The Paradise of Dainty Devices [S105445]
- DMI number:
- 1799
- Publication Date:
- 1576
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- S105445
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:99841173
- Shelfmark:
- EEBO
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of 16th century verse and Miscellany associated with group of poets
- Format:
- Quarto
- First Line:
- Why doth each state apply itself to worldly praise
- Page No:
- sig. Ïiiir-Ïivr
- Poem Title:
- The translation of the blessed S. Bernard's verses, containing the unstable felicity of this wayfaring world.
- Attribution:
- My lucke is losse.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Map
- First Line:
- Beware of had I wist whose fine brings care and smart
- Page No:
- sig. Ïivr
- Poem Title:
- Beware of had I wist.
- Attribution:
- My lucke is losse.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Not staid state but feeble stay not costly robes but bare array
- Page No:
- sig. Ïivv
- Poem Title:
- The perfect trial of a faithful friend.
- Attribution:
- M. Yloop
- Attributed To:
- Master Yloop
- First Line:
- Sweet were the joys that both might like and last
- Page No:
- sig. Ïivv
- Poem Title:
- No pleasure without some pain.
- Attribution:
- E.S.
- Attributed To:
- William Hunnis
- First Line:
- Behold the blast which blows the blossoms from the tree
- Page No:
- sig. Air
- Poem Title:
- 1. Our pleasures are but vanities
- Attribution:
- D.S.
- Attributed To:
- William Hunnis
- First Line:
- When May is in his prime then may each heart rejoice
- Page No:
- sig. Air-Aiv
- Poem Title:
- 2. M. Edwards May
- Attribution:
- M. Edwardes MAY
- Attributed To:
- Richard Edwards
- First Line:
- In youthful years when first my young desires began
- Page No:
- sig. Aiv-Aiir
- Poem Title:
- 3. Fair words make fools fain.
- Attribution:
- M. Edwardes
- Attributed To:
- Richard Edwards
- First Line:
- What grieves my bones and makes my body faint
- Page No:
- sig. Aiir
- Poem Title:
- 4. In his extreme sickness
- Attribution:
- L. Vaux.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Vaux
- First Line:
- From virgin's womb this day did spring
- Page No:
- sig. Aiiv
- Poem Title:
- 5. For Christmas day.
- Attribution:
- F.K.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Kindlemarsh
- First Line:
- All mortal men this day rejoice in Christ that you redeemed hath
- Page No:
- sig. Aiiir
- Poem Title:
- 6. For Easter day
- Attribution:
- Jasper Heywood.
- Attributed To:
- Jasper Heywood
- First Line:
- Come holy ghost eternal God and ease the woeful grief
- Page No:
- sig. Aiiiv
- Poem Title:
- 7. For Whitsunday
- Attribution:
- M. Kindlemarsh
- Attributed To:
- Francis Kindlemarsh
- First Line:
- My friend if thou wilt credit me in ought
- Page No:
- sig. Aiiiv-Aiiiiv
- Poem Title:
- 8. Who minds to bring his ship to happy shore, must care to know the laws of wisdom lore.
- Attribution:
- Jasper Heywood.
- Attributed To:
- Jasper Heywood
- First Line:
- If Fortune be thy stay thy state is very tickle
- Page No:
- sig. Aiiiiv
- Poem Title:
- 9. Of the unconstant stay of Fortune's gifts.
- Attribution:
- F.K.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Kindlemarsh
- First Line:
- In my accompt the promise that is vowed
- Page No:
- sig. Bir
- Poem Title:
- 10. Promise is debt.
- Attribution:
- R. Hill
- Attributed To:
- Richard Hill
- First Line:
- The wrong is great the pain above my power
- Page No:
- sig. Bir-Biv
- Poem Title:
- 11. No words, but deeds
- Attribution:
- R.D.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The day delayed of that I most do wish
- Page No:
- sig. Biv-Biir
- Poem Title:
- 12. He desireth exchange of life.
- Attribution:
- L. Vaux.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Vaux
- First Line:
- When I look back and in myself behold
- Page No:
- sig. Biir-Biiv
- Poem Title:
- 13. Of the instability of youth.
- Attribution:
- L. Vaux.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Vaux
- First Line:
- By painted words the silly simple man
- Page No:
- sig. Biiir-Biiiv
- Poem Title:
- 14. Most happy is that state alone, Where words and deed agree in one.
- Attribution:
- F.K.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Kindlemarsh
- First Line:
- The poor that live in needy rate by learning do great richness gain
- Page No:
- sig. Biiiv-Bivr
- Poem Title:
- 15. Who will aspire to dignity: By learning must advanced be.
- Attribution:
- F.K.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Kindlemarsh
- First Line:
- The sturdy rock for all his strength by raging seas is rent in twain
- Page No:
- sig. Bivr-Bivv
- Poem Title:
- 16. Man's flitting life sinds surest stay: Where sacred virtue beareth sway.
- Attribution:
- M.T.
- Attributed To:
- M. Thorn
- First Line:
- Since this our time of friendship is so scant
- Page No:
- sig. Bivv-Cir
- Poem Title:
- 17. Nothing is comparable unto a faithful friend.
- Attribution:
- F.K.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Kindlemarsh
- First Line:
- To be as wise as Cato was or rich as Cresus in his life
- Page No:
- sig. Cir-Civ
- Poem Title:
- 18. Respise finem
- Attribution:
- D.S.
- Attributed To:
- D. Sand
- First Line:
- Why art thou bound and mayest go free shall reason yield to ragining will
- Page No:
- sig. Civ-Ciir
- Poem Title:
- 19. He persuadeth his friend from the fond effects of love.
- Attribution:
- Tho. Churchyard.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Churchyard
- First Line:
- The sailing ships with joy at length do touch their long desired port
- Page No:
- sig. Ciir-Ciiv
- Poem Title:
- 20. Wanting his desire he complaineth.
- Attribution:
- M. Edwardes.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Edwards
- First Line:
- In friends are found a heap of doubts that double dealing use
- Page No:
- sig. Ciiv
- Poem Title:
- 21. Try before you trust.
- Attribution:
- D.S.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If pleasures be in painfulness In pleasures doth my body rest
- Page No:
- sig. Ciiv-Ciiir
- Poem Title:
- 22. A lady forsaketh complaineth.
- Attribution:
- A Lady forsaken complayneth'
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Forlorn in filthy froward fate wherein a thousand cares I find
- Page No:
- sig. Ciiir
- Poem Title:
- 23. Finding worldly joys but vanities, he wisheth death.
- Attribution:
- F.M.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In youth when I at large did lead my life in lusty liberty
- Page No:
- sig. Ciiiv-Ciiiir
- Poem Title:
- 24. Having married a worthy lady, and taken away by death, he complaineth his mishap.
- Attribution:
- F.G.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Mistrust not troth that truly means for every jealous freak
- Page No:
- sig. Ciiiir
- Poem Title:
- 25. A worthy ditty, song before the queen's majesty at Bristow.
- Attribution:
- D.S.
- Attributed To:
- D. Sand
- First Line:
- Fraud is the front of fortune past all recovery
- Page No:
- sig. Ciiiiv
- Poem Title:
- 26. His good name being blemished, he bewaileth.
- Attribution:
- E.O.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Polycrates whose passing hap caused him to lose his fate
- Page No:
- sig. Ciiiiv-Dir
- Poem Title:
- 27. Of Fortune's Power.
- Attribution:
- M. Edwardes.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Edwards
- First Line:
- Whoso doth mark the careless life of these unhappy days
- Page No:
- sig. Dir-Div
- Poem Title:
- 28. Though triumph after bloody wars, the greatest brags do bear, yet triumph of a conquered mind, the crown of fame shall wear:
- Attribution:
- M. Edwardes.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Edwards
- First Line:
- Whoso will be accompted wise and truly claim the same
- Page No:
- sig. Div-Diir
- Poem Title:
- 29. Of perfect wisdom
- Attribution:
- M. Edwardes.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Edwards
- First Line:
- Ye stately wights that live in quiet rest
- Page No:
- sig. Diir-Diiv
- Poem Title:
- 30. A friendly admonition
- Attribution:
- R. Hill
- Attributed To:
- Richard Hill
- First Line:
- In every wight some sundry sort of pleasure I do find
- Page No:
- sig. Diiv-Diiir
- Poem Title:
- 31. Sundry men, sundry affects
- Attribution:
- R. Hill
- Attributed To:
- Richard Hill
- First Line:
- We read what pains the powers divine
- Page No:
- sig. Diiir-Diiiv
- Poem Title:
- 32. Time give experience
- Attribution:
- R.H.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Hill
- First Line:
- To seem for to revenge each wrong in hasty wise
- Page No:
- sig. Diiiv
- Poem Title:
- 33. Of sufferance cometh ease.
- Attribution:
- E.S.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Vaux
- First Line:
- The hidden woes that dwelleth in my heart
- Page No:
- sig. Diiiir
- Poem Title:
- 34. Being in trapped in love he complaineth
- Attribution:
- E.S.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To die Dame nature did man frame
- Page No:
- sig. Diiiir-Diiiiv
- Poem Title:
- 35. Though fortune have set thee high remember yet that thou shalt die
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Although the purple morning brags in brightness of the sun
- Page No:
- sig. Eir
- Poem Title:
- 39. All things are vain
- Attribution:
- F.K.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Kindlemarsh
- First Line:
- I am a virgin fair and free and freely do rejoice
- Page No:
- sig. Eir-Eiv
- Poem Title:
- 37. A virtuous gentlewoman in the praise of her love.
- Attribution:
- M.K.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Kindlemarsh
- First Line:
- If fortune may enforce the careful heart to cry
- Page No:
- sig. Eiv-Eiiir
- Poem Title:
- 38. Oppressed with sorrow, he wisheth death.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I sigh why so for sorrow of her smart
- Page No:
- sig. Eiiir-Eiiiiv
- Poem Title:
- 39. Where reason makes request, there wisdom ought supply. With friendly answer pressed, to grant or else deny.
- Attribution:
- My luck is loss.
- Attributed To:
- George Gascoigne
- First Line:
- Even as the raven the crow and greedy kite
- Page No:
- sig. Eiiiiv
- Poem Title:
- 40. Donec eris Faelix multos numerabis amicos, Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.
- Attribution:
- My luck is loss.
- Attributed To:
- George Gascoigne
- First Line:
- The faith that fails must needs be thought untrue
- Page No:
- sig. Fir-Fiv
- Poem Title:
- 41. What joy a contented mind.
- Attribution:
- My luck is loss.
- Attributed To:
- George Gascoigne
- First Line:
- In going to my naked bed as one that would have slept
- Page No:
- sig. Fiv-Fiir
- Poem Title:
- 42. Amantium irae amoris redinte gratio est.
- Attribution:
- M. Edwardes.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Edwards
- First Line:
- The life is long which loathsomely do last
- Page No:
- sig. Fiir-Fiiv
- Poem Title:
- 43. Think to die
- Attribution:
- D.S.
- Attributed To:
- D. Sand
- First Line:
- Where seething sighs and sour sobs
- Page No:
- sig. Fiiv-Fiiiv
- Poem Title:
- 44. Being asked the occasion of his white head, he answereth thus.
- Attribution:
- L.V.
- Attributed To:
- William Hunnis
- First Line:
- I would to God I were Acteon that Diana did disguise
- Page No:
- sig. Fiiiv
- Poem Title:
- [Untitled]
- Attribution:
- M.B.
- Attributed To:
- Master Bewes
- First Line:
- Why should I longer long to live
- Page No:
- sig. Fiiiv-Fiiiir
- Poem Title:
- [Untitled]
- Attribution:
- E.S.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whoso is set in princely throne and craveth rule to bear
- Page No:
- sig. Fiiiir-Gir
- Poem Title:
- 42. Prudence. The history of Damacles, and Dionise.
- Attribution:
- M. Edwardes.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Edwards
- First Line:
- Each one deserves great praise to have but yet not like I think
- Page No:
- sig. Gir-Giv
- Poem Title:
- 48. Fortitude. A young man of Egypt and Valerian.
- Attribution:
- M. Edwardes.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Edwards
- First Line:
- Let rulers make most perfect laws to rule both great and small
- Page No:
- sig. Giv-Giir
- Poem Title:
- 49. Justice. Zaleuch and his son
- Attribution:
- M. Edwardes.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Edwards
- First Line:
- If nature bear thee so great love that she in thee have beauty placed
- Page No:
- sig. Giir-Giiv
- Poem Title:
- 50. Temperance. Spurina and the Romaine Ladies
- Attribution:
- F.M.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Edwards
- First Line:
- If that each flower the gods have framed or shape by sacred skill
- Page No:
- sig. Giiv-Giiir
- Poem Title:
- 51. A bunch of herbs and flowers
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Who shall profoundly weigh or scan the assured state of man
- Page No:
- sig. Giiiv
- Poem Title:
- 52. Now mortal man behold and see this world is but a vanity
- Attribution:
- M. Thorne
- Attributed To:
- M. Thorn
- First Line:
- Where griping grief the heart would wound a doleful dumps the mind oppress
- Page No:
- sig. Giiiir
- Poem Title:
- 53. In commendation of music
- Attribution:
- M. Edwards
- Attributed To:
- M. Edwards
- First Line:
- When sage Ulysses sailed by
- Page No:
- sig. Giiiir-Giiiiv
- Poem Title:
- Beware of sirens
- Attribution:
- M. Bew
- Attributed To:
- Master Bewes
- First Line:
- The coney in his cave the ferret doth annoy
- Page No:
- sig. Giiiiv-Hir
- Poem Title:
- 55. Finding no joy he desireth death
- Attribution:
- W.H.
- Attributed To:
- William Hunnis
- First Line:
- In hope the shipman hoisteth sail in hope of passage good
- Page No:
- sig. Hir
- Poem Title:
- Hope well and have well.
- Attribution:
- W.H.
- Attributed To:
- William Hunnis
- First Line:
- When first mine eyes did view and mark
- Page No:
- sig. Hir-Hiv
- Poem Title:
- He repenteth his folly
- Attribution:
- W.H.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The mountains high whose lofty tops doth meet the haughty sky
- Page No:
- sig. Hiv
- Poem Title:
- He requesteth some friendly comfort. Affirming his constancy.
- Attribution:
- M. Edwardes.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Edwards
- First Line:
- Shall rigour reign where ruth hath run shall fancy now forsake
- Page No:
- sig. Hiir
- Poem Title:
- He complaineth his mishap.
- Attribution:
- M.H.
- Attributed To:
- William Hunnis
- First Line:
- I would it were not as I think I would it were not so
- Page No:
- sig. Hiir-Hiiv
- Poem Title:
- No foe to a flatterer
- Attribution:
- W. Hunnis.
- Attributed To:
- William Hunnis
- First Line:
- The spider with great skill doth travail day by day
- Page No:
- sig. Hiiv
- Poem Title:
- Untitled
- Attribution:
- W. Hunnis.
- Attributed To:
- William Hunnis
- First Line:
- The subtle slyly slights that worldly men do work
- Page No:
- sig. Hiiv-Hiiir
- Poem Title:
- [Untitled]
- Attribution:
- M. Edwardes.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Edwards
- First Line:
- With painted speech I list not prove my cunning for to try
- Page No:
- sig. HiiirHiiiv
- Poem Title:
- [Untitled]
- Attribution:
- M.B.
- Attributed To:
- William Hunnis
- First Line:
- The saint I serve and have besought full oft
- Page No:
- sig. Hiiiv
- Poem Title:
- Try and then trust
- Attribution:
- Richard Hill
- Attributed To:
- Richard Hill
- First Line:
- The fire shall freeze the frost shall fry the frozen mountains high
- Page No:
- sig. Hiiiv-Hiiiir
- Poem Title:
- Complaining to his friend, he replieth wittily.
- Attribution:
- M. Edwardes.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Edwards
- First Line:
- What watch what woe what want what wrack
- Page No:
- sig. Hiiiir-Hiiiiv
- Poem Title:
- No pains comparable to his attempt
- Attribution:
- W.H.
- Attributed To:
- William Hunnis
- First Line:
- How can the tree but waste and wither away
- Page No:
- sig. Hiiiiv-Iir
- Poem Title:
- No pleasure without some pain.
- Attribution:
- L. Vaux.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Vaux
- First Line:
- In choice of friends what hap had I to choose one of siren's kind
- Page No:
- sig. Iir
- Poem Title:
- The fruit of fained friends.
- Attribution:
- W.H.
- Attributed To:
- William Hunnis
- First Line:
- Shall I no way win you to grant my desire
- Page No:
- sig. Iir-Iiir
- Poem Title:
- Being importunate at the length, he obtaineth'
- Attribution:
- M.B.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Edwards
- First Line:
- What death may be compareth to love's
- Page No:
- sig. Iiir-Iiiv
- Poem Title:
- Requiring the favour of his love: she answereth thus
- Attribution:
- E. S.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I have no joy but dream of joy and joy to think on joy
- Page No:
- sig. Iiiv-Iiiir
- Poem Title:
- A lover's joy
- Attribution:
- F. K.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Kindlemarsh
- First Line:
- The lively Lark did stretch her wing
- Page No:
- sig. Iiiir-Iiiiv
- Poem Title:
- The judgement of desire
- Attribution:
- E.O.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A crown of bays shall that man wear
- Page No:
- sig. Iiiiv-Iiiiir
- Poem Title:
- The complaint of a lover wearing black and tawny
- Attribution:
- E.O.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Lo hear the man that must of love complain
- Page No:
- sig. Iiiiir
- Poem Title:
- He complaineth thus
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In quest of my relief I find distress
- Page No:
- sig. Iiiiiv
- Poem Title:
- Finding no relief he complaineth thus
- Attribution:
- R.H.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Hill
- First Line:
- What doom is this I fain would know
- Page No:
- sig. Iiiiiv-Kir
- Poem Title:
- Being in love, he complaineth
- Attribution:
- L.V
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Vaux
- First Line:
- If ever man had love too dearly bought
- Page No:
- sig. Kir-Kiv
- Poem Title:
- A lover disdained complaineth
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Vaux
- First Line:
- If care or skill could conquer vain desire
- Page No:
- sig. Kiv-Kiir
- Poem Title:
- Being in love he complaineth
- Attribution:
- E.O.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The trickling tears that falls along my cheeks
- Page No:
- sig. Kiir-Kiiv
- Poem Title:
- A lover rejected, complaineth.
- Attribution:
- E.O.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I am not as I seem to benor when I smile I am not glad
- Page No:
- sig. Kiiv-Kiiir
- Poem Title:
- Not attaining his desire, he complaineth.
- Attribution:
- E. O
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Even as the wax doth melt or dew consume away
- Page No:
- sig. Kiiir-Kiiiv
- Poem Title:
- His mind not quietly settled he writeth thus
- Attribution:
- E.O.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My meaning is to work what wonders love hath wrought
- Page No:
- sig. Kiiiv
- Poem Title:
- Of the mighty power of love
- Attribution:
- E.O.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If friendless faith if guiltless thought may shield
- Page No:
- sig. Kiiiir
- Poem Title:
- Being disdained, he complaineth.
- Attribution:
- L. Vaux.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Vaux
- First Line:
- The higher that the cedar tree unto the heavens do grow
- Page No:
- sig. Kiiiir-Kiiiiv
- Poem Title:
- Of the mean estate.
- Attribution:
- L.V
- Attributed To:
- William Hunnis
- First Line:
- When all is done and said in the end thus shall you find
- Page No:
- sig. Kiiiiv-Lir
- Poem Title:
- Of a contented mind.
- Attribution:
- L. Vaux.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Vaux
- First Line:
- To counsel my estate abandoned to the spoil
- Page No:
- sig. Lir
- Poem Title:
- Try before you trust.
- Attribution:
- L. Vaux.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Vaux
- First Line:
- Like as the hart that lifteth up his ears
- Page No:
- sig. Lir-Liv
- Poem Title:
- He renounceth all the effects of love.
- Attribution:
- L. Vaux.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Vaux
- First Line:
- Mistrust misdeems amiss whereby displeasure grows
- Page No:
- sig. Liv-Liir
- Poem Title:
- Being in sorrow he complaineth
- Attribution:
- L.V.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Vaux
- First Line:
- Enforced by love and fear to please and not offend
- Page No:
- sig. Liir-Liiv
- Poem Title:
- Being in love, he complaineth.
- Attribution:
- R.L.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In terror's trap with thralldom thrust
- Page No:
- sig. Liiv-Liiir
- Poem Title:
- Being in trouble, he writeth thus.
- Attribution:
- T.M.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The bitter sweet that strains my yielded heart
- Page No:
- sig. Liiir
- Poem Title:
- Being troubled in mind, he writeth as followeth.
- Attribution:
- I.H.
- Attributed To:
- Jasper Heywood
- First Line:
- If thou in surety safe wilt sit
- Page No:
- sig. Liiir-Liiiv
- Poem Title:
- Look or you leap.
- Attribution:
- Jasper Haywood
- Attributed To:
- Jasper Heywood
- First Line:
- In wretched state alas I rue my life
- Page No:
- sig. Liiiv-Liiiir
- Poem Title:
- He bewaileth his mishap
- Attribution:
- R.H.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O heavenly God Oh father dear cast down thy tender eye
- Page No:
- sig. Liiiir-Liiiiv
- Poem Title:
- The complaint of a sinner.
- Attribution:
- F.K.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Kindlemarsh
- First Line:
- I rage in restless youth and ruins rule my days
- Page No:
- sig. Liiiiv
- Poem Title:
- The fruit that springs from willful wits, is ruth and ruin rage, and sure what headless youth commits, repentance rues in age.
- Attribution:
- Yloop
- Attributed To:
- Master Yloop
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