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"Arranged chronologically, these selections of prose pieces, carols, ballads, songs, and hymns contain introductory notes, suggested readings, and footnotes. Also included are bibliographical references, indexes, and cross references to the Internet resources. Strongly recommended for all libraries." (Library Journal (of the previous edition))
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations xvi
Alphabetical List of Authors xvii
Preface: Representing the Renaissance in the Twenty-First Century xviii
Acknowledgments xxiv
Timeline: The Tudor and Stuart Monarchs, 1509–1642 xxv
Introduction: Renaissance English History and Literature 1
John Skelton (1460?–1529) 17
Philip Sparrow [Part I] 18
Sir Thomas More (1477/8–1535) 35
[From] The History of King Richard the Third (ca. 1513–18) 37
[From] A Dialogue Concerning Heresies (1529) 41
Letter from Margaret Roper to Alice Alington, August 1534 49
Sir Thomas Elyot (ca. 1490–1546) 61
[From] The Book Named the Governor 62
[From] The First Book of The Castell of Health 75
William Tyndale (1494–1536) 81
[From] The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528) 82
[From] Tyndale’s Translation of the Pentateuch (1530) 98
[From] Tyndale’s Translation of the New Testament (1534) 100
Mark 4:1–34 [the Parable of the Sower and the Seed] 100
The Gospel of John, Chapter 1 101
[Tyndale’s Translation of Luther’s] A Prologue to the Epistle of Paul to the Romans 103
Sir Thomas Wyatt (ca. 1503–1542) 119
[From] Certain Psalms (published 1549) 120
[Prologue] 120
Psalm 51. Miserere Mei Domine 122
Poems Attributed to Wyatt in the Egerton Manuscript and in Tottel’s Miscellany 125
[The Long Love] 125
[Whoso List to Hunt] 125
[The Pillar Perished] 125
[Farewell, Love] 126
[Sometime I Fled the Fire] 126
[Tagus, Farewell] 127
[Sighs Are My Food] 127
[Lucks, My Fair Falcon] 127
[In Court to Serve] 127
[They Flee from Me] 128
[Madam, Withouten Many Words] 128
[And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus?] 129
[My Lute, Awake!] 129
[Mine Own John Poyntz] 130
Broadside Ballads (ca. 1535 onwards) 134
A Ballad of Luther, the Pope, a Cardinal, and a Husbandman (ca. 1535) 134
London’s Lottery (1612) 137
The Silver Age; or, The World Turned Backward (1621) 142
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547) (os) 145
[Translations from the Aeneid] 146
[From] Book II [The Death of Creusa] 146
[From] Book IV [The Suicide of Dido] 148
Psalm 55 152
[When Ragyng Love] 153
[The Soote Season] 154
[Set Me Wheras the Sonne] 154
[Love That Doth Raine] 155
[The Sonne Hath Twyse Brought Forthe] 155
[London, Hast Thow Accused Me] 156
[W. Resteth Here] 158
John Foxe (1517–1587) 160
[From] Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days 161
Story and Martyrdom of Anne Askew 161
Richard Mulcaster (1530?–1611) 177
[From] Positions (1581) 178
[From] The First Part of the Elementarie (1582) 183
Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) 189
[Written on a Window Frame at Woodstock] 190
[’Twas Christ the Word] 190
[The Doubt of Future Foes] 190
On Monsieur’s Departure 191
[When I Was Fair and Young] 192
Verse Exchange Between Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh 192
[Raleigh to Elizabeth] 192
[Elizabeth to Raleigh] 193
[Song on the Armada Victory, December 1588] 194
Letter from Princess Elizabeth to Queen Mary, August 2, 1556 194
Queen Elizabeth’s Speech at the Closing of Parliament, March 29, 1585 195
George Gascoigne (ca. 1534–1577) 198
[From] A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573) 199
Gascoigne’s Woodmanship 199
Gascoigne’s Goodnight 202
Certain Sermons or Homilies (1547, 1563) 204
A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading and Knowledge of Holy Scripture (1547) 205
An Homily of the Misery of All Mankind, and of His Condemnation to Death Everlasting, by His Own Sin (1547) 210
An Homily of the State of Matrimony (1563) 215
The Book of Common Prayer (1549, 1552, and 1559) (os) 223
The Preface (1559) 224
Of Ceremonies, Why Some be Abolished, and Some retayned (1559) 226
[From] The Litany (1552) 228
[From] The order of the ministracion of the lordes supper or holy Communion (1552) 231
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) (os) 233
[From] The Shepheardes Calender 235
Aprill 235
[From] Amoretti 242
Epithalamion 253
[From] The Faerie Queene 265
A Letter of the Authors expounding his whole intention . . . to Raleigh 265
Book II, cantos 1, 7, 9–10, 12 267
Two Cantos of Mutabilitie 355
[From] A View of the State of Ireland 384
Anonymous Carols 393
[Sing We With Mirth] 393
[By Reason of Two] 394
[Of All Creatures Women Be Best] 396
Richard Hakluyt (ca. 1552–1616) (os) 399
[From] The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 400
The third troublesome voyage made . . . by M. John Hawkins 400
[From] A true discourse of the three Voyages of discoverie . . . 406
The woorthy enterprise of John Foxe . . . 411
The answere of her Maiestie to the aforesaid Letters of the Great Turke . . . 418
John Lyly (ca. 1553–1606) 421
[From] Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit 422
John Florio (1553?–1625) 477
[From] The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne 478
To the courteous Reader 478
Of the Cannibals 480
Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1553–1618) 491
Like to a Hermit Poor 492
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd 493
The Lie 493
A Farewell to False Love 494
[Even Such is Time] 495
The 21st (and last) Book of the Ocean to Cynthia 495
Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) 508
The Defense of Poesy 510
[From] Astrophil and Stella 542
Miscellaneous Poetry 573
Poems from The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia 573
[As I my little flock on Ister bank] 573
[Ye goat-herd gods] 577
Sonnets 579
[Thou blind man’s mark] 579
[Leave me, O love] 580
[From] The Psalms of David 580
Psalm 22 580
Psalm 23 582
Psalm 30 583
Thomas Hariot (1560–1621) and John White (1540?–1590) 585
[From] A briefe and true report of the new found Land of Virginia of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the natural inhabitants (1590) 586
To the Adventurers, Favourers, and Well-Willers of the Enterprise for the Inhabiting and Planting in Virginia 586
The third and last part . . . with a description of the nature and manners of the people of the country 588
Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) 597
[From] The Advancement of Learning (1605) 598
[From] Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625) 604
Of Truth 604
Of Simulation and Dissimulation 606
Of Innovations 608
Of Plantations 609
Of Nature in Men 611
Of Studies 612
Of Vicissitude of Things 613
New Atlantis (published 1627) 616
Robert Southwell (1561–1595) 640
The Burning Babe 640
Decease Release 641
Man’s Civil War 642
Look Home 643
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621) (os) 644
To the Angell Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney 645
[From] The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke 647
Psalm 44 Deus, Auribus 647
Psalm 59 Eripe Me De Inimicis 648
Psalm 138 Confitebor Tibi 650
Psalm 139 Domine, Probasti 650
A Mirror for Magistrates (1563, 1587 editions) (os) 652
[From] A Mirror for Magistrates 652
The Induction 652
Cardinal Wolsey 666
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) (os) 678
Hero and Leander 679
[From] All Ovid’s Elegies 698
Book One, Elegia 1 698
Book One, Elegia 5 699
Book Three, Elegia 7 700
Book Three, Elegia 11 701
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love 703
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) 704
The Rape of Lucrece 705
[From] Sonnets 752
Thomas Campion (1567–1620) (os) 781
[From] A Booke of Ayres (1601) 782
To the Reader 782
I–II 783
VI 783
X 784
XII 784
XV 784
XXI 785
[Female Persona Lyrics] 785
2: IX 785
2: XV 786
4: XVIII 786
Thomas Nashe (1567–1601) 788
The Choice of Valentines 789
[From] Pierce Penniless His Supplication to the Devil (1592) 797
Æmilia Lanyer (1569–1645) (os) 814
Salve Deus Rex Judæorum 815
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) 861
[From] Epigrams (1616) 862
xi. On Something that Walks Somewhere 862
xiv. To William Camden 863
xxii. On My First Daughter 863
xxiii. To John Donne 863
xlv. On My First Son 864
lii. To Censorious Courtling 864
lxii. To Fine Lady Would-Be 864
lxxvi. On Lucy, Countess of Bedford 865
lxxxiii. To a Friend 865
lxxxix. To Edward Alleyn 865
ci. Inviting a Friend to Supper 866
cii. To William, Earl of Pembroke 867
cv. To Mary, Lady Wroth 867
cx. To Clement Edmonds, On His Caesar’s Commentaries Observed, and Translated 868
cxviii. On Gut 869
cxxxiv. On the Famous Voyage 869
[From] The Forest (1616) 874
i. Why I Write Not of Love 874
ii. To Penshurst 875
v. Song: To Celia 877
ix. Song: To Celia 878
xv. To Heaven 878
[From] Underwoods (1640) 879
2. A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces 879
His Excuse for loving 879
Her Triumph 880
His discourse with Cupid 880
9. My Picture Left in Scotland 882
23. An Ode. To Himself 882
29. A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme 883
47. An Epistle Answering to One that Asked to be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben 885
70. To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison 887
Miscellaneous Poems 890
To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare: And What He Hath Left Us 890
John Donne (1572–1631) 893
[From] Songs and Sonnets 894
The Anniversary 894
The Apparition 895
The Bait 896
The Canonization 896
The Ecstasy 898
A Fever 900
The Flea 901
The Funeral 901
The Indifferent 902
A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day 903
The Relic 904
Song 905
The Sun Rising 905
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 906
Elegies 907
Elegy 8. To His Mistress Going to Bed 907
Elegy 9. Change 909
The First Anniversary: An Anatomy of the World 910
Religious Poems 920
Holy Sonnets: 6–7, 10 920
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward 922
[From] Paradoxes, Problems, Essays, Characters (published 1652) 923
A Defence of Women’s Inconstancy 923
That Nature is our Worst Guide 924
Why Puritans make long Sermons? 925
[From] Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624) 925
XVII. Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris 925
John Marston (1576–1634) 928
[From] Metamorphosis of Pygmalion’s Image, and Certaine Satyres (1598) 928
Satire II 928
Martha Moulsworth (1577–?) (os) 933
November the 10th 1632, The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth Widdowe 933
Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary, Lady Falkland (1585–1639) 937
[From] The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry 938
The Argument 938
Actus Primus. Scena Prima 939
Myles Smith (d. 1624) 941
The Translators to the Reader – the Preface to the Authorized Version (King James Bible) (1611) 942
Lady Mary (Sidney) Wroth (1586?–1651?) 960
[From] Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 961
[From] The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania 985
George Wither (1588–1667) 998
[From] A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne 999
George Herbert (1593–1633) 1007
[From] The Temple 1008
The Altar 1008
The Agonie 1008
Sepulchre 1009
Easter 1009
Easter Wings 1011
Sinne 1011
Prayer (I) 1012
Love I 1012
Jordan (I) 1013
Employment (I) 1013
The H. Scriptures I 1014
Church Monuments 1014
The Windows 1015
The Quiddity 1016
Denial 1016
Vertue 1017
The Pearl. Matth. 13. 45 1017
Life 1019
Jordan (II) 1019
The British Church 1020
The Quip 1021
Paradise 1021
The Collar 1022
The Pulley 1023
The Sonne 1024
Discipline 1024
Death 1025
Rachel Speght (1597–?) (os) 1026
A Mouzell for Melastomus 1026
Gazetteer of Classical and Early Modern Names and Places 1040
Bibliography 1060
Index of Titles, Introductions, and Notes 1068
