THE PENGUIN BOOK OFRENAISSANCE VERSE

SELECTEDAND WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY DAVID NORBROOK

EDITED BY H. R. WOUDHUYSEN

PENGUIN BOOKS

CONTENTS

In this list of contents, titles of poems generally follow those in theedition, with the exception that words in upper case have usuallybeen reduced after the initial letter to lower case. When poems havebeen given titles from their first lines, the punctuation at the end ofthe line has been ignored. Titles which have been supplied and titlesof works from which extracts have been taken are placed withinsquare brackets.

Abbreviations Used in the Text xixPreface xxiAcknowledgements xliiiIntroduction 1Note on the Text and Annotation 69

I THE PUBLIC WORLD

1 JOHN SKELTON [from A Lawde and Prayse Made for OurSovereigne Lord the Kyng) 19

2 SIR THOMAS MORE De Principe Bono Et Malo 803 Quis Optimus Reipublicae Status 804 SIR DAVID LINDSAY [from The Dreme] The Complaynt of the

Comoun weill of Scotland 825 SIR THOMAS WYATT [Who lyst his welth and eas Retayne] 836 In Spayn 847 [The piller pearisht is whearto I Lent] 858 HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY [Thassyryans king in peas

with fowle desyre] 859 ANONYMOUS John Arm-strongs last good night 86

10 ROBERT CROWLEY Of unsaciable purchasers 8911 JOHN HEYWOOD [from A Ballad on the Marriage of Philip and

Mary] 9012 WILLIAM BIRCH [from A songe betwene the Quenes majestie and

Englande] 92

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13 QUEEN ELIZABETH I [The dowbt off future foes exiles my presentjoye] 95

14 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY [from The Countesse of PembrokesArcadia] 96

15 ANONYMOUS Of Sir Frauncis Walsingham Sir Phillipp Sydney,and Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancelor 91

16 GEORGE PUTTENHAM Her Majestie resembled to the crownedpiller 98

17 A N N E D O W R I C H E [from The French Historie] 9918 SIR WALTER RALEGH [Praisd be Dianas faire and harmles

light] 10019 [from Fortune hath taken the away my love] 10020 QUEEN ELIZABETH I [Ah silly pugge wert thou so sore afraid] 10121 SIR WALTER RALEGH The 21th: and last booke of the Ocean to

Scinthia 10222 The Lie 11623 ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE [Remembers thou in Msope of a

taill] 11924 SIR JOHN HARINGTON A Tragicall Epigram 11925 Of Treason 12026 FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE [from Caelica] Sonnet

78 12027 GEORGE PEELE [from Anglorum Feriae] 12128 JOHN DONNE The Calme 123

29 [from Satire 4] 125

30 ROBERT DEVEREUX, EARL OF ESSEX [Change thy minde sinceshe doth change] 129

3 1 M A R J SIDNEY, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE [TO QueenElizabeth] 131

« P D M U N D S " N S E R [from The Faerie Queene Book 5] 134EOCHMDH 6 HE6GHUSA [On Maguire's Winter

Campaign] 141

W r i t t e n u P ° n t h e d e a * of the most Noble* US

U p O n * e s u d d e n Restraint of the Earle of

38 ANONYMOUS P I L/r<"" B n U n n i a ' * Pastorals Book 2] 146» ANONYMOUS ^ K * ? * » * U*

" S ^ P h o n t h e Duke of Buckingham] 149

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40 SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE [from An Ode Upon occasion of HisMajesties Proclamation in the yeare 1630] 149

41 JOHN CLEVELAND Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford 15142 SIB JOHN DENHAM Coopers Hill 15243 MARTIN PARKER Upon defacing of White-hall 16344 ROBERT HERRICK A King and no King 16545 ANDREW MARVELL An Horatian Ode upon Cromwel's Return

from Ireland 16646 SIR WILLIAM MURE [from The Cry of Blood, and of a Broken

Covenant] 17047 KATHERINE PHILIPS On the 3. of September, 1651 171

48 JOHN MILTON TO the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652 17249 To Sir Henry Vane the younger 17350 ANDREW MARVELL [from The First Anniversary of the

Government under O.C.] 17451 ALEXANDER BROME On Sir G.B. his defeat 175

II IMAGES OF LOVE

52 ANONYMOUS [Westron wynde when wylle thow blow] 18153 SIR THOMAS WYATT [They fle from me that sometyme did me

seke] 18154 [Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde] 18255 [It may be good like it who list] 18356 [My lute awake perfourme the last] 18357 HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY [The soote season, that bud

and blome furth bringes] 18558 ALEXANDER SCOTT [TO luve unluvit it is ane pane] 18559 GEORGE TURBERVILE TO his Love that sent him a Ring wherein

was gravde, Let Reason rule 18660 ISABELLA WHITNEY I. W. To her unconstant Lover 18761 GEORGE GASCOIGNE [A Sonet written in prayse of the brown

beautie] 19262 ANONYMOUS Anew Courtly Sonet, of the Lady Greensleeves 19363 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY [from Certain Sonnets: 4] 19664 [from The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia] 19165 [from Astrophil and Stella] 1 19966 [from Astrophil and Stella] 2 20067 [from Astrophil and Stella] 9 201

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68 [from Astrophil and Stella] 72 20169 [from Astrophil and Stella] 81 20270 [from Astrophil and Stella] 83 20371 [from Astrophil and Stella] Eight song 20372 [from Astrophil and Stella] Eleventh song 20773 FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE [from Cxlica] Sonnet 22 208

74 [from Caelica] Sonnet 27 20975 [from Caelica] Sonnet 39 21076 [from Cslica] Sonnet 44 21177 [from Caelica] Sonnet 84 21278 MARK ALEXANDER BOYD Sonet 213

79 ROBERT GREENE Dorons description of Samela 21380 EDMUND SPENSER [from The Faerie Queene Book 2] 21481 [from The Faerie Queene Book 3] 22082 [from The Faerie Queene Book 3] 22483 [from Amoretti] Sonnet 23 23184 [from Amoretti] Sonnet 64 23185 [from Amoretti] Sonnet 67 23286 [from Amoretti] Sonnet 70 23387 [from Amoretti] Sonnet 11 23388 Epithalamion 23489 SIR WALTER RALEGH [AS you came from the holy land] 24790 SAMUEL DANIEL [from Delia] Sonnet 13 24991 [from Delia] Sonnet 39 25092 [from Delia] Sonnet 52 25093 S I R J O H N D A V I E S [from Gullinge Sonnets] 6 25194 [Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes] 25295 THOMAS NASHE The choise of valentines 253

% JOHN DONNE To his Mistress going to bed 263

97 BARNABE BARNES [from Parthenophil and Parthenophe]Sonnet 27 265

98 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE The passionate Sheepheard to hislove 265

99 Hero and Leander 266100 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [from Venus and Adonis] 290101 [from Lucrece] 296102 RICHARD BARNFIELD [from Cynthia] Sonnet 8 303103 [from Cynthia] Sonnet 11 304104 WILUAM SHAKESPEARE [from Sonnets] 19 304105 [from Sonnets] 20 305

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106 [from Sonnets] 29 306107 [from Sonnets] 35 306108 [from Sonnets] 36 307109 [from Sonnets] 55 308110 [from Sonnets] 56 308111 [from Sonnets] 66 309112 [from Sonnets] 74 310113 [from Sonnets] 94 310114 [from Sonnets] 121 311115 [from Sonnets] 124 312116 [from Sonnets] 129 312117 [from Sonnets] 135 313118 [from Sonnets] 138 314119 [from Sonnets] 144 314120 ROBERT SIDNEY, EARL OF LEICESTER Sonnet 21 315

121 Sonnet 25 316122 Sonnet 31 316123 Songe 17 311124 GEORGE CHAPMAN [from Hero and Leander Sestiad 3] 377125 J O H N MARSTON [from The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions

Image] 322126 THOMAS DELONEY [Long have I lov'd this bonny Lasse] 325127 ANONYMOUS [from The wanton Wife of Bath] 326128 [JOHN D O W L A N D ] [Fine knacks for ladies, cheape choise brave

and new] 328129 THOMAS C A M P I O N [Followe thy faire sunne unhappy

shaddowe] 329130 [Rose-cheekt Lawra come] 330131 [There is a Garden in her face] 330132 J O H N D O N N E His Picture 331

133 The Sunne Rising 332134 The Canonization 333135 Loves growth 334136 A Valediction of weeping 335137 A Valediction forbidding mourning 336138 MICHAEL DRAYTON [from Idea] 10 338

139 [from Idea] 61 338140 To His Coy Love, A Canzonet 339141 B E N J O N S O N Why I Write Not Of Love 340142 My Picture left in Scotland 340

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143 LADY MARY W R O T H [from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus] 23 341

144 [from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus] 34 342145 [from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus] A crowne of Sonetts dedicated

to Love 342146 [from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus] 2 349147 [from The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania] 7 350148 ROBERT HERRICK Delight in Disorder 351149 The Vision 351150 The silken Snake 352151 Her Bed 352152 Upon Julia's haire fill'd with Dew 353153 Upon Sibilla 353154 THOMAS CAREW The Spring 353

155 Ingratefull beauty threatned 354156 [from A Rapture] 355157 MARTIN PARKER [from Cupid's Wrongs Vindicated] 356158 [from Well met Neighbour] 360159 EDMUND WALLER The story of Phoebus and Daphne appli'd 362160 Song 363161 The Budd 363162 SIR J O H N SUCKLING [Out upon it, I have lov'd] 364163 J O H N CLEVELAND The Antiplatonick 365

164 R I C H A R D LOVELACE Song. To Lucasta, Going to the Warres 367165 Gratiana dauncing and singing 368166 To Althea, From Prison. Song 369167 HerMuffe 370168 [from On Sanazar's being honoured with six hundred Duckets

by the Clarissimi of Venice, for composing an Elegiack Hexastickof The City. A Satyre] 371

169 ANDREW MARVELL T O his Coy Mistress 372

170 The Gallery 374171 The Definition of Love 316172 JAMES HARRINGTON Inconstancy 377

173 KATHERINE PHILIPS An Answer to another pcrswading a Ladyto Marriage 37*

III T O P O G R A P H I E S

174 ALEXANDER BARCLAY [from Certaync Eglogcs 5] 381

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175 GEORGE BUCHANAN Calendae Maiae 383176 ANONYMOUS [from Vox populi vox Dei] 384177 ANONYMOUS [from Jack of the North] 381178 ANONYMOUS The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield 389179 BARNABE GOOGE Goyng towardes Spayne 391180 SION P H Y H P [from Yr Wylan] 392181 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY [from The Countesse of Pembrokes

Arcadia] 394182 E D M U N D SPENSER [from The Shepheardes Calender] Maye 395183 ALEXANDER H U M E [from Of the day Estivall] 40J184 SIR J O H N DAVIES [from Epigrammes] In Cosmum 17 406185 JOSEPH HALL [from Virgidemiarum Book 5] 406186 EVERARD GUILPIN [from Skialetheia Satire 5] 408187 ANONYMOUS A Songe bewailinge the tyme of Christmas, So

much decayed in Englande 410188 J O H N D O N N E A nocturnall upon S.Lucies day, Being the shortest

day 412189 E M I L I A LANYER The Description of Cooke-ham 414190 B E N J O N S O N To Penshurst 420191 MICHAEL DRAYTON [from Pastorals] The Ninth Eglogue 423192 [from Poly-Olbion Song 6] 428193 To The Virginian Voyage 431194 SAMUEL DANIEL [from Epistle. To Prince Henrie] 433195 ANONYMOUS On Francis Drake 4371% W. TURNER [from Turners dish of Lentten stuffe, or a

Galymaufery] 437197 J O H N TAYLOR [from The Sculler] Epigram 22 441198 WILLIAM B R O W N E [from Britannia's Pastorals Book 2] 442199 EDWARD HERBERT, LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY Sonnet 443

200 R I C H A R D CORBETT A Proper New Ballad Intituled The FaeryesFarewell: Or God-A-Mercy Will 444

201 SIR W I L L I A M DAVENANT The Countess of Anglesey lead Captiveby the Rebels, at the Disforresting of Pewsam 446

202 GEORGE WITHER [from Britain's Remembrancer Canto 4] 441203 J O H N M I L T O N Song On May morning 449

204 U Allegro 449205 ROBERT HERRICK TO Dean-boum, a rude River in Devon, by

which sometimes he lived 454206 Corinna's going a Maying 455207 To Meddowes 457

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208 TheWassaile 458209 R I C H A R D CRASHAW [from Bulla] 459210 ABRAHAM COWLEY The Wish 463

211 ANONYMOUS [The Diggers' Song] 464212 HENRY VAUGHAN [from To his retired friend, an Invitation to

Brecknock] 466213 RICHARD LOVELACE The Snayl 468

214 ANDREW MARVELL Bermudas 470

215 The Mower to the Glo-Worms 411216 The Mower against Gardens 472217 The Garden 473218 [from Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax] 416219 MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE Of many

Worlds in this World 419220 A Dialogue betwixt Man, and Nature 480221 Similizing the Sea to Meadowes, and Pastures, the Marriners to

Shepheards, the Mast to a May-pole, Fishes to Beasts 482222 KATHERINE PHILIPS Upon the graving of her Name upon a Tree

in Barnelmes Walks 483

IV FRIENDS, P A T R O N S A N D THE G O O D LIFE

223 SIR THOMAS WYATT [Myn owne John poyntz sins ye delight toknow] 481

224 GEORGE GASCOIGNE [Upon the theme: Magnum vectigalparcimonia] 490

225 [Gascoignes wodmanship] 492226 EDWARD DE VERE, EARL OF O X F O R D [Weare I a Kinge I coulde

commande content] 497227 THOMAS LODGE [from Scillaes Metamorphosis] 497228 JOHN DONNE To Sir Henry Wotton 498

229 THOMAS DELONEY The Weavers Song 501

230 THOMAS DEKKER [Art thou poore yet hast thou goldenSlumbers] 503

231 SAMUEL DANIEL TO the Lady Lucie, Countesse of Bedford 504232 BEN JONSON TO Lucy, Countesse of Bedford, with Mr. Donnes

Satyres 507233 Inviting A Friend To Supper 507

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234 [THOMAS RAVENSCROFT] [Hey hoe what shall I say] 509

235 [Sing we now merily] 509236 A Belmans Song 510237 THOMAS C A M P I O N [NOW winter nights enlarge] 510238 ANONYMOUS The Mode of France 511239 MICHAEL DRAYTON These verses weare made By Michaell

Drayton Esquier Poett Lawreatt the night before hee dyed 512240 EDMUND WALLER At Pens-hurst 513

241 R I C H A R D LOVELACE The Grasse-hopper. To my Noble Friend,Mr. Charles Cotton. Ode 514

242 ALEXANDER BROME [from The Prisoners] Written when O.C.attempted to be King 516

243 J O H N M I L T O N [TO Edward Lawrence] 516244 KATHERINE PHILIPS Friendship's Mystery, To My Dearest

Lucasia 511245 Friendship in Embleme, or the Seal. To my dearest Lucasia 518246 To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship 521

V C H U R C H , STATE A N D BELIEF

247 JOHN SKELTON [from Collyn Clout] 525248 ANNE ASKEW The Balade whych Anne Askewe made and sange

whan she was in Newgate 527249 LUKE SHEPHERD [from The Upcheringe of the Messe] 529250 ANONYMOUS [A Lament for our Lady's Shrine at

WalsinghamJ 531251 J O H N H E Y WOOD [from Epygrams] Of turnyng. 67 532252 GEORGE PUTTENHAM [from Partheniades] Partheniad 11

Urania 533253 ROBERT SOUTHWELL The burning Babe 535254 HENRY CONSTABLE TO St Mary Magdalen 536

255 SIR J O H N HARINGTON A Groome of the Chambers religion inKing Henry the eights time 536

256 J O H N D O N N E Satyre 3 537

257 Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward 541258 Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse 542259 [from Holy Sonnets] 10 543260 [Since she whome I lovd, hath payd her last debt] 544261 [Show me deare Christ, thy spouse, so bright and deare] 545

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262 FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE \Jrom Cselica] Sonnet 89 546

263 [from Caelica] Sonnet 99 547264 [from Caelica] Sonnet 109 548265 GILES FLETCHER [from Christs Victorie, and Triumph in Heaven,

and Earth, over, and after death] 549266 E M I L I A LANYER [from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum] 556267 WILLIAM DRUMMOND [For the Baptiste] 558

268 [Content and Resolute] 559269 PHINE AS FLETCHER [Vast Ocean of light, whose rayes

surround] 559270 JOHN MILTON On the morning of Christs Nativity 561271 FRANCIS QUARLES [from Pentelogia] Fraus Mundi 57/272 [from Divine Fancies] On the contingencie of Actions 572273 [from Divine Fancies] On the Needle of a Sun-diall 573274 [from Divine Fancies] On the Booke of Common Prayer 573275 [from Divine Fancies] On Christ and our selves 573276 GEORGE HERBERT Perseverance 574

277 Redemption 575278 Easter wings 576279 Prayer 576280 Deniall 577281 Jordan 578282 The Collar 579283 The Flower 580284 The Forerunners 582285 Love 583286 [from The Church Militant] 584287 ANONYMOUS [Yet if his Majestie our Sovareigne lord] 585288 SIDNEY GODOLPHIN [Lord when the wise men came from

Farr] 586289 JOHN TAYLOR [from Here folioweth the unfashionable fashion, or

the too too homely Worshipping of God] 581290 EDMUND WALLER Upon His Majesties repairing of Pauls 588291 RICHARD CRASHAW A Hymne of the Nativity, sung by the

Shepheards 591292 To The Noblest and best of Ladyes, the Countesse of

Denbigh 594293 [from The Flaming Heart] 596294 ANONYMOUS Upon Arch-bishop Laud, Prisoner in the Tower.

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295 ROBERT W I L D [from Alas poore Scholler, whither wilt thougoe] 598

296 J O H N M I L T O N On the new forcers of Conscience under the LongParliament 601

297 MORGAN LLWYD [from The Summer] 602

298 LAURENCE CLARKSON [from A Single Eye All Light, noDarkness] 604

299 HENRY VAUGHAN The Retreate 605

300 The World 606301 Cock-crowing 609302 The Water-fall 610303 SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT [from Gondibert Book 2] 612304 ANNA TRAPNEL [from The Cry of a Stone] 613305 AN COLLINS Another Song exciting to spirituall Mirth 614306 ANDREW MARVELL The Coronet 616

VI ELEGY A N D EPITAPH

307 J O H N SKELTON [from Phyllyp Sparowe] 621308 HENRY H O W A R D , EARL OF SURREY [Norfolk sprang thee,

Lambeth holds thee dead] 627309 [W. resteth here, that quick could never rest] 627310 N I C H O L A S GRIMALD [from A funerall song, upon the deceas of

Annes his moother] 629311 C H I D I O C K TICHBORNE [My prime of youth is but a froste of

cares] 630312 W I L L I A M SHAKESPEARE [The Phoenix and Turtle] 631

313 J O H N D O N N E [from The Second Anniversarie] Of the Progres ofthe Soule 634

314 BEN J O N S O N On My First Sonne 637315 To the immortall memorie, and friendship of that noble paire,

Sir Lucius Cary, and Sir H. Morison 638316 SIR WALTER RALEGH [Even suche is tyme that takes in trust] 643317 WILLIAM B R O W N E On the Countesse Dowager of Pembrooke 644318 HENRY K I N G An Exequy To his matchlesse never to be forgotten

Freind 644319 GEORGE HERBERT [from Memoriae Matris Sacrum] 648320 T H O M A S CAREW Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villers 648

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321 SIR HENRY W O T T O N Upon the death of Sir Albert Morton'sWife 649

322 ROBERT HERRICK T O the reverend shade of his religiousFather 649

323 Upon himselfe being buried 650324 Upon a child 650325 J O H N MILTON Lycidas 651

326 [Methought I saw my late espoused Saint] 658327 ' E L I Z A ' TO my Husband 659

328 HENRY VAUGHAN [They are all gone into the world of light] 660329 KATHERINE PHILIPS Epitaph. On her Son H. P. at St. Syth's

Church where her body also lies Interred 661330 Orinda upon little Hector Philips 662331 JAMES SHIRLEY [The glories of our blood and state] 663

VII T R A N S L A T I O N

332 HENRY H O W A R D , EARL OF SURREY [from Virgil's Aeneid

Book 4] 667333 R I C H A R D STANYHURST [from Virgil's Aeneid Book 4] 669334 ARTHUR GOLDING [from Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 6] 67/335 EDMUND SPENSEK [from Ruines of Rome: by Bellay] 5 676336 MARY SIDNEY, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE Quid gloriaris?

Psalm 52 677337 [from Psalm 89 Misericordias] 679338 Voce mea ad Dominum Psalm 142 680339 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE [from Ovids Elegies Book 1] Elegia.

13. Ad Auroram ne properet 681340 [from Lucan's Pharsalia Book 1] 682341 SIR JOHN HARINGTON [from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso Book

34] 683342 EDWARD FAIRFAX [from Tasso's Godfrey of Bulloigne Book

4] 689

343 JOSUAH SYLVESTER [from Saluste du Bartas' Devine Weekes] 693344 GEORGE CHAPMAN [from Homer's Iliad Book 12] 695345 JOHN MILTON The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. / 698

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VIII WRITER, LANGUAGE AND PUBLIC

346 JOHN SKELTON [from A Replycacion] 101347 THOMAS CHURCHYARD [from A Musicall Consort] 702348 EDMUND SPENSER [from The Faerie Queene Book 6J 703349 SIR JOHN HARINGTON Of honest Theft. To my good friend

Master Samuel Daniel 109350 J O H N D O N N E The triple Foole 709

351 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [from Sonnets] 108 710

352 JOHN MARSTON [from The Scourge ofVillanie] In Lectores prorsusindignos 111

353 SAMUEL DANIEL [from Musophilus] 7/5

354 B E N J O N S O N A Fit of Rime against Rime 7/7355 An Ode. To himselfe 7/9356 GEORGE CHAPMAN [from Homer's Iliad, To the Reader] 727

357 SIR WALTER RALEGH TO the Translator 722

358 WILLIAM BROWNE [from Britannia's Pastorals Book 2] 722

359 RACHEL SPEGHT [from The Dreame] 725

360 MICHAEL DRAYTON [from Idea] 25 727

361 To my most dearely-loved friend Henery Reynolds Esquire, ofPoets and Poesie 128

362 [from The Muses Elizium] The Description of Elizium 734363 J O H N M I L T O N [from At a Vacation Exercise] 738

364 JOHN TAYLOR [from A comparison betwixt a Whore and a

Booke] 140365 THOMAS CAREW An Elegie upon the death of the Deane of Pauls,

Dr. John Donne 74/366 A Fancy 744367 ROBERT HERRICK TO the Detracter 744

368 Posting to Printing 745369 GEORGE W I T H E R [from Vox Pacifica] 745

370 SIR W I L L I A M DAVENANT [from Gondibert Book 2] 149

371 MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE The

Claspe 75/372 [The Common Fate of Books] 75/373 ABRAHAM COWLEY The Muse 752

374 HENRY VAUGHAN The Book 755