The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose

JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

• Letters
• The Death of Queen Elizabeth (1603)
  The Marriage of Princess Elizabeth (1613)

LANCELOT ANDREWES

• A Sermon Preached Before the Kings Majesty at Whitehall (1609)

NICHOLAS BRETON

• The Good and the Bad (excerpts) (1616)
• An Atheist or Most Bad Man
  A Wanton Woman
  A Quiet Woman
  An Unworthy Lawyer

MARY SIDNEY HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE

• The Psalms of David
• Psalm 52 Quid Gloriaris?
  Psalm 58 Si Vere Utique
  Psalm 74 Ut Quid, Deus
  Psalm 120 Ad Dominum

FRANCIS BACON

• Essays (excerpts)
• Of Truth
  Of Simulation and Dissimulation
  Of Marriage and Single Life
  Of Love
  Of Seditions and Troubles
  Of Travel
  Of Empire
  Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates
  Of Plantations
  Of Masques and Triumphs
  Of Studies (1597)
  Of Studies (1625)
• Aphorisms (excerpts)
• The Idols
  Idols of the Tribe
  Idols of the Cave
  Idols of the Market-place
  Idols of the Theatre
  Application of the Method

MICHAEL DRAYTON

• To the Virginian Voyage
  To the Cambro-Britons, and their Harp, his Ballad of Agincourt
  Sonnet 61 Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part

KING JAMES VI/I

• A Speech to the Lords and Commons (1610)

THOMAS CAMPION

• from A Book of Airs
  Let him that will be free and keep his heart from care
  Follow your Saint, follow with accents sweet
  from Two Books of Airs
  Sweet, exclude me not, nor be divided
  As by the streams of Babylon
  from The Third Book of Airs
  If Love loves truth, then women do not love
  from The Fourth Book of Airs
  There is a garden in her face

HENRY WOTTON

• On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia
  The Character of a Happy Life
  Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton’s Wife
  On a Bank as I Sat a-Fishing: A Description of the Spring
  De Morte

AEMILIA LANYER

• Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (excerpts)
• To All Virtuous Ladies in General
  The Author’s Dream to the Lady Mary
  Salve Deus Rex Judaorum (excerpts)
  The Description of Cooke-ham

LADY MARGARET HOBY

• The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby 1599-1605 (excerpts)

JOHN DONNE

• Songs and Sonnets
• The Apparition
  The Flea
  The Good-Morrow
  Love’s Alchemy
  
  The Indifferent
  The Anniversary
  The Sun Rising
  The Canonization
  Confined Love
  Air and Angels
  Twicknam Garden
  A Valediction: of Weeping
  The Ecstasy
  Farewell to Love
  A Valediction: forbidding Mourning
  A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy’s Day being the shortest day
  The Relic
• Elegies
• Elegy VI
  Elegy VII
  Elegy VIII The Comparison
  Elegy IX The Autumnal
  Elegy XIX To His Mistress Going to Bed
  Elegy [XVIII] Love’s Progress
• Satires
• Satire III
• Divine Poems
  Holy Sonnets
• VI
  VII
  IX
  X
  XI
  XII
  XIII
  XIV
  XV
• Holy Sonnets from the Westmoreland MS
• XVII
  XVIII
  XIX
  Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
  A Hymn to Christ, at the Author’s last going into Germany
  A Hymn to God my God, in my sickness
  A Hymn to God the Father
• Devotions: Upon Emergent Occasions (excerpts)
• IV. Expostulation
  V. Meditation
  XVII. Meditation
  XXL Meditation
• The Second of my Prebend Sermons (January 29, 1626)

BEN JONSON

• To the Reader
  To Alchemists
  On Something that Walks Somewhere
  To William Camden
  On My First Daughter
  On My First Son
  On Lucy, Countess of Bedford
  To Sir Henry Savile
  To Sir Thomas Roe
  To the Same
  Inviting a Friend to Supper
  To Penshurst
  To Heaven
  Song To Celia
  Her Triumph
  An Epistle to Master John Selden
  An Epistle Answering to One that Asked to be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben
  An Ode. To Himself
  To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Gary and Sir H. Morison
  The Praises of a Country Life
  On The New Inn Ode. To Himself
  To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare
  Clerimont’s Song
  A Vision of Beauty

WILLIAM LAUD

• Diary (selections)

ELIZABETH CLINTON, COUNTESS OF LINCOLN

• The Countess of Lincoln’s Nursery (excerpts)

ROBERT BURTON

• The Anatomy of Melancholy (excerpts)
  Democritus Junior To the Reader
  Love of Learning, or Overmuch Study

THE OVERBURIAN CHARACTER

• A Good Woman
  A Fair and Happy Milkmaid
  A Waterman
  A Prisoner

RICHARD CORBETT

• Upon an Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him
  The Fairies Farewell: Or God-a-Mercy Will
  The Distracted Puritan

EDWARD, LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY

• An Ode upon a Question moved, Whether Love should continue for ever?

LADY MARY WROTH

• Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
• 1 When night’s black mantle could most darkness prove
  8 Love, leave to urge, thou know’st thou hast the hand
  13 Cloyed with the torments of a tedious night
  15 Dear famish not what you yourself gave food
  16 Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers
  22 Come darkest night, becoming sorrow best
  25 Like to the Indians, scorched with the sun
  26 When everyone to pleasing pastime hies
  39 Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks do cast
  40 False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill
  48 If ever Love had force in human breast?
  Song 74 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 our 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 given 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
  103 My muse, now happy, lay thy self to rest

THOMAS HOBBES

• Leviathan, or The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth (excerpts)
• The Introduction
  Chapter XIII
  Chapter XVII
  Chapter XVIII
  Chapter XIX
  Chapter XX
  Chapter XXI
  Chapter XLVII
  A Review, and Conclusion

WILLIAM BROWNE

• On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke

LADY ELEANOR DAVIES

• The Lady Eleanor Her Appeal (excerpts) (1646)

SIR ROBERT FILMER

• Patriarcha (excerpts)
  Directions for Obedience to Government in Dangerous or Doubtful Times

WILLIAM BRADFORD

• History of Plymouth Plantation (excerpts)
  Book I, Chapter 9
  Book II, Chapter 19

ANNE CLIFFORD

• The Knole Diary (1603-1619) (excerpts)
• 1603
  1616
  1617

ROBERT HERRICK

• To the Most Illustrious, and Most Hopeful Prince, Charles, Prince of Wales
  The Argument of his Book
  When he would have his Verses Read
  The Difference Betwixt Kings and Subjects
  Upon the Loss of His Mistresses
  Cherry-Ripe
  To the King and Queen, Upon Their Unhappy Distances
  Delight in Disorder
  Duty to Tyrants
  To Dianeme
  Corinna’s Going a Maying
  To live Merrily, and to Trust to Good Verses
  To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
  The Hock-cart, or Harvest Home
  To Anthea, who may Command him Anything
  To Meadows
  Upon Prudence Baldwin her Sickness
  On himself
  Casualties
  To Daffodils
  Matins, or Morning Prayer
  Evensong
  The Bracelet to Julia
  The Departure of the Good Daemon
  The Power in the People
  To his Book
  Shame, no Statist
  Fresh Cheese and Cream
  His Winding-Sheet
  His Prayer to Ben. Jonson
  An Ode for him
  The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad
  His Return to London
  His Grange, or Private Wealth
  Upon Julia’s Clothes
  A Thanksgiving to God, for his House
  His Litany, to the Holy Spirit

BENJAMIN LANEY

• The Study of Quiet, in Two Sermons
  A Sermon Preached Before His Majesty at Whitehall, March 12, 1665
  A Sermon Preached before the King At Whitehall March 18, 1666

FRANCIS QUARLES

• Emblem III (from Book III)
  Emblem VII (from Book III)
  Epigram III (from Book IV)
  Eclogue VIII

HENRY KING

• An Exequy to his Matchless never to be forgotten Friend
  Upon the Death of my ever Desired Friend Dr Donne Dean of Paul’s
  Sic Vita

WILLIAM CAVENDISH, DUKE OF NEWCASTLE

• Advice to Charles II (excerpts)
• For Trade
  For Ceremony and Order
  The Errors of State and Their Remedies
  The Recreations for Your Majesty’s People

GEORGE HERBERT

• The Altar
  Redemption
  Easter Wings
  Affliction (I)
  Prayer (I)
  Jordan (I)
  The H. Scriptures I
  The H. Scriptures II
  Church-monuments
  The Windows
  Denial
  Vanity (I)
  Virtue
  The Pearl. Matth. 13:45
  Man
  Life
  Jordan (II)
  The Quip
  Providence
  Paradise
  The Pilgrimage
  The Collar
  The Pulley
  The Flower
  Aaron
  The Elixir
  Love (III)
  L’Envoy

THOMAS CAREW

• A Deposition from Love
  Disdain Returned
  To Saxham
  A Rapture
  To Ben Jonson
  An Elegy Upon the Death of the Dean of Pauls, Dr. John Donne
  To a Lady that desired I would love her
  A Song
  The second Rapture
  In praise of his Mistress

EDWARD WINSLOW

• Good News from New England (excerpt)
• The Religion and Customs of the Indians Near New Plymouth

JAMES SHIRLEY

• “The glories of our blood and state”

RACHEL SPEGHT

• A Muzzle for Melastomus
• To Joseph Swetnam
  Of Woman’s Excellency
• The Dream

THOMAS EDWARDS

• Gangraena (1646) (excerpt)
• The Catalogue of Errors

KING CHARLES I

• A Proclamation and Declaration to Inform Our Loving Subjects of Our Kingdom of England of the Seditious Practices of Some in Scotland (1639)

BATHSUA MAKIN

• An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen (excerpts)
• To her Highness the Lady Mary
  Care ought to be taken by us to Educate Women in Learning
  Postscript

WILLIAM WALWYN

• The Bloody Project (1649)

JOHN EARLE

• Microcosmography
• To the Reader
  A Child
  A Surgeon
  Paul’s Walk

OWEN FELLTHAM

• Resolves
• Of Puritans
  Of Poverty
  Of Woman
  Of Poets and Poetry
  A Rule in Reading Authors

THOMAS RANDOLPH

• The Second Epode of Horace Translated
  An Elegy upon the Lady Venetia Digby
  Upon his Picture
  An Ode to Master Anthony Stafford, to hasten him into the Country
  An Answer to Master Ben. Jonson’s Ode
  On the Death of a Nightingale
  A Pastoral Courtship

WILLIAM HABINGTON

• Nox nocti indicat Scientiam

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

• Religio Medici
• To the Reader
  The First Part (excerpts)
  The Second Part (excerpts)
• Hydriotaphia, Urne-Burial
• Chapter 1 (excerpts)
  Chapter 2 (excerpts)
  Chapter 5

EDMUND WALLER

• On a Girdle
  Go, Lovely Rose!
  Upon His Majesty’s Repairing of Paul’s
  On St. James’s Park, As Lately Improved by His Majesty
  Of the Last Verses in the Book

JOHN MILTON

• On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
  L’Allegro
  II Penseroso
  Lycidas
  Sonnet 7
  Sonnet 12 On the detraction which followed upon my writing certain treatises
  Sonnet 18 On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
  Sonnet 19
  On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament
  Sonnet 15 On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester
  Samson Agonistes

JOHN MILTON (PROSE)

• from The Reason of Church Government (1641)
  Areopagitica (1644)
  Of True Religion, Heresy, Schism, and Toleration (1673)

SIR JOHN SUCKLING

• To the Reader
  Song
  A Ballad. Upon a Wedding
  The Constant Lover
  A Barley-break
  Sonnet I
  Sonnet II
  Sonnet III
  The Wits
  A Candle

QUEEN HENRIETTA MARIA

• The Queen’s Letter
  The Queen’s Letter Sent to the King’s most excellent Majesty from Holland

EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON

• The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon and The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (excerpts)
  The Character of William Laud
  The Temper and Spirit of the Nation after 1660
  The Plague and the Fire of London, 1665-6

GERRARD WINSTANLEY

• A Declaration from the Poor Oppressed People of England (1649)
  The Diggers’ Song

ANNE BRADSTREET

• The Prologue
  A Dialogue between Old England and New concerning their Present Troubles
  The Flesh and the Spirit
  The Author to Her Book
  To My Dear and Loving Husband
  Another
  In Memory of my Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet
  Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666
  To My Dear Children

RICHARD CRASHAW

• Wishes. To his (supposed) Mistress
  Saint Mary Magdalene or The Weeper
  A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa

JOHN CLEVELAND

• The King’s Disguise
  The Rebel Scot
  Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford
  The General Eclipse

JEREMY TAYLOR

• A Funeral Sermon, Preached at the Obsequies of the Right Honourable and Most Virtuous Lady The Lady Frances, Countess of Carbery
  The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living (excerpt)
  Consideration of the general instruments, and means serving to a holy life: by way of introduction
  The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying (excerpt)
  Three precepts preparatory to a holy death to be practised in our whole life
  Of daily examination of our actions, in the whole course of our health, preparatory to our death-bed
  Reasons for a daily examination

SAMUEL BUTLER

• Hudibras (excerpts)
  A Romance-Writer
  A Rabble

ROWLAND WATKYNS

• To the Reader
  The Anabaptist
  Upon the Mournful Death of our Late Soveraign Lord Charles the First, King of England, &c
  The Common People
  The Holy Sepulchre
  The New Illiterate Lay-Teachers

MARGARET FELL

• Women’s Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the Scriptures

LAWRENCE CLARKSON (CLAXTON)

• The Lost Sheep Found (1660)

RICHARD OVERTON

• The Proceedings of the Council of State Against Richard Overton, now Prisoner in the Tower of London, 1649

SIR JOHN DENHAM

• Cooper’s Hill

SIR ROGER L’ESTRANGE

• Considerations and Proposals in Order to the Regulation of the Press (1663)

RICHARD LOVELACE

• To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
  The Grasshopper
  To Lucasta. From Prison
  To my Worthy Friend Mr. Peter Lilly
  To Althea, From Prison
  The Ant
  To a Lady with Child that Asked an Old Shirt

ABRAHAM COWLEY

• The Wish
  Extracts from the Preface to the Poems of 1656
  The Grasshopper
  The Innocent 111
  On the Death of Mr. Crashaw
  To Mr. Hobbes
  Brutus
  To the Royal Society
  Sors Virgiliana
  Of Solitude
  Of Obscurity
  Of My Self

ABIEZER COPPE

• A Fiery Flying Rolland A Second Fiery Flying Roll (excerpts)

ALEXANDER BROME

• The Levellers Rant
  The New-Courtier
  The Saints’ Encouragement
  A Satire on the Rebellion

JOHN EVELYN

• The Diary of John Evelyn (selections)
• The Restoration
  The Fire of London

LUCY HUTCHINSON

• “All Sorts of Men”
  The Life of Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson Written by Herself, A Fragment
  Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (excerpts)

ANDREW MARVELL

• Flecknoe, an English Priest at Rome
  The Coronet
  The Gallery
  The Definition of Love
  To His Coy Mistress
  An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return From Ireland
  The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers
  The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn
  Upon the Hill and Grove at Bilbrough
  Upon Appleton House
  The Garden
  On a Drop of Dew
  A Dialogue between the Soul and Body
  The Mower against Gardens
  Damon the Mower
  The Mower to the Glow-worms
  The Mower’s Song
  The Character of Holland
  Bermudas
  The First Anniversary of the Government under His Highness the Lord Protector
  On Mr. Milton’s “Paradise Lost”

HENRY VAUGHAN

• A Rhapsody
  Upon a Cloak Lent Him by Mr. J. Ridsley
  Regeneration
  The Retreat
  “Joy of my life! while left me here”
  The Morning-Watch
  “And do they so?”
  “I walked the other day”
  “They are all gone into the world of light!”
  Cock-Crowing
  The Knot
  The Night
  The Book
  To His Books

MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE

• The Poetress’s Hasty Resolution
  A Discourse of Beasts
  The Hunting of the Hare
  The Pastime of the Queen of the Fairies, when she comes upon earth out of the center
  Her Descending Down
  “I Language want”
  The Philosophical and Physical Opinions
  To the Two Universities
  Nature’s Pictures Drawn by Fancy’s Pencil to the Life
  The Loving Cuckold
  Orations of Diverse Sorts, Accommodated to Diverse Places
  An Oration for Liberty of Conscience
  An Oration against Liberty of Conscience
  An Oration proposing a Mean betwixt the two former Opinions
  CCXI Sociable Letters (excerpts)
  Philosophical Letters: or, Modest Reflections (excerpts)

MARY HOWGILL

• A Remarkable Letter of Mary Howgill to Oliver Cromwell, Called Protector

LADY ANNE HALKETT

• The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett (excerpts)

KATHARINE EVANS AND SARAH CHEVERS

• This is a Short Relation of Some of the Cruel Sufferings (For the Truth’s Sake) of Katharine Evans and Sarah Chevers, in the Inquisition in the Isle of Malta
  (excerpts)

JOHN AUBREY

• Brief Lives (selections)
• Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)
  Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
  Venetia Digby (1600-33)
  Thomas Fairfax (1612-71)
  Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
  Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
  Andrew Marvell (1621-78)
  Sir Robert Moray (d.1673)
  John Milton (1608-74)

DOROTHY OSBORNE

• The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54
• Saturday, January 8, 1653
  Thursday-Saturday June 2-4, 1653
  October 1653
  October 1653
  Saturday, February 4, 1654
  Saturday, February 11, 1654
  March 18, 1654

JOHN BUNYAN

• Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (excerpt)
  The Pilgrim s Progress (excerpt)
  Christian and Faithful visit Vanity Fair

KING CHARLES II

• The Declaration of Breda (1660)

JOHN DRYDEN

• Annus Mirabilis
  Absalom and Achitophel
  Mac Flecknoe
  Religio Laid or A Layman’s Faith (excerpt)
  A Song for St Cecilia’s Day, 1687
  To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
  Juvenal’s Sixth Satire (excerpts)
  The Empress Messalina
  The learned wife
  The gaudy gossip
  Juvenal’s Tenth Satire (excerpt)
  Sejanus
  The Secular Masque

KATHERINE PHILIPS

• Upon the Double Murder of K. Charles I in Answer to a Libelous Copy of Rimes by Vavasour Powell
  On the Numerous Access of the English to wait upon the King in Flanders
  On the 3 of September, 1651
  Friendship’s Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia
  A Retired Friendship, To Ardelia Wiston Vault
  To My Excellent Lucasia, On Our Friendship A Country Life
  Orinda to Lucasia parting October 1661 at London
  Orinda Upon Little Hector Philips
  Orinda to Lucasia
  A Married State

PHILO-PHILIPPA

• To the Excellent Orinda

ANTHONY À WOOD

• The Life and Times of Anthony à Wood (excerps)
• Notes on Oxford during the Interregnum
  The Restoration
• Athenae Oxoniensis (excerpts)
• Robert Burton
  Jeremy Taylor

JOHN LOCKE

• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (excerpt)
• Of Enthusiasm

GEORGE SAVILE, MARQUIS OF HALIFAX

• A Character of King Charles II (excerpts)
• Of his Religion
  His Amours, Mistresses, &:c
  His Conduct to his Ministers
  Of his Wit and Conversation
  His Talents, Temper, Habits, &c
  Conclusion

SAMUEL PEPYS

• The Diary of Samuel Pepys (excerpt)
• The Fire of London

ROBERT SOUTH

• Ecclesiastical Policy the Best Policy: or Religion the Best Reason of State

MARY ROWLANDSON

• The Sovereignty and Goodness of God Together, with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed; Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (excerpts)
• The First Remove
  The Second Remove
  The Third Remove
  The Fourth Remove
  The Eighth Remove
  The Twentieth Remove

THOMAS SPRAT

• The History of The Royal Society of London (excerpts)
• A Proposal for Erecting an English Academy
  Their Manner of Discourse

THOMAS TRAHERNE

• The Third Century (excerpt)
  Wonder
  Innocence
  The Preparative
  The Instruction
  The Demonstration
  The Anticipation

CHARLES SACKVILLE, EARL OF DORSET

• My Opinion

SIR CHARLES SEDLEY

• Young Coridon and Phillis

APHRA BEHN

• Song “I Led my Silvia to a Grove”
  The Golden Age. A Paraphrase on a Translation out of French
  Song “Love Armed”
  On a Juniper Tree, Cut Down to Make Busks
  The Disappointment
  On the Death of the late Earl of Rochester
  A Pindaric on the Death of our Late Sovereign
  To the fair Clarinda
  Love Letters by Mrs A. Behn
  The Dumb Virgin: Or, The Force of Imagination

PIERRE-ESPRIT RADISSON

• Travel Journal: Lake Superior, 1659-60 (excerpts)

BISHOP GILBERT BURNET

• History of My Own Time
  The Restoration
  Reign of King Charles II

JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER

• Song
  Upon His Leaving His Mistress
  A Satire Against Reason and Mankind
  The Disabled Debauchee
  Song
  The Imperfect Enjoyment
  A Ramble in St. James’s Park
  A Song of a Young Lady to her Ancient Lover
  Signior Dildo
  Impromptu on Charles II

ELINOR JAMES

• An Injured Prince Vindicated, or, A Scurrilous and Detracting Pamphlet Answered
  Mrs. James’s Vindication of the Church of England, in an answer to a pamphlet entitled A New Test of the Church of England’s Loyalty (excerpts)

THOMAS WHARTON

• Lilli Burlero

JANE BARKER

• An Invitation to my Friends at Cambridge
  A Virgin Life
  The Prospect of a Landscape, Beginning with a Grove
  To My Young Lover
  To My Friends Against Poetry

JOHN OLDHAM

• An Imitation of Horace
  Upon a Bookseller

ANNE KILLIGREW

• A Farewell to Worldly Joys
  The Complaint of a Lover
  On a Picture Painted by Herself, Representing Two Nymphs of Diana’s
  The Discontent
  Cloris’ Charms Dissolved by Eudora

JOHN TUTCHIN

• The Foreigners

COTTON MATHER

• Diary of Cotton Mather (excerpts)

ELIZABETH JOHNSON

• Preface to the Reader, Poems on Several Occasions
  Written by Philomela

ELIZABETH SINGER ROWE “PHILOMELA”

• Platonic Love
  A Poetical Question concerning the Jacobites, sent to the Athenians
  The Athenians’ Answer
  A Pindaric, to the Athenian Society
  To Celinda
  The Reply to Mr.——

A MISCELLANY

LETTERS

• Oliver Cromwell to Colonel Valentine Walton
  Charles I to Prince Rupert
  Eleanor Gwynne to Laurence Hyde
  John Evelyn to Sir Christopher Wren

BALLADS

• Tom o’ Bedlam
  A sweet and pleasant Sonnet, entitled:
  My mind to me a kingdom is
  Ditties Lamentation for the cruelty of this age
  The King’s Last Farewell to the World
  The Royal Health to the Rising Sun
  A Looking-Glass for Men and Maids
  No Ring, no Wedding

POEMS ON THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM

• Upon the Duke of Buckingham
  Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham
  Epitaph

INFORMATION FROM THE SCOTTISH NATION

• to all the True English, Concerning the Present Expedition (1640)

THE PUTNEY DEBATES

• The Putney Debates: The Debate on the Franchise

THE TRIAL OF KING CHARLES I

• The Kings Reasons for Declining the Jurisdiction of the High Court of Justice
  The Sentence of the High Court of Justice Upon the King

A TRUE RELATION,

• of the Inhumane and Unparallel’d Actions and Barbarous Murders of Negroes or Moors: Committed on three English-men in Old Calabar in Guinny (1672)

THE GENTLEWOMAN’S COMPANION (1673)

• The Introduction
  What Qualifications Best Become and are Most Suitable to a Gentlewoman
  Of the Government of the Eye
  Of Speech and Complement
  Of Wanton Songs, and Idle Ballads
  What Recreations and Pleasures are Most Fitting and Proper for Young Gentlewomen

COURT SATIRE (1682)

THE JUDGMENT AND DECREE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

• Passed in Their Convocation, July 21, 1683, against Certain Pernicious Books and Damnable Doctrines, Destructive to the Sacred Persons of Princes, Their State and Government, and of All Humane Society (1683)

INDEXES

INDEX OF FIRST LINES
INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES