The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 2: The Renaissance and the Early Seventeenth Century – Third Edition

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Preface
Acknowledgments

THE RENAISSANCE AND THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

INTRODUCTION TO THE RENAISSANCE AND THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

• Humanism
  Scientific Inquiry
  The Reformation in England
  Wales, Scotland, Ireland
  Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I
  Elizabeth I and Gender
  Homoeroticism and Cross-Dressing
  Economy and Society in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
  “The Round Earth’s Imagined Corners”
  The Stuarts and the Civil Wars
  Literary Genres
  Literature in Prose and the Development of Print Culture
  Poetry
  The Drama
  The English Language in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE AND OF PRINT CULTURE

JOHN SKELTON

• The Tunning of Elinour Rumming
  To Mistress Isabell Pennell
  To Mistress Margaret Hussey
  Philip Sparrow

SIR THOMAS MORE

• Utopia: The Best State of a Commonwealth and the New Island of Utopia
• Thomas More to Peter Giles
  Book 1
  Book 2
• Chapter 1
  Chapter 2: The Cities, and Especially Amaurote
  Chapter 2: The Cities, and Especially Amaurote
  Chapter 3: The System of Local Government
  Chapter 4: Crafts and Occupations
  Chapter 5: Their Dealings With One Another
  Chapter 6: Traveling
  Chapter 7: Slavery
  Chapter 8: Warfare
  Chapter 9: The Religions in Utopia
• IN CONTEXT: Illustration of Utopia
  IN CONTEXT: Utopian Language
  IN CONTEXT: Poems in the Utopian Tongue
• from A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation
• Part 2, Chapter 14
  Part 2, Chapter 16
  Part 3, Chapter 10
  Response to Luther
• The “Tower Correspondence”
• To Margaret Roper (April/May 1534)
  To Margaret Roper (May 1534)
  To Margaret Roper (2 or 3 May 1535)
  To Margaret Roper (3 June 1535)
  To Margaret Roper (5 July 1535)
• IN CONTEXT: Thomas More
• Erasmus’s Description of More
  Roper’s Description of More’s Death

WILLIAM TYNDALE

• Tyndale’s English Bible, King James Bible, Geneva Bible, Douay-Rheims Bible
• Genesis: Chapter 1
  Matthew: Chapter 5

CONTEXTS: RELIGION AND DEVOTIONAL LIFE

• The Martyrdom of Anne Askew
• from Anne Askew, “The First Examination of Anne Askew”
  from John Foxe, Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days
  Anonymous, “I Am a Woman Poor and Blind”
• from Thomas Cranmer, The Book of Common Prayer
• The Solemnization of Matrimony
  The Order for the Burial of the Dead
• John Foxe
• from John Foxe, Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days
• The Benefit and Invention of Printing
  Bishop Ridley and Bishop Latimer
• from Lady Margaret Hoby, Diaries
  from Owen Felltham, Resolves
  Jews and Christians
• from Richard Morison, A Remedy for Sedition
  from Samuel Usque, Consolation for the Tribulations of Israel
  from Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta
• from Act 2, Scene 3
• from Thomas Lodge, Wit’s Misery, and the World’s Madness
  from Edward Coke, The Institutes of the Laws of England, Part 2

SIR THOMAS WYATT

• Sonnets
• 10 (“The long love that in my thought doth harbour”)
  29 (“The pillar perished is whereto I leant”)
  31 (“Farewell, Love, and all thy laws forever”)
• Epigrams
• 38 (“Alas, madam, for stealing of a kiss”)
  48 (“Vulcan begat me; Minerva me taught”)
  60 (“Tagus, farewell, that westward with thy streams”)
• Ballads
• 80 (“They flee from me that sometime did me seek”)
  94 (“Blame not my lute, for he must sound”)
• Songs
• 109 (“My lute, awake! Perform the last”)
  123 (“Who list his wealth and ease retain”)
• Epistolary Satires
• 149 (“Mine own John Poyns, since ye delight to know”)
• IN CONTEXT: Epistolary Advice

JOHN FOXE

• from John Foxe, Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days

HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY

• Love, that Doth Reign and Live within My Thought
  Set Me Whereas the Sun Doth Parch the Green
  Alas! So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace
  So Cruel Prison How Could Betide
  Wyatt Resteth Here
  from Certain Books of Virgil’s Aeneis: Book 2

THE ELIZABETHAN SONNET AND LYRIC

• The Continental Background
• Francesco Petrarch
• from Rime Sparse
• 134 (“Pace non trovo et non ò da far guerra”)
  134 (“I find no peace and all my war is done”)
  140 (“Amor, che nel penser mio vive et regna”)
  140 (“Love, that doth reign and live within my thought”)
  189 (“Passa la nave mia colma d’oblio”)
  189 (“My galley chargèd with forgetfulness”)
  190 (“Una candida cerva sopra l’erba”)
  190 (“Whoso list to hunt, I know where is a hind”)
• Gaspara Stampa
• 132 (“Quando io dimando nel mio pianto Amore”)
  132 (“When in my weeping I inquire of Love”)
• Joachim Du Bellay
• from L’Olive augmentée
• 113 (“Si nostre vie est moins qu’une journée”)
  113 (“If this, our life, be less than but a day”)
• from Les Regrets
• 31 (“Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage”)
  31 (“Blest he who like Ulysses voyaged fair and wide”)
• Pierre de Ronsard
• (“Je vouldroy bien richement jaunissant”)
  (“I would in rich and golden coloured rain”)
  (“Quand vous serez bien vielle, au soir à la chandelle”)
  (“When you are very old, by candle’s flame”)
• Anne Lock
• from A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner
• (“Long have I heard, and yet I hear the sounds”)
  (“Look on me, Lord: though trembling I beknowe”)
• Henry Lock
• Sonnet 21 (The Merchant and the Pearl)
  “To the Honorable Lady, the Lady Rich”
• Samuel Daniel
• from Delia
• 6 (“Fair is my love, and cruel as she’s fair”)
  28 (“Raising my hopes on hills of high desire”)
  33 (“When men shall find thy flower, thy glory pass”)
• Michael Drayton
• from Idea
• 6 (“How many paltry, foolish, painted things”)
  61 (“Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part”)
  63 (“Truce, gentle Love, a parley now I crave”)
• William Shakespeare
• from Romeo and Juliet (Act 1, Scene 5)
• Sir John Davies
• from Gulling Sonnets
• 3 (“What eagle can behold her sun-bright eye”)
• John Davies of Hereford
• from The Scourge of Villany
• (“If there were, oh! an Hellespont of cream”)
• Richard Barnfield
• from Cynthia
• 14 (“Here, hold this glove [this milk-white cheverel glove]”)
  17 (“Cherry-lipped Adonis in his snowy shape”)
• George Gascoigne
• Gascoigne’s Lullaby
• Anonymous
• Ode (“Absence, hear thou my protestation”)

ANNE LOCK

• A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner [complete]

LITERATURE IN IRELAND, GAELIC SCOTLAND, AND WALES

• Ireland and Gaelic Scotland
• Gofraidh Fionn Ó Dálaigh
• from “To Domhnall”
• Isabel, Countess of Argyll
• There’s a Young Man in Pursuit of Me / Atá Fleasgach Ar Mo Thí
  Woe to the One Whose Sickness Is Love / Is Mairg Dá Ngalar An Grádh
• Anonymous
• Lament for MacGregor of Glenstrae, who was beheaded in 1570
• Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn
• from “The Battle of Drumleene”
  Enniskillen
  A Satire
• Geoffrey Keating
• O Woman Full of Wiles
  Bear with Thee, O Letter, My Blessing
  On the Miseries of Ireland
  from History of Ireland
• Dáibhí Ó Bruadair
• Gone Are All the Noble Poets
  After the Death of the Poets
• Geoffrey O’Donoghue of the Glens
• This caps all their tricks, this statute from overseas
• IN CONTEXT: English Invasions of Ireland
• from Edmund Spenser, A View of The Present State of Ireland
  from Oliver Cromwell, Letter to the English Parliament (17 September 1649)
  from Father Thomas Quinn, Letter to the Vatican (28 August 1656)
• Wales
• Dafydd ap Gwilym
• The Skylark
  The Gull
  Trouble at an Inn
  Morfudd Like the Sun
  The Mirror
  The Ruin
  The Poet and the Grey Friar
• Tudur Penyllyn
• Conversation between a Welshman and an Englishwoman / Ymddiddan Rhwyng Cymro a Saesnes
• Gwerful Mechain
• To the Vagina
  To Her Husband, for Beating Her
  White Flour, Earthflesh, Cold Fleece
  Christ’s Suffering
• Elis Gruffydd
• from Chronicle
• The Story of Gwion Bach, Who Became Taliesin
  Llywelyn and the Fool
• Siôn Cent
• from The Illusion of the World / Hud a Lliw y Byd

THE CORNISH Ordinalia

• Noah and the Ark
• Origo Mundi, lines 917–1258
• The Crucifixion
• Passio Christi, lines 2504–3030
• The Death of Pilate
• Ressurexio Domini, lines 1587–2044

BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE/THOMAS HOBY

• from The Courtier
• from Book 1
  from Book 1 [additional material]
  from Book 3
  from Book 4
  from Book 4 [additional material]

LADY JANE GREY

• Letters
• Lady Jane Grey to Her Father, 9 February 1554
  A Letter Written by the Lady Jane to Her Sister Lady Katherine
• A Certain Prayer of the Lady Jane in the Time of Her Trouble
  Certain Pretty Verses Written by the Said Lady Jane with a Pin
  IN CONTEXT: Lady Jane Grey
• from John Foxe, Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days

THOMAS DELONEY

• Jack of Newbury

EDMUND SPENSER

• from The Faerie Queene
• Book 1
  from Book 2
• Canto 12
• from Book 3
  • Canto 6
    Canto 11
    Canto 12
• from Book 5
  • Canto 2
• Letter to Sir Walter Ralegh on The Faerie Queene
  IN CONTEXT: The Redcrosse Knight
  IN CONTEXT: Christian Armor
• from Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians, 6.11–17 (Geneva Bible)
  from Desiderius Erasmus, Enchiridion militis Christiani [Handbook of the Christian Soldier]
• IN CONTEXT: Spirituality and The Faerie Queene
• Heading to the Song of Solomon (Geneva Bible)
• from The Shepheardes Calender
  
  from Amoretti
• 1 (“Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands”)
  3 (“The soverayne beauty which I doo admyre”)
  6 (“Be nought dismayd that her unmovèd mind”)
  15 (“Ye tradefull Merchants, that with weary toyle”)
  22 (“This holy season fit to fast and pray”)
  26 (“Sweet is the Rose, but growes upon a brere”)
  34 (“Lyke as a ship that through the Ocean wyde”)
  37 (“What guyle is this, that those her golden tresses”)
  54 (“Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay”)
  64 (“Comming to kisse her lyps, [such grace I found]”)
  67 (“Lyke as a hunstman after weary chace”)
  68 (“Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day”)
  69 (“The famous warriors of the anticke world”)
  70 (“Fresh spring the herald of loves mighty king”)
  74 (“Most happy letters fram’d by skilfull trade”)
  75 (“One day I wrote her name upon the strand”)
  80 (“After so long a race as I have run”)
  82 (“Joy of my life, full oft for loving you”)
  89 (“Lyke as the Culver on the barèd bough”)
• Epithalamion

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

• from Astrophil and Stella
• 1 (“Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show”)
  2 (“Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot”)
  7 (“When Nature made her chief work, Stella’s eyes”)
  18 (“With what sharp checks I in myself am shent”)
  20 (“Fly, fly, my friends, I have my death wound; fly!”)
  21 (“Your words, my friend, [right healthful caustics] blame”)
  22 (“In highest way of heav’n the Sun did ride”)
  23 (“The curious wits seeing dull pensiveness”)
  24 (“Rich fools there be, whose base and filthy heart”)
  25 (“The wisest scholar of the wight most wise”)
  26 (“Though dusty wits dare scorn astrology”)
  27 (“Because I oft in dark abstracted guise”)
  31 (“With how sad steps, oh Moon, thou climb’st the skies”)
  34 (“Come, let me write. ‘And to what end?’ To ease”)
  39 (“Come, Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace”)
  41 (“Having this day my horse, my hand, my lance”)
  45 (“Stella oft sees the very face of woe”)
  47 (“What, have I thus betrayed my liberty?”)
  48 (“Soul’s joy, bend not those morning stars from me”)
  49 (“I on my horse, and Love on me doth try”)
  50 (“Stella, the fulness of my thoughts of thee”)
  51 (“Pardon mine ears, both I and they do pray”)
  52 (“A strife is grown between Virtue and Love”)
  53 (“In martial sports I had my cunning tried”)
  54 (“Because I breathe not love to every one”)
  55 (“Muses, I oft invoked your holy aid”)
  61 (“Oft with true sighs, oft with uncallèd tears”)
  69 (“O joy too high for my low style to show!”)
  71 (“Who will in fairest book of Nature know”)
  94 (“Grief find the words, for thou hast made my brain”)
  95 (“Yet Sighs, dear Sighs, indeed true friends you are”)
  96 (“Thought, with good cause thou lik’st so well the Night”)
  97 (“Dian, that fain would cheer her friend the Night”)
  98 (“Ah bed, the field where joy’s peace some do see”)
  99 (“When far-spent night persuades each mortal eye”)
  100 (“Oh tears, no tears, but rain from Beauty’s skies”)
  101 (“Stella is sick, and in that sickbed lies”)
  102 (“Where be those roses gone, which sweetened so our eyes?”)
  103 (“Oh happy Thames, that didst my Stella bear”)
  104 (“Envious wits, what hath been mine offence”)
  105 (“Unhappy sight, and hath she vanished by”)
  106 (“Oh absent presence, Stella is not here”)
  107 (“Stella, since thou so right a princess art”)
  108 (“When Sorrow [using mine own fire’s might]”)
• from The Defence of Poesy
  IN CONTEXT: The Abuse of Poesy
• from Plato, The Republic, from Book 2
  from Stephen Gosson, The School of Abuse
• from The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia
• from Book 1
• from Chapter 1
  from Chapter 2
  from Chapter 5
  from Chapter 12
• IN CONTEXT: An Emblem Honoring Sir Philip Sidney
• from Geffrey Whitney, A Choice of Emblems

MARY SIDNEY HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE

• To the Angel Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney
  from The Psalms of David
• Psalm 52: Quid Gloriaris?
  Psalm 58: Si Vere Utique
  Psalm 74: Ut Quid, Deus
  Psalm 120: Ad Dominum
• Even now that care (To the Thrice-Sacred Queen Elizabeth)

ELIZABETH I, QUEEN OF ENGLAND

• Written on a Wall at Woodstock
  Written in Her French Psalter
  The Doubt of Future Foes
  On Monsieur’s Departure
  Poems Exchanged between Sir Walter Ralegh and Elizabeth I
• [Ralegh to Elizabeth]
  [Elizabeth to Ralegh]
• When I Was Fair and Young
  To Our Most Noble and Virtuous Queen Katherine
  The answer to the Queen’s Highness to the petitions proponed unto her by the Lower House concerning her marriage
  Letters to the Duke of Anjou

Speech to the House of Commons, 28 January 1563
from Speech to a Parliamentary Delegation, 5 November 1566
IN CONTEXT: Elizabeth and Marriage

• Letter to Elizabeth I from William Cecil, Lord Burghley Regarding Her Proposed Marriage
• from Speech to Parliament, 29 March 1586
  IN CONTEXT: Elizabeth and Catholicism
• Pope Pius V, The Bull of Excommunication Against Elizabeth
• Elizabeth and Mary, Queen of Scots
• from Letter from Elizabeth I to Mary, Queen of Scots, 24 February 1567
  Letter from Elizabeth I to Mary, Queen of Scots, 12 October 1586
  Letter from Mary, Queen of Scots to Henry III, 8 February 1587
  Letter from Elizabeth I to James VI, 14 February 1587
• To the Troops at Tilbury
  IN CONTEXT: The Speech at Tilbury
• Thomas Deloney, “The Queen’s Visiting of the Camp at Tilbury”
• Two Letters from Elizabeth to Catherine de Bourbon
  Letter from Elizabeth I to Essex in Ireland, 19 July 1599
  IN CONTEXT: Tyrone’s Rebellion (The Nine Years’ War)
  The Golden Speech
  IN CONTEXT: The Defeat of the Spanish Armada

CONTEXTS: CULTURE: A PORTFOLIO

• Music
• from Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler
• Painting
• from Nicholas Hilliard, A Treatise Concerning the Art of Limning
  from A Letter to F.P. Verney from the Countess of Sussex
  Oliver Cromwell, Instructions to His Painter, as Reported by George Vertue, Notebooks
• Games and Pastimes
• Selected Illustrations
• Food and Drink
• from An Anonymous Venetian Official Traveling in England, A Relation, or Rather a True Account, of the Island of England
  from Fynes Moryson, Itinerary
  Selected Illustrations
  from Sarah Longe, Mrs. Sarah Longe Her Receipt Book
  from William Harrison, Chronologie
• Children and Education
• Selected Illustrations
• The Supernatural and the Miraculous
• from Reginald Scot, The Discovery of Witchcraft
  from George Gifford, A Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils by Witches and Sorcerers
  from Joseph Hall, Characters of Virtues and Vices
  from Sir John Harington, “Account of an Audience with King James I,” as recorded in Nugae Antiquae
  Anonymous Broadsheet, “The Form and Shape of a Monstrous Child”
• Crime
• Selected Illustration
  from “A True Report of the Late Horrible Murder Committed by William Sherwood”
• Print and Manuscript Culture
• Selected Illustrations
• Emblems
• from Geffrey Whitney, A Choice of Emblems

MARY STUART, QUEEN OF SCOTS

• Sonnet to Elizabeth
• (“A single thought that haunts me, day and night”) / (“Une seul penser qui me profite le jour et la nuit”)
• Sonnets to Bothwell
• (“O gods, have of me compassion” / “O Dieux ayez de moy compassion”)
  (“In his hands and in his full power” / “Entre ses mains & en son plein pouvoir”)
  (“And now she begins to see” / “Et maintenant elle commence à voir”)
  (“You believe her [alas] I perceive it too well” / “Vous la croyez, las! trop je l’apperçoy”)
• Letters
• from Letter Two
  Letter Three
  Letter Four
  Letter Seven
  Letter Eight

KING JAMES VI

• A Sonnet on Tycho Brahe
  An Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney
  from A Speech to the Lords and Commons
  from A Counterblast to Tobacco

AEMILIA LANYER

• To the Virtuous Reader
  Salve Deus Rex Judæorum [complete text]
  from Salve Deus Rex Judæorum
• “Invocation”
  “Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women”
• The Description of Cooke-ham
  To the Doubtful Reader

SIR WALTER RALEGH

• A Vision upon this Conceit of the Fairy Queen
  Sir Walter Ralegh to His Son
  The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
  The Lie
  Nature that Washed Her Hands in Milk
  The Author’s Epitaph, Made by Himself
  from The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana
• Part 1, Preface
  from Part 1
  from Part 2
  from Part 4
  from Part 5
• Letter to His Wife

CONTEXTS: OTHER LANDS, OTHER CULTURES

• from Sir John Hawkins, “Account of His third voyage”
  from Anthony Jenkinson, “The Voyage of Master Anthony Jenkinson”
  from Michel de Montaigne, “Of Cannibals”
  from William Shakespeare, The Tempest
• from Act 1, Scene 2
  from Act 2, Scene 1
• Elizabethan Adventurers
• Selected Portraits
• The English in Virginia, the Powhatans in London
• from Arthur Barlow, “The first voyage made to the coasts of America”
  Michael Drayton, “To the Virginian Voyage”
  from John Smith, General History of Virginia and the Summer Isles
  from John Rolfe, “Letter to Sir Thomas Dale”
  from John Smith, General History of Virginia and the Summer Isles
• Newfoundland “With Good Clothes On”
• from Richard Whitbourne, A Discourse and Discovery of Newfoundland
  Robert Hayman, “To My Very Good Friend Mr. John Poynts”
• from “The Royal Charter for Incorporating the Hudson’s Bay Company”
  from Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

GEORGE PEELE

• The Old Wives’ Tale

THOMAS KYD

• The Spanish Tragedy

FRANCIS BACON

• from Essays
• Of Truth
  Of Death
  Of Revenge
  Of Simulation and Dissimulation
  Of Marriage and Single Life
  Of Love
  Of Travel
  Of Plantations
  Of Masks and Triumphs
  Of Studies (1597 version, original spelling)
  Of Studies (1625 version, modernized)
  Of Love

from Novum Organum
from The New Atlantis

ROBERT SOUTHWELL

• The Nativity of Christ
  His Circumcision
  Christ’s Bloody Sweat
  A Vale of Tears
  Lewd Love Is Loss

Mary Magdalen’s Complaint at Christ’s Death
The Burning Babe

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

• Hero and Leander
  The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
  The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (“A” Text)
  IN CONTEXT: Dr. Faustus
• from Anonymous, The History of the Damnable Life, and Deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus
  from Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, De Occulta Philosophia (Of Occult Philosophy)
• IN CONTEXT: Dr. Faustus, the “B” Text

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CONTEXTS: TUDOR AND STUART HUMOR

• Jest Collections
• from Anonymous, A Hundred Merry Tales
  from Anonymous, Tales and Quick Answers
  from Anthony Copley, Wits, Fits, and Fancies
  from T.D. and G.W., Jests to Make You Merry
  from John Taylor, Wit and Mirth
  from Anonymous, A Banquet of Jests
• Jest Biographies
• from Walter Smith, Twelve Marry Jests of the Widow Edith
  from Anonymous, Merry Takes Made by Master Skelton
  from Anonymous, Merry and Conceited Jests of George Peele
  from Anonymous, Tarlton’s Jests
  from Anonymous, The Life of Long Meg of Westminster
• Jests by Elite Writers
• from Sir Thomas More, A Dialogue Concerning Heresies
  from Sir Thomas More, The Confutation of Tyndale’s Answer
  from Sir Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation
  from Thomas Wilson, The Art of Rhetoric
  from Baldassare Castiglione, translated by Thomas Hoby, The Courtier of Count Baldessar Castilio
  from Francis Bacon, Apophthegmes New and Old
  from Thomas Nash, Quaternio, or A Fourfold Way to a Happy Life
• Ballads
• The Mad-Merry Pranks of Robin Good-fellow
  The Cucking of a Scold
  A New Medley, or A Mess of All-together

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

• Venus and Adonis
  IN CONTEXT: Venus and Adonis
• from Ovid, Metamorphoses
  Henry Peacham, “Adonis Killed by a Boar”
• Sonnets
• 1 (“From fairest creatures we desire increase”)
  2 (“When forty winters shall besiege thy brow”)
  12 (“When I do count the clock that tells the time”)
  15 (“When I consider everything that grows”)
  16 (“But wherefore do not you a mightier way”)
  18 (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”)
  19 (“Devouring time, blunt thou the lion’s paws”)
  20 (“A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted”)
  23 (“As an unperfect actor on the stage”)
  29 (“When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes”)
  30 (“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought”)
  33 (“Full many a glorious morning have I seen”)
  35 (“No more be grieved at that which thou hast done”)
  36 (“Let me confess that we two must be twain”)
  55 (“Not marble, nor the gilded monuments”)
  60 (“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore”)
  64 (“When I have seen by time’s fell hand defaced”)
  65 (“Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea”)
  71 (“No longer mourn for me when I am dead”)
  73 (“That time of year thou mayst in me behold”)
  74 (“But be contented when that fell arrest”)
  80 (“O how I faint when I of you do write”)
  87 (“Farewell—thou art too dear for my possessing”)
  93 (“So shall I live supposing thou art true”)
  94 (“They that have power to hurt and will do none”)
  97 (“How like a winter hath my absence been”)
  98 (“From you have I been absent in the spring”)
  105 (“Let not my love be called idolatry”)
  106 (“When in the chronicle of wasted time”)
  109 (“O never say that I was false of heart”)
  110 (“Alas, ’tis true, I have gone here and there”)
  116 (“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”)
  117 (“Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all”)
  127 (“In the old age black was not counted fair”)
  128 (“How oft when thou, my music, music play’st”)
  129 (“Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame”)
  130 (“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”)
  135 (“Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will”)
  136 (“If thy soul check thee that I come so near”)
  138 (“When my love swears that she is made of truth”)
  143 (“Lo, as a careful housewife runs to catch”)
  144 (“Two loves I have, of comfort and despair”)
  146 (“Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth”)
  147 (“My love is as a fever, longing still”)
  153 (“Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep”)
  154 (“The little love-god lying once asleep”)
• Twelfth Night
  IN CONTEXT: Performance and Sources
  IN CONTEXT: Gender and Sexuality
  IN CONTEXT: Theater and Society
  IN CONTEXT: Music and the Passions
  IN CONTEXT: Dueling
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  The Merchant of Venice
  IN CONTEXT: Sources and Context
  IN CONTEXT: Jews and Christians
  IN CONTEXT: Revenge
  IN CONTEXT: Commercial Life: Of Venice, Merchants, Usurers, and Debtors
  IN CONTEXT: Friendship and Love between Men
  IN CONTEXT: Women, Family, and Obedience
  King Lear
  IN CONTEXT: Facsimile Pages
  IN CONTEXT: King Lear: Sources and Analogues
  IN CONTEXT: King Lear: Seventeenth-Century Reception History

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CONTEXTS: THE THEATER IN SHAKESPEARE’S TIME

• The Swan Theater, sketch
  Titus Andronicus in Performance
  The Plot of The Seven Deadly Sins
  Early Editions of Shakespeare’s Plays

THOMAS CAMPION

• from A Book of Ayres
• 3 (“I care not for these ladies”)
  5 (“My love hath vow’d he will forsake me”)
  6 (“When to her lute Corrina sings”)
  8 (“It fell on a summer’s day”)
  21 (“Come, let us sound with melody the praises”)
• The Writer to his Book
  from Observations in the Art of English Poesy
• The First Chapter, Entreating of Numbers in General
  The Second Chapter, Declaring the Unaptness of Rhyme in Poesy
  The Third Chapter, Of Our English Numbers in General
• The English Sapphic

THOMAS NASHE

• The Choice of Valentines, Or the Merry Ballad of Nash His Dildo
• The Unfortunate Traveller

ISABELLA WHITNEY

• Is. W. to Her Unconstant Lover
  The Admonition by the Author to All Young Gentlewomen, and to All Other Kinds of Maids Being in Love
  A Careful Complaint by the Unfortunate Author
  In Answer to Comfort Her, by Showing His Haps to Be Harder
  A Reply to the Same
  The Manner of Her Will
  The Manner of Her Will, and What She Left to London and All Those In It at Her Departing

CONTEXTS: “UNCONSTANT WOMEN,” “EXCELLENT WOMEN”: A SEVENTEENTH CENTURY DEBATE

• from John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems
• from Paradox 1: “A Defense of Women’s Inconstancy”
  Paradox 6: “That It Is Possible to Find Some Virtue in Some Women”
  Problem 6: “Why Hath the Common Opinion Afforded Women Souls?”

from Joseph Swetnam, The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women

• from Chapter 2
• from Rachel Speght, A Muzzle for Melastomus
  from Ester Sowernam, Ester Hath Hanged Haman: An Answer to a Lewd Pamphlet, Entitled The Arraignment of Women
• Chapter 2
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
• from Owen Felltham, Resolves
• “Of Woman”

BEN JONSON

• To the Reader
  To My Book
  On Something that Walks Somewhere
  To William Camden
  On My First Daughter
  To John Donne
  On My First Son
  On Lucy, Countess of Bedford
  Inviting a Friend to Supper
  To Penshurst
  Song: To Celia
  To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, And What He Hath Left Us
  Ode to Himself
  My Picture Left in Scotland
  To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of That Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison
  Karolin’s Song
  Hymn to Cynthia
  Clerimont’s Song
  The Masque of Blackness
  Volpone: or, The Fox
  IN CONTEXT: Sources for Volpone
• from Aesop, Fables
  from Thomas Wilson, Art of Rhetoric
  from Horace, Satires
• 2.5.48–63
• from Lucian, Gallus
  from Juvenal, Satires
• Satire 10, 2.188–241; 2.434–56
• IN CONTEXT: Venice: Mountebanks and Courtesans
• from Thomas Coryate, Coryat’s Crudities
• Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
  from Timber, or, Discoveries
  from Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden

THOMAS DEKKER

• The Shoemaker’s Holiday
  from “The Wonderful Year”
  Additional Selections from Thomas Dekker’s Plague Pamphlets
• from “News from Graves-end: Sent to Nobody”
  from “The Raven’s Almanac”

THOMAS MIDDLETON AND THOMAS DEKKER

• The Roaring Girl

JOHN DONNE

• from Songs and Sonnets
• The Good-Morrow
  Song (“Go, and catch a falling star”)
  Woman’s Constancy
  The Sun Rising
  The Canonization
  Song (“Sweetest love, I do not go”)
  Air and Angels
  Break of Day
  The Anniversary
  Twicknam Garden
  A Valediction: of Weeping
  The Flea
  A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day
  The Bait
  The Apparition
  A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
  The Ecstasy
  The Relic
• from Elegies
• 1: Jealousy
  8: The Comparison
  19: To His Mistress Going to Bed
• from Satires
• 3 (“Kind pity chokes my spleen; brave scorn forbids”)
• from Verse Letters
• To Sir Henry Wotton
  An Anatomy of the World:The First Anniversary
• from Holy Sonnets
• 2 (“As due by many titles I resign”)
  5 (“I am a little world made cunningly”)
  6 (“This is my play’s last scene, here heavens appoint”)
  7 (“At the round earth’s imagined corners, blow”)
  9 (“If poisonous minerals, and if that tree”)
  10 (“Death be not proud, though some have called thee”)
  13 (“What if this present were the world’s last night?”)
  14 (“Batter my heart, three personed God; for you”)
  18 (“Show me, dear Christ, Thy spouse, so bright and clear”)
  19 (“Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one”)
• Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
  A Hymn to God the Father
  Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness
  from Devotions
• Meditation 17

THOMAS CORYATE

• from Coryat’s Crudities

ROBERT BURTON

• from The Anatomy of Melancholy

JOHN WEBSTER

• The Duchess of Malfi

JOHN SMITH

• from The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles
  from The Third Book
• from Chapter 1 [Voyage to Virginia and first weeks there]
  from Chapter 2: What Happened Till the First Supply
  from Chapter 8: Captain Smith’s Journey to Pamunkey
• from The Fourth Book
• John Smith’s Relation to Queen Anne of Pocahontas
  [Smith’s Farewell to Virginia]
• from The Sixth Book
• The Description of New England

WAHUNSONACOCK (POWHATAN)

• [Discourse of Peace and War] (from John Smith, General History of Virginia)
• Book 3, Chapter 8

ELIZABETH CARY (VISCOUNTESS FALKLAND)

• from The Tragedy of Mariam

MARY WARD

• from Verity Speech
• Letter to Nuncio Antonio Albergati
• IN CONTEXT: Enclosure and the Council of Trent
  • from the Decrees of the Council of Trent
    • 25th Session, Chapter 5

LADY MARY WROTH

• from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
• 1 (“When night’s black mantle could most darkness prove”)
  6 (“My pain, still smothered in my grieved breast”)
  7 (“Love leave to urge, thou know’st thou hast the hand”)
  13 (“Dear, famish not what you your self gave food”)
  14 (“Am I thus conquered? have I lost the powers”)
  15 (“Truly poor Night thou welcome art to me”)
  22 (“Like to the Indians, scorched with the sun”)
  23 (“When every one to pleasing pastime hies”)
  35 (“False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill”)
  Song [Love, a child, is ever crying]
• A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love
• 77 (“In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?”)
  78 (“Is to leave all, and take the thread of love”)
  79 (“His flames are joys, his bands true lovers’ might”)
  80 (“And be in his brave court a glorious light”)
  81 (“And burn, yet burning you will love the smart”)
  82 (“He may prophet, and our tutor prove”)
  83 (“How blest be they, then, who his favours prove”)
  84 (“He that shuns love, doth love himself the less”)
  85 (“But where they may return with honour’s grace”)
  86 (“Be from the court of Love, and Reason torn”)
  87 (“Unprofitably pleasing, and unsound”)
  88 (“Be giv’n to him who triumphs in his right”)
  89 (“Free from all fogs, but shining fair, and clear”)
  90 (“Except my heart, which you bestowed before”)
• Railing Rhymes Returned upon the Author by Mistress Mary Wroth
  IN CONTEXT: The Occasion of “Railing Rhymes”
• Edward Denny, Baron of Waltham, “To Pamphilia from the Father-in-Law of Seralius”

THOMAS HOBBES

• from Leviathan; Or the Matter, Form, & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil
• The Introduction
  Chapter 13: Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery

JOHN WINTHROP

• A Model of Christian Charity

WILLIAM BRADFORD

• from Of Plymouth Plantation

CONTEXTS: GOVERNANCE, OBEDIENCE, DOMINION

• from The Distaff Gospels
  from The Gospel of Dame Ysengrine du Glay
  from Thomas Elyot, The Book Named The Governor
• from Part 1: The signification of a public weal, and why it is called in Latin Respublica
  from Part 2: That one sovereign governor ought to be in a public weal, and what damage hath happened by lacking one sovereign governor
• from Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell, Acts Presented to Parliament
• from the Preamble to the Act in Restraint of Appeals, 1533
  from The Act of Supremacy (1534)
• from John Ponet, A Short Treatise of Political Power
  from Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
  Images of Elizabethan Authority
  from James I (James VI of Scotland), The True Law of Free Monarchies
  from Robert Filmer, Observations Concerning the Original of Government, Upon Mr. Hobbes’s Leviathan, etc.
  from Margaret Fell, “Women’s Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the Scriptures”

ANNE CLIFFORD

• from The Knole Diary
• 1603
  1616 (May)
  1617 (January)

ROBERT HERRICK

• The Argument of His Book
  Delight in Disorder
  His Farewell to Sack
  Corinna’s Going A-Maying
  To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
  The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home
  Upon Julia’s Clothes

GEORGE HERBERT

• The Altar
  Redemption
  Easter Wings
  Affliction (1)
  Prayer (1)
  The Temper (1)
  Jordan (1)
  Church-Monuments
  The Windows
  Denial
  Vanity (1)
  Virtue
  The Pearl
  Man
  Jordan (2)
  Time
  The Bunch of Grapes
  The Collar
  The Pulley
  The Flower
  Discipline
  Death
  Love (3)
  from A Priest to the Temple, or The Country Parson

THOMAS BROWNE

• from Religio Medici

ROGER WILLIAMS

• from A Key into the Language of America
• Chapter 16: Of the Earth, and the fruits thereof
  Chapter 20: Of their nakedness and clothing
  Chapter 21: Of their religion, the soul, etc.
  Chapter 23: Of marriage
  Chapter 29: Of their war, etc.
• from The Bloody Tenet of Persecution
  A Letter to the Town of Providence
  Testimony of Roger Williams relative to his first coming into the Narragansett country

ANNE BRADSTREET

• Prologue
  An Elegy Upon that Honourable and Renowned Knight, Sir Philip Sidney, who was ultimately slain at the Seige of Zutphen, Anno 1586
  Contemplations
  The Author to Her Book
  Before the Birth of One of Her Children
  To My Dear and Loving Husband
  A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment
  In Memory of My Dear Grand-Child, Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and Half Old
  In Memory Of My Dear Grand-Child Anne Bradstreet, Who Deceased June 20, 1699, Being Three Years and Seven Months Old
  On My Dear Grand-Child Simon Bradstreet, Who Died on 16 November, 1669, Being but a Month and One Day Old
  Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666
  from Meditations Divine and Moral

ANDREW MARVELL

• The Coronet
  Bermudas
  A Dialogue between the Soul and Body
  The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn
  To His Coy Mistress
  The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers
  The Mower against Gardens
  Damon the Mower
  The Garden
  An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland

MARGARET CAVENDISH

• The Poetess’s Hasty Resolution
  An Excuse for so Much Writ Upon My Verses
  A World Made by Atoms
  The Four Principal Figured Atoms Make the Four Elements, as Square, Round, Long, and Sharp
  What Atoms Make a Palsy, or Apoplexy
  All Things Are Governed by Atoms
  The Motion of the Blood
  Of Many Worlds in this World
  A World in an Earring
  A Dialogue Betwixt the Body and the Mind
  A Dialogue between an Oak, and a Man Cutting Him Down
  A Dialogue Betwixt Peace, and War
  Earth’s Complaint
  The Hunting of the Hare
  Nature’s Cook
  A Woman Drest by Age
  Of the Theme of Love
  IN CONTEXT: Lucretius and Atomism
• from Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
• from Book 1
  from Book 2

KATHERINE PHILIPS

• A Married State
  Upon the Double Murder of King Charles
  On the Third of September, 1651
  To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship
  Friendship’s Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia
  On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips
  Friendship in Emblem, or the Seal, To My Dearest Lucasia

ROYALIST AND “CAVALIER” POETRY

• Thomas Carew
• The Spring
  A Song
  An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul’s, Dr. John Donne
• Sir John Suckling
• Song
  A Ballad. Upon a Wedding
  “Out upon it, I have loved”
• Richard Lovelace
• To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
  To Althea, From Prison (Song)
• William Strode
• On Westwell Downs
  On a Gentlewoman Walking in the Snow
• Thomas Randolph
• Upon the Loss of His Little Finger
• Richard Corbett
• Upon Fairford Windows
• Edmund Waller
• Go, Lovely Rose!
• Abraham Cowley
• Of Wit
• Henry Vaughan
• Regeneration
  The World
• Richard Crashaw
• Saint Mary Magdalene or, The Weeper

IZAAK WALTON

• The Compleat Angler, or, The Contemplative Man’s Recreation
• Chapter 1: A Conference betwixt an Angler, a Falconer, and a Hunter, each Commending His Recreation

JOHN MILTON

• L’Allegro
  Il Penseroso
  Lycidas
  Sonnets
• 7 (“How soon hath Time the subtle thief of youth”)
  16: To the Lord General Cromwell
  18: On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
  19 (“When I consider how my light is spent”)
  23 (“Methought I saw my late espoused saint”)
• from Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England
• from Paradise Lost
• The Verse
  Argument to Book 1
  Book 1
  Argument to Book 2
  Book 2
  Argument to Book 3
  from Book 3
  Argument to Book 4
  Book 4
  Argument to Book 5
  from Book 5
  Argument to Book 6
  Argument to Book 7
  from Book 7
  Argument to Book 8
  from Book 8
  Argument to Book 9
  Book 9
  Argument to Book 10
  Book 10
  Argument to Book 11
  Argument to Book 12
  from Book 12
• IN CONTEXT: Illustrating Paradise Lost
  Samson Agonistes
  IN CONTEXT: The Biblical Version of the Samson Story

CONTEXTS: LEVELLERS, DIGGERS, RANTERS, AND COVENANTERS

• Information from the Scottish Nation
  The Putney Debates
  William Walwyn, The Bloody Project
  from Abiezer Coppe, A Fiery Flying Roll
• The Preface
  from A Second Fiery Flying Roll
• Chapter 3
• Gerrard Winstanley, A Declaration from the Poor Oppressed People of England
  The Diggers’ Song

CONTEXTS: CIVIL WAR

• Queen Henrietta Maria, “The Queen’s Letter Sent to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty from Holland”
  Statement of Charles I to the High Court
  The Death Warrant of Charles I
  from Oliver Cromwell, Letters from Ireland
• For the Honorable William Lenthal, 17 September 1649
• from Eikon Basilike
• 4: Upon the Insolency of the Tumults
  12: Upon the Rebellion, and Troubles in Ireland
  19: Upon the various events of the War; Victories, and Defeats
• from John Milton, Eikonoklastes
• 12: Upon the Rebellion in Ireland
• from Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson
  from Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England
• [The Character of Cromwell—A Royalist Appraisal]
• from Gerrard Winstanley, “A New Year’s Gift Sent to Parliament and Army”

APPENDICES

• Reading Poetry
• Maps
• Monarchs and Prime Ministers of Great Britain
• Glossary of Terms
• Texts and Contexts: Chronological Chart
• Bibliography
• Permissions Acknowledgments
• Index of First Lines
• Index of Authors and Titles