A Poetical Rhapsody [S113564]
- DMI number:
- 1795
- Publication Date:
- 1602
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- S113564
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:99848797
- Shelfmark:
- EEBO
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of 16th century verse and Collection of literary verse
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- First Line:
- Great Earl whose high and noble mind is higher
- Page No:
- A2r
- Poem Title:
- To the most noble, honourable, and worthy lord Willian earl of Pembroke, lord Herbert of Cardiff, Marmion and Saint Quintine.
- Attribution:
- Fra. Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Join mates in mirth to me
- Page No:
- B1r-B2r
- 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:
- B2r-B3v
- 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:
- B3v-B4v
- Poem Title:
- Fiction how Cupid made a Nymph wound her selfe with his Arrowes.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Then I sing divine Astrea's praise
- Page No:
- B5r-B6r
- 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:
- B6v-B7v
- 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:
- B8r-B8v
- Poem Title:
- Strephon's Palinode
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since true penance hath suspended
- Page No:
- B9r-B9v
- 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:
- B10r-C3r
- Poem Title:
- I. Eclogue
- Attribution:
- F. D.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Perin arread what new mischance betide
- Page No:
- C3v-C7v
- Poem Title:
- III. 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:
- C8r-C10r
- 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:
- C10v-C12r
- Poem Title:
- IIII. Eclogue: Concerning old age.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If my harsh humble style and rhymes ill dressed
- Page No:
- D2r
- 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:
- Bend my wits and beat my weary brain
- Page No:
- D2v
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet II. That he cannot hide or dissemble his affection.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- The fairst eyes O eyes in blackness fair
- Page No:
- D3r
- 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:
- D3v
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet IIII. Upon presenting her with the speech of Gray's-Inn Mask at the Court 1594. consisting of three parts, The story of Proteus' transformations, the wonders of the Adamantine Rock, and a speech to her Majestie.
- 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:
- D4r-D4v
- Poem Title:
- Elegy I. He renounceth his food, and former delight in music, Poetry, 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:
- D5r
- 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 bleare
- Page No:
- D5v
- 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:
- D6r
- 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:
- D6r
- 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 seldom killeth any
- Page No:
- D6v
- Poem Title:
- Magrigal III. He begs a Kiss.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Since your sweet cherry lips I kissed
- Page No:
- D6v
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal IIII. Upon a kiss received.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Lady you are with beauties so enriched
- Page No:
- D7r
- Poem Title:
- Ode II. Upon her protesting that having tried his sincere affection, she loved him
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Your presence breeds my anguish
- Page No:
- D7v
- 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:
- D8r-D11r
- 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:
- D11r-D12r
- Poem Title:
- Ode IIII. Being deprived of her sweet looks, words, and gestures, by his absence in Italie, he desires 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:
- D12v
- 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:
- E1r
- 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:
- E1v
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet VII: 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:
- E2r
- Poem Title:
- Ode V: His farewell to his Unkind and Unconstant Mistress.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Dare not in my masters bosom rest
- Page No:
- E2v
- Poem Title:
- A Prosopoeia; Wherein his Heart speakes to his second ladies breast
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Lady of matchless beauty
- Page No:
- E2v-E3r
- Poem Title:
- Ode VI. Upon her giving him backe 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:
- E3v
- Poem Title:
- Ode VII: 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:
- E3v-E4r
- Poem Title:
- Madrigall VI. 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:
- E4r
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal VII: 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:
- E4v
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet VIII: Upon her commending (though most undeservedlly) 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:
- E5r
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal VIII: 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:
- E5r
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal IX. Answer 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:
- E5v
- Poem Title:
- Ode VIII. 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:
- E6r
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal X. 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:
- E6r
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal XI. 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:
- E6v
- 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:
- E6v-E7r
- 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:
- E7r
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal XIII. 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:
- E7v
- Poem Title:
- A Dialogue betweene a 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:
- E8r-E8v
- Poem Title:
- Elegy III: For what cause he obtains not his lady's 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:
- E8v
- 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:
- E9r
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet IX. To a worthy Lord (now dead) upon presenting him for a New-years-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:
- E9v-E10r
- Poem Title:
- To Samuel Daniel Prince of English Poets.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / Francis Davison
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- Wits perfection beauty's wonder
- Page No:
- E10v
- Poem Title:
- 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:
- E11r
- 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:
- E12r
- Poem Title:
- 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
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet II. 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
- 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:
- F1v
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet V. 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:
- F2r-F2v
- 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:
- F2v
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet VI: 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:
- F3r
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet IIII. That she hath greater power over his happines 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:
- F3v
- 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:
- F4r
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet VIII. He paints out his Torments.
- 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:
- F4v-F5r
- Poem Title:
- Ode II. A dialogue betweene him 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:
- F5v
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet IX. 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:
- F6r
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet X. Her Beauty makes him love, 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:
- F6v
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet XI. Why her lips yield him 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:
- F7r
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet XII. 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:
- F7r-F9v
- 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:
- F10r
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet XII. 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:
- F10v
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet XIIII. 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:
- F11r
- Poem Title:
- Quid pluma leuius? Puluis, Quid puluere? Ventus. Quid vento? Mulier. Quid muliere? Nihil.
- Attribution:
- By Francis Davison and Walter Davison, Brethren / W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Davison
- First Line:
- Some men they say are poets born by kind
- Page No:
- G1r
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet I.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What moved me then Say Love for thou canst tell
- Page No:
- G1v
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet. II.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thus am I free from laws that other bind
- Page No:
- G2r
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet. III.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sweet Love mine only treasure
- Page No:
- G2v
- Poem Title:
- Ode I. Where his Lady keeps his heart.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fain would I learn of thee thou murthering eye
- Page No:
- G3r
- Poem Title:
- To her Eyes.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As soon may water wipe me dry
- Page No:
- G3v
- Poem Title:
- Ode. II. 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:
- G4r-G4v
- 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:
- G4v-G5r
- Poem Title:
- His heart arraigned of Theft, and acquitted.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thine eyes so bright
- Page No:
- G5r
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal. I.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Time nor place did I want what held me tonguetied
- Page No:
- G5v
- Poem Title:
- Phaleuciaks. I.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sweet thoughts the food on which I feeding starve
- Page No:
- G5v
- Poem Title:
- Deadly Sweetness
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If love be made of words as woods of trees
- Page No:
- G6r
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal II. Verbal Love.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oft have I mused the cause to find
- Page No:
- G6r-G6v
- Poem Title:
- Lady's 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:
- G6v-G7r
- Poem Title:
- Love's Contrarieties.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Desire and hope have moved my mind
- Page No:
- G7r-G7v
- Poem Title:
- Ode III.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- She only is the pride of nature's skill
- Page No:
- G7v
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal III.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Smooth are thy looks so is thy deepest stream
- Page No:
- G8r
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How or where have I lost my self unhappy I
- Page No:
- G8v
- Poem Title:
- Phaleuciacs II.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Muse not lady to read so strange a metre
- Page No:
- G8v
- Poem Title:
- L'envoy in rhyming Phaleuciacs.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Wronged by desire I yielded to disdain
- Page No:
- G9r
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet. IIII.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The love of change hath changed the world throughout
- Page No:
- G9r-G10r
- Poem Title:
- That he is unchangable.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Unhappy eyes the causers of my pain
- Page No:
- G10r
- Poem Title:
- To his Eyes
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The night say all was made to rest
- Page No:
- G10v
- Poem Title:
- Ode IIII. Upon visiting his Lady by Moonlight
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The summer sun that scalds the ground with heat
- Page No:
- G11r-G11v
- Poem Title:
- Upon her Absence
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When will the fountain of my tears be dry
- Page No:
- G11v
- 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:
- G12r
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If my decay be your increase
- Page No:
- G12v-H1r
- Poem Title:
- Ode VI.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Close your lids unhappy eyes
- Page No:
- H1r-H1v
- Poem Title:
- Ode VII.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cupid at length I spy thy crafty wile
- Page No:
- H1v-H2r
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If love be nothing but an idle name
- Page No:
- H2v-H3r
- Poem Title:
- A Paraphrastical translation of Petrarch's sonnet
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fair is thy face and that thou knowest too well
- Page No:
- H3r-H3v
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Disdain that so doth fill me
- Page No:
- H3v-H4r
- Poem Title:
- Ode. VIII.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All is not gold that shineth bright in show
- Page No:
- H4r-H4v
- Poem Title:
- An Invective against Love
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My wanton muse that whilome wont to sing
- Page No:
- H5r-H6r
- Poem Title:
- Upon an Heroical Poem which he had begunne (in Imitation of Virgil,) of the first Inhabiting this famous Isle by Brute, and the Trojans.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In happy time the wished fair is come
- Page No:
- H6v
- Poem Title:
- Upon his lady's buying strings for her Lute.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My heavy heart with grief and hope torment
- Page No:
- H7r
- 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:
- H7v-H8r
- Poem Title:
- Cupid's Marriage with Dissimulation.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If love be life I long to die
- Page No:
- H8r-H8v
- Poem Title:
- Ode. X. Dispraise of Love, and Lover's follies.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The golden sun that brings the day
- Page No:
- H9r
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Rest good my Muse and give me leave to rest
- Page No:
- H9v
- 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:
- H10r
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Break heavy heart and rid me of this pain
- Page No:
- H10v
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Where wit is over-ruled by will
- Page No:
- H10v-H11r
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twixt heat and cold t'wixt death and life
- Page No:
- H11r
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If means be none to end my restless care
- Page No:
- H11v
- Poem Title:
- A living death
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye walls that shut me up from sight of men
- Page No:
- H11v
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though naked trees seem dead to sight
- Page No:
- H12r
- 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:
- H12v-I1r
- 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:
- I1v
- Poem Title:
- Phaleuciacs. II.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Now have I learned with much ado at last
- Page No:
- I2r
- Poem Title:
- Ode XIII.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since just disdain began to rise
- Page No:
- I2v
- 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:
- I2v-I3r
- Poem Title:
- Ode XIIII. 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:
- I3v
- Poem Title:
- An Altar and Sacrifice to Disdaine, 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:
- I4r
- Poem Title:
- Three Odes translated out of Anacreon, the Greeke Lyrick 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:
- I4v
- Poem Title:
- Ode II.
- 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:
- I4v-I5r
- 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:
- I5v
- Poem Title:
- Anacreon's second Ode, uiherwise
- Attribution:
- T.S.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Spelman
- First Line:
- Cupid abroad was lated in the night
- Page No:
- I6r
- Poem Title:
- Anacreon's third Ode, otherwise.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The lowest trees have tops the ant her gall
- Page No:
- I6v
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Compare the bramble with the cedar tree
- Page No:
- I6v-I7r
- 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:
- I7v
- Poem Title:
- A Song, in praise of a Beggars life.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Begin and half is done yet half undone remains
- Page No:
- I8r
- 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:
- I8r
- 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:
- I8v
- 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:
- I9r
- Poem Title:
- An other upon the same.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whom can I first accuse whose fault account I the greatest
- Page No:
- I9v-I10v
- Poem Title:
- Others upon the same.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Eternal time that wasteth without waste
- Page No:
- I11r
- Poem Title:
- To Time.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O trifling toys that toss the brains
- Page No:
- I11v
- 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:
- I12r
- Poem Title:
- A dialogue between the Soul and the Body.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hatred eternal furious revenging
- Page No:
- I12v
- 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:
- K2r-K2v
- 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:
- K3r
- Poem Title:
- Ten Sonnets, to Philomel. Sonnet I. Upon Loves entering 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:
- K3v
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet. II.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets to Philomel / I. D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- Sickness intending my love to betray
- Page No:
- K4r
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet III. Of his own, and of his Mistress's 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:
- K4v
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet III. 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:
- K5r
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet V. 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:
- K5v
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet VI. 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:
- K6r
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet VII.
- Attribution:
- Ten Sonnets to Philomel / I. D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- When as the sun eclipsed is some say
- Page No:
- K6v
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet. VIII.
- 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:
- K7r
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet IX. Upon sending her a Gold Ring, with this Posie 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:
- K7v
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet X.
- Attribution:
- I.D.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
- First Line:
- Of Neptune's empire let us sing
- Page No:
- K8r
- 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:
- K8v
- Poem Title:
- 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:
- K9r
- Poem Title:
- Upon his Paleness.
- Attribution:
- Tho. Campion
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Campion
- First Line:
- When to her lute Corinna sings
- Page No:
- K9v
- Poem Title:
- Of Corinna's singing.
- Attribution:
- Tho. Campion
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Campion
- First Line:
- Lady my flame still burning
- Page No:
- K10r
- 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:
- K10r
- Poem Title:
- Her Answer.
- Attribution:
- Ignoto.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Yonge
- First Line:
- O faithless world and thy most faithless part
- Page No:
- K10v
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy
- Attribution:
- H.W.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Henry Wotton
- First Line:
- Conceit begotten by the eyes
- Page No:
- K11r-K11v
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- W.R.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
- First Line:
- Faustina hath the fairer face
- Page No:
- K11v
- Poem Title:
- Madrigal.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Garden more than Eden blessed
- Page No:
- K12r
- 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:
- K12v
- 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:
- L1r
- Poem Title:
- A Reporting Sonnet.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Only sweet love afford me but thy heart
- Page No:
- L1v
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Absence hear thou my prostestation
- Page No:
- L2r
- Poem Title:
- Ode.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Love is the link the knot the band of unity
- Page No:
- L2v
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Ignoto
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Best pleased she is when love is most exprest
- Page No:
- L3r
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When a weak child is sick and out of quiet
- Page No:
- L3v
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Were I as base as is the lowly plain
- Page No:
- L4r
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet.
- Attribution:
- I.S.
- Attributed To:
- Joshua Sylvester
- First Line:
- My love in her attire doth show her wit
- Page No:
- L4v
- Poem Title:
- A Madrigal.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When I to you of all my woes complain
- Page No:
- L4v
- Poem Title:
- A Madrigal.
- Attribution:
- F.D.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Davison
- First Line:
- The poets fain that when the world began
- Page No:
- L5r
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet
- Attribution:
- I.S.
- Attributed To:
- Joshua Sylvester
- First Line:
- Are women fair I wondrous fair to see too
- Page No:
- L5v
- Poem Title:
- An Invective against Women.
- Attribution:
- Ignoto.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Philip Sidney
- First Line:
- Unhappy verse The witness of unhappy state
- Page No:
- L6r
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy in Trimeter Iambics
- Attribution:
- Edmund Spencer.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Spenser
- First Line:
- Mine eye with all the deadly sins is fraught
- Page No:
- L6v
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye sister muses do not you repine
- Page No:
- L7r
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet. To two most Honourable and Virtuous ladies, sisters.
- Attribution:
- H.C.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The ancient readers of heaven's book
- Page No:
- L7v
- Poem Title:
- Ode. Of Cynthia.
- Attribution:
- None
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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