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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
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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.
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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
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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211
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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
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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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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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