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PRINTED BY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS.

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The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

JOHN GOWER

The Tale of the Coffers or Caskets, &c. (in the fifth

Book of the Confessio Amantis)

Of the Gratification which the Lover's Passion re-

ceives from the Sense of Hearing (in the sixth Book

of the Confessio Amantis)

Canace, condemned to Death by her Father Æolus,

sends to her guilty Brother, Macareus, the last

Testimony of her unhappy Passion (Book I. fol. 39)

SCOTTISH POETRY

JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND

Extract from Canto II. of the Quair

ROBERT HENRYSON

Robene and Makyne, a Baliad

109

111

112

WILLIAM DUNBAR

The Daunce of the Seven deadly Sins through Hell

SIR DAVID LYNDSAY

Description of Squyre Meldrum

SIR THOMAS WYATT

Ode.-The Lover complaineth the Unkindness of his

Love

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

To his Mistress

ib.

113

He lamenteth that he had ever Cause to doubt his

Page

A Prisoner in Windsor Castle, he reflects on past •

That every Object he contemplated at Windsor re-

minding him of his past Happiness, increased his

present Sorrow

LORD VAUX

Upon his white Hairs (from the aged Lover's Renun-

ciation of Love)

RICHARD EDWARDS

He requesteth some 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 Buckingham

Allegorical Personages-described in Helf

GEORGE GASCOIGNE

The Arraignment of a Lover...

From his Grief of Joy

Vanity of Youth.

Swiftness of Time

The Vanity of the Beautiful

JOHN HARRINGTON

Sonnet on Isabella Markham

ib.

Verses on a most stony-hearted Maiden, who did

sorely beguile the noble Knight, my true Friend

SIR PHILIP SYDNEY

To Sleep (from the Arcadia)

Sonnets

ROBERT GREENE

Jealousy (from Tully's Love)

Dorastus on Fawnia

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208

211

217

218

219

Sir Guyon, guided by the Palmer Temperance, passes

the Dangers of the Bower of Bliss

Glauce and Britomart exploring the Cave of Merlin

Belphoebe finds Timias wounded, and conveys him to

her Dwelling (Book III. Canto V.)

From his Sonnets. Sonnet LXXXVI.

Sonnet LXXXVIII.

POETRY OF UNCERTAIN AUTHORS OF THE END

OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

The Soul's Errand (from Davison's Poetical Rhapsody) 220

Canzonet (from Davison's Rhapsody, Edit. 1608)

From the Phoenix Nest, Edit. 1593

From the same.

Songs. From Wilby's Madrigals, Edit. 1598

From Bird's Collection of Songs, &c.

From Weelkes's Madrigals, Edit. 1604

From Bateson's Madrigals, Edit. 1606

To his Love (from England's Helicon)

JOHN LYLY

Cupid and Campaspe

Song. From Alexander and Campaspe

From Mother Bombie

ALEXANDER HUME

Thanks for a Summer's Day

THOMAS NASH

223

224

Despair of a poor Scholar (from Pierce Penniless)

EDWARD VERE, EARL OF OXFORD

Fancy and Desire (from the Paradise of dainty De-

vices)

Lines attributed to the Earl of Oxford (in a MS. of the

Bodleian Library)

From the Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey

Wolsey's Ambition

Wolsey's Vision

JOSEPH HALL

Satire I. Book I.

Satire III. Book I.

Satire V. Book III.

Satire VII. Book III.

Satire VI. Book IV.

WILLIAM WARNER

Argentile and Curan (from Albion's England)

SIR JOHN HARRINGTON

From his Epigrams. Of a precise Tailor

FROM HENRY PERROT'S BOOK OF EPIGRAMS

(entitled Springes for Woodcocks, Edit. 1613)

Ambitio Feminini Generis

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249

250

252

253

ib.

254

ib.

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262

263

265

266

Nec Sutor ultra

SIR THOMAS OVERBURY

The Shepherd's Description of Love. (Ascribed to

Sir W. Raleigh in England's Helicon)

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