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CHAUCER :
The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales .
JOHN GOWER ..
The Tale of the Coffers or Caskets, &c. (in the fifth
Book of the Confessio Amantis) . . . 52
Of the Gratification which the Lover's Passion re-
ceives from the Sense of Hearing (in the sixth Book
of the Confessio Amantis) . . . . 56
JOHN LYDGATE . . . . .
Canace, condemned to Death by her father Æolus,
sends to her guilty Brother, Macarens, the last
Testimony of her unhappy Passion (Book I. fol. 39)
SCOTTISH POETRY. :::::.'.
JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND :
Extract frðm-Cánto 11. of the Quair. . . . 73
ROBERT HENRYSON
. . 76
Robene and Makyre;'a•Baltat
ne; a Ballad ..,::
77
WILLIAM DUNBAR:::::::::::
The Daunce of the Spiei'deadly Sins through Hell
SIR DAVID LYNDSAY . . . . . 92
Description of Squyre Meldrum . . . 95
SIR THOMAS WYATT . . . . 105
Ode.--The Lover complaineth the Unkindness of his
Love . . . . . . . 109
From his Songs and Epigrams.—A Description of such
. a one as he could love . .
On his Return from Spain .
From his Odes.-An earnest Suit to his unkind Mis-
tress not to forsake him . . . . ib.
To his Mistress . . . . . 113
84
85
112
:
CONTENTS.
He lamenteth that he had ever Cause to doubt his
Lady's Faith . . . . . . 114
HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY . . . 116
Description of Spring . . . . 124
A Prisoner in Windsor Castle, he reflects on past
Happiness . . . . . 125
That every Object he contemplated at Windsor re-
minding him of his past Happiness, increased his
present Sorrow . . . . . . 127
LORD VAUX
. . . 128
Upon his white Hairs (from the aged Lovers Renun-
ciation of Love) . . . . . ib.
RICHARD EDWARDS
. . 130
He requesteth soine friendly Comfort, affirming his
Constancy
WILLIAM HUNNIS . .
The Love that is requited with Disdain .
THOMAS SACKVILLE, LORD BUCKHURST, AND EARL
OF DORSET . . . . . .
From his Induction to the Complaint of Henry, Duke
of Buckinghau' .:: ::::. ... Allegorical Persoriages-described in Helf
. 141
GEORGE GASCOIGNE .....
The Arraignment of Lover:13:
. 146
From his Grief of*Foyé ..::..
148
Vanity of Youth: :::::::::::
Swiftness of Time :::::::::::.
The Vanity of the Beautiful .
JOHN HARRINGTON . . . . . 150
Sonnet on Isabella Markham . . . 151
Verses on a most stony-hearted Maiden, who did
sorely beguile the noble Knight, my true Friend 152
SIR PHILIP SYDNEY
. . . . 153
To Sleep (from the Arcadia) . . . 155
Sonnets
. . .
. . 156
ROBERT GREENE . . . . . 157
Jealousy (fron Tully's Love)
Dorastus on Fawnia . . . . . 159
134
137
145
149
ib.
158
165
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE . . . . 160
; The passionate Shepherd to his Love
. 161
ROBERT SOUTHWELL.
• 162
Love's servile Lot . . . . . 164
Look Home
THOMAS WATSON .
166
The Nymphs to their May Queen (from England's
Helicon) . . . . . . . ib.
Sonnet .
. . . . 167
EDMUND SPENSER . i . . 168
Fairy Queen, Book I. Canto III.
177
- Canto V. . . 181
--, Book II. Canto VI. . . . 183
Sir Guyon, guided by the Palmer Temperance, passes
the Dangers of the Bower of Bliss . . . 196
Glauce and Britomart exploring the Cave of Merlin 208
Belphoebe finds Timias wounded, and conveys him to
her Dwelling (Book III. Canto V.) . . . 211
From his Sonnets. Sonnet LXXXVI. . . 217
Sonnet LXXXVIII. . . . . 218
POETRY OF UNCERTAIN AUTHORS OF THE END
OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY . . . 219
The Soul's Errand (from Davison's Poetical Rhapsody) 220
Canzonet (from Davison's Rhapsody, Edit. 1608) . 223
From the Phænix Nest, Edit. 1593 . . . 224
From the same.
. . . .
225
Songs. From Wilby's Madrigals, Edit. 1598
227
- From Bird's Collection of Songs, &c.
229
- From Weelkes's Madrigals, Edit. 1604 231
From Bateson's Madrigals, Edit. 1606 . . 233
To his Love (from England's Helicon) .
ib,
JOHN LYLY .
235
Cupid and Campaspe . . . . . 236
Song. From Alexander and Campaspe
237
From Mother Bombie . . . . 238
ALEXANDER HUME . . . . ib.
Thanks for a Summer's Day . . . 240
- THOMAS NASH
248
254
256
269
Despair of a poor Scholar (from Pierce Penniless) . 249
EDWARD VERE, EARL OF OXFORD . . 250
Fancy and Desire (from the Paradise of dainty De-
vices)
251
Lines attributed to the Earl of Oxford (in a MS. of the
Bodleian Library) : : : : 252
THOMAS STORER
. . . 253
From the Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey
Wolsey's Ambition
Wolsey's Vision
JOSEPH HALL
Satire I. Book I.
•
.
. 262
Satire III. Book I. . . . . 263
Satire V. Book III.
265
Satire VII. Book III. . . . . 266
Satire VI. Book IV. .
WILLIAM WARNER
272
Argentile and Curan (from Albion's England) . 273
SIR JOHN HARRINGTON . . . 280
From his Epigrams. Of a precise Tailor . ib.
FROM HENRY PERROT’S BOOK OF EPIGRAMS
(entitled Springes for Woodcocks, Edit. 1613) .
Ambitio Feminini Generis . . . . ib.
Nec Sutor ultra . . . . ib.
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY
From his Poem, the Wife . . . . 284
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE . . . . 286
From his Sonnets. Sonnet II. . . . . ib.
Sonnet LIV. . . . 287
Sonnet CXVI.
Sonnet CXLV.
288
SIR WALTER RALEIGH . . . . 289
The silent Lover . . . . . 292
A Nymph's Disdain of Love .
A Vision upon the Fairy Queen . . . 294
The Shepherd's Description of Love. (Ascribed to
Sir W. Raleigh in England's Helicon) . . 295
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