard's Blind Lady

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

In this plenty | And fat of peace your young men never were trained

Page No:

p.18

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Bondman

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

States that never knew | A change but in their growth which a long peace

Page No:

p.18

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Hannibal and Scipio

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Perseverance keeps honour bright

Page No:

p.19

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Virtue is either lame or not at all

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Valentinian

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Not to promote what we do once commence

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

You hurt your innocence suing for the guilty

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Volpone

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Revolt is recreant when pursuit is brave

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Machen's Dumb Knight

Attributed To:

Lewis Machin

First Line:

Attempt the end and never stand to doubt

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

How wretched is that suppliant who must

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's Mad couple well match'd

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

Know mortals that the men the gods most love

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Couragious Turk

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

Petitions shall be drawn | Humble in form but such for matter

Page No:

p.21

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Brennoralt

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

They have robbed me | Of all means to prefer my just complaints

Page No:

p.21

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Emperor of the East

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Is it not monstrous that this player here

Page No:

p.21

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Speak the speech I pray you as I pronounced

Page No:

pp.22-23

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

They abuse our scene | And say we live by vice indeed tis true

Page No:

pp.23-24

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph's Muses Looking-Glass

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Players | Were never more uncertain in their lives

Page No:

p.23

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Mad World my Masters

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Pleasure is like a building the more high

Page No:

pp.24-25

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear and Rowley's Birth of Merlin

Attributed To:

William Rowley

William Shakespeare

First Line:

All these fond pleasures if fond things

Page No:

p.24

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brandon's Octavia to Antonius

Attributed To:

Samuel Brandon

First Line:

Tis better in a play | Be Agamemnon than himself indeed

Page No:

p.24

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ease dulls the spirit each drop of fond delight

Page No:

p.24

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since all earth's pleasures are so short and small

Page No:

p.25

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Bussy D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Long lulled asleep with scornful fortune's lies

Page No:

pp.25-26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Croesus

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Farewell to thy enticing vanity

Page No:

p.26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Four Plays in One

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Like dew upon the grass when pleasure's sun

Page No:

p.26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Insatiate Countess

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

What is pleasure | More than a lustful motion in the sense

Page No:

p.26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Microcosmus

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Pleasures whose means are easy in the end

Page No:

pp.26-27

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Microcosmus

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Thus grief and gladness still by turns do come

Page No:

p.26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Orestes

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

That pleasure is of all

Page No:

p.26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

T. Campion's Masque, at the E. of Somerset's Marriage

Attributed To:

Thomas Campion

First Line:

As dogs of Nilus drink a snatch and gone

Page No:

p.27

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Crescey

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

I despise | These short and empty pleasures and how low

Page No:

pp.27-28

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Sophy

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Henceforth I'll strive to fly the sight of pleasure

Page No:

p.27

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marmyon's Holland's Leaguer

Attributed To:

Shackerley Marmion

First Line:

Why would not eating drinking sleeping

Page No:

p.27

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Pleasure's a courtly mistress a conceit

Page No:

p.27

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cleveland

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O sacred poesy thou spirit of Roman arts

Page No:

pp.28-29

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Poetaster

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

In my delights I can no limits bear

Page No:

p.28

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Caligula

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Pleasures like wonders quickly lose their price

Page No:

p.28

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Bishop King

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

Ye gods was it man's nature or his fate

Page No:

p.28

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

A verse may find him who a sermon flies

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herbert

Attributed To:

George Herbert

First Line:

When heaven would strive to do the best it can

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's E. of Surry to Lady Geraldine

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Verse hath a middle nature heaven keeps souls

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

You dare not sir blaspheme the virtuous use

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's 'Sparagus Garden

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

How shall my debts be paid or can my scores

Page No:

pp.29-30

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

A poet's then exact in every part

Page No:

p.30

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Llucllin

Attributed To:

Martin Lluelyn

First Line:

Clowns for posterity may cark and care

Page No:

p.30

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Randolph]

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Poets are truly poor but only then

Page No:

pp.30-31

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant to the King

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

For this chaos | This lump of projects ere it be licked over

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marlo's Lust's Dominion

Attributed To:

Christopher Marlowe

First Line:

With equal eagerness contend

Page No:

p.31

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Alexander Brome on Richard Brome

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

A poem's life and death dependeth still

Page No:

p.31

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Alex. Brome

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

Poets by dangers like old soldiers taught

Page No:

p.31

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Prologue to Sir R. Howard's Vestal Virgin

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

The eternal cause in their immortal lines

Page No:

p.31

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

A precisian | In state is a ridiculous miracle

Page No:

p.32

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman and Shirley's Admiral of France

Attributed To:

George Chapman

James Shirley

First Line:

Justice to live doth nought but justice need

Page No:

p.32

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge of Bussey D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

For who observes strict policy's true laws

Page No:

p.32

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Barons Wars

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

A politician Proteus-like must alter

Page No:

p.32

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mason's Muleasses

Attributed To:

John Mason

First Line:

He that can compass me and know my drifts

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

He that deals all by strength his wit is shallow

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Policy wills some seeming cause be had

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Jones's Adrasta

Attributed To:

John Jones

First Line:

So politicians thrive | That with their crabbed faces and sly tricks

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Lover's Melancholy

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

The greatest politician may be

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Witty Fair One

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

These great statesmen | When time has made bold with the king and subject

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Aglaura

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

This tis for a puny | In policy's Protean school to try conclusions

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Duke of Milan

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Who hates not the vulgar deserves not love

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Widow's Tears

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Look how Thames enriched with many a flood

Page No:

pp.34-35

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Your politicians | Have evermore a taint of vanity

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Fair Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Ourself and Bushy Bagot here and Green

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Richard II

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I love the people | But do not like to stage me to their eyes

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Measure for Measure

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Popular men | They must create new monsters and then quell em

Page No:

p.35

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

I never courted popular applause

Page No:

pp.35-36

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Emperor of the East

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Poverty thou bane of chastity

Page No:

pp.36-37

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker and Webster's Westward Hoe

Attributed To:

John Webster

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

O known evil

Page No:

p.36

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heywood's Woman kill'd with Kindness

Attributed To:

Thomas Heywood

First Line:

How full of hidden ambiguities

Page No:

p.36

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Hemming's Jews Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Heminges [Heming]

First Line:

A poor spirit

Page No:

p.37

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Atheist's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

When power that may command so much descends

Page No:

p.37

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

To mortal men great loads allotted be

Page No:

p.37

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Poor men are born to wrongs low are their ranks

Page No:

p.37

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dauborne's [sic] Poor Man's Comfort

Attributed To:

Robert Daborne

First Line:

With poverty in love we only close

Page No:

p.37

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

The rich | Have wakeful nights whilst the poor man's turf

Page No:

p.37

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Careless Shepherdess

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

Our want with this philosophy doth well

Page No:

p.37

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Power doth what likes in her inferiors move

Page No:

p.38

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

In all states power which oppresseth spirits

Page No:

p.38

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Instead of these I saw the veils of power

Page No:

p.38

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

For power is proud till it look down to fear

Page No:

p.38

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Power's a strange thing which even additions make

Page No:

p.38

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

The violent thunder is adored by those

Page No:

p.38

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

With what a difference nature's palate tastes

Page No:

pp.38-39

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

O tis excellent | To have a giant's strength but it is tyrannous

Page No:

p.38

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Measure for Measure

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Oh wretched he who called abroad by power

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Thyestes

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

But power it seems can change the names of things

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Charles VIII. of France

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

But how men gain their power the gods do not

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Tryphon

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

Yield not in storms of state to that dislike

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

My reward is power | An outward trifle bought with inward peace

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

For he who secrets power's chief treasure spends

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Or who would ever care to do brave deed

Page No:

p.40

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Tears of the Muses

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Tis grown almost a danger to speak true

Page No:

p.40

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Forest

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

That praise contents me more which one imparts

Page No:

p.40

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Croesus

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Your praise is come too swiftly home before you

Page No:

p.40

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's As you like it

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The worthiness of praise distains his worth

Page No:

p.40

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

One good deed dying tongueless

Page No:

p.40

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Winter's Tale

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Of which vain minds it may be truly said

Page No:

p.41

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke on Fame and Honour

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

He heightens them with commendation praise

Page No:

p.41

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

I have made short the hours that time made long

Page No:

p.41

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Countess of Salisbury to the Black Prince

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Too eager a defence argues a strong

Page No:

p.41

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's What you will

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

True praise the brow of common men doth ring

Page No:

p.41

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Second Part of Antonio and Mellida

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

To refuse just praise

Page No:

p.41

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Hannibal and Scipio

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Hark how they bandy praise and flattery round

Page No:

pp.42-43

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Calisto

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Commend but sparingly whom thou dost love

Page No:

p.42

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Praise is but virtue's shadow who court her

Page No:

p.42

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heath's Clarastella

Attributed To:

Robert Heath

First Line:

A Venus and Diana mixed in one

Page No:

p.42

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

This is new court thrift they are not able

Page No:

p.42

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Siege

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Now he brings | The youths to view the temple built for praise

Page No:

p.42

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert'

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

We ignorant of ourselves

Page No:

p.43

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Antony and Cleopatra

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Pray I cannot | Though inclination be as sharp as will

Page No:

pp.43-44

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

That high all-seer which I dallied with

Page No:

p.43

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Richard III

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Temporal blessings heaven doth often share

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Quarles

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

Man's plea to man is that he never more

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. 'Quarles']

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

When we of hopes or helps are quite bereaven

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Lover's Sacrifice

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

She will out pray | A preacher at Saint Antolin's and divides

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Main's City-Match

Attributed To:

Jasper Mayne

First Line:

Mark Birtha this unrighteous war of prayer

Page No:

pp.44-45

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

He who this builder's building did create

Page No:

p.45

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

How far is it to heaven that yet this lady's

Page No:

pp.45-46

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Platonick Lovers

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

There is a deep nick in time's restless wheel

Page No:

pp.46-47

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Bussy D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Many such ends have fallen on such proud honours

Page No:

p.46

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge of Buss. D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Whoever is raised

Page No:

p.46

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Epigrams

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

When a noble nature's raised

Page No:

p.46

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Underwoods

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Can prayers to all alike so gentle be

Page No:

p.46

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Vestal Virgin

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Others that stemmed the current of the time

Page No:

p.47

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Pierce Gaveston

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

For when that men of merit grow ungraced

Page No:

p.47

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Barons Wars

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

When knaves come to preferment they rise as

Page No:

p.47

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

For places in the court are but like beds

Page No:

p.47

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Duchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

If on the sudden he begins to rise

Page No:

p.47

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Trick to catch the Old One

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

So proud she shined in her princely state

Page No:

pp.48-49

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

He who cannot merit | Preferment by employments let him bare

Page No:

p.48

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Lady's Trial

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Tis not advancement that I love alone

Page No:

p.48

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Mayor of Quinborough

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

All preferment | That springs from sin and lust shoots up quickly

Page No:

p.48

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Women beware Women

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

What throngs of great impediments besiege

Page No:

p.48

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Cruel Brother

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

How blind is pride what eagles are we still

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's All Fools

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Let this example move the insolent man

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

How poor a thing is pride when all as slaves

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Pride by presumption bred when at a height

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Alexandrean Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Pride hath no other glass

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. 'Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida']

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

He that is proud eats up himself pride is

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I'll offer and I'll suffer no abuse

Page No:

pp.50-51

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Caligula

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Are you not proud of your clothes

Page No:

p.50

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Taylour's Hog hath lost his Pearl

Attributed To:

Robert Tailor

First Line:

He like a high-swollen and impetuous tide

Page No:

p.50

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Edward III

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

I believe cunning | Court ladies choose some pretty venial errors

Page No:

p.50

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Habbington's Queen of Arragon

Attributed To:

William Habington

First Line:

Thus like a fever that doth shake a man

Page No:

pp.51-52

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Wilkins's Miseries of enforced Marriage

Attributed To:

George Wilkins

First Line:

Young heirs left in this town where sin's so rank

Page No:

p.51

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Wilkins's Miseries of enforc'd Marriage

Attributed To:

George Wilkins

First Line:

Prodigal men

Page No:

p.51

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

That which made him gracious in your eyes

Page No:

p.51

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cook's Green's Tu quoque

Attributed To:

John Cooke

First Line:

What will this come to he commands us to

Page No:

p.51

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Timon

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

What is a prodigal faith like a brush

Page No:

p.52

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. 'Wilkins's Miseries of enforced Marriage']

Attributed To:

George Wilkins

First Line:

My old master kept a good house and twenty

Page No:

p.52

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. 'Wilkins's Miseries of enforced Marriage']

Attributed To:

George Wilkins

First Line:

Our eyes | See daily presidents hopeful gentlemen

Page No:

p.53

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Wilkins's Miseries of enforced Marriage

Attributed To:

George Wilkins

First Line:

He has not felt | The weight of need that want is virtue's clog

Page No:

p.53

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph's Muses Looking-Glass

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Two thousand pounds a year

Page No:

pp.53-54

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Old Couple

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

What is a projector I would conceive

Page No:

p.54

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Devil is an Ass

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

It shall be no shame to me to confess

Page No:

pp.54-55

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Devil is an Ass

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Money's a whore a bawd a drudge

Page No:

p.54

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. 'Johnson's Devil is an Ass']

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

He shall not draw | A string of his purse I'll drive his patent for him

Page No:

p.54

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Johnson's Devil is an Ass]

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

I meant to have offered it | Your ladyship on the perfecting the patent

Page No:

p.55

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. 'Johnson's Devil is an Ass']

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

These are my old projectors and they make me

Page No:

pp.55-56

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marmyon's Holland's Leaguer

Attributed To:

Shackerley Marmion

First Line:

Our promise must not prejudice our good

Page No:

p.56

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Arcadia

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

We think your promises spring-tides but we | Fear you'll ebb in your performance

Page No:

p.56

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's Match me in London

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

Promising is the very air of the | Time it opens the eyes of expectation

Page No:

p.56

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Timon

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Daily and hourly proof | Tell us prosperity is at highest degree

Page No:

pp.57-58

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's First Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Supply your promises with deeds

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. 'Webster's White Devil']

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Court promises let wise men count them cursed

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Lords' promises are mortal and commonly

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Mad World my Masters

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

You cannot lose your virtue sir and then

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Platonick Lovers

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Tis apparent | Thou wilt not fail thy friend in great engagements

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Stapleton's Slighted Maid

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Stapylton [Stapleton]

First Line:

Prosperity's the very bond of love

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Winter's Tale

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Promises of princes must not be

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Habbington's Queen of Arragon

Attributed To:

William Habington

First Line:

Things over rank do never kindly bear

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton in the Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Prosperity doth bewitch men seeming clear

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Knaves will thrive

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Maid's Revenge.

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Lo when prosperity too much prevails

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Alexandrean Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

He that suffers

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Hannibal of Scipio.

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

None violent empires long enjoy secure

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

More in prosperity is reason tossed

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Thus doth the all working providence retain

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Panegyrick to the King

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

So blind's the sharpest councils of the wise

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War.

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Of both our fortunes good and bad we find

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

What man not wondering can by deeds behold

Page No:

pp.59-60

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Croesus.

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

O all preparing providence divine

Page No:

p.60

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Barons Wars.

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Wise princes

Page No:

p.60

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Perkin Warbeck.

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Wisdom and virtue be

Page No:

p.60

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

She's a majestic ruler and commands

Page No:

pp.60-61

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Microcosmus.

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Who it is that will doubt

Page No:

p.60

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Fair Favourite.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Look forward what's to come and back what's past

Page No:

p.61

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

A wise man

Page No:

p.61

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Gomersall's Lodovick Sforza

Attributed To:

Robert Gomersall

First Line:

Prudence thou virtue of the mind by which

Page No:

p.61

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Nabbs]

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Reckoning it better since his end is meant

Page No:

p.62

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Unpunished escape for heinous crime some one

Page No:

p.62

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

William Baldwin

First Line:

Ye princes all and rulers every one

Page No:

p.62

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

William Baldwin

First Line:

Yet must we not put the strong law on him

Page No:

p.62

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

All have not offended

Page No:

p.62

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Timon.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Nor custom nor example nor vast numbers

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Picture.

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

The land wants such

Page No:

pp.63-64

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Randolph’s Muses Looking-glass.

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Where sits the offence

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Game at Chess

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Sentence of death when it is mildly spoke

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heywood's Royal King.

Attributed To:

Thomas Heywood

First Line:

He should not dare to kill that dares not die

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

W. Rowley's All's Lost by Lust

Attributed To:

William Rowley

First Line:

Think not of pardon sir

Page No:

p.64

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Brennoralt

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Do not if one but lightly thee offend

Page No:

p.64

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

The laws are sinfully contrived justice

Page No:

p.64

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir. W. Davenant's Just Italian.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Pity his ignorance

Page No:

p.65

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Volpone.

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Who would unblamed strike

Page No:

p.65

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Orgula, or the Fatal Error.

Attributed To:

Leonard Willan

First Line:

Good doctor Alcon I am come to crave

Page No:

pp.65-66

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Arcadia.

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Out you imposters

Page No:

p.66

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger and Dekker's Virgin Martyr

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

Tis strange to see

Page No:

pp.66-67

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

The Hectors

Attributed To:

Edmund Prestwich

First Line:

Good parts in youth and manhood are the same

Page No:

p.66

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lleuellin

Attributed To:

Martin Lluelyn

First Line:

For as when some common metals will serve

Page No:

pp.67-68

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

The Hectors

Attributed To:

Edmund Prestwich

First Line:

But yesterday thou wast the common second

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Little French Lawyer.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

See the fate of traitors

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tatham's Distracted State

Attributed To:

John Tatham

First Line:

There's a mischief greater than all these

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Gamester

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Beware | Of entrance to a quarrel but being in

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Surely one

Page No:

p.69

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's News from Plymouth.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

A dower my lords disgrace not so your king

Page No:

p.69

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's First Part of King Henry VI.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Your brother did with vicious looseness

Page No:

p.70

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge for Honour

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

If he from heaven that filched that living fire

Page No:

pp.70-71

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Ideas.

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Woman's forced use

Page No:

p.70

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophonisba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

When you are made my consort

Page No:

p.70

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Maid of Honour.

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

She now with jealous questions uttered fast

Page No:

p.70

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir. W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

She longs to be ravished

Page No:

p.71

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Maid in the Mill

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

How like a hill of snow she sits and melts

Page No:

pp.71-72

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Queen of Corinth

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

What foolish thief would rob an altar

Page No:

p.72

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Glapthorne's Albertus Wallenstein

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

He amongst all the ladies

Page No:

p.72

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

Lucreece was chaste after the rape but where

Page No:

p.72

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Royal Master

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Kill me oh kill me rather let me die

Page No:

pp.72-73

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Rawlins's Rebellion

Attributed To:

Thomas Rawlins

First Line:

Accuse tyrannic heaven that made you bright

Page No:

pp.73-74

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fane's Sacrifice

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

Methinks I stand like Tarquin in the night

Page No:

p.73

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Hemmings's Fatal Contract

Attributed To:

William Heminges [Heming]

First Line:

To be too rash

Page No:

p.74

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Chapman’s Revenge of Bussy D’ambois.

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Rashness her heat but to first onsets brings

Page No:

p.74

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Aleyn]

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Men by timidity

Page No:

p.74

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Beauty I love but I hate toilsome rapes

Page No:

p.74

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Caligula

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Accursed man

Page No:

p.75

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's King or No King

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Rashness gentlemen

Page No:

p.75

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Glapthorne's Albertus Wallenstein

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

Hence do we out of words create us arts

Page No:

p.75

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke of Human Learning

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Oh most imperfect light of human reason

Page No:

p.75

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Oh accursed reason

Page No:

p.75

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Courtezan

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

This spark of reason is not ours

Page No:

p.75

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brandon's Anton to Octavia

Attributed To:

Samuel Brandon

First Line:

If the beam of our lives had not one scale

Page No:

p.75

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

There's nothing done but there is reason for it

Page No:

p.76

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cupid's Whirligig

Attributed To:

Edward Sharpham

First Line:

Man is not the prince of creatures

Page No:

p.76

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Field's Amends for Ladies

Attributed To:

Nathan Field

First Line:

Those fond philosophers that magnify

Page No:

p.76

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Brothers

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Where men have several faiths to find the true

Page No:

pp.76-78

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Philosopher to the Dying Christian

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

I see the errors that I would avoid

Page No:

p.79

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir R. Howard's Great Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

There was a time when all the body's members

Page No:

pp.79-80

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Coriolanus

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

If we can make our peace

Page No:

pp.80-81

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Second Part of King Henry IV

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

My lord your son had only but the corps

Page No:

pp.81-82

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Second Part of King Henry IV

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Want made them murmur for the people who

Page No:

p.82

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Sedition walks

Page No:

p.82

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Killegrew's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

Henry Killigrew

First Line:

The vulgar in rebellion are like

Page No:

p.82

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Suckling]

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

This late commotion in your kingdom sir

Page No:

p.82

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Brennoralt

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

There is gain

Page No:

p.82

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

But well weighed reason told him that when law

Page No:

p.82

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

When swelling floods have overthrown the town

Page No:

p.83

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

G. Ferrers in the Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

George Ferrers

First Line:

I'll not such favour to rebellion show

Page No:

p.83

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Charles VIII, of France

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Give me your hands all over one by one

Page No:

pp.83-84

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

After this shipwreck I again must try

Page No:

p.84

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton in the Mirror for Magistrates.

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Sir I am pre-engaged let that suffice

Page No:

p.84

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dover's Roman Generals

Attributed To:

John Dover

First Line:

The better loathing courses so impure

Page No:

p.84

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Are you here sir does it become a king

Page No:

p.84

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Fair Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

The only way to salve a deep disease

Page No:

p.84

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lady Alimony

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The king is full of grace and fair regard

Page No:

pp.84-86

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Henry V

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

For never headstrong reformation will

Page No:

pp.86-87

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Musophilus

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Formless themselves reforming do pretend

Page No:

p.86

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

I know you all and will awhile uphold

Page No:

p.86

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's First Part of King Henry IV

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Indeed a prince need not travel farther

Page No:

pp.87-88

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Phoenix

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Religion is a branch first set and blessed

Page No:

pp.88-89

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Second Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Wise experience

Page No:

p.88

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tatham's Distracted State

Attributed To:

John Tatham

First Line:

Who labours to reform is fit to reign

Page No:

p.88

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Middleton]

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

He wears his faith but as the fashion of

Page No:

p.88

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Much ado about Nothing

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

He whom God chooseth out of doubt doth well

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Sacred religion mother of form and fear

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Musophilus

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Divinity wrested by some factious blood

Page No:

p.90

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Seek true religion O where Mirreus

Page No:

p.90

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

As men for fear the stars should sleep and nod

Page No:

pp.91-92

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herbert.

Attributed To:

George Herbert

First Line:

Religion is the fool's bridle worn by policy

Page No:

p.91

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mason's Muleasses

Attributed To:

John Mason

First Line:

Twere happy for our holy faith to bleed

Page No:

p.91

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's St. Patrick for Ireland

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Turn christian

Page No:

p.91

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dauborne's Christian turned Turk

Attributed To:

Robert Daborne

First Line:

True piety without cessation tossed

Page No:

p.92

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Religion's veiled in types from vulgar eyes

Page No:

p.92

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fane's Love in the Dark

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

Zeal against policy maintains debate

Page No:

pp.92-93

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. Of Orrery's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

Philosophy doth seem to laugh upon

Page No:

p.92

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Just Italian.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Religion ere imposed should first be taught

Page No:

p.92

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Christian's Reply to the Philosopher.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Up from the chaos of eternal night

Page No:

pp.93-94

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge of Bussey D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

You with religion still will be severe

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Second Part of the Destruction of Jerusalem

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Who by repentance is not satisfied

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Two Gentlemen of Verona

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

My words fly up my thoughts remain below

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Man should do nothing that he should repent

Page No:

p.94

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

The drunkard after all his lavish cups

Page No:

p.94

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

This brittle glass of life already broken

Page No:

pp.94-95

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Emperor of the East

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Heaven and angels

Page No:

p.94

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Women beware Women.

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Tis not to cry God mercy or to sit

Page No:

p.95

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Quarles

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

He for his sins hath paid with death and sorrow

Page No:

p.95

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Killegrew's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

Henry Killigrew

First Line:

Sorrow for past ills doth restore frail man

Page No:

p.95

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Microcosmus

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Hope with sorrow greatest faults are small

Page No:

p.95

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Nabbs]

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

But penitence appears unnatural

Page No:

pp.95-97

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

He that repents ere he commits a fault

Page No:

p.95

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Cruel Brother

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Tis not too late yet to recant all this

Page No:

p.97

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fountain's Rewards of Virtue

Attributed To:

John Fountain

First Line:

A limb by being broke gets strength they say

Page No:

p.97

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Married Beau.

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

For seldom shall a ruler lost his life

Page No:

p.98

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Reason with the fellow

Page No:

p.98

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Coriolanus

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Open your ears for which of you will stop

Page No:

p.98

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Second Part of K. Henry IV

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

They that intend

Page No:

p.99

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Captain

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

If any here chance to behold himself

Page No:

pp.99-100

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Every Man out of his Humour

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Wronged by flying rumours which like birds

Page No:

p.99

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Ambitious Statesman

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Is't not some vain report born without cause

Page No:

p.99

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Philotas

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

I regard not as a straw the world

Page No:

p.99

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nathaniel Field's Amends for Ladies

Attributed To:

Nathan Field

First Line:

Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul

Page No:

p.99

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Forbear sharp speeches to her she's a lady

Page No:

p.99

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Do not with too severe

Page No:

pp.100-101

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Glapthorne's Albertus Wallenstein

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

You have heard

Page No:

p.100

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge of the Bussey D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

As from water

Page No:

p.100

Poem Title:

[no title[

Attribution:

Nabbs's Hannibal and Scipio

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Prithee forgive me

Page No:

p.100

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Women beware Women

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Tis not enough to strive against the act

Page No:

p.101

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Quarles

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

Reprove not in their wrath incensed men

Page No:

p.101

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

I will not let thee sleep nor ear nor drink

Page No:

p.101

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph's Jealous Lovers

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

It is not just I should rebuke them for

Page No:

p.101

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Law against Lovers

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

The purest treasure mortal times afford

Page No:

p.101

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Richard II

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Good name in man or woman

Page No:

pp.101-102

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

This I'm sure of that each man naturally

Page No:

pp.102-103

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

The Hectors

Attributed To:

Edmund Prestwich

First Line:

If entreaty fail

Page No:

p.102

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Atheist's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

Upon a time reputation love and death

Page No:

p.102

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Reputation | Thou awe of fools and great men thou that choke'st

Page No:

p.102

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophoniba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

The credit wary keep tis quickly gone

Page No:

p.102

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

The ulcerous reputation feels the poise

Page No:

p.102

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Women beware Women

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

The reputation

Page No:

p.103

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Sophy

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

No crime so bold but would be understood

Page No:

p.103

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Do not neglect the candour of thy name

Page No:

p.103

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Watkins

Attributed To:

Rowland Watkyns

First Line:

The hope and expectation of thy time

Page No:

pp.103-105

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's First Part of King Henry IV.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Why then being master

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Custom of the Country

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

We deem those things our sight doth most frequent

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Edward IV. to Mrs. Shore.

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

He marched before report where what he meant

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel on the Death of the E. of Devonshire

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Your natural greatness never artful made

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant on the Restauration

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Some princes that they may the rumour gain

Page No:

pp.105-106

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant on the Restauration

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

When resolution hath prepared the will

Page No:

p.106

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let come what will I mean to bear it out

Page No:

p.106

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Locrine

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Thy resolution would steel a coward

Page No:

p.107

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Little French Lawyer

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Tell fools of fools

Page No:

p.107

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge for Honour.

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Brave resolution I am proud to see

Page No:

p.107

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heywood's Fair Maid of the Exchange

Attributed To:

Thomas Heywood

First Line:

Why look you sad

Page No:

p.107

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King John

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

My resolution's firm for all my shakings

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir R. Howard's Surprizal

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

His resolution's like

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Aglaura

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Entice the trusty sun

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

She beheld the shepherd on his way

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

My resolution grounded on his service

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Habbington's Queen of Arragon

Attributed To:

William Habington

First Line:

Who would believe thy metal could let sloth

Page No:

pp.109-110

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Bussey D'ambois.

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

A man of spirit beyond the reach of fear

Page No:

p.109

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Bussey D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

The wisdom madam of your private life

Page No:

p.109

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Underwoods

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

But if your resolutions be like mine

Page No:

p.109

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Darius

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

The father's poverty has made thee happy

Page No:

pp.110-111

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumonts and Fletcher's Laws of Candy

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

That by their subaltern ministers

Page No:

p.110

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Philotas

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

How like you this fair solitary life

Page No:

p.110

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dauborne's Poor Man's Comfort

Attributed To:

Robert Daborne

First Line:

Court honours and your shadows of true joy

Page No:

p.110

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Raging Turk

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

Let us to private shades

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Regulus

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Though he in all the people's eyes seemed great

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Denham]

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

O happiness of sweet retired content

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Was man ever blessed with that excess of joy

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard's Messallina

Attributed To:

Nathanael Richards

First Line:

Yours is a virtue of inferior rate

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

I'd rather like the violet grow

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Habbington's Castura

Attributed To:

William Habington

First Line:

Horror hath her degrees there is excess

Page No:

p.112

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

To be revenged of a woman were a

Page No:

p.112

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lily's Endimion

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

How miserable a thing is a great man

Page No:

p.112

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Thestes

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Now I might do it pat now he is praying

Page No:

p.112

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The fairest action of our humane life

Page No:

pp.113-114

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lady Carew's Mariam

Attributed To:

Cary [nee Tanfield] Elizabeth

First Line:

Revenge falls heavy that is raised by love

Page No:

p.113

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Insatiate Countess

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Oh mine's revenge

Page No:

p.113

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Marston]

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Who strikes a lion must be sure strike home

Page No:

p.113

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dauborne's Poor Man's Comfort

Attributed To:

Robert Daborne

First Line:

How just soever

Page No:

p.114

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger and Field's Fatal Dowry

Attributed To:

Nathan Field

Philip Massinger

First Line:

The best revenge is to reform our crimes

Page No:

p.114

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton and Rowley's Spanish Gipsey

Attributed To:

William Rowley

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

All armed with malice either less or more

Page No:

p.114

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Barons Wars

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Wise men secure that fates and execute

Page No:

p.114

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Traitor

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

A true Italian spirit is a ball

Page No:

p.114

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sam. Rowley's Noble Spanish Soldier

Attributed To:

Samuel Rowley

First Line:

In this | You satisfy your anger and revenge

Page No:

p.114

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's City Madam

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

The boisterous ocean when no winds oppose

Page No:

p.114

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Couragious Turk.

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

Let craft with courtesy a while confer

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Broken Heart

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Twas a poor a low revenge unworthy

Page No:

pp.115-116

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Sophy

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Man's disposition is for to requite

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Rise from thy scorching den thou soul of mischief

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Rawlins's Rebellion

Attributed To:

Thomas Rawlins

First Line:

Revenge is able

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Hannibal and Scipio

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Revenge impatient Hubert proudly sought

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Revenge weak womens valour and in men

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Who merits my revenge and hate must prove

Page No:

p.116

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Juliana

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

And what's so desperate as an angry slave

Page No:

p.116

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Charles VIII. of France

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

There are affronts so great

Page No:

p.116

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tuke's Adventures of Five Hearts

Attributed To:

Sir Samuel Tuke

First Line:

If either vice or virtue we aband

Page No:

p.116

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou art so far before

Page No:

p.116

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Macbeth

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

He bestows rich largess on his men

Page No:

pp.117-118

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Tis well if some men will do well for price

Page No:

p.117

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

They follow virtue for reward to day

Page No:

p.117

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Epigrams

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Honour pays | Double where kings neglect and he is valiant

Page No:

p.117

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Example

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

For such great merit do upbraid

Page No:

p.117

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Fate will have thee pursue

Page No:

pp.118-119

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

He who his country serves with justice may

Page No:

p.118

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dover's Roman Generals

Attributed To:

John Dover

First Line:

Nor is it safe for subjects since

Page No:

p.118

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

Repulse upon repulse an inmate consul

Page No:

p.119

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Johnson]

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

It is decreed nor shall thy fate O Rome

Page No:

p.119

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Catiline]

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

I love these ancient ruins

Page No:

pp.119-120

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Such are the judgments of the heavenly powers

Page No:

p.119

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Philotas

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Destruction | Overtakes as often those that fly as those that

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Sophy

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

All things decay with time the forest sees

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

She but shows thee

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Microcosmus

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Nought's had all's spent

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Macbeth

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Their safeties had no counterpoise at all

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Yet satires since the most of mankind be

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson on Dr. Donne's Death

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

In satires each man though untouched complains

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Poetaster

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

But when men think most in safety stand

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Barons Wars

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Too happy were men if they understood

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fountain's Rewards pf Virtue

Attributed To:

John Fountain

First Line:

This rule is certain

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Lovers Melancholy

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Your ruin yet appears not and you think

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Killegrew's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

Henry Killigrew

First Line:

In that calm harbour

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir R. Howard's Blind Lady

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

What though the sea be calm trust to the shore

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Thy star was judgment only and right sense

Page No:

p.122

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Cartwright]

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

So dost thou aim thy darts which even when

Page No:

p.122

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

I'm one whose whip of steel can with a lash

Page No:

p.122

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph's Muses Looking-Glass

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

My anticipation shall prevent your

Page No:

p.122

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Our grave counsellor

Page No:

p.123

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Second Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Intents ill carried are that men may know

Page No:

p.123

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Tis no sin love's fruits to steal

Page No:

p.123

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Volpone

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

The open merry man

Page No:

p.123

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Underwoods

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

A secret in his mouth

Page No:

p.123

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Case is alter'd

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Why have I blabbed who shall be true to us

Page No:

p.123

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Secret I never had that disease of the mother

Page No:

pp.124-125

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

Deep policy in us makes fools of such

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

For he that prates his secrets his heart

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Tourneur]

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

I'll conceal this secret from the world

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Webster]

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

It is an equal fault

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Be well advised and think what danger tis

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Webster]

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Canst thous conceal a secret

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Fawn

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

One should look well to whom his mind he leaves

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

He that known great men's secrets and proves slight

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Tourneur]

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

Henry so covered this advertisement

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

He deserves small trust

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Broken Heart

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Who trust those secrets where on honour rests

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Richard Brome]

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

Know a broken oath is no such burthen

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's Love-sick Court

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

For apprentices though they are bound to keep

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's Mad Couple well match'd

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

Remember that a prince's secrets

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Duke of Milan

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

But if all court secrets come to light what

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

W. Smith's Hector of Germany

Attributed To:

Wentworth Smith

First Line:

Harken ye men that ever shall love like me

Page No:

pp.126-127

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Bishop King

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

I am ruined in her confession

Page No:

p.126

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marmion's Antiquary

Attributed To:

Shackerley Marmion

First Line:

Guilty of folly I am trust a woman

Page No:

p.126

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

Thou hittest | So just upon my thoughts thy tongue is tipped

Page No:

p.126

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Rawlins's Rebellion

Attributed To:

Thomas Rawlins

First Line:

Safe in thy breast close lock up thy intents

Page No:

p.126

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

The plot wherewith I labour can admit

Page No:

p.127

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Freeman's Imperiale

Attributed To:

Sir Ralph Freeman

First Line:

Search not to find what lies too deeply hid

Page No:

p.127

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

But if | This secrecy be a gallant's highest quality

Page No:

pp.127-128

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fane's Love in the Dark

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

As winds whose violence out does all art

Page No:

p.127

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir. W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

I'm ruined because I know all their designs

Page No:

p.128

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Ambitious Statesman

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

This power's sense which from abroad doth bring

Page No:

p.128

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Sir John Davies]

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

But why do I the soul and sense divide

Page No:

p.128

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

How does our palace now resemble great Mahomet's

Page No:

p.129

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Unfortunate Usurper

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis mad idolatry

Page No:

pp.129-130

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Every good servant does not all commands

Page No:

p.129

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Had I but served my god with half the zeal

Page No:

p.129

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Henry VIII

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Tis the curse of service

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

That such a slave as this should wear a sword

Page No:

pp.130-131

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Lear

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

There be some sports are painful but their labour

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Tempest

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I follow him to serve my turn upon him

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Shakespeare]

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Better to leave undone than by our deed

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Antony and Cleopatra

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The Turk in this divine discipline is

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Silent Woman

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Their services are clock like to be set

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Case is alter'd

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Methinks thou art more honest now than wise

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Timon

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I'll double thy reward

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Custom of the Country

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Is all our train

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Oh fear a servant's tongue

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophonisba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Then men are men when they are all their own

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

O more than happy ten times were that king

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Darius

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

The crocodile which lives in the river

Page No:

p.133

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

O the inconstant

Page No:

p.133

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Webster]

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

As in virtuous actions

Page No:

p.133

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Duke of Milan

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Shall I then | For a foolish whipping leave to honour him

Page No:

p.134

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Duke of Milan

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Equal nature fashioned us

Page No:

p.134

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Bondman

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Happy those times

Page No:

pp.134-135

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Bondman

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Tis reported | There is a drink of forgetfulness which once tasted

Page No:

pp.135-136

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Bashful Lover

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

By her example warned let all great women

Page No:

p.135

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Emperor of the East

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

If you punish | My hasty application of your favours

Page No:

pp.136-137

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Honoria and Mammon

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

I am not of that harsh and morose temper

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's New Way to pay Old Debts

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

From the king | To the beggar by gradation all are servants

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Unnatural Combat

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

How cheaply do we see some service bought

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Crescey

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

He used Cleander as the lame

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tatham's Distracted State

Attributed To:

John Tatham

First Line:

When servant's servant's slaves once relish licence

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Fancies chaste and noble

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

My birth is noble though the popular blast

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Broken Heart

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

When I may reveal

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Sad One

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Expect not more from servants than is just

Page No:

pp.137-138

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Tis liberty to serve one lord but he

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Men that are born to serve must seek to please

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's New Academy

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

Service beyond the gratitude of kings

Page No:

p.138

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's First Part of the Destruction of Jerusalem

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

First the two eyes which have the seeing power

Page No:

pp.138-139

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

Silence in woman is like speech in man

Page No:

pp.139-140

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Silent Woman

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Meanwhile all rest | Sealed up and silent as when rigid frosts

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Silence shall digest

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lilly's Sapho and Phao

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

Out of this silence yet I picked a welcome

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Midsummer-night's Dream

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Much ado about Nothing

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Silence hath rhetoric and veils are best

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Crescey

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

You know my wishes ever yours did meet

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lady Carew's Mariam

Attributed To:

Cary [nee Tanfield] Elizabeth

First Line:

Oh silence thou dost swallow pleasure right

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophonisba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

This is a motion still and soft

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Killegrew's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

Henry Killigrew

First Line:

By uttering what thou knowest less glory'd got

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

In his looks | He carries guilt whose horror breeds this strange

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph's Amyntas

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

For sin's so sweet

Page No:

p.141

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Underwoods

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

He that for love of goodness hateth ill

Page No:

p.141

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Epigrams

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Changed to as great a silence

Page No:

p.141

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Killegrew's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

Henry Killigrew

First Line:

Our misdeeds procure us still

Page No:

p.141

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brandon's Octavia

Attributed To:

Samuel Brandon

First Line:

Who is in sinfulness so bold

Page No:

p.141

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Foul deeds will rise

Page No:

p.141

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

From love of grace

Page No:

p.141

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Pleasure and youth like smiling evils woo us

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton and Rowley's Spanish Gipsy

Attributed To:

William Rowley

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Alas that in the wane of our affections

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Bussey D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Before I was secure against death and hell

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Chapman]

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Bear witness yet ye good and evil spirits

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

God that to pass will have his justice come

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Inquisition on Fame and Honour

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

What though our sins go brave and better clad

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Octavia to Antonius

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Maids and their honours are like poor beginners

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

All men have sins

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Barry's Ram-Alley

Attributed To:

Lording Barry

First Line:

Tis fearful building upon any sin

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Smith's Hector of Germany

Attributed To:

Wentworth Smith

First Line:

Are you so bitter tis but want of use

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Women beware Women

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

What monstrous days are these

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Phoenix

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Another's sin sometimes procures our shame

Page No:

p.144

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Quarles

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

Tis a bold cowardice when men shall dare

Page No:

p.144

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

What a strange glass they've showed me now myself in

Page No:

p.144

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Aglaura

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Three fatal sisters wait upon each sin

Page No:

p.144

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Tell me why heaven first did suffer sin

Page No:

pp.144-145

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Philosopher to the Dying Christian

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

That sin | Becomes a virtue that chastises sin

Page No:

p.145

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Thyestes

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

I perceive | In flesh or spirit we are sinners all

Page No:

p.145

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Married Beau

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Who would be wicked when the very crime

Page No:

p.145

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Stapylton's Step-Mother

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Stapylton [Stapleton]

First Line:

I cannot hide what I am I must be

Page No:

pp.145-146

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Much ado about Nothing

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Men should be what they seem

Page No:

p.145

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

What is it troublesome to be beloved

Page No:

pp.146-147

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Arcadia

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

While others fish with craft for great opinion

Page No:

p.146

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

His nature is too noble for the world

Page No:

p.146

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Coriolanus

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

His words are bonds his oaths are oracles

Page No:

p.146

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Two Gentlemen of Verona

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Bashfulness seize you we pronouce

Page No:

p.147

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Courtezan

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

I cannot clothe my thoughts and just defence

Page No:

p.147

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Bondman

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

What hearts do think the tongues were made to show

Page No:

p.147

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Croesus

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Wrong not thy fair youth nor the world deprive

Page No:

p.148

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Legend of Matilda

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Her words are trusty heralds to her mind

Page No:

p.148

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Love's Sacrifice

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

God weighs the heart whom we can never move

Page No:

p.148

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Watkins

Attributed To:

Rowland Watkyns

First Line:

A wife oh fetters

Page No:

pp.148-149

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's Wonder of a Kingdom

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

Men that are hearty and sincere come late

Page No:

p.148

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Platonick Lovers

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Wealth shall not now be made the price of blood

Page No:

p.148

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Thomas Higgons on the Restoration

Attributed To:

Sir Thomas Higgons

First Line:

Innocence below enjoys

Page No:

p.148

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sicily and Naples

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Like a free wanton jennet in the meadows

Page No:

p.149

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger and Field's Fatal Dowry

Attributed To:

Nathan Field

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Say a man never marry nor have children

Page No:

p.149

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Webster]

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

O fie upon this single life forego it

Page No:

p.149

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

A bachelor | May thrive by observation on a little

Page No:

p.149

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Fancys chaste and noble

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Some more like you might powerfully confute

Page No:

pp.149-150

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Bishop King

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

Great grief will not be told

Page No:

p.150

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Next in the nostrils doth she use the smell

Page No:

p.150

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

For thy smell | Sabaea shall be translated where thou goest

Page No:

p.150

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Microcosmus

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

She bad him tellen plain

Page No:

p.151

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [Spenser]

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

He oft finds medicine who his grief imparts

Page No:

p.151

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

My heart is as an anvil unto sorrow

Page No:

p.151

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marloe's Edward II

Attributed To:

Christopher Marlowe

First Line:

Our pleasures posting guests make but small stay

Page No:

p.151

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brandon's Octavia

Attributed To:

Samuel Brandon

First Line:

My Dionysia shall we rest us here

Page No:

p.151

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Pericles

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

One fire burns out another's burning

Page No:

p.151

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

For my particular grief

Page No:

pp.151-152

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

You yield too much unto your griefs and fate

Page No:

pp.152-153

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Poetaster

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

He bears the sentence well that nothing bears

Page No:

p.152

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Shakespear]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh who can hold a fire in his hand

Page No:

p.152

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Richard II

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Great lords wise men never sit and wail their loss

Page No:

p.152

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Third Part of King Henry VI

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast

Page No:

p.152

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Griefs that sound so loud prove always light

Page No:

p.153

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Widow's Tears

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

What news brings thou can Egypt yet yield more

Page No:

p.153

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Daniel]

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

It is some ease our sorrows to reveal

Page No:

p.153

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Cleopatra

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Amazed he stands nor voice nor body stirs

Page No:

p.153

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Rosamond

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

My coming but increased grief's starting store

Page No:

p.153

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Croesus

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

As doth the yearly augur of the spring

Page No:

pp.154-155

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Queen Isabel to Richard II

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

I drink | So deep of grief that he must only think

Page No:

p.154

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophonisba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Long time he tossed his thoughts

Page No:

p.154

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Marston]

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Language thou art too narrow and too weak

Page No:

p.154

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

Shall sorrow through the waves of woes to sail

Page No:

p.154

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Things of small moment we can scarcely hold

Page No:

p.155

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Barons Wars

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Unkindness do thy office poor heart break

Page No:

p.155

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Past sorrows let us moderately lament them

Page No:

p.155

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Webster]

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

I suffer now for what hath former been

Page No:

p.155

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Webster]

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Oh be of comfort

Page No:

p.155

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Be of comfort and your heavy sorrow

Page No:

p.155

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heywood's Woman kill'd with Kindness

Attributed To:

Thomas Heywood

First Line:

Woe will break

Page No:

p.155

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Orestes

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

Great sorrows have no leisure to complain

Page No:

p.155

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Raging Turk

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

There's no way to make sorrow light

Page No:

p.155

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Will. Rowley’s New Wonder.

Attributed To:

William Rowley

First Line:

Times have their changes sorrow makes men wise

Page No:

p.156

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Perkin Warbeck

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Souls sunk in sorrows never are without them

Page No:

p.156

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Broken Heart

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

What I have lost kind shepherds all you know

Page No:

p.156

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Brown]

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

Sorrow doth hate

Page No:

p.156

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

Oh do not hide thy sorrows show them brief

Page No:

p.156

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Brown]

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

He doubles grief that comments on a woe

Page No:

p.156

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Return from Parnassus

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My griefs shall lead me this way

Page No:

p.157

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sharp's Noble Stranger

Attributed To:

Lewis Sharpe

First Line:

Be advised how you

Page No:

p.157

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Love's Cruelty

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

To vex when mischiefs are quite past and gone

Page No:

p.157

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nevile's Poor Scholar

Attributed To:

Robert Neville

First Line:

There is no joy

Page No:

p.157

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Gomersall's Lodovick Sforza

Attributed To:

Robert Gomersall

First Line:

He sad heart being robbed

Page No:

p.157

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph's Amyntas

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Pray do not conceal

Page No:

p.157

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Unfortunate Mother

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

To grieve at this were in these senseless times

Page No:

p.158

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Jones's Adrasta

Attributed To:

John Jones

First Line:

I need no muse to give my passion vent

Page No:

p.158

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cleveland

Attributed To:

John Cleveland

First Line:

I must confess when I did part from you

Page No:

p.158

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

How beautiful is sorrow when tis dressed

Page No:

p.158

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant's Love and Honour

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Like the camelion's colours that decay

Page No:

p.158

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant's Journey into Worcestershire

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

All we gain

Page No:

p.158

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant's Elegy on B. Haselrick

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

The remedy to woe

Page No:

p.158

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Merry Devil of Edmonton

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The sharpest drugs are of the healthiest operation

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Gilbert Swinhoe's Unhappy Fair Irene

Attributed To:

Gilbert Swinhoe

First Line:

For still imparted councils do increase

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Blind Lady

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

For grief concealed like hidden fire consumes

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Sophy

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Consider sorrows how they are aright

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Herrick.

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

To vent my sorrows yields me no relief

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomas Ford

Attributed To:

Thomas Forde

First Line:

Yet both your griefs I'll chide as ignorance

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Grief's conflict gave these hairs their silver shine

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Davenant]

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Why shouldst thou grieve

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Indian Queen

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Grief speaks there loudest where the mourner's dumb

Page No:

p.160

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Orgula

Attributed To:

Leonard Willan

First Line:

Grief's like a river which does silent creep

Page No:

p.160

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dover's Roman Generals

Attributed To:

John Dover

First Line:

You hunt our griefs as they were hard to find

Page No:

p.160

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Regulus

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Can human sorrows be delights to the gods

Page No:

p.160

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Darius

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Sorrows speak loud without a tongue

Page No:

p.160

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [King]

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

Believe that sorrow truest is which lies

Page No:

p.160

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Bishop King

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

For how may we to other things attain

Page No:

pp.160-161

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

That grief does far all other griefs transcend

Page No:

p.160

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Henry V

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

Know henceforth that grief's vital part

Page No:

p.160

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Bishop Corbet

Attributed To:

Richard Corbett

First Line:

As is the fable of the lady fair

Page No:

p.161

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Davies]

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

To judge herself she must herself transcend

Page No:

p.162

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [Davies]

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

The workman on his stuff his skill doth show

Page No:

pp.162-163

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

One thinks the soul is air another fire

Page No:

p.162

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

If she were but the body's quality

Page No:

p.163

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Davies]

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

No body can at once two forms admit

Page No:

p.163

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Davies]

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

Doubtless in man there is a nature found

Page No:

p.163

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Davies]

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

But high perfection to the soul it brings

Page No:

p.164

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Davies]

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

But how shall we this union well express

Page No:

p.164

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

Yet say these men if all her organs die

Page No:

pp.165-167

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

Our bodies every footstep that they make

Page No:

p.165

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

As a cunning prince that useth spies

Page No:

p.165

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Davies]

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

That our souls in reason are immortal

Page No:

p.168

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Caesar and Pompey

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

I was a scholar seven useful springs

Page No:

pp.168-169

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's What you will

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Think of her worth and think that God did mean

Page No:

p.168

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

That learned father which so firmly proves

Page No:

pp.169-170

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Ideas

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

The soul her liking easily can espy

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Pierce Gaveston

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Who is there sure he hath a soul unless

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Donne]

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

Let man's soul be a sphere and then in this

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

For bodies shall from death redeemed be

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Donne]

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

Didst thou never see

Page No:

p.170

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

That souls immortal are I easily grant

Page No:

pp.170-171

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

True Trojans

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Philosophers who have so anxious been

Page No:

p.171

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Every soul's alike a musical instrument

Page No:

p.171

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Very Woman

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

How formless is the form of man the soul

Page No:

p.171

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Cleopatra

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

Man's soul immortal is whilst here they live

Page No:

pp.171-173

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Continuation of Lucan

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

Tis true that the souls

Page No:

pp.173-174

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Rutter's Shepherd's Holiday

Attributed To:

Joseph Rutter

First Line:

Ill purchased life indeed whose ransom craves

Page No:

p.173

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

The Queen, or, The Excellency of her Sex

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

That soul which gave me life was seen by none

Page No:

p.174

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Denham]

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Man's soul in a perpetual motion flows

Page No:

p.174

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Our souls but like unhappy strangers come

Page No:

p.174

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Davenant]

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Though life since finite has no ill excuse

Page No:

p.174

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Philosopher to the Christian

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Whence is it that the air so sudden clears

Page No:

p.175

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Masques

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

The wanton spring lies dallying with the earth

Page No:

pp.175-176

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's What you will

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Sure some men's souls are given them for plagues

Page No:

p.175

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Ambitious Statesman

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Now had the sun rode through his winter stage

Page No:

p.176

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Now that the winter's gone the earth hath lost

Page No:

p.176

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Carew

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew

First Line:

There can no king imagine aught so bad

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

G. Ferrers in the Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

George Ferrers

First Line:

At what a divers price do divers men

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Mortimer

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

What a verdant weed the spring arrays

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph's Jealous Lovers

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

The ox which lately did for shelter fly

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Carew

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew

First Line:

When wilful princes carelessly despise

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I will not ask why Caesar bids do this

Page No:

pp.178-179

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Forbear you things

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

As a city dame

Page No:

pp.179-180

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's First Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

He must be the organ we must work by now

Page No:

p.179

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Johnson]

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Thus must we do who are enthralled to kings

Page No:

p.180

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Philotas

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

See how these great men clothe their private hate

Page No:

p.180

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Daniel]

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

But this is still the fate of those that are

Page No:

p.180

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Daniel]

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

For they who speak but privately to kings

Page No:

p.180

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Daniel]

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Who sees not that sees aught woe worth the while

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Nor is it so much princes weaknesses

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Daniel]

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

And it is just that they who make a prey

Page No:

pp.181-182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Panegyrick to the King

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

But where the better rules the greater part

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

For they must flatter good and evil too

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Why thus should statesmen do

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Second Part of Antonio and Mellida

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

But on the stage of state when one must stand

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Alexandrean Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

What if I got him

Page No:

pp.182-183

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's Match me in London

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

Our honest actions and the light that breaks

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Valentinian

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

I now perceive the great thieves eat the less

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's False One

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Then daily begged I great monopolies

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Pierce Gaveston

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

An honest statesman to a prince

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

The tricks of state moles that work under princes

Page No:

pp.183-184

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mason's Muleasses

Attributed To:

John Mason

First Line:

This bile of state wears purple tissue

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger and Field's Fatal Dowry

Attributed To:

Nathan Field

Philip Massinger

First Line:

A state villain must be like the wind

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Mason]

Attributed To:

John Mason

First Line:

We like inferior lights

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Day's Humour out of Breath

Attributed To:

John Day

First Line:

You have not as good patriots should do studied

Page No:

pp.184-185

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Bondman

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Hard things are compassed oft by easy means

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's new Way to pay old Debts

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Statesmen like virgins first should give denial

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Bird in a Cage

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

There is | A statesman that can side with every faction

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Court Street

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Oh he that's active in a state has more

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Royal Master

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Let dull patricians boast their airy titles

Page No:

pp.185-186

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Agrippina

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

Wise counsellors shine nearest to the king

Page No:

p.186

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

The fox refused

Page No:

p.186

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Aleyn]

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

And as the lower orbs are wheeled about

Page No:

p.186

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Aleyn]

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Three tedious winters have I waited here

Page No:

p.186

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Aglaura

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

I am a rogue if I do not think

Page No:

pp.186-187

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Goblins

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

He has inverted all the rule of state

Page No:

p.186

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Goblins

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Men sweat at helm as much as at the oar

Page No:

p.186

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph's Muses Looking-glass

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Who serves his prince in what is judged unjust

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

The lover's and the courtier's masterpiece

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

The prince's favour turns to a disease

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Unfortunate Lovers

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

The world would still

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Law against Lovers

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Thou seest not whilst so young and guiltless too

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Siege of Rhodes

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Thus the court wheel goes round like fortune's ball

Page No:

p.188

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard Brome's Queen's Exchange

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

He was not of that strain of counsellors

Page No:

p.188

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brewer's Love-sick King

Attributed To:

Thomas Brewer

First Line:

The ambitious statesman not himself admires

Page No:

p.188

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant to Henry Jarmin

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

The righteous state physicians that attends

Page No:

p.188

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Fair Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

He was her father's counsellor a man

Page No:

p.188

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Albovine, K. of Lombardy

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

My Lords | I'll leave you now to prey upon your selves

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Great Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

My thoughts must not be judged by these base slaves

Page No:

pp.189-190

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Great Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

That name I must remember and with horror

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Sophy

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Ah had I studied but much to gain

Page No:

pp.190-191

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Juliana

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

D'ye think that statesmen's kindnesses proceed

Page No:

p.190

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Vestal Virgin

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

He that seeks safety in a statesman's pity

Page No:

p.190

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Howard]

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

A statesman all but interest may forget

Page No:

p.190

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Henry V.

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

But fear in statesmen is the highest crime

Page No:

p.190

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

Good success | Is oft more fatal far than bad one winning

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge for Honour

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Let them call it mischief

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

I'll seem religious to be damnedly wicked

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Ambitious Statesman

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Shows to aspire just objects are laid on

Page No:

p.192

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's First Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

What suit of grace hath virtue to put on

Page No:

p.192

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Daniel]

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

And though the fortune of some age consents

Page No:

p.192

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Musophilus

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Things once well begun

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Glapthorne's Albertus Wallenstein

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

Things that in the period prosperously succeed

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Glapthorne's Hollander

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

Success like Lethe to the souls in bliss

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mason's Muleasses

Attributed To:

John Mason

First Line:

Prosperous success gives blackest actions glory

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophonisba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

So they thrive

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Lover's Melancholy

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Proud success admits no probe

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cleveland

Attributed To:

John Cleveland

First Line:

Success must follow those attempts that rise

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Hannibal and Scipio

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

All's but endeavour until perfected

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Nabbs]

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Hope of reward or one victorious field

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lady Alimony

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My intent's good o let it so succeed

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sharpham's Fleire

Attributed To:

Edward Sharpham

First Line:

That's villany that by its ill success

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Second Part of Henry VI

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

It is success makes innocence a sin

Page No:

pp.194-195

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Darius

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

If all things by success are understood

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Indian Queen

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

If we but prosper now not we on fate

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Great Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

As all those sins which for a crown are done

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Black Prince

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

All are not ill plots that do sometimes fail

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

O success | Is a rare paint that which succeeds is good

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

In tracing human story we shall find

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Siege of Rhodes

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

The body's life with meats and air is fed

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

Wouldst delight thy taste

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Microcosmus

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Why tribute why should we pay tribute if

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Our trade is tax comprising men and things

Page No:

p.196

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Study some monopoly

Page No:

pp.196-197

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Constant Maid

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Projector I treat first

Page No:

p.196

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Emperor of the East

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

His most trusty guide

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

The law takes measure of us all for clothes

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Regulus

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

In things a moderation keep

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Rewards will only crown

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Microcosmus

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Though I look old yet I am strong and lusty

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's As you like it

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Yonder's her cave whose plain yet decent roof

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Nabbs]

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Temperance | She's the physician that doth moderate

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Microcosmus

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Canst thou be content

Page No:

pp.198-199

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Old Couple

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

Temperate in what does needy life preserve

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

He who the rules of temperance neglects

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tuke's Adventures of Five Hours

Attributed To:

Sir Samuel Tuke

First Line:

Save your honour

Page No:

pp.199-200

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Measure for Measure

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

This is woman who well knows her strength

Page No:

pp.200-201

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Swetnam the Woman Hater

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

She who will run so near the brink of sin

Page No:

p.201

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Married Beau

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

What a frail thing is man it is not worth

Page No:

p.201

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Lady of Pleasure

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Thou hast virtue to secure all I am confident

Page No:

p.201

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Hide-Park

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Let me though late yet at the last begin

Page No:

p.201

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

For that which might by secret means hath wrought

Page No:

p.201

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

It is an argument the times are sore

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Although the cause seemed right and title strong

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's As you like it

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The time is out of joint oh cursed spite

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

For he is but a bastard to the time

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King John

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Ripe I yet am not to destroy succession

Page No:

p.203

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

I bring the truth to light detects the ill

Page No:

p.203

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Brooke]

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Daughter of heaven am I but God none greater

Page No:

p.203

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Brooke]

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Time hath several falls

Page No:

p.203

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

Injurious time unto the good unjust

Page No:

p.203

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton in the Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Men rail at Jove and sigh for Saturn's time

Page No:

p.203

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Old time will end our story

Page No:

p.204

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Time flows from instants and of these each one

Page No:

p.204

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Beaumont

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

First Line:

The ancient times what is the best do show

Page No:

p.204

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Time is the moth of nature devours all beauty

Page No:

p.204

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Humorous Courtier

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

He cuts the green tufts off the enameled plain

Page No:

p.204

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

Weep no more for what is past

Page No:

pp.204-205

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Cruel Brother

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Thou were the first mad'st merit know her strength

Page No:

pp.205-206

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Epigrams

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Our time consumes like smoke and posts away

Page No:

p.205

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Watkyns

Attributed To:

Rowland Watkyns

First Line:

Time lays his hand

Page No:

p.205

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Davenant]

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Now does he feel his title

Page No:

p.205

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Macbeth

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Where titles presume to thrust before fit

Page No:

p.206

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman Johnson and Marston's Eastward Hoe

Attributed To:

John Marston

George Chapman

First Line:

Man is a name of honour for a king

Page No:

p.206

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Bussy D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

That height and godlike purity of mind

Page No:

p.206

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton in the Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

All transitory titles I detest

Page No:

p.206

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Legend of Matilda

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

What though he hath no title he hath might

Page No:

p.206

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

He that above the state of man will strain

Page No:

p.206

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Daniel]

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

After me let none whom greatness shrouds

Page No:

p.206

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Croesus

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

We all are soldiers and all venture lives

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's King or no King

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

I look down upon him

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Custom of the Country

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

How dejectedly

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Atheist's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

Are you in love with title

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Devil's Law Case

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

These are lords | That have bought titles men may merchandize

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heywood's Royal King

Attributed To:

Thomas Heywood

First Line:

Am I not emperor men call me so

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Raging Turk

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

If that titles

Page No:

p.208

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger and Dekker's Virgin Martyr

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

Brush off | This honoured dust that soils your company

Page No:

p.208

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Habbington's Queen of Arragon

Attributed To:

William Habington

First Line:

Poor windy titles

Page No:

p.208

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph's Muses Looking-Glass

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Thy blood runs high there's not one purple stream

Page No:

pp.208-209

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sicily and Naples

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I'll disinvest | Myself of all additions can but swell

Page No:

p.208

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sicily and Naples

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

No future titles swelled him in his sight

Page No:

p.209

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lleuellin

Attributed To:

Martin Lluelyn

First Line:

Had my birth but been

Page No:

p.209

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Jones's Adrasta

Attributed To:

John Jones

First Line:

To power adoption makes thy title good

Page No:

p.209

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Princes may easily pay their debts when

Page No:

p.209

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Albovine

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

I learned to admire goodness that

Page No:

p.209

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Siege

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Oh we with specious names ourselves deceive

Page No:

p.210

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Second Part of the Destruction of Jerusalem

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

A fool indeed has great need of a title

Page No:

p.210

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Ambitious Statemen

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Have you no titles and distinctions there

Page No:

p.210

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Regulus

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Honours mighty sir

Page No:

p.210

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howards's Great Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Have you been a traveller

Page No:

p.210

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cromwell

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Sir to a wise man all the world's his soil

Page No:

pp.211-212

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Volpone

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Some few particular I have set down

Page No:

p.211

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Volpone

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

A traveler by my faith you have great

Page No:

p.211

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's As you like it

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

These same travellers

Page No:

p.212

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Monsieur d'Olive

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Some travel hence to enrich their minds with skill

Page No:

pp.212-213

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Lady Geraldine to the E. of Surrey

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

This is that Colax that from foreign lands

Page No:

p.212

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Arcadia

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Traveled he should be but through himself exactly

Page No:

p.213

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Wild Goose Chace

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

You shall find his travel has not stopped him

Page No:

pp.213-214

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Queen of Cornish

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

This is a traveler sir knows men and

Page No:

p.213

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Scornful Lady

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

We have thought good and meet by the consent

Page No:

p.213

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Middleton]

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

He travels best that knows when to return

Page No:

p.213

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Phoenix

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

How have thy travels

Page No:

p.214

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Lover's Melancholy

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

I'll freely speak as I have found

Page No:

pp.214-215

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Love's Sacrifice

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Hearken ye gallants that will cross the seas

Page No:

p.215

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Gomersall

Attributed To:

Robert Gomersall

First Line:

Why sir do gallants travel

Page No:

p.215

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Guardian

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

What angle of earth must be my grave

Page No:

p.215

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Knave in Grain

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

He foreign countries knew but they were known

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lluellin

Attributed To:

Martin Lluelyn

First Line:

What need I travel since I may

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cleveland

Attributed To:

John Cleveland

First Line:

You have begun | Taught traveled youth what tis it should have done

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Misguided travelers that rove

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

By's travels he could make the sun appear

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant on Colonel Goring

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Man is a stranger to himself and knows

Page No:

p.217

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Bishop King

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

All travelers these heavy judgments hear

Page No:

p.217

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [King]

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

Thou art a right traveler

Page No:

p.217

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Fair Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

If sir said he we heedlessly pass by

Page No:

p.217

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Treason and murder ever kept together

Page No:

p.218

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Henry V

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep

Page No:

pp.218-219

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Second Part of King Henry VI

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Thou art a traitor and a miscreant

Page No:

p.218

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King Richard II

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

It is not possible it cannot be

Page No:

p.218

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's First Part of K. Henry IV

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

For his thoughts they brake not into deeds

Page No:

p.219

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Second Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

What ministers men must for practice use

Page No:

p.219

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Johnson]

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Should we take | Of such a swarm of traitors only him

Page No:

p.219

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Johnson]

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

If they be ill men

Page No:

p.219

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Johnson]

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

He that stands up against traitors and their ends

Page No:

p.219

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

However you are tainted be no traitor

Page No:

p.220

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Valentinian

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Treason hath blistered heels dishonest things

Page No:

p.220

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Second Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Treason like spiders weaving nets for flies

Page No:

p.220

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Foreign attempts against a state and kingdom

Page No:

p.220

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Perkin Warbeck

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Treason affords a privilege to none

Page No:

p.220

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Daniel]

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

What need have Alexander so to strive

Page No:

p.220

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Daniel]

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

For treason taken ere the birth doth come

Page No:

p.220

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Philotas

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Were my breast | Transparent and my thoughts to be discerned

Page No:

pp.220-221

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Great Duke of Florence

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

When darts invisible do fly

Page No:

p.220

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's Match me in London

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

For active treason must be doing still

Page No:

p.221

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lluellin

Attributed To:

Martin Lluelyn

First Line:

This treason is a kind of a quotidian

Page No:

p.221

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Court Secret

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

He's safe in the king's bosom who keeps warm

Page No:

p.221

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Politician

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

I have some faction the people love me

Page No:

p.221

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Coronation

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Treasons are acted

Page No:

p.221

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Sophy

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

There's no suspicion of my treason nothing

Page No:

pp.221-222

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fane's Sacrifice

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

The feeds of treason choke up as they spring

Page No:

p.221

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Take heed

Page No:

p.221

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Raging Turk

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

Thy truth is measured by thy fortune

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lilly's Endimion

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

If I had used this fool to sin I might

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Ambitious Statesman

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

And could the traitors find no fitter time

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Charles the VIIIth of France

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

victorious princes traitors do disdain

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fane's Love in the Dark

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

The seat of truth is in our secret hearts

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brandon's Octavia

Attributed To:

Samuel Brandon

First Line:

Foul is the fault though never so quaint the skill

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What gone without a word

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Two Gentlemen of Verona

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Tempest

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Thy impartial words

Page No:

pp.223-224

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Bussy D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Upon her head she wears a crown of stars

Page No:

p.223

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Masques

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

The dignity of truth is lost

Page No:

p.223

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

This above all to thine own self be true

Page No:

p.223

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Truth's pace is all upright found every where

Page No:

p.224

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Widow's Tears

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Who measures hopes and losses by the truth

Page No:

p.224

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

The truth to suffer force of tyranny

Page No:

p.224

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

He is an adorer of chaste truth

Page No:

p.224

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Example

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Twixt truth and error there's this difference known

Page No:

p.224

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Though love be past yet truth should still remain

Page No:

p.224

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Alexandrean Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Time's daughter will appear although she blush

Page No:

p.224

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Unfortunate Mother

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

They have supple knees sleeked brows but hearts of gall

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marloe's Lust's Dominion

Attributed To:

Christopher Marlowe

First Line:

As flattery too oft like friendship shows

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Truth is not seen by judgments prepossed

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fane's Sacrifice

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

Vice for a time may shine and virtue sigh

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Davenport's City-Nightcap

Attributed To:

Robert Davenport

First Line:

Oh truth | Thou art whilst tenant in a noble breast

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Davenport's King John and Matilda

Attributed To:

Robert Davenport

First Line:

True to himself and others with whom both

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

The court of kings with sycophants do swarm

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hell halleth tyrants down to death amain

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why should Caesar be a tyrant then

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I knew him tyrannous and tyrants fears

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Pericles

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Woe be to that state

Page No:

p.226

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge of Bussy D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Tyrants why swell you thus against your makers

Page No:

p.226

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Tyrants arts

Page No:

p.226

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

The aspirer once attained unto the top

Page No:

p.226

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Thus tyranny their brood whose courage fails

Page No:

p.226

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Croesus

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

The people who by force subdued remain

Page No:

p.226

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Sterline]

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Of tyrants even the wrong revenge affords

Page No:

p.226

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Alas | What in a man sequestered from the world

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's False One

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Men would be tyrants tyrants would be gods

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke of Wars

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Even tyrants covet to uphold their fame

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

For dreadful is that power that all may do

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Brooke]

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

All fence the tree that serveth for a shade

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Barons Wars

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Leave not thy blade unsheathed a tyrant's heart

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

True Trojans

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For tyrants seldom dye

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

For this to tyranny belongs

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Sophy

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

All the ambitious for the throne would fight

Page No:

pp.228-229

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Earl of Orrery's Tryphon

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

Twixt kings and tyrants there's this different known

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Learn by my harms to eschew tyranny

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

Good kings are mourned for after life but ill

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Roman Actor

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Fear no stain

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright's Siege

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

Tyrants and devils think all pleasure vain

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant's Siege of Rhodes

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

A tyrant's growth

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

True Trojans

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

It is the law

Page No:

pp.229-230

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Underwood

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

For valour wins applause

Page No:

p.229

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Masques

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

While glorious murderers

Page No:

p.229

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Darius

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

When heaven admits a tyrant to a throne

Page No:

p.229

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Orrery]

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

For Rome has had a long succession

Page No:

p.229

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let me make men know

Page No:

p.229

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

What is true valour

Page No:

pp.230-231

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's New Inn

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Be not angry valiant

Page No:

pp.231-232

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's New Inn

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

And thus we see where valour most doth vaunt

Page No:

p.232

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge of Bussy D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

He is shot free in battle is not hurt

Page No:

p.232

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's New Inn

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

It seems the coldness of declining age

Page No:

p.232

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Darius

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Then shines valour

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton and Rowley's Fair Quarrel

Attributed To:

William Rowley

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Remove those lets which did his valour stay

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Mars would have thought had Mars his actions seen

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

And now my fancy sees great Edward rise

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Poictiers]

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Thus noble causes

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Covent-Garden

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Virtue to valour hath this gift assigned

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Couragious Turk

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

First Line:

Befall what will in midst of horrors noise

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

True Trojans

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When fortune honour life and all's in doubt

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Aglaura

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Whom may do most does least the bravest will

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

That courage which the vain for valour take

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant to the E. of Orrery

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

His courage like to powder carelessly

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Distresses

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

In envy of thy hopes they hither came

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Madagascar

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Most to himself his valour fatal was

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

And taught us all assaults all ills to bear

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lluellin

Attributed To:

Martin Lluelyn

First Line:

Never contemn thy self he who will have

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Second Part of the Destruction of Jerusalem

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Brave men scorn death but yet they value life

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Darius

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Courage in great distress can only aid

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Vestal Virgin

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Who bears a manlike soul or valiant breast

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dancer

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With state and greatness virtue seldom dwells

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fair fall the steps that happily do end

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Mirror for Magistrates]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Virtue itself turns vice being misapplied

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

As nothing equals right to virtue done

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Monsieur d'Olive

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Virtue forces | Show ever noblest in conspicuous courses

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Sejanus

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Heroic virtue sinks not under length

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Masques

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Happen what there can I will be just

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Catiline

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Though virtue be the same when low she stands

Page No:

pp.236-237

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel to the Countess of Bedford

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Forgive me this my virtue

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Virtue those that can behold thy beauties

Page No:

p.237

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Man's wit doth build for time but to devour

Page No:

pp.237

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Jane Grey, to Gilford Dudley

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

States may afflict tax torture but our minds

Page No:

p.237

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophonisba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Others whom we call virtuous are not so

Page No:

pp.237-238

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

A worthy mind needs never to repent

Page No:

p.237

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Croesus

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Virtue's no virtue whilst it lives secure

Page No:

p.238

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Quarles to Baron

Attributed To:

John Quarles

First Line:

Titles may set a gloss upon our name

Page No:

p.238

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Coronation

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Black side long put or standing opposite

Page No:

pp.238-239

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Howell

Attributed To:

James Howell

First Line:

Each must in virtue strive for to excell

Page No:

p.238

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

To honour virtue is to set it forth

Page No:

p.238

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Baron]

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

What though he nor rewards nor knows my pain

Page No:

p.238

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

Extraordinary virtues when they soar

Page No:

p.238

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Unnatural Combat

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Fate hath done mankind wrong virtue may aim

Page No:

p.239

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Edward Hyde, (E. of Clarendon,) on Dr. Donne's Death

Attributed To:

Edward Hyde

First Line:

Virtue doth man to virtuous actions steer

Page No:

p.239

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Tis not to virtue that you now resort

Page No:

p.239

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Black Prince

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

Ye gods to what must I hereafter trust

Page No:

p.239

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Tryphon

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

Whilst passion holds the helm reason and honour

Page No:

p.239

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Davenport's King John and Matilda

Attributed To:

Robert Davenport

First Line:

Virtue's defensive armour must be strong

Page No:

p.239

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Law against Lovers

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

The frowns of heaven are to the virtuous like

Page No:

p.239

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Unfortunate Lovers

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

For virtue though a rarely planted flower

Page No:

p.239

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Though land tarry in your heirs some forty

Page No:

p.240

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Devil's an Ass

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

The consul's lost dreadful reverse of fate

Page No:

p.240

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Regulus

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

The gods in vain plant virtue here below

Page No:

p.240

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Calisto

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Even like some empty creek that long hath lain

Page No:

pp.240-241

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Musophilus

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

For what is it on earth

Page No:

p.240

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Sir John Oldcastle

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Is there no constancy in earthly things

Page No:

p.241

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Monsieur Thomas

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Thus run the wheels of state now up now down

Page No:

p.241

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Markham and Sampson's Herod and Antipater

Attributed To:

Gervase Markham

William Sampson

First Line:

Thus doth the ever changing course of things

Page No:

p.241

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Cleopatra

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Oh sad vicissitude

Page No:

pp.241-242

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Henry II

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

Discretion | And hardy valour are the twins of honour

Page No:

p.242

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Bonduca [i.e. Bouduca]

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

In all designs this still must be confessed

Page No:

p.242

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster and Rowley's Thracian Wonder

Attributed To:

William Rowley

John Webster

First Line:

Conquest by blood is not so sweet as wit

Page No:

p.242

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophonisba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Are not conquests good titles

Page No:

p.242

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lilly's Midas

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

Base seemed the conquest which no danger graced

Page No:

p.242

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Darius

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Tis proper to choice spirits to relieve

Page No:

p.243

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Fear no his numbers victories consist

Page No:

p.243

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

For tis not victory to win the field

Page No:

p.243

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Gomersall

Attributed To:

Robert Gomersall

First Line:

The day is ours though it cost dear yet tis not

Page No:

p.243

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Bashful Lover

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

I not deny your conquest for you may

Page No:

pp.243-244

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright's Royal Slave

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

What Alexander never could reach I won

Page No:

pp.244-245

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Francis Fane's Sacrifice

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

For he who conquests wisely has designed

Page No:

p.244

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Orrery's Mustapha

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

He who commends the vanquished speaks the power

Page No:

p.244

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

To be overcome by his victorious sword

Page No:

p.244

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Siege of Rhodes

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Conquest of realms compared to that of minds

Page No:

p.244

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant to the King

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Is it not politic in the commonwealth

Page No:

pp.245-246

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's All's Well that ends Well

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

What an honest work it would be when we find

Page No:

p.246

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

There's a cold curse laid upon all maids

Page No:

p.246

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Toruneur's Revenger's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

That which thy lascivious will doth crave

Page No:

p.246

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Matilda to King John

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

A treasure tis able to make more thieves

Page No:

p.246

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomas Middleton's Mayor of Quinborough

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

If maidens would men's words could have no power

Page No:

p.247

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

Your home's your cloister your best friends your beads

Page No:

p.247

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Tis pity she is a Whore

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

One is no number maids are nothing then

Page No:

p.247

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cook's Green's Tuquoque

Attributed To:

John Cooke

First Line:

The freedom that a virgin hath

Page No:

p.247

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Field's Amends for Ladies

Attributed To:

Nathan Field

First Line:

Virginity is but a single good

Page No:

p.248

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Glapthorne's ALbertus Walenstein

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

What are you

Page No:

p.248

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's School of Compliments

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Though you Diana like have lived still chaste

Page No:

pp.248-249

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

What if I have solemnly protested

Page No:

p.249

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nevile's Poor Scholar

Attributed To:

Robert Neville

First Line:

Maids nays are nothing they are shy

Page No:

p.249

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

See every thing that we espy

Page No:

p.249

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Suppose | She be a virgin alas poor green thing what

Page No:

pp.249-250

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's News from Plymouth

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Are vows so cheap with women or the matter

Page No:

pp.250-251

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Underwoods

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

What's virginity

Page No:

p.250

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Alexander Brome's Cunning Lovers

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken

Page No:

p.250

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Two Gentlemen of Verona

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

He hath given countenance to his speech my lord

Page No:

p.250

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

When vows with vows altars with altars jarr

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Juliana

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

For tis in vain to waste

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Indian Queen

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

O they must ever strive to be so good

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tho. Middleton's Phoenix

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Why since you Orgo's words so soon believe

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

First let me seek my vows where they were sealed

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Unfortunate Lovers

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

These are feeble vows

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Habbington's Queen of Arragon

Attributed To:

William Habington

First Line:

To keep an usurped crown a prince must swear

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Alphonsus

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Think what the worst have done what they enjoy

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

All usurpers have the falling sickness

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Mayor of Quinborough

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Whilst you usurp thus and my claim deride

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Pirates may make cheap penniworths of their pillage

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Second Part of K. Henry VI

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

A scepter snatched with an unruly hand

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's King John

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

For though usurpers sway the rule a while

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Third Part of K. Henry VI

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Men never are satisfied with what they have

Page No:

p.253

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Second Part of Byron's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Tis love not faction where the good

Page No:

p.253

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Killegrew's Conspiracy

Attributed To:

Henry Killigrew

First Line:

Want of that torments us most

Page No:

p.253

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brandon's Octavia

Attributed To:

Samuel Brandon

First Line:

The only plague from men than rest doth reave

Page No:

p.253

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Twere best not call I dare not call yet famine

Page No:

p.253

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

It hath been taught us from the primal state

Page No:

p.253

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Antony and Cleopatra

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Want made him feared more than his disgrace

Page No:

p.254

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

What though the scribe of Florence doth maintain

Page No:

pp.254-255

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Your wolf no longer seems to be a wolf

Page No:

p.254

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Why should we grieve at want

Page No:

p.254

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's Second Part of the Honest Whore

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

For want's a real evil to mankind

Page No:

p.255

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Alex. Brome

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

Lastly stood war in glittering arms yclad

Page No:

pp.255-256

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Dorset in the Mirrour for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Lord Dorset

First Line:

Want is a softer wax that takes thereon

Page No:

p.255

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Need is no vice at all though here it be

Page No:

p.255

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

It is the best with foreign foes to fight

Page No:

p.255

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mirrour for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When thou famous victory hast won

Page No:

p.256

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man

Page No:

p.256

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's K. Henry V

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watched

Page No:

p.256

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's First part of K. Henry IV

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Methinks I could not die any where so

Page No:

pp.257-258

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's K. Henry V

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Now nothing entertains the attentive ear

Page No:

p.259

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Daniel]

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

O war begot in pride and luxury

Page No:

p.259

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Civil War

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Affection finds a side and out it stands

Page No:

p.259

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Daniel]

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

Who would make war must not have empty coffers

Page No:

p.259

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Darius

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

Shame and confusion all is on the rout

Page No:

p.259

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Second Part of K. Henry VI

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Audit the end how can humanity

Page No:

p.260

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke of Wars

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

He is unwise that to a market goes

Page No:

p.260

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Some sharp their swords some right their morions set

Page No:

p.260

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Barons Wars

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

For all the murderers rapes and thefts

Page No:

p.260

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Scipio advanced like the god of blood

Page No:

p.260

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophonisba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

All wars are bad yet all wars do good

Page No:

p.260

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's Second Part of the Honest Whore

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

These fair exordiums are the ways to win

Page No:

p.261

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

Nor is it wisdom where no treasons are

Page No:

p.261

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Crescey

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

The subject's large

Page No:

p.261

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Brennoralt

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Cessation for short times in war are like

Page No:

p.261

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Suckling]

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Though war's great shape best educates the sight

Page No:

p.261

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

How various are the effects of war

Page No:

pp.261-262

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Love and Honour

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Tis there civility to be a whore

Page No:

p.262

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Underwoods

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Farewell thou private strumpet worse than common

Page No:

pp.262-263

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Insatiate Countess

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

War is the harvest sir of all ill men

Page No:

p.262

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Crown]

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

I never thought fame a lawful cause of war

Page No:

p.262

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Ambitious Statesman

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

A huswife that by selling her desires

Page No:

p.262

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

To broach a war and not to be assured

Page No:

p.262

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Hemmings's Jews Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Heminges [Heming]

First Line:

Alas good creatures what would you have them do

Page No:

pp.263-264

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Dutch Courtezan

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Who keeps a harlot tell him this from me

Page No:

p.264

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Mad World my Masters

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Our term ends once a month we should get more

Page No:

p.264

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Michaelmas Term

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Stand forth thou one of those

Page No:

p.264

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Phoenix

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

You have no soul

Page No:

p.265

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's First Part of the Honest Whore

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

A harlot is like Dunkirk true to none

Page No:

pp.265-266

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's First Part of the Honest Whore

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

A drab of state a cloth of silver flirt

Page No:

pp.267-268

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Cyril Tourneur

First Line:

Were harlots therefore wise they'd be sold dear

Page No:

p.267

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Dekker]

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

She is a right strumpet I never knew any

Page No:

p.267

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Dekker]

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

A strumpet is one of the devil's vines

Page No:

p.267

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's Second Part of the Honest Whore

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

For to turn a harlot

Page No:

p.267

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Dekker]

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

Not sale ware mercenary stuff that ye may

Page No:

p.268

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Grateful Servant

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Your punk is like your polititian for they

Page No:

p.268

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cupid's Whirligig

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O that I should love a whore a very

Page No:

p.269

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sharpham's Fleire

Attributed To:

Edward Sharpham

First Line:

The harlot is the broad way unto hell

Page No:

p.269

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Watkins

Attributed To:

Rowland Watkyns

First Line:

Peacocks and whores are near allied

Page No:

p.269

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

Then let us be friends and most friendly agree

Page No:

p.269

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richard's Brome's City Wit

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

She is as harlots fair like gilded tombs

Page No:

p.269

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Hoffman's Tragedy

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

And as this wit should goodness truly know

Page No:

p.270

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

What we would do

Page No:

p.270

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears

Page No:

p.270

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

But orderly to end where I begun

Page No:

p.270

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Shakespear]

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Humours are man's religion power his laws

Page No:

p.271

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Inquisition on Fame and Honour

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

When man is punished he is plagued still

Page No:

p.271

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Herrick]

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

No grief is grown so desperate but the ill

Page No:

p.271

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

What certainty is in our bloods our states

Page No:

p.271

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Game at Chess

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

I'll make you know my will is like

Page No:

p.271

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cupid's Whirligig

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The cloyed will

Page No:

p.271

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

It is not in my virtue to amend it

Page No:

p.271

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Do not scorn

Page No:

p.272

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford and Thomas Dekker's Sun's Darling

Attributed To:

John Ford

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

In winter's time when hardly fed the flocks

Page No:

pp.272-273

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

The wrathful winter hastening on apace

Page No:

p.272

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Earl of Dorset in the Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Thomas Sackville

First Line:

Now shivering winter fledged with feathered rain

Page No:

p.273

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Poictiers

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

When winter doth the earth array

Page No:

p.273

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Brown]

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

December raged the northern winds did blow

Page No:

p.273

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [May]

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

Fair Flora's pride into the earth again

Page No:

p.273

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Henry II

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

Men wise

Page No:

p.274

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear and Rowley's Birth of Merlin

Attributed To:

William Rowley

William Shakespeare

First Line:

A wise man wrongfully but never wrong

Page No:

p.274

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Marston]

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

A wise man's home is wheresoever he's wise

Page No:

p.274

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Second Part of Antonio and Mellida

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

He that's a man for men

Page No:

p.274

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophonisba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

And as from senses reason's work doth spring

Page No:

p.274

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

Wisdom wishes to appear most bright

Page No:

p.274

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Measure for Measure

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Move on then stars work your pernicious will

Page No:

p.275

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger and Field's Fatal Dowry

Attributed To:

Nathan Field

Philip Massinger

First Line:

True wisdom planted in the hearts of kings

Page No:

p.275

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Quarles

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

The opinion of wisdom is a foul tetter

Page No:

p.275

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's Dutchess of Malfy

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

All things are lawful that do profit bring

Page No:

p.275

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Day's Isle of Gulls

Attributed To:

John Day

First Line:

Wealth without wisdom may live more content

Page No:

p.275

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tailor's Hog hath lost his Pearl

Attributed To:

Robert Tailor

First Line:

This is the wise man's cure

Page No:

p.275

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daubourne's Poor Man's Comfort

Attributed To:

Robert Daborne

First Line:

Let a wise man place his strength

Page No:

p.275

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Cleopatra

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

In such like affairs

Page No:

p.276

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Glapthorne's Albertus Wallenstein

Attributed To:

Henry Glapthorne

First Line:

Justice and faith never forsake the wise

Page No:

p.276

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

The wise men were but seven now we scarce know

Page No:

p.276

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Heath's Clarastella

Attributed To:

Robert Heath

First Line:

Excellent morality O the vast extent

Page No:

p.276

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Baron's Mirza

Attributed To:

Robert Baron

First Line:

But let | Even the plotting destinies contrive

Page No:

p.276

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cartwright's Royal Slave

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

Your wisdom hath the skill to cure

Page No:

p.276

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Unfortunate Lovers

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

The wise I here observe

Page No:

p.276

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

I can but smile to think how foolish wise

Page No:

p.276

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sicelides

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Are there divinities below

Page No:

p.277

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Great Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Consult a little with your prudence

Page No:

p.277

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Robert Howard's Vestal Virgins

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Wisdom of what her self approves makes choice

Page No:

p.277

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Denham]

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

All human wisdom to divine is folly

Page No:

p.277

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Denham]

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

But seven wise men the ancient world did know

Page No:

p.277

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Greatness we owe to fortune or to fate

Page No:

p.277

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham's Sophy

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

For tis the fate of wise men to be thought

Page No:

p.277

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fane's Sacrifice

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

Were all things of one temper

Page No:

p.277

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Hectors

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The wit the pupil of the soul's clear eye

Page No:

p.278

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

But they that know that wit can show no skill

Page No:

pp.278-279

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir John Davies

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

Wit not avails late bought with care and cost

Page No:

p.278

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The wise do always govern their own fates

Page No:

p.278

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Abdicated Prince

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

But as of lions it is said and eagles

Page No:

p.279

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's Revenge of Bussy D'ambois

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

Good wits are greatest in extremities

Page No:

p.279

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Volpone

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Her wit stings blisters galls off the skin

Page No:

pp.279-280

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's First part of Antonio and Mellida

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

You wit makes wise things foolish when we greet

Page No:

p.279

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Shakespear]

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Short lived wits do wither as they grow

Page No:

p.279

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Shakespear]

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The only foil of his fair virtue's gloss

Page No:

p.279

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Love's Labour's Lost

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

As the most forward bud

Page No:

p.279

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Two Gentlemen of Verona

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Wit's an unruly engine wildly striking

Page No:

p.280

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herbert

Attributed To:

George Herbert

First Line:

He's a good husband who so buys his wit

Page No:

p.280

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Aleyn's Henry VII

Attributed To:

Charles Aleyn

First Line:

One excellence to many is the mother

Page No:

p.280

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton in the Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Tis most fit

Page No:

p.280

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Barrey's Ram Alley

Attributed To:

Lording Barry

First Line:

Dread not the shackles on with thine intent

Page No:

p.280

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

When wit makes not abuse its exercise

Page No:

p.280

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Covent Garden

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

The wit of man wanes and decreases soon

Page No:

p.280

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Mad World my Masters

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

When she has reaped what I have sown

Page No:

p.280

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's First part of the Honest Whore

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

In meaner wits that proverb chance may hold

Page No:

p.280

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Gostelow on Tho. Randolph's Death

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As buds to blossoms blossoms turn to fruit

Page No:

p.281

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Howell

Attributed To:

James Howell

First Line:

Thy wit's chief virtue is become it's vice

Page No:

p.281

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant to Tho. Carew

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Wit flies beyond the limit of that law

Page No:

pp.281-282

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant to the E. of Orrery

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

The nimble packing hand the swift

Page No:

p.281

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Wits

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

There are the victories of wit by wit

Page No:

p.281

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Just Italian

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Time runs love flies

Page No:

p.282

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fane's Love in the Dark

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

You can't expect that they should be great wits

Page No:

p.282

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nevile's Poor Scholar

Attributed To:

Robert Neville

First Line:

As sullen heirs when wasteful fathers die

Page No:

p.282

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant to Doctor Duppa

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

I will rather trust a Fleming with my

Page No:

pp.282-283

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Merry Wives of Windsor

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

After you are married sir suffer valiantly

Page No:

pp.283-286

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Silent Woman

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

We'll leave a proof by that which we will do

Page No:

p.283

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Shakespeare]

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Such duty as the subject owes the prince

Page No:

p.283

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Taming of the Shrew

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

He that will choose | A good wife from a bad come learn of me

Page No:

p.286

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

How a Man may choose a good Wife from a bad

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis not enough for one that is a wife

Page No:

pp.287-288

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lady Carew's Mariam

Attributed To:

Cary [nee Tanfield] Elizabeth

First Line:

My dear lord's wise and knows

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Second Part of Antonio and Mellida

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

In the election of a wife as in

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Any thing for a quiet Life

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Let all young sprightly wives that have

Page No:

p.288

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Noble Gentleman

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Oh servile state of conjugal embrace

Page No:

pp.289-290

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Calisto

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Suspicion discontent and strife

Page No:

p.289

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Herrick

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

A witty wife with an imperious will

Page No:

p.289

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Richerd Brome's Mad Couple well match'd

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

I know | The sum of all that makes a man a just man happy

Page No:

p.289

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's New Way to pay old Debts

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

If ever I take a wife I will have one

Page No:

p.289

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

It is thought wonderful

Page No:

p.290

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lilly's Alexander and Campsape

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

Men's due deserts each reader may recite

Page No:

p.290

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You're pictures out of doors

Page No:

p.290

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

He that holds religious and sacred thoughts

Page No:

pp.291-292

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chapman's May Day

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

One woman reads another's character

Page No:

p.291

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's New Inn

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

There's none so foul and foolish thereunto

Page No:

p.291

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Shakespeare]

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

If she be black and thereto have a wit

Page No:

p.291

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Othello

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

A woman sometimes scorns what best contents her

Page No:

p.291

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Two Gentlemen of Verona

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

A woman's hate is ever dipped in blood

Page No:

p.292

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Brooke's Alaham

Attributed To:

Fulke Greville

First Line:

Alas fair princess those that are strongly formed

Page No:

pp.292-293

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Sophonisba

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

Trust women ah Myrtillas rather trust

Page No:

p.292

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Daniel's Arcadia

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

But how durst he of one the glory raise

Page No:

p.292

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Earl of Sterline's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

But when that sex leave virtue to esteem

Page No:

pp.293-294

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Barons Wars

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

If she be a virgin of a modest

Page No:

p.293

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Marston's Fawn

Attributed To:

John Marston

First Line:

To dote on weakness slime corruption woman

Page No:

p.294

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Middleton's Mad World my Masters

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

When there comes a restraint upon flesh we

Page No:

p.294

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Middleton]

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

First Line:

Oh hapless creatures

Page No:

p.294

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker's Match me in London

Attributed To:

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

She is not bad that hath desire to ill

Page No:

p.295

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Woman Hater

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Tell me what is that only thing

Page No:

p.295

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Woman Pleased

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

All we that are called women know as well

Page No:

p.295

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Scornful Lady

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Women are caught as you take tortoises

Page No:

p.295

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Webster]

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

Many glorious women that are famed

Page No:

p.295

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster's White Devil

Attributed To:

John Webster

First Line:

This is the tyranny we men endure

Page No:

p.296

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Webster and Rowley's Thracian Wonder

Attributed To:

William Rowley

John Webster

First Line:

Women and honesty are as near allied

Page No:

p.296

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Barry's Ram Alley

Attributed To:

Lording Barry

First Line:

It shall suffice

Page No:

p.296

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mason's Muleasses

Attributed To:

John Mason

First Line:

How have I wronged thee of who would abuse

Page No:

pp.296-297

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cupid's Whirligig

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Neve regard the passions of a woman

Page No:

p.296

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Smith's Hector of Germany

Attributed To:

William Smith

First Line:

We are all | But flesh and blood the same thing that will do

Page No:

p.297

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

[no title]

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

What a plague | Of varied torture is a woman's heart

Page No:

p.297

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Giles Goose-Cap

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Creatures the most imperfect nothing of

Page No:

p.297

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Swetnam the Woman Hater

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here's the unhappiness of woman still

Page No:

p.298

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger, Middleton, and Rowley's Old Law

Attributed To:

Thomas Middleton

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Trust not a woman they have found the herb

Page No:

p.298

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Constant Maid

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

It is | The nature of women to be vexed

Page No:

p.298

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Brothers

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Women as well as men retain desire

Page No:

p.298

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Brown]

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

O never love except thou be beloved

Page No:

p.298

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Brown's Pastorals

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

These silly women when they feed

Page No:

p.299

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling's Aglaura

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

I will not love one minute more I swear

Page No:

p.299

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Suckling]

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

He is a parricide to his mother's name

Page No:

pp.299-301

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Randolph

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

All mankind are alike to them

Page No:

p.299

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Suckling

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Women in the beginning as tis said

Page No:

pp.301-302

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cleveland

Attributed To:

John Cleveland

First Line:

Let them imagine who did ever know

Page No:

p.301

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

May's Edward III

Attributed To:

Thomas May

First Line:

The wanton nymph doth more delight me far

Page No:

p.301

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sicelides

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For shame you pretty female elves

Page No:

p.302

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Cleveland]

Attributed To:

John Cleveland

First Line:

No woman takes her self to be a monster

Page No:

p.302

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Fane]

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

Oh what a feeble fort's a woman's heart

Page No:

p.302

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fane's Love in the Dark

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

Dangers and business are cut out for men

Page No:

p.302

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Fane's Sacrifice

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Fane

First Line:

She showed that her soft sex contains strong minds

Page No:

p.302

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

A woman's will

Page No:

p.302

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Albovins

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Women like china should be kept with care

Page No:

p.303

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Sir Courtly Nice

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Poor womankind

Page No:

p.303

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Darius

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

These are great maxims sir it is confessed

Page No:

p.303

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Second Part of the Destruction of Jerusalem

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

From men we only seem to fly

Page No:

p.303

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Calisto

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Seek for the star that's shot upon the ground

Page No:

p.303

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Bishop King

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

Women's sweet words

Page No:

p.303

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Davenport's City Night Cap

Attributed To:

Robert Davenport

First Line:

Oh women men's subduers

Page No:

p.303

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Davenport's King John and Matilda

Attributed To:

Robert Davenport

First Line:

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill

Page No:

p.303

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tuke's Adventures of Five Hours

Attributed To:

Sir Samuel Tuke

First Line:

Even as the vapour which the fire repells

Page No:

pp.303-304

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mirror for Magistrates

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Words are the soul's embassadors who go

Page No:

pp.304-306

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Howell

Attributed To:

James Howell

First Line:

Your words are ear wigs to my vexed brains

Page No:

p.304

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

True Trojans

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

His plausive words

Page No:

p.304

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's All's well that ends well

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

This world is like a mint we are no sooner

Page No:

p.306

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker and Webster's Westward Hoe

Attributed To:

John Webster

Thomas Dekker

First Line:

This world's a city full of straying streets

Page No:

p.306

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher's Two bnoble Kinsmen

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Who to the full thy vileness world ever told

Page No:

p.306

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Drayton's Legend of Pierce Gaveston

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Words have wings and as soon as their cage the

Page No:

p.306

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Neville's Poor Scholar

Attributed To:

Robert Neville

First Line:

Lo how the stormy world doth worldlings toss

Page No:

p.306

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Croesus

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

How weary stale flat and unprofitable

Page No:

p.306

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The world contains

Page No:

p.307

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Donne]

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

As mankind so is the world's whole frame

Page No:

p.307

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

They say the world is like a byass bowl

Page No:

p.307

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cupid's Whirligig

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This worlds's the chaos of confusion

Page No:

p.307

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Willy beguil'd

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

No marvel thou great monarch didst complain

Page No:

p.308

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Quarles

Attributed To:

Francis Quarles

First Line:

Thus having traveled the fond would in brief

Page No:

p.308

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cleveland

Attributed To:

John Cleveland

First Line:

What other is the world than a ball

Page No:

p.308

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shirley's Bird in a Cage

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Well hath the great creator of the world

Page No:

pp.308-309

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sophister

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In this grand wheel the world we're spokes made all

Page No:

p.309

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Alex. Brome

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

Who looks upon this world and not beyond it

Page No:

p.309

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's ambitious Statesman

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Oh cursed troubled world

Page No:

p.309

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Darius

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Be affable and courteous in youth that

Page No:

p.310

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lilly's Sapho and Phao

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

The world is a great dance in which we find

Page No:

p.310

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Juliana

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

I'll serve his yourh for youth must have his course

Page No:

p.310

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's London Prodigal

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Let me not live quoth he

Page No:

p.310

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's All's well that ends well

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

For youth no less becomes

Page No:

p.310

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Hamlet

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I'll not practice any violent means to stay

Page No:

p.311

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Johnson's Every Man in his Humour

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

The heat | Of an unsteady youth a giddy brain

Page No:

p.311

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Ford's Broken Heart

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

Though youthful blood be hot

Page No:

pp.311-312

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nevile's Poor Scholar

Attributed To:

Robert Neville

First Line:

What stoic strange who most precise appears

Page No:

p.311

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Croesus

Attributed To:

William Alexander

First Line:

I love to see a nimble activeness

Page No:

p.311

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid. [Nabbs]

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

Folly may be in youth

Page No:

p.311

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Nabbs's Covent Garden

Attributed To:

Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs]

First Line:

And to rash youth tis an unhappy fate

Page No:

p.312

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Crown's Calisto

Attributed To:

John Crowne

First Line:

Something of youth I in old age approve

Page No:

p.312

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

And they whose high examples youth obeys

Page No:

p.312

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

All hardy youths from valiant fathers sprung

Page No:

p.312

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant