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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)
JOHN LYDGATE
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
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
111
On his Return from Spain
112
From his Odes. An earnest Suit to his unkind Mis-
tress not to forsake him
ib.
To his Mistress
113
Page
114
116
124
125
He lamenteth that he had ever Cause to doubt his
HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY
Description of Spring
A Prisoner in Windsor Castle, he reflects on past
Happiness
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
From his Induction to the Complaint of Henry, Duke
of Buckingham
Allegorical Personages described in Hell
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
132
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
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.
168
177
181
183
196
208
211
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)
JOHN LYLY
Cupid and Campaspe
Song. From Alexander and Campaspe
From Mother Bombie
ALEXANDER HUME
Thanks for a Summer's Day
THOMAS NASH
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)
THOMAS STORER
249
250
251
252
253
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
Nec Sutor ultra
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY
From his Poem, the Wife
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE
From his Sonnets. Sonnet II.
272
273
280
Sonnet LIV.
Sonnet CXVI.
Sonnet CXLV.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
The silent Lover
A Nymph's Disdain of Love
A Vision upon the Fairy Queen
The Shepherd's Description of Love. (Ascribed to
Sir W. Raleigh in England's Helicon)
303
305
Dulcina
His Love admits no Rival
JOSHUA SYLVESTER
Stanzas from "All is not Gold that glitters." To Re-
ligion
SAMUEL DANIEL
Richard the Second, the Morning before his Murder
in Pomfret Castle (from his Civil Wars)
GILES AND PHINEAS FLETCHER
Mercy dwelling in Heaven and pleading for the Guilty,
with Justice described by her Qualities (from Giles
Fletcher's Christ's Victory in Heaven)
Justice addressing the Creator
Mercy brightening the Rainbow
The Palace of Presumption
Instability of Human Greatness (from Phineas
Fletcher's Purple Island, Canto VII.)
Happiness of the Shepherd's Life (from the same,
Canto XII.)
HENRY CONSTABLE
Sonnet
NICHOLAS BRETON
308
317
A Pastoral of Phillis and Corydon (from England's
Helicon)
A sweet Pastoral (from the same)
DR. THOMAS LODGE
Rosader's Sonetto (from his Romance, called En-
From the last Scene of the same
The Reconcilement of Mr. Roger, the Curate, and
Abigail, (from the Scornful Lady, Scene I. Act IV.) 346