The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse

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The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature. This anthology offers a broad selection of its poetry, and includes a wide range of works by the great poets of the age - notably Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Sepnser, John Donne, William Shakespeare and John Milton. Poems by less well-known writers also feature prominently - among them significant female poets such as Lady Mary Wroth and Katherine Philips. Compelling and exhilarating, this landmark collection illuminates a time of astonishing innovation, imagination and diversity.

Abbreviations Used in the Text

xix

Preface

xxi

Acknowledgements

xliii

Introduction

(68)

Note on the Text and Annotation

(10)

I THE PUBLIC WORLD

[from A Lawde and Prayse Made for Our Sovereigne Lord the Kyng]

(1)

John Skelton

De Principe Bono Et Malo

(1)

Sir Thomas More

Quis Optimus Reipublicae Status

(2)

[from The Dreme] The Complaynt of the Comoun weill of Scotland

(1)

Sir David Lindsay

[Who lyst his welth and eas Retayne]

(1)

Sir Thomas Wyatt

In Spayn

(1)

[The piller pearisht is whearto I Lent]

(1)

Earl of Surrey [Thassyryans king in peas with fowle desyre]

(1)

Henry Howard

John Arm-strongs last good night

(3)

Anonymous

Of unsaciable purchasers

(1)

Robert Crowley

[from A Ballad on the Marriage of Philip and Mary]

(2)

John Heywood

[from A songe betwene the Quenes majestie and Englande]

(3)

William Birch

[The dowbt off future foes exiles my present joye]

(1)

Queen Elizabeth I

[from The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia]

(1)

Sir Philip Sidney

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

(1)

Anonymous

Her Majestie resembled to the crowned piller

(1)

George Puttenham

[from The French Historie]

(1)

Anne Dowriche

[Praisd be Dianas faire and harmles light]

100

(1)

Sir Walter Ralegh

[from Fortune hath taken the away my love]

100

(1)

[Ah silly pugge wert thou so sore afraid]

101

(1)

Queen Elizabeth I

The 21th: and last booke of the Ocean to Scinthia

102

(14)

Sir Walter Ralegh

The Lie

116

(3)

[Remembers thou in sope of a taill]

119

(1)

Alexander Montgomerie

A Tragicall Epigram

119

(1)

Sir John Harington

Of Treason

120

(1)

[from Cæ:lica] Sonnet 78

120

(1)

Fulke Greville

Lord Brooke

[from Anglorum Feriae]

121

(2)

George Peele

The Calme

123

(2)

John Donne

[from Satire 4]

125

(4)

Earl of Essex [Change thy minde since she doth change]

129

(2)

Robert Devereux

Countess of Pembroke [To Queen Elizabeth]

131

(3)

Mary Sidney

[from The Faerie Queene Book 5]

134

(7)

Edmund Spenser

[On Maguire's Winter Campaign]

141

(4)

Eochaidh O Heoghusa

On the Union

145

(1)

Ben Jonson

Written upon the death of the most Noble Prince Henrie

145

(1)

Sir Arthur Gorges

Upon the sudden Restraint of the Earle of Somerset, then falling from favor

146

(1)

Sir Henry Wotton

[from Britannia's Pastorals Book 2]

146

(2)

William Browne

Feltons Epitaph

148

(1)

Anonymous

[Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham]

149

(1)

Anonymous

[from An Ode Upon occasion of His Majesties Proclamation in the yeare 1630]

149

(2)

Sir Richard Fanshawe

Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford

151

(1)

John Cleveland

Coopers Hill

152

(11)

Sir John Denham

Upon defacing of White-hall

163

(2)

Martin Parker

A King and no King

165

(1)

Robert Herrick

An Horatian Ode upon Cromwel's Return from Ireland

166

(4)

Andrew Marvell

[from The Cry of Blood, and of a Broken Covenant]

170

(1)

Sir William Mure

On the 3. of September, 1651

171

(1)

Katherine Philips

To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652

172

(1)

John Milton

To Sir Henry Vane the younger

173

(1)

[from The First Anniversary of the Government under O.C.]

174

(1)

Andrew Marvell

On Sir G.B. his defeat

175

(6)

Alexander Brome

II IMAGES OF LOVE

[Westron wynde when wylle thow blow]

181

(1)

Anonymous

[They fle from me that sometyme did me seke]

181

(1)

Sir Thomas Wyatt

[Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde]

182

(1)

[It may be good like it who list]

183

(1)

[My lute awake perfourme the last]

183

(2)

Earl of Surrey [The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes]

185

(1)

Henry Howard

[To luve unluvit it is ane pane]

185

(1)

Alexander Scott

To his Love that sent him a Ring wherein was gravde, Let Reason rule

186

(1)

George Turbervile

To her unconstant Lover

187

(5)

Isabella Whitney I. W.

[A Sonet written in prayse of the brown beautie]

192

(1)

George Gascoigne

A new Courtly Sonet, of the Lady Greensleeves

193

(3)

Anonymous

[from Certain Sonnets: 4]

196

(1)

Sir Philip Sidney

[from The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia]

197

(2)

[from Astrophil and Stella] 1

199

(1)

[from Astrophil and Stella] 2

200

(1)

[from Astrophil and Stella] 9

201

(1)

[from Astrophil and Stella] 72

201

(1)

[from Astrophil and Stella] 81

202

(1)

[from Astrophil and Stella] 83

203

(1)

[from Astrophil and Stella] Eight song

203

(4)

[from Astrophil and Stella] Eleventh song

207

(1)

[from Cælica] Sonnet 22

208

(1)

Fulke Greville

Lord Brooke

[from Cælica] Sonnet 27

209

(1)

[from Cælica] Sonnet 39

210

(1)

[from Cælica] Sonnet 44

211

(1)

[from Cælica] Sonnet 84

212

(1)

Sonet

213

(1)

Mark Alexander Boyd

Dorons description of Samela

213

(1)

Robert Greene

[from The Faerie Queene Book 2]

214

(6)

Edmund Spenser

[from The Faerie Queene Book 3]

220

(4)

[from The Faerie Queene Book 3]

224

(7)

[from Amoretti] Sonnet 23

231

(1)

[from Amoretti] Sonnet 64

231

(1)

[from Amoretti] Sonnet 67

232

(1)

[from Amoretti] Sonnet 70

233

(1)

[from Amoretti] Sonnet 71

233

(1)

Epithalamion

234

(13)

[As you came from the holy land]

247

(2)

Sir Walter Ralegh

[from Delia] Sonnet 13

249

(1)

Samuel Daniel

[from Delia] Sonnet 39

250

(1)

[from Delia] Sonnet 52

250

(1)

[from Gullinge Sonnets] 6

251

(1)

Sir John Davies

[Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes]

252

(1)

The choise of valentines

253

(10)

Thomas Nashe

To his Mistress going to bed

263

(2)

John Donne

[from Parthenophil and Parthenophe] Sonnet 27

265

(1)

Barnabe Barnes

The passionate Sheepheard to his love

265

(1)

Christopher Marlowe

Hero and Leander

266

(24)

[from Venus and Adonis]

290

(6)

William Shakespeare

[from Lucrece]

296

(7)

[from Cynthia] Sonnet 8

303

(1)

Richard Barnfield

[from Cynthia] Sonnet 11

304

(1)

[from Sonnets] 19

304

(1)

William Shakespeare

[from Sonnets] 20

305

(1)

[from Sonnets] 29

306

(1)

[from Sonnets] 35

306

(1)

[from Sonnets] 36

307

(1)

[from Sonnets] 55

308

(1)

[from Sonnets] 56

308

(1)

[from Sonnets] 66

309

(1)

[from Sonnets] 74

310

(1)

[from Sonnets] 94

310

(1)

[from Sonnets] 121

311

(1)

[from Sonnets] 124

312

(1)

[from Sonnets] 129

312

(1)

[from Sonnets] 135

313

(1)

[from Sonnets] 138

314

(1)

[from Sonnets] 144

314

(1)

Earl of Leicester Sonnet 21

315

(1)

Robert Sidney

Sonnet 25

316

(1)

Sonnet 31

316

(1)

Songe 17

317

(1)

[from Hero and Leander Sestiad 3]

317

(5)

George Chapman

[from The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image]

322

(3)

John Marston

[Long have I lov'd this bonny Lasse]

325

(1)

Thomas Deloney

[from The wanton Wife of Bath]

326

(2)

Anonymous

[Fine knacks for ladies, cheape choise brave and new]

328

(1)

[John Dowland]

[Followe thy faire sunne unhappy shaddowe]

329

(1)

Thomas Campion

[Rose-cheekt Lawra come]

330

(1)

[There is a Garden in her face]

330

(1)

His Picture

331

(1)

John Donne

The Sunne Rising

332

(1)

The Canonization

333

(1)

Loves growth

334

(1)

A Valediction of weeping

335

(1)

A Valediction forbidding mourning

336

(2)

[from Idea] 10

338

(1)

Michael Drayton

[from Idea] 61

338

(1)

To His Coy Love, A Canzonet

339

(1)

Why I Write Not Of Love

340

(1)

Ben Jonson

My Picture left in Scotland

340

(1)

[from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus] 23

341

(1)

Lady Mary Wroth

[from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus] 34

342

(1)

[from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus] A crowne of Sonetts dedicated to Love

342

(7)

[from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus] 2

349

(1)

[from The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania] 7

350

(1)

Delight in Disorder

351

(1)

Robert Herrick

The Vision

351

(1)

The silken Snake

352

(1)

Her Bed

352

(1)

Upon Julia's haire fill'd with Dew

353

(1)

Upon Sibilla

353

(1)

The Spring

353

(1)

Thomas Carew

Ingratefull beauty threatned

354

(1)

[from A Rapture]

355

(1)

[from Cupid's Wrongs Vindicated]

356

(4)

Martin Parker

[from Well met Neighbour]

360

(2)

The story of Phbus and Daphne appli'd

362

(1)

Edmund Waller

Song

363

(1)

The Budd

363

(1)

[Out upon it, I have lov'd]

364

(1)

Sir John Suckling

The Antiplatonick

365

(2)

John Cleveland

Song. To Lucasta, Going to the Warres

367

(1)

Richard Lovelace

Gratiana dauncing and singing

368

(1)

To Althea, From Prison. Song

369

(1)

Her Muffe

370

(1)

[from On Sanazar's being honoured with six hundred Duckets by the Clarissimi of Venice, for composing an Elegiack Hexastick of The City. A Satyre]

371

(1)

To his Coy Mistress

372

(2)

Andrew Marvell

The Gallery

374

(2)

The Definition of Love

376

(1)

Inconstancy

377

(1)

James Harrington

An Answer to another perswading a Lady to Marriage

378

(3)

Katherine Philips

III TOPOGRAPHIES

[from Certayne Egloges 5]

381

(2)

Alexander Barclay

Calend Mai

383

(1)

George Buchanan

[from Vox populi vox Dei]

384

(3)

Anonymous

[from Jack of the North]

387

(2)

Anonymous

The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield

389

(2)

Anonymous

Goyng towardes Spayne

391

(1)

Barnabe Googe

[from Yr Wylan]

392

(2)

Sion Phylip

[from The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia]

394

(1)

Sir Philip Sidney

[from The Shepheardes Calender] Maye

395

(6)

Edmund Spenser

[from Of the day Estivall]

401

(5)

Alexander Hume

[from Epigrammes] In Cosmum 17

406

(1)

Sir John Davies

[from Virgidemiarum Book 5]

406

(2)

Joseph Hall

[from Skialetheia Satire 5]

408

(2)

Everard Guilpin

A Songe bewailinge the tyme of Christmas, So much decayed in Englande

410

(2)

Anonymous

A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day, Being the shortest day

412

(2)

John Donne

The Description of Cooke-ham

414

(6)

ÆMilia Lanyer

To Penshurst

420

(3)

Ben Jonson

[from Pastorals] The Ninth Eglogue

423

(5)

Michael Drayton

[from Poly-Olbion Song 6]

428

(3)

To The Virginian Voyage

431

(2)

[from Epistle. To Prince Henrie]

433

(4)

Samuel Daniel

On Francis Drake

437

(1)

Anonymous

[from Turners dish of Lentten stuffe, or a Galymaufery]

437

(4)

W. Turner

[from The Sculler] Epigram 22

441

(1)

John Taylor

[from Britannia's Pastorals Book 2]

442

(1)

William Browne

Lord Herbert of Cherbury Sonnet

443

(1)

Edward Herbert

A Proper New Ballad Intituled The Faeryes Farewell: Or God-A-Mercy Will

444

(2)

Richard Corbett

The Countess of Anglesey lead Captive by the Rebels, at the Disforresting of Pewsam

446

(1)

Sir William Davenant

[from Britain's Remembrancer Canto 4]

447

(2)

George Wither

Song On May morning

449

(1)

John Milton

L'Allegro

449

(5)

To Dean-bourn, a rude River in Devon, by which sometimes he lived

454

(1)

Robert Herrick

Corinna's going a Maying

455

(2)

To Meddowes

457

(1)

The Wassaile

458

(1)

[from Bulla]

459

(4)

Richard Crashaw

The Wish

463

(1)

Abraham Cowley

[The Diggers' Song]

464

(2)

Anonymous

[from To his retired friend, an Invitation to Brecknock]

466

(2)

Henry Vaughan

The Snayl

468

(2)

Richard Lovelace

Bermudas

470

(1)

Andrew Marvell

The Mower to the Glo-Worms

471

(1)

The Mower against Gardens

472

(1)

The Garden

473

(3)

[from Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax]

476

(3)

Duchess of Newcastle Of many Worlds in this World

479

(1)

Margaret Cavendish

A Dialogue betwixt Man, and Nature

480

(2)

Similizing the Sea to Meadowes, and Pastures, the Marriners to Shepheards, the Mast to a May-pole, Fishes to Beasts

482

(1)

Upon the graving of her Name upon a Tree in Barnelmes Walks

483

(4)

Katherine Philips

IV FRIENDS, PATRONS AND THE GOOD LIFE

[Myn owne John poyntz sins ye delight to know]

487

(3)

Sir Thomas Wyatt

[Upon the theme: Magnum vectigal parcimonia]

490

(2)

George Gascoigne

[Gascoignes wodmanship]

492

(5)

Earl of Oxford [Weare I a Kinge I coulde commande content]

497

(1)

Edward De Vere

[from Scillaes Metamorphosis]

497

(1)

Thomas Lodge

To Sir Henry Wotton

498

(3)

John Donne

The Weavers Song

501

(2)

Thomas Deloney

[Art thou poore yet hast thou golden Slumbers]

503

(1)

Thomas Dekker

To the Lady Lucie, Countesse of Bedford

504

(3)

Samuel Daniel

To Lucy, Countesse of Bedford, with Mr. Donnes Satyres

507

(1)

Ben Jonson

Inviting A Friend To Supper

507

(2)

[Hey hoe what shall I say]

509

(1)

Thomas Ravenscroft

[Sing we now merily]

509

(1)

A Belmans Song

510

(1)

[Now winter nights enlarge]

510

(1)

Thomas Campion

The Mode of France

511

(1)

Anonymous

These verses weare made By Michaell Drayton Esquier Poett Lawreatt the night before hee dyed

512

(1)

Michael Drayton

At Pens-hurst

513

(1)

Edmund Waller

The Grasse-hopper. To my Noble Friend, Mr. Charles Cotton. Ode

514

(2)

Richard Lovelace

[from The Prisoners] Written when O.C. attempted to be King

516

(1)

Alexander Brome

[To Edward Lawrence]

516

(1)

John Milton

Friendship's Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia

517

(1)

Katherine Philips

Friendship in Embleme, or the Seal. To my dearest Lucasia

518

(3)

To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship

521

(4)

V CHURCH, STATE AND BELIEF

[from Collyn Clout]

525

(2)

John Skelton

The Balade whych Anne Askewe made and sange whan she was in newgate

527

(2)

Anne Askew

[from The Upcheringe of the Messe]

529

(2)

Luke Shepherd

[A Lament for our Lady's Shrine at Walsingham]

531

(1)

Anonymous

[from Epygrams] Of turnyng. 67

532

(1)

John Heywood

[from Partheniades] Partheniad 11 Urania

533

(2)

George Puttenham

The burning Babe

535

(1)

Robert Southwell

To St Mary Magdalen

536

(1)

Henry Constable

A Groome of the Chambers religion in King Henry the eights time

536

(1)

Sir John Harington

Satyre 3

537

(4)

John Donne

Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward

541

(1)

Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse

542

(1)

[from Holy Sonnets] 10

543

(1)

[Since she whome I lovd, hath payd her last debt]

544

(1)

[Show me deare Christ, thy spouse, so bright and cleare]

545

(1)

[from Cælica] Sonnet 89

546

(1)

Fulke Greville

Lord Brooke

[from Cælica] Sonnet 99

547

(1)

[from Cælica] Sonnet 109

548

(1)

[from Christs Victorie, and Triumph in Heaven, and Earth, over, and after death]

549

(7)

Giles Fletcher

[from Salve Deus Rex Judorum]

556

(2)

ÆMilia Lanyer

[For the Baptiste]

558

(1)

William Drummond

[Content and Resolute]

559

(1)

[Vast Ocean of light, whose rayes surround]

559

(2)

Phineas Fletcher

On the morning of Christs Nativity

561

(10)

John Milton

[from Pentelogia] Fraus Mundi

571

(1)

Francis Quarles

[from Divine Fancies] On the contingencie of Actions

572

(1)

[from Divine Fancies] On the Needle of a Sun-diall

573

(1)

[from Divine Fancies] On the Booke of Common Prayer

573

(1)

[from Divine Fancies] On Christ and our selves

573

(1)

Perseverance

574

(1)

George Herbert

Redemption

575

(1)

Easter wings

576

(1)

Prayer

576

(1)

Deniall

577

(1)

Jordan

578

(1)

The Collar

579

(1)

The Flower

580

(2)

The Forerunners

582

(1)

Love

583

(1)

[from The Church Militant]

584

(1)

[Yet if his Majestie our Sovareigne lord]

585

(1)

Anonymous

[Lord when the wise men came from Farr]

586

(1)

Sidney Godolphin

[from Here followeth the unfashionable fashion, or the too too homely Worshipping of God]

587

(1)

John Taylor

Upon His Majesties repairing of Pauls

588

(3)

Edmund Waller

A Hymne of the Nativity, sung by the Shepheards

591

(3)

Richard Crashaw

To The Noblest and best of Ladyes, the Countesse of Denbigh

594

(2)

[from The Flaming Heart]

596

(1)

Upon Arch-bishop Laud, Prisoner in the Tower. 1641

597

(1)

Anonymous

[from Alas poore Scholler, whither wilt thou goe]

598

(3)

Robert Wild

On the new forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament

601

(1)

John Milton

[from The Summer]

602

(2)

Morgan Llwyd

[from A Single Eye All Light, no Darkness]

604

(1)

Laurence Clarkson

The Retreate

605

(1)

Henry Vaughan

The World

606

(3)

Cock-crowing

609

(1)

The Water-fall

610

(2)

[from Gondibert Book 2]

612

(1)

Sir William Davenant

[from The Cry of a Stone]

613

(1)

Anna Trapnel

Another Song exciting to spiritual Mirth

614

(2)

An Collins

The Coronet

616

(5)

Andrew Marvell

VI ELEGY AND EPITAPH

[from Phyllyp Sparowe]

621

(6)

John Skelton

Earl of Surrey [Norfolk sprang thee, Lambeth holds thee dead]

627

(1)

Henry Howard

[W. resteth here, that quick could never rest]

627

(2)

[from A funerall song, upon the deceas of Annes his moother]

629

(1)

Nicholas Grimald

[My prime of youth is but a froste of cares]

630

(1)

Chidiock Tichborne

[The Phoenix and Turtle]

631

(3)

William Shakespeare

[from The Second Anniversarie] Of the Progres of the Soule

634

(3)

John Donne

On My First Sonne

637

(1)

Ben Jonson

To the immortall memorie, and friendship of that noble paire, Sir Lucius Cary, and Sir H. Morison

638

(5)

[Even suche is tyme that takes in trust]

643

(1)

Sir Walter Ralegh

On the Countesse Dowager of Pembrooke

644

(1)

William Browne

An Exequy To his matchlesse never to be forgotten Friend

644

(4)

Henry King

[from Memoriae Matris Sacrum]

648

(1)

George Herbert

Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villers

648

(1)

Thomas Carew

Upon the death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife

649

(1)

Sir Henry Wotton

To the reverend shade of his religious Father

649

(1)

Robert Herrick

Upon himselfe being buried

650

(1)

Upon a child

650

(1)

Lycidas

651

(7)

John Milton

[Methought I saw my late espoused Saint]

658

(1)

To my Husband

659

(1)

`Eliza'

[They are all gone into the world of light]

660

(1)

Henry Vaughan

Epitaph. On her Son H. P. at St. Syth's Church where her body also lies Interred

661

(1)

Katherine Philips

Orinda upon little Hector Philips

662

(1)

[The glories of our blood and state]

663

(4)

James Shirley

VII TRANSLATION

Earl of Surrey [from Virgil's Aeneid Book 4]

667

(2)

Henry Howard

[from Virgil's Aeneid Book 4]

669

(2)

Richard Stanyhurst

[from Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 6]

671

(5)

Arthur Golding

[from Ruines of Rome: by Bellay] 5

676

(1)

Edmund Spenser

Countess of Pembroke Quid gloriaris? Psalm 52

677

(2)

Mary Sidney

[from Psalm 89 Misericordias]

679

(1)

Voce mea ad Dominum Psalm 142

680

(1)

[from Ovids Elegies Book 1] Elegia. 13. Ad Auroram ne properet

681

(1)

Christopher Marlowe

[from Lucan's Pharsalia Book 1]

682

(1)

[from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso Book 34]

683

(6)

Sir John Harington

[from Tasso's Godfrey of Bulloigne Book 4]

689

(4)

Edward Fairfax

[from Saluste du Bartas' Devine Weekes]

693

(2)

Josuah Sylvester

[from Homer's Iliad Book 12]

695

(3)

George Chapman

The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. I

698

(3)

John Milton

VIII WRITER, LANGUAGE AND PUBLIC

[from A Replycacion]

701

(1)

John Skelton

[from A Musicall Consort]

702

(1)

Thomas Churchyard

[from The Faerie Queene Book 6]

703

(6)

Edmund Spenser

Of honest Theft. To my good friend Master Samuel Daniel

709

(1)

Sir John Harington

The triple Foole

709

(1)

John Donne

[from Sonnets] 108

710

(1)

William Shakespeare

[from The Scourge of Villanie] In Lectores prorsus indignos

711

(4)

John Marston

[from Musophilus]

715

(2)

Samuel Daniel

A Fit of Rime against Rime

717

(2)

Ben Jonson

An Ode. To himselfe

719

(2)

[from Homer's Iliad, To the Reader]

721

(1)

George Chapman

To the Translator

722

(1)

Sir Walter Ralegh

[from Britannia's Pastorals Book 2]

722

(3)

William Browne

[from The Dreame]

725

(2)

Rachel Speght

[from Idea] 25

727

(1)

Michael Drayton

To my most dearely-loved friend Henery Reynolds Esquire, of Poets and Poesie

728

(6)

[from The Muses Elizium] The Description of Elizium

734

(4)

[from At a Vacation Exercise]

738

(2)

John Milton

[from A comparison betwixt a Whore and a Booke]

740

(1)

John Taylor

An Elegie upon the death of the Deane of Pauls, Dr. John Donne

741

(3)

Thomas Carew

A Fancy

744

(1)

To the Detracter

744

(1)

Robert Herrick

Posting to Printing

745

(1)

[from Vox Pacifica]

745

(4)

George Wither

[from Gondibert Book 2]

749

(2)

Sir William Davenant

Duchess of Newcastle The Claspe

751

(1)

Margaret Cavendish

[The Common Fate of Books]

751

(1)

The Muse

752

(3)

Abraham Cowley

The Book

755

(98)

Henry Vaughan

Notes to the Text

757

(96)

Appendix 1: Index of Genres

853

(4)

Appendix 2: Index of Metrical and Stanzaic Forms

857

(6)

Appendix 3: Glossary of Classical Names

863

(16)

Appendix 4: Biographical Notes on Authors

879

(19)

Appendix 5: Index of Authors

898

(3)

Index of First Lines

901

(10)

Index of Titles

911

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The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse

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