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CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.
Page
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EDMUND SPENSER.
Faëry Queen
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
Merchant of Venice, Act v., sc. i.
Troilus and Cressida, Act iii., sc. ii.
Cymbeline, Act. iv., sc. ii.
Hamlet, Act i., sc. iii.
ROBERT SOUTHWELL.
Look Home
EDWARD VERE.
Fancy and Desire
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE.
The passionate Shepherd to his Love
SAMUEL DANIEL.
Richard the Second, the morning before his murder
in Pomfret Castle
GILES FLETCHER.
Mercy dwelling in Heaven, and pleading for the
Guilty, with Justice described by her Qualities
Mercy brightening the Rainbow
The Palace of Presumption .
PHINEAS FLETCHER.
Happiness of the Shepherd's Life
THOMAS LODGE.
36
37
38
40
42
Rosader's Sonetto
Rosalind's Madrigal
LORD VAUX
43
44
45
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
A spatia
46
Sleep
48
Melancholy
GEORGE HERBERT
49
MICHAEL DRAYTON.
Henry Howard, earl of Surrey,
to the Lady Geraldine 49
The Lady Geraldine to Henry Howard, earl of Surrey 54
THOMAS MIDDLETON.
Leantio's Approach to his Home .
.57
BENJAMIN JONSON.
From Cynthia's Revels
58
From the Silent Woman
Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke, sister to
Philip Sidney :
59
On Lucy, countess of Bedford
To Celia
Song of Night
. 60
Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H.
SIR HENRY WOTTON
61
WILLIAM DRUMMOND.
Sonnets
62-64
CATHARINE PHILLI
The Inquiry
64
JAMES SHIRLEY.
Death
66
WILLIAM STRODE.
Music
67
SIMON WASTELL.
Man
ROBERT HERRICK.
Song
68
To Meadows
69
The Night-Piece, to Julia
To Blossoms
70
The Country Life
ABRAHAM COWLEY.
The Motto .
73
.
PHILLIPS.
Of Myself
The Complaint
The Wish
The Praise of Poetry
Of Solitude
GEORGE WITHER
DR. HENRY KING.
Sic Vita
The Dirge
JOHN MILTON.
L'Allegro
Il Penseroso
Lycidas
Comus
Paradise Lost
Address to Light
Eve's Dream
From Paradise Regained
ANDREW MARVELL.
Bermudas
The Nymph complaining for the Death of her Fawn 159
158
The Garden
162
ANNE, COUNTESS OF WINCHELSEA.
Retreat
164
SAMUEL BUTLER.
Hudibras
. 166
EDMUND WALLER.
Song :
. 171
HENRY VAUGHAN.
Early Rising and Prayer
172
The Timber
173
The Rainbow
174
The Wreath
JOHN DRYDEN.
Alexander's Feast
· 175
Character of Shaftesbury
179
Character of Zimri
180
Description of Lycurgus king of Thrace, and of
Emetrius king of Inde
181
O
202
Pago
From Cymon and Iphigenia
183
From the Flower and the Leaf
186
Religio Laici
190
JOHN POMFRET.
The Choice
195
THOMAS PARNELL.
A Night-Piece on Death
. 199
The Hermit
Piety, or the Vision
208
Hymn to Contentment
211
JOHN PHILLIPS.
The Splendid Shilling .
214
JOSEPH ADDISON.
A Letter from Italy
218
Paraphrase on Psalm xxiii.
222
An Ode
MATTHEW PRIOR.
The Chameleon
224
Protogenes and Apelles
225
To the Hon. Charles Montague, Esq.
228
JOHN GAY.
A Welcome from Greece. To Mr. Pope
229
THOMAS TICKELL.
Colin and Lucy
234
To the Earl
of Warwick on the Death of Mr. Addison 236
ALEXANDER POPE.
The Messiah
239
Ode on Solitude
242
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady 243
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
245
Epilogue to the Satires
256
Epistle to Robert earl of Oxford, and Earl of Mortimer 263
JONATHAN SWIFT.
On Poetry
264
THOMAS WARTON.
Retirement
. 275
ROBERT BLAIR.
From “ The Grave"
276