[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).
- 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:
- Editor:
- Thomas Hayward
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- F Cogan
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- John Nourse
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 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 RowleyThomas 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 RowleyWilliam 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 BeaumontJohn 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 ChapmanJames 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 WebsterThomas 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 MassingerThomas 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 FieldPhilip 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 RowleyThomas 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 BeaumontJohn 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 RowleyThomas 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 FieldPhilip 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 FieldPhilip 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 BeaumontJohn 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 MarstonGeorge 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 MassingerThomas 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 RowleyThomas 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 BeaumontJohn 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 MarkhamWilliam 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 BeaumontJohn 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 RowleyJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 FordThomas 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 RowleyWilliam 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 FieldPhilip 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 BeaumontJohn 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 RowleyJohn 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 MiddletonPhilip 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 WebsterThomas 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 BeaumontWilliam 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
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