A Poetical Rhapsody [1611] [S105119]
- DMI number:
- 1797
- Publication Date:
- 1611
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- S105119
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:99840849
- Shelfmark:
- EEBO
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of 16th century verse and Collection of literary verse
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- First Line:
- Great Earl whose brave heroic mind is higher
- Page No:
- A2r
- Poem Title:
- To the most noble, honourable, and worthy lord William earl of Pembroke, lord Herbert of Cardiff, Marmion and Saint Quintine.
- Attribution:
- Fra. Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Long have I lived in court yet learned not all this while
- Page No:
- B1r-B2r; pp. 1-3
- Poem Title:
- Yet other twelve wonders of the world, never before published, by John Davis.
- Attribution:
- John Davis
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- Cynthia queen of seas and lands
- Page No:
- B2r-B2v; pp. 3-4
- Poem Title:
- A lottery presented before the late queen's majesty at the lord chancellor's house, 1601
- Attribution:
- I.D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- Fortune must now no more on triumph ride
- Page No:
- B3r-B4r; pp. 5-7
- Poem Title:
- The lots
- Attribution:
- I.D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- Wife Widow well met whither go you today
- Page No:
- B4r-B8r; pp. 7-15
- Poem Title:
- A contention betwixt a wife, a widow, and a maid.
- Attribution:
- Iohn Davis
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- Go soul the body's guest
- Page No:
- B8r-B9r; pp. 15-17
- Poem Title:
- The Lie
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
- First Line:
- Join mates in mirth to me
- Page No:
- B9r-B10r; pp. 17-19
- Poem Title:
- Two pastorals, made by Sir Philip Sidney. Upon his meeting with two worthy friends, and fellow poets, Sir Edward [Dier and M. Fulke Grevill]
- Attribution:
- Sir Ph. Sidney
- Attributed To:
- Sir Philip Sidney
- First Line:
- Walking in bright Phoebus blaze
- Page No:
- B10r-B11r; pp. 19-21
- Poem Title:
- Dispraise of a courtly life
- Attribution:
- Sir Ph. Sidney
- Attributed To:
- Sir Philip Sidney
- First Line:
- It chanced of late a shepherd's swain
- Page No:
- B11r-12r; pp. 21-23
- Poem Title:
- Fiction how Cupid made a nymph wound herself with his arrows.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Then I sing divine Astrea's praise
- Page No:
- B12r-C1r; pp. 23-25
- Poem Title:
- A dialogue between two shepherds, Thenot, and Piers, in praise of Astrea
- Attribution:
- Mary countess of Pembroke
- Attributed To:
- Mary Herbert [nee Sidney]
- First Line:
- Oh wither shall I turn me
- Page No:
- C1r-C2r; pp. 25-27
- Poem Title:
- A roundelay in inverted rhymes, between the two friendly rivals, Strephon and Klaius, in the presence of Urania, mistress to them both.
- Attribution:
- Walter Davison.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Sweet I do not pardon crave
- Page No:
- C2r-C2v; pp. 27-28
- Poem Title:
- Strephons Palinode
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since true penance hath suspended
- Page No:
- C2v-C3r; pp. 28-29
- Poem Title:
- Urania's answer in inverted rhymes, staff for staff.
- Attribution:
- Fra. Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- A shepherd poor Eubulus called he was
- Page No:
- C3v-C7r; pp. 30-37
- Poem Title:
- I. Eclogue
- Attribution:
- F. D.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- A little herd-groom for he was no better
- Page No:
- C7v-C8v; pp. 38-40
- Poem Title:
- I. Eclogue intituled Cuddy.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The virtuous man is free though bound in chains
- Page No:
- C8v-C9r; pp. 40-41
- Poem Title:
- Cuddy's Emblem
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Perin areed what new mischance betide
- Page No:
- C9r-C12r; pp. 41-47
- Poem Title:
- An Eclogue. Made long since upon the death of Sir Philip Sidney.
- Attribution:
- A.W.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come gentle herdman sit by me
- Page No:
- C12r-D2r; pp. 47-51
- Poem Title:
- II. Eclogue.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- For when thou are not as thou wont of y'ore
- Page No:
- D2r-D3r; pp. 51-53
- Poem Title:
- IIII. Eclogue: Concerning old age. The beginning and end of this eclogue are wanting.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye ghastly groves that hear my woeful cries
- Page No:
- D4r-D5r; pp. 55-57
- Poem Title:
- A complaint, of which all the staves end with the words of the first, like a sestine.
- Attribution:
- F.D.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Ye woeful sires whose causeless hate hath bred
- Page No:
- D5r; p. 57
- Poem Title:
- Inscriptions: Thisbe
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Hold hold thy hand vile son of viler mother
- Page No:
- D5r-D5v; pp. 57-58
- Poem Title:
- Clytemnestra to her son Orestes, coming to kill her for murdering his father Agamemnon.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- This sword is mine or will Laertes Sonne
- Page No:
- D5v; p. 58
- Poem Title:
- Ajax
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- No common womb was fit me forth to bring
- Page No:
- D5v; p. 58
- Poem Title:
- Romulus
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- My famous country values gold far less
- Page No:
- D5v; p. 58
- Poem Title:
- Fabritius Curio, who refused gold of the Samnites, and discovered to King Pyrrhus his Phistion that offered to poison him.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Caesar thou hast o'ercome to thy great fame
- Page No:
- D6r; p. 59
- Poem Title:
- Cato Utican who slew himself because he would not fall into Caesar's hands
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- While thou didest love me and that neck of thine
- Page No:
- D6r-D6v; p. 59-60
- Poem Title:
- A Dialogue in imitation of that between Horace and Lydia, beginning, Donec, gratus eram tibi etc.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Though you be not content
- Page No:
- D6v; p. 60
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- He's rich enough whose eyes behold thee
- Page No:
- D6v; p. 60
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal: Borrowed out of a Greek epigram
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Oh fair yet murdering eyes
- Page No:
- D6v-D7r; pp. 60-61
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal: Upon her dreaming that she saw him dead.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- When traiterous Photine Caesar did present
- Page No:
- D7r-p. 61
- Poem Title:
- Sonnets
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- While love in you did live I only lived in you
- Page No:
- D7r-D7v-pp. 61-62
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Phoebus of all the gods I wish to be
- Page No:
- D7v-p. 62
- Poem Title:
- To mistress Diana.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Sure dear I love you not for he that loveth
- Page No:
- D7v-D8r; pp. 62-63
- Poem Title:
- Upon his departure: Madrigal.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Four teeth of late you had both black and shaking
- Page No:
- D8r; p. 63
- Poem Title:
- Epigrams translated out of Martial. Ad Aelian. 76. L. I.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Naso let none drink in his glass but he
- Page No:
- D8r; p. 63
- Poem Title:
- A monsieur Naso, Verole
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I muse not that your dog turds oft doth eat
- Page No:
- D8r; p. 63
- Poem Title:
- De Manuella. 51. l. [I]
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Milo lives long in France and while he's there
- Page No:
- D8v; p. 64
- Poem Title:
- De Milone
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Codrus although but of mean estate
- Page No:
- D8v; p. 64
- Poem Title:
- Dr codro. Li. 15.3
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Thy lawful wise fair Laelia needs must be
- Page No:
- D8v; p. 64
- Poem Title:
- Ad Quintum. 117. L.5.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Rich Chremes whiles he lives will nought bestow
- Page No:
- D8v; p. 64
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Fail ye of wealth of wealth ye still will fail
- Page No:
- D8v; p. 64
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- My just demands so one grant or soon deny
- Page No:
- D9r; p. 65
- Poem Title:
- In cinnam. 42. L.7.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- What so'ere you coggingly require
- Page No:
- D9r; p. 65
- Poem Title:
- In cinnam. 107. L. 5.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Philo swears he ne're eats at home a nights
- Page No:
- D9r; p. 65
- Poem Title:
- De philone. 48. L.5.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- You promise mountains still to me
- Page No:
- D9r; p. 65
- Poem Title:
- 12. L 12.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Why do your wife and you so ill agree
- Page No:
- D9r-D9v; pp. 65-66
- Poem Title:
- Ad pessimos conjuges. 35. L. [8]
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- He that will thrive in court must oft become
- Page No:
- D9v; p/ 66
- Poem Title:
- Epigrams: A rule for courtiers.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Whosoever sayeth thou sellest all doth jest
- Page No:
- D9v; p/ 66
- Poem Title:
- On a painted [curtizan]
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Her sons rich Aula terms her lechers all
- Page No:
- D9v; p/ 66
- Poem Title:
- In aulam.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- If thou be fair thy beauties beautify
- Page No:
- D9v-D10r; pp. 66-67
- Poem Title:
- For a looking glass.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Thou still wert wont in earnest or in jest
- Page No:
- D10r; p. 67
- Poem Title:
- In asinium
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Thou evermore dost ancient poets blame
- Page No:
- D10r; p. 67
- Poem Title:
- On a limping cuckold.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- By want of shift since lice at first are bred
- Page No:
- D10r; p. 67
- Poem Title:
- On a [crambo] a lousy shifter.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Quintus is burnt and may thereof by glad
- Page No:
- D10r; p. 67
- Poem Title:
- In quintum
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Why will not Saba in a glass behold
- Page No:
- D10r; p. 67
- Poem Title:
- In sabam.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Aulus gives nought men say though much he crave
- Page No:
- D10r; p. 67
- Poem Title:
- In Aulum
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- If my harsh humble style and rhymes ill dressed
- Page No:
- D10v; p. 70
- Poem Title:
- Madrigals: Sonnet I. Dedication of these rhymes, to his first love.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- I bend my wits and beat my weary brain
- Page No:
- D10v; p. 70
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet II. That he cannot hide or desemble his affection.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- The fairest eye oh eyes in blackness fair
- Page No:
- D11r; p. 71
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet III. Upon his absence from her.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Who in these lines may better claim a part
- Page No:
- D11r; p. 71
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet IIII. Upon presenting her with the speech of Gray's Inn Masque, at the court, 1594, consisting of three parts. The story of Proteus' transformations, the wonders of the adamantine Rock, and a speech to her majesty.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Sitting at board sometimes prepared to eat
- Page No:
- D11v-12r; pp. 70-71
- Poem Title:
- Elegy I. He renounceth his food, and former delight in music, poesy, and painting.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Wake pity wake for thou hast slept too long
- Page No:
- D12r; p. 71
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet V. To Pity
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Passion may my judgement blear
- Page No:
- D12r-D12v; p. 71-74
- Poem Title:
- Ode I. That only her beauty and voice please him.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Love if a God thou art
- Page No:
- D12v; p. 74
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal I. To Cupid
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- In health and ease am I
- Page No:
- D12v-E1r; pp. 74-75
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal II. Upon his mistress sickness and his own health.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Sorrow slowly killeth any
- Page No:
- E1r; p. 75
- Poem Title:
- Magrigal 3. He begs a kiss.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Since I your cherry lips did kiss
- Page No:
- E1r; p. 75
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal 4. Upon a kiss received.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Lady you are with the beauties so enriched
- Page No:
- E1v-p. 76
- Poem Title:
- Ode II. Upon her protestation of kind affection, having tried his sincere fidelity.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Your presence breeds my anguish
- Page No:
- E1v-E2r; pp. 76-77
- Poem Title:
- Ode II. His restless estate.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- My dearest sweet if these sad lines do hap
- Page No:
- E2r-E4v; pp. 77-82
- Poem Title:
- Elegy II. Or letters in verse.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- My only star
- Page No:
- E4v-E5v; pp. 82-84
- Poem Title:
- Ode IIII. Being by his absence in Italy deprived of her looks, words, and gestures, he desireth her to write unto him.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- The wretched life I live
- Page No:
- E5v; p. 84
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal 5. Allusion to the confusion of Babel.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- If love conjoined with worth and great desert
- Page No:
- E5v-E6r; pp. 84-85
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet VI. Upon her acknowledging his desert, yet rejecting his affection.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- If your fond love want worth and great desert
- Page No:
- E6r; p. 85
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet 7: Her answer in the same rhymes.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Sweet if you like and love me still
- Page No:
- E6r-E6v; pp. 85-86
- Poem Title:
- Ode 5: his farewell to his unkind and unconstant mistress.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- I dare not in my master's bosom rest
- Page No:
- E6v; p. 86
- Poem Title:
- Ode VI: A prosopopoeia, wherein his heart speaks to his second lady's breast
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Lady of matchless beauty
- Page No:
- E7r-E7v; pp. 87-88
- Poem Title:
- Ode VII: Upon her giving him back the paper wherein the former song was written, as though it had been an answer thereunto.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Some there are as fair to see too
- Page No:
- E7v; p. 88
- Poem Title:
- Ode 8: Commendation of her beauty, stature behaviour and wit.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Oh hand of all hands living
- Page No:
- E7v; p. 88
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal 6. To her hand, upon her giving him her glove.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Ah Cupid I mistook thee
- Page No:
- E8r; p. 89
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal 7: Cupid proved a fencer.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Praise you those barren rhymes long since composed
- Page No:
- E8r; p. 89
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet 8: Upon her commending (though most undeservedly) his verses to his first love.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Like to the silly fly
- Page No:
- E8r-E8v; pp. 89-90
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal 8: He compares himself to a candle fly.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- If I behold your eyes
- Page No:
- E8v; p. 90
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal IX. Answers to her question, what love was.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- In heaven the blessed angels have their being
- Page No:
- E8v-E9r; pp. 90-91
- Poem Title:
- Ode IX. That all other creatures have their abiding in heaven, hell, earth, air, water or fire, but he in all of them.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Are lovers full of fire
- Page No:
- E9r; p. 91
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal 10. Upon his timerous silence in her presence.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- If this most wretched and infernal anguish
- Page No:
- E9r; p. 91
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal 11. Upon her long absence.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Fairest and kindest of all womankind
- Page No:
- E9v; p. 92
- Poem Title:
- Upon seeing his face in her eye.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Go wailing accents go
- Page No:
- E9v; p. 92
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal XII. Upon her hiding her face from him.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Whosoever longs to try
- Page No:
- E9v-E10r; pp. 92-93
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal 13. Upon her beauty and inconstancy.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Heart Shun not sweet breast to see me all of fire
- Page No:
- E10r; p. 93
- Poem Title:
- A dialogue between two lovers flaming heart, and his lady's frozen breast.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Dear why hath my long love and faith unfained
- Page No:
- E10r-E10v; pp. 93-94
- Poem Title:
- Elegy 3: For what cause he obtains not his lady favour.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- If you reward my love with love again
- Page No:
- E10v; p. 94
- Poem Title:
- A quatrain.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Worthily famous Lord whose virtues rare
- Page No:
- E10v-E11r; pp. 94-95
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet 10. To a worthy lord (now dead) upon presenting him for a new year's gift, with Caesar's commentaries and Cornelius Tacitus
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Olympias matchless son when as he knew
- Page No:
- E11r-E11v; pp. 95-96
- Poem Title:
- To Samuel Daniel Prince of English Poets. Upon his three several sorts of poesy.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Wits perfection beauty's wonder
- Page No:
- E11v-E12r; pp. 96-97
- Poem Title:
- Non equidem inuideo, miror magis. Three Epitaphs upon the death of a rare child of six years old.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Oh most unhappy Dido
- Page No:
- E12r; p. 97
- Poem Title:
- An inscription for the statue of Dido.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Let not sweet saint let not these lines offend you
- Page No:
- E12v; p. 98
- Poem Title:
- More Sonnets, Odes etc: Sonnet I. He demands pardon, for looking, loving, and writing.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- But if my lines may not be held excused
- Page No:
- E12v-F1r; pp. 98-99
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet 2. Love in justice punishable only with like love,
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Fair is thy face and great thy wits perfection
- Page No:
- F1r; p. 99
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet III. He calls his ears, eyes, and heart as witnesses of her sweet voice, beauty and inward virtuous perfections.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- I bend my wit but wit cannot deny
- Page No:
- F1r-F1v; pp. 99-100
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet IIII. Praise of her eyes, excelling all comparisons.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- As she is fair so faithful I
- Page No:
- F1v-F2r; pp. 100-101
- Poem Title:
- Ode I. His Lady to be condemned of ignorance or cruelty
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Reason and love lately at strife contended
- Page No:
- F2r; p. 101
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet V: Contention of Love and Reason for his heart.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Let fate my Fortune and my stars conspire
- Page No:
- F2r; p.101
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet VI. That she hath greater power over his happiness and life, than either Fortune, Fate or Stars.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- What need I say how it doth wound my breast
- Page No:
- F2v; p.102
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet VII. Of his lady's weeping.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Sweet to my cursed life some favour show
- Page No:
- F2v; p.102
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet VIII. He paints out his torment.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- At her fair hands how have I grace entreated
- Page No:
- F3r-3v; pp. 103-104
- Poem Title:
- Ode II. A dialogue between hin and his heart.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- I have entreated and I have complained
- Page No:
- F3v; p. 104
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet VII. His sighs and tears are bootless.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Wounded with grief I weep and sigh and plain
- Page No:
- F3v-4r; pp. 104-105
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet VIII. Her beauty makes him live even in despair.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Oft do I plain and she my plaints doth read
- Page No:
- F4r; p. 105
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet IX. Why her lips yield no words of comfort
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Like a sea-tossed bark with tackling spent
- Page No:
- F4r-F4v; pp. 105-6
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet X. Comparison of his heart to a tempest beaten ship.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Even as my hand my pen and paper lays
- Page No:
- F4v-F5v; pp. 106-108
- Poem Title:
- Elegy. To his lady, who had vowed virginity.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- How can my love in equity be blamed
- Page No:
- F5v; p. 108
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet XI. That he cannot leave to love, though commanded.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Must my devoted heart desist to love her
- Page No:
- F5v-F6r; pp. 108-9
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet XII. He desires leave to write of his love.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Dust is lighter than a feather
- Page No:
- F6r; p. 109
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Speak gentle heart where is thy dwelling place
- Page No:
- F7r; p. 111
- Poem Title:
- A dialogue between the lover and his heart.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets by T.W.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Watson
- First Line:
- Come gentle Death D Who calls L One that's oppressed
- Page No:
- F7v; p. 112
- Poem Title:
- A dialogue between a love, death, and love.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets by T.W.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Watson
- First Line:
- Time wasteth years and months and days and hours
- Page No:
- F7v; p. 112
- Poem Title:
- Time hath no power to end or diminish his love.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets by T.W.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Watson
- First Line:
- If love had lost his shafts and Jove down threw
- Page No:
- F8r; p. 113
- Poem Title:
- Love's Hyperboles.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets by T.W.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Watson
- First Line:
- Love is a sour delight a sugared grief
- Page No:
- F8r-8v; pp. 113-114
- Poem Title:
- An Invective against Love
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets by T.W.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Watson
- First Line:
- I joy not peace where yet no war is found
- Page No:
- F8v; p. 114
- Poem Title:
- Petrarch's Sonnet translated.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets by T.W.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Watson
- First Line:
- In that I thirst for such a goddess grace
- Page No:
- F9r; p. 115
- Poem Title:
- He proves himself to endure the hellish torments of Tantalus, Ixion, Titius, Sisyphus, and the Belides.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets by T.W.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Watson
- First Line:
- Where heat of love doth once possess the heart
- Page No:
- F9r; p. 115
- Poem Title:
- Love discommodities.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets by T.W.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Watson
- First Line:
- The soldier worn with wars delights in peace
- Page No:
- F9v; p. 116
- Poem Title:
- Allegory of his love to a ship.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets by T.W.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Watson
- First Line:
- I curse the time wherein these lips of mine
- Page No:
- F9v; p. 116
- Poem Title:
- Execration of his passed love.
- Attribution:
- T.W.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Watson
- First Line:
- The sun doth make the marigold to florish
- Page No:
- F10r-F10v; pp. 117-118
- Poem Title:
- A sonnet of the sun: a jewe, being a sun-shining upon the marigold closed in a heart of gold sent to his mistress, named Mary.
- Attribution:
- Cha. Best.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Best
- First Line:
- Look how the pale queen of the silent night
- Page No:
- F10v; p. 118
- Poem Title:
- A sonnet of the moon.
- Attribution:
- Cha. Best.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Best
- First Line:
- Some men they say are poets born by kind
- Page No:
- F10-11r; pp. 118-119
- Poem Title:
- Three sonnets for a proem to the poems following. That love only made him a poet, and that all sorts of verses, both in rhyme and measure, agree with his lady. Sonnet 1.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What moved me then Say Love for thou canst tell
- Page No:
- F11r; p. 119
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet 2
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thus am I free from laws that other bind
- Page No:
- F11r; p. 119
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet 3.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sweet Love mine only treasure
- Page No:
- F11v-p. 120
- Poem Title:
- Ode. Where his lady keeps his heart.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fain would I learn of thee thou murth'ring eye
- Page No:
- F11v-F12r; pp. 120-121
- Poem Title:
- To her eyes.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As soon may water wipe me dry
- Page No:
- F12r; p. 121
- Poem Title:
- Ode 2. The more favour he obtains, the more he desires.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The fairest pearls that Northern seas do breed
- Page No:
- F12v-G1r; pp.122-123
- Poem Title:
- Love the only price of love
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My heart was found within my Lady's breast
- Page No:
- G1r; p. 123
- Poem Title:
- His heart arraigned of theft, and acquitted.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thine eyes so bright
- Page No:
- G1r-G1v; pp. 123-124
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal I.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Time nor place did I want what held me tonguetied
- Page No:
- G1v; p. 124
- Poem Title:
- Phaleuciak I.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sweet thoughts the food on which I feeding starve
- Page No:
- G1v; p. 124
- Poem Title:
- Deadly sweetness
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If love be made of words as woods of trees
- Page No:
- G1v-G2r; pp. 124-5
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal II. Verbal love.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oft have I mused the cause to find
- Page No:
- G2r; p.125
- Poem Title:
- Ladies eyes, serve cupid both for darts and fire.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I smile sometimes amidst my greatest grief
- Page No:
- G2r; p.125
- Poem Title:
- Love's contrarieties.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Desire and hope have moved my mind
- Page No:
- G2v; p. 126.
- Poem Title:
- Ode III. Desire and hope.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- She only is the pride of nature's skill
- Page No:
- G3r; p. 127
- Poem Title:
- Elegy III. Her praise is in her wont.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Smooth are thy looks so is thy deepest stream
- Page No:
- G3r-G3v; pp. 127-128
- Poem Title:
- Laudo quod lugeo. Her outward gesture decieving his inward hope.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How or where have I lost my self unhappy I
- Page No:
- G3v; p. 128
- Poem Title:
- Phaleuciacke II.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Muse not lady to read so strange a metre
- Page No:
- G3v; p. 128
- Poem Title:
- Lenvoy in rhyming Phaleuciads.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Wronged by desire I yielded to disdain
- Page No:
- G3v-G4r; pp. 128-129
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet IIII. Desire hath conquered revenge.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The love of change hath changed the world throughout
- Page No:
- G4r-G4v; pp. 129-130
- Poem Title:
- That he is unchangable
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Unhappy eyes the causers of my pain
- Page No:
- G4v; p. 130
- Poem Title:
- To his eyes
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The night say all was made to rest
- Page No:
- G4v-G5r; pp. 130-131
- Poem Title:
- Ode IIII. Upon visiting his lady by moon-light
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The summer sun that scalds the ground with heat
- Page No:
- G5r-G5v; pp. 131-132
- Poem Title:
- Upon her absence
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When will the fountain of my tears be dry
- Page No:
- G5v; p. 132
- Poem Title:
- Ode V. Petition to have her leave to die.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The frozen snake oppressed with heaped snow
- Page No:
- G6r; p. 133
- Poem Title:
- The lover absence kills me, her presence cures me
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If my decay be your increase
- Page No:
- G6r-G6v; pp. 133-134
- Poem Title:
- Ode VI: The kind lover's complaint in finding nothing but folly for his faithfulness.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Close your lids unhappy eyes
- Page No:
- G7r; p. 135
- Poem Title:
- Ode VII: Unhappy eyes
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cupid at length I spy thy crafty wile
- Page No:
- G7v; p. 135
- Poem Title:
- Cupid shoots light, but wounds sore.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If love be nothing but an idle name
- Page No:
- G7v-G8r; pp. 135-136
- Poem Title:
- A true description of love, paraphrastically translated out of Petrarch's 103 sonnet beginning S'Amor non e che dunque e quel ch'io sento.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fair is thy face and that thou knowest too well
- Page No:
- G8v; p. 138
- Poem Title:
- Fair face and hard heart.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Disdain that so doth fill me
- Page No:
- G8v-G9r; pp. 138-139
- Poem Title:
- Ode VIII. Disdain at variance with desire.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All is not gold that shineth bright in show
- Page No:
- G9r-G9v; pp. 139-140
- Poem Title:
- An Invective against Love
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My wanton muse that whilome wont to sing
- Page No:
- G9v-G10v; pp. 140-142
- Poem Title:
- Upon an heroical poem which he had begun (in imitation of Virgil) of the first inhabiting this famour isle by Brute, and the Troyans.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In happy time the wished fair is come
- Page No:
- G10v-G11r; pp. 142-143
- Poem Title:
- Upon his lady buying strings for her lute.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My heavy heart with grief and hope torment
- Page No:
- G11r; p. 143
- Poem Title:
- Care will not let him live, nor hope let him die.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A new found match is made of late
- Page No:
- G11v; p. 144
- Poem Title:
- Ode 9. Cupid's marriage with dissimulation.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If love be life I long to die
- Page No:
- G12r-G12v; pp. 145-146
- Poem Title:
- Ode 10: Dispraise of love and lovers follies.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The golden sun that brings the day
- Page No:
- G12v; p. 146
- Poem Title:
- In praise of the sun
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Rest good my Muse and give me leave to rest
- Page No:
- H1r; p. 147
- Poem Title:
- Ode XI. To his muse
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Mine eyes have spent their tears and now are dry
- Page No:
- H1r-H1v; pp. 147-148
- Poem Title:
- Death in love.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Break heavy heart and rid me of this pain
- Page No:
- H1v-H2r; pp. 148-149
- Poem Title:
- Break heavy heart
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Where wit is over-ruled by will
- Page No:
- H2r; p. 149
- Poem Title:
- Desire's Government
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twixt heat and cold t'wixt death and life
- Page No:
- H2r-H2v; pp. 149-150
- Poem Title:
- Love's properties.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If means be none to end my restless care
- Page No:
- H2v; p. 150
- Poem Title:
- Living death
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye walls that shut me up from sight of men
- Page No:
- H2v; p. 150
- Poem Title:
- The passionate prisoner
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though naked trees seem dead to sight
- Page No:
- H3r; p. 151 [marked as A3]
- Poem Title:
- Hopeless desire soon withers and dies
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Nay nay thou striv'st in vain my heart
- Page No:
- H3r-H3v; pp. 151-152
- Poem Title:
- Ode XII. To his heart
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Wisdom warns me to shun that once I sought for
- Page No:
- H3v-H4r; pp. 152-153
- Poem Title:
- Phaleuciacs. III.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Now have I learned with much ado at last
- Page No:
- H4r; p. 153
- Poem Title:
- Ode XIII. A defiance to disdainful love.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since just disdain began to rise
- Page No:
- H4r; p. 153
- Poem Title:
- Being scorned and disdained, he inveighs against his lady.
- Attribution:
- Certaine Poemes vpon diuerse Subiects by the same Author
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Spelman
- First Line:
- When Venus saw desire must die
- Page No:
- H4v-H5r; pp. 154-155
- Poem Title:
- Ode 14. The tomb of dead desire.
- Attribution:
- Certaine Poemes vpon diuerse Subiects by the same Author
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Spelman
- First Line:
- My Muse by thee restored to life
- Page No:
- H5v; p. 156
- Poem Title:
- An altar and sacrifice to disdain, for freeing him from love.
- Attribution:
- Certaine Poemes vpon diuerse Subiects by the same Author
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Spelman
- First Line:
- Of Atreus sons fain would I write
- Page No:
- H6r; p. 157
- Poem Title:
- Certain poems upon diverse subjects by the same author. Three odes translated out of Anacreon, the Greek lyric poet. Ode I.
- Attribution:
- Certaine Poemes vpon diuerse Subiects by the same Author
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Spelman
- First Line:
- The bull by nature hath his horns
- Page No:
- H6r; p. 157
- Poem Title:
- Ode II. A comparison betwixt the strength of beasts, and the wisdom of man, and the beauty of a woman's face.
- Attribution:
- Certaine Poemes vpon diuerse Subiects by the same Author
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Spelman
- First Line:
- Of late what time the bear turned round
- Page No:
- H6v; p. 158
- Poem Title:
- Ode III.
- Attribution:
- Certaine Poemes vpon diuerse Subiects by the same Author
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Spelman
- First Line:
- Nature in her work doth give
- Page No:
- H7r; p. 159
- Poem Title:
- Anacreons second ode, otherwise
- Attribution:
- T.S.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Spelman
- First Line:
- Cupid abroad was lated in the night
- Page No:
- H7r-H7v; pp. 159-160
- Poem Title:
- Anacreon's Ode, otherwise.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The lowest trees have tops the ant her gall
- Page No:
- H7v; p. 160
- Poem Title:
- Natural comparisons with perfect love.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Compare the bramble with the cedar tree
- Page No:
- H7v-H8r; pp. 160-161
- Poem Title:
- An answer to the first staff, that love is unlike in beggars and in kings
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Bright shines the sun play beggars play
- Page No:
- H8r-H8v; pp. 161-162
- Poem Title:
- A song in praise of a beggar's life.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Begin and half is done yet half undone remains
- Page No:
- H8v; p. 162
- Poem Title:
- Upon beginning without making an end.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cambridge worthy Philip by this verse builds thee an altar
- Page No:
- H8v; p. 162
- Poem Title:
- An epigram to Sir Philip Sidney in elegiacal verse, translated out of Jodelle, the French poet.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What can I now suspect or what can I fear any longer
- Page No:
- H8v; p. 162
- Poem Title:
- Hexameters, upon the never enough praised Sir Philip Sidney
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What strange adventure' what now unlookt for arrival
- Page No:
- H8v-H9r; pp. 162-163
- Poem Title:
- Another upon the same.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whom can I first accuse whose fault account I the greatest
- Page No:
- H9r-H9v; pp. 163-164
- Poem Title:
- Others upon the same.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Eternal time that wasteth without waste
- Page No:
- H9v-H10r; pp. 164-165
- Poem Title:
- To Time
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O trifling toys that toss the brains
- Page No:
- H10r-H10v; p. 165-166
- Poem Title:
- A meditation upon the frailty of this life.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ay me poor soul whom bound in sinful chains
- Page No:
- H10v; p. 166
- Poem Title:
- A dialogue between the soul and the body.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hatred eternal furious revenging
- Page No:
- H10v; p. 166
- Poem Title:
- Sapphics upon the passion of Christ.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Praise pleasure profit is that threefold band
- Page No:
- H11r; p. 167
- Poem Title:
- A hymn in praise of music
- Attribution:
- I.D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- Oft did I hear our eyes the passage were
- Page No:
- H11r-H11v; pp. 178-179
- Poem Title:
- Ten sonnets to Philomel: Sonnet 1. Upon love's ent'ring by his ears.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets to Philomel / I. D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- O why did Fame my heart to love betray
- Page No:
- H12r; p. 179
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet 2.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets to Philomel / I. D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- Sickness intending my love to betray
- Page No:
- H12r; p. 179
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet 3. Of his own, and of his mistress sickness at one time.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets to Philomel / I. D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- Pale Death himself did love my Philomel
- Page No:
- H12v; p. 180
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet 4. Another of her sickness and recovery.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets to Philomel / I. D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- My love is sailed aganst dislike to fight
- Page No:
- H12v; p. 180
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet 5. Allusion to Theseus voyage to Crete, against the Minotaur.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets to Philomel / I. D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- Once did my Philomel reflect one me
- Page No:
- I1r; p. 181
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet 6. Upon her looking secretly out at a window as he passed by
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets to Philomel / I. D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- When time nor place would let me often view
- Page No:
- I1r; p. 181
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet 7.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets to Philomel / I. D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- When as the sun eclipsed is some say
- Page No:
- I1r-I1v; pp. 181-182
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet 8. To the sun of his mistress beauty eclipsed with frowns.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets to Philomel / I. D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- If you would know the love which I you bear
- Page No:
- I1v; p. 182
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet IX. Upon sending her a gold ring, with this poesy, pure and endless.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets to Philomel / I. D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- My cruel dear having captived my heart
- Page No:
- I1v-I2r; pp. 182-183
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet X. The Heart's Captivity
- Attribution:
- I.D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- Of Neptune's empire let us sing
- Page No:
- I2r; p. 183
- Poem Title:
- A hymn in praise of Neptune
- Attribution:
- Th. Campion
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Campion
- First Line:
- And would you see my mistress' face
- Page No:
- I2v; p. 184
- Poem Title:
- This hymn was sung by Amphitrite, Thamesis, and other sea-nymphs iin Gray's Inn Masque at the court. 1594. Of his mistress's face.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Blame not my cheeks though pale with love they be
- Page No:
- I2v-I3r; pp. 184-185
- Poem Title:
- Upon her paleness.
- Attribution:
- Tho. Campion
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Campion
- First Line:
- When to her lute Corinna sings
- Page No:
- I3r; p. 185
- Poem Title:
- Of Corinna's singing.
- Attribution:
- Tho. Campion
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Campion
- First Line:
- Lady my flame still burning
- Page No:
- I3r; p. 185
- Poem Title:
- A dialogue betwixt the lover and his lady
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sweet Lord your flame still burning
- Page No:
- I3r-I3v; pp. 185-186
- Poem Title:
- Her answer.
- Attribution:
- Ignoto.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Yonge
- First Line:
- O faithless world and thy most faithless part
- Page No:
- I3v; p. 186
- Poem Title:
- An elegy of a woman's heart.
- Attribution:
- H.W.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Henry Wotton
- First Line:
- Conceit begotten by the eyes
- Page No:
- I3v-I4r; pp. 186-187
- Poem Title:
- A posey to prove affection is not love.
- Attribution:
- W.R.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
- First Line:
- Faustina hath the fairer face
- Page No:
- I4v; p. 188
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal. In praise of two.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Garden more than Eden blessed
- Page No:
- I4v; p. 188
- Poem Title:
- To his lady's garden, being absent far from her.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cruel and impartial sickness
- Page No:
- I5r; p. 189
- Poem Title:
- Upon his lady's sickness of the small pox.
- Attribution:
- Th. Spilman.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Her face her tongue her wit so fair so sweet so sharp
- Page No:
- I5r-I5v; pp. 189-190
- Poem Title:
- A sonnet in the grace of wit, of tongue, of face.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Only sweet love afford me but thy heart
- Page No:
- I5v; p. 190
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet. For her heart only.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Absence hear thou my prostestation
- Page No:
- I5v-I6r; pp. 190-191
- Poem Title:
- Ode. That time and absence proves/Rather helps then hurts to loves.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Love is the link the knot the band of unity
- Page No:
- I6r; p. 191
- Poem Title:
- The true love's knot.
- Attribution:
- Ignoto
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Best pleased she is when love is most exprest
- Page No:
- I6v; p. 192
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When a weak child is sick and out of quiet
- Page No:
- I6v; p. 192
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Were I as base as is the lowly plain
- Page No:
- I6v-I7r; pp. 192-193
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet.
- Attribution:
- I.S.
- Attributed To:
- Joshua Sylvester
- First Line:
- My love in her attire doth show her wit
- Page No:
- I7r; p. 193
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When I to you of all my woes complain
- Page No:
- I7r; p. 193
- Poem Title:
- A poem
- Attribution:
- F.D.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- The poets fain that when the world began
- Page No:
- I7r-I7v; pp. 193-194
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet
- Attribution:
- I.S.
- Attributed To:
- Joshua Sylvester
- First Line:
- Are women fair I wondrous fair to see too
- Page No:
- I7v; p. 194
- Poem Title:
- An invective against women.
- Attribution:
- Ignoto.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Philip Sidney
- First Line:
- Unhappy verse The witness of unhappy state
- Page No:
- I8r; p. 195
- Poem Title:
- Love's embassy in an iambic elegy.
- Attribution:
- Edmund Spencer.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Spenser
- First Line:
- Mine eye with all the deadly sins is fraught
- Page No:
- I8r-I8v; pp. 195-196
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet. Love's seven deadly sins.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye sister muses do not you repine
- Page No:
- I8v; p. 196
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet. To two most honourable and virtuous ladies and sisters, the lady Margaret countess of Cumberland, the lady Anne countess of Warwick.
- Attribution:
- H.C.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The ancient readers of heaven's book
- Page No:
- I8v-I9r; pp. 196-197
- Poem Title:
- Ode. Of Cynthia.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Who gives a gift to bind a friend thereby
- Page No:
- I9r; p. 197
- Poem Title:
- This song was sung before her sacred majesty at a show on horseback, wherewith the right honourable the earl of Cumberland presented her highness on May day last. Of love gift.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Now what is love I pray thee tell
- Page No:
- I9r-I9v; pp. 197-198
- Poem Title:
- The Anatomy of Love.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If wrong by force had justice put to flight
- Page No:
- I10r; p. 199
- Poem Title:
- A poem.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If stepdame nature have been scant
- Page No:
- I10r; p. 199
- Poem Title:
- A poem in the nature of an epitaph of a friend.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Death is my doom awarded by disdain
- Page No:
- I10v-I11r; pp. 200-201
- Poem Title:
- Love's contentment
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though late my heart yet turn at last
- Page No:
- I11r; p. 201
- Poem Title:
- A repentent poem.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whether thy choice or chance thee hither brings
- Page No:
- I11v; p. 202
- Poem Title:
- To the epitaph upon the heart of Henry the third, late king of France and Poland: slain 1589 by a Jacobin Frier. Upon the tomb of his heart in the church of Saint Clou. Near Paris, adjoining to the house where he was slain.
- Attribution:
- F.D.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- That we should more bewail the hap of Kings
- Page No:
- I12r; p. 203
- Poem Title:
- Addit. Per. Cha. Best. Arm. An epitaph on Henry the fourth, the last French King.
- Attribution:
- Addit. per Cha. Best. Arm.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Best
- First Line:
- Eliza that great maiden Queen lies here
- Page No:
- I12r; p. 203
- Poem Title:
- An Epitaph on Queen Elizabeth.
- Attribution:
- Addit. per Cha. Best. Arm.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Best
- First Line:
- Diverse rare gems in thee oh union shine
- Page No:
- I12r-K1r; pp. 203-205
- Poem Title:
- Union's Jewel
- Attribution:
- Addit. per Cha. Best. Arm.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Best
- First Line:
- Great king since first this isle by Jove's own hand
- Page No:
- K1v-K2v; pp. 206-208
- Poem Title:
- A panegyric to my sovereign lord the king.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Charles Best
- First Line:
- Dearling of these of future times the glory
- Page No:
- K2v; p. 208
- Poem Title:
- To my lord the prince.
- Attribution:
- Addit. per Cha. Best. Arm.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Best
- First Line:
- Fair virtue's gem set in most royal gold
- Page No:
- K3r; p. 209
- Poem Title:
- To the excellent Lady Elizabeth her grace.
- Attribution:
- Addit. per Cha. Best. Arm.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Best
- First Line:
- The poor man beloved for virtue approved right blessed is he
- Page No:
- K4r; p. 211
- Poem Title:
- Of the fall of man in Adam.
- Attribution:
- Addit. per Cha. Best. Arm.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Best
- First Line:
- But Jove omnipotent all things by his word who created
- Page No:
- K4r; p. 211
- Poem Title:
- Of the restoring of man by Christ.
- Attribution:
- Addit. per Cha. Best. Arm.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Best
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