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FIRST PERIOD.

JOHN GOWER
The Chariot of the Sun
The Tale of the Coffers or Caskets, &c.
Of the Gratification which the Lover's Passion receives from
the Sense of Hearing

JOHN BARBOUR
Apostrophe to Freedom
Death of Sir Henry de Bohun

ANDREW WYNTOUN

BLIND HARRY
Battle of Black-Earnside
The Death of Wallace

JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND
Description of the King's Mistress

JOHN THE CHAPLAIN—THOMAS OCCLEVE

JOHN LYDGATE
Canace, condemned to Death by her Father Aeolus, sends to her guilty
Brother Macareus the last Testimony of her unhappy Passion
The London Lyckpenny

HARDING, KAY, &c.

ROBERT HENRYSON
Dinner given by the Town Mouse to the Country Mouse
The Garment of Good Ladies

WILLIAM DUNBAR
The Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins through Hell
The Merle and Nightingale

GAVIN DOUGLAS
Morning in May

HAWES, BARCLAY, &c.

SKELTON
To Miss Margaret Hussey

SIR DAVID LYNDSAY
Meldrum's Duel with the English Champion Talbart
Supplication in Contemption of Side Tails

THOMAS TUSSER
Directions for Cultivating a Hop-garden
Housewifely Physic
Moral Reflections on the Wind

VAUX, EDWARDS, &c.

GEORGE GASCOIGNE
Good-morrow
Good-night

THOMAS SACKVILLE, LORD BUCKHURST AND EARL OF DORSET
Allegorical Characters from 'The Mirror of Magistrates'
Henry Duke of Buckingham in the Infernal Regions

JOHN HARRINGTON
Sonnet on Isabella Markham
Verses on a most stony-hearted Maiden

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
To Sleep
Sonnets

ROBERT SOUTHWELL
Look Home
The Image of Death
Love's Servile Lot
Times go by Turns

THOMAS WATSON
The Nymphs to their May-Queen
Sonnet

THOMAS TURBERVILLE
In praise of the renowned Lady Aime, Countess of Warwick

UNKNOWN
Harpalus' Complaint of Phillida's Love bestowed on Corin, who loved
her not, and denied him that loved her
A Praise of his Lady
That all things sometime find Ease of their Pain, save only the Lover
From 'The Phoenix' Nest'
From the same
The Soul's Errand

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SECOND PERIOD.

FROM SPENSER TO DRYDEN.

FRANCIS BEAUMONT
To Ben Jonson
On the Tombs in Westminster
An Epitaph

SIR WALTER RALEIGH
The Country's Recreations
The Silent Lover
A Vision upon 'The Fairy Queen'
Love admits no Rival

JOSHUA SYLVESTER
To Religion
On Man's Resemblance to God
The Chariot of the Sun

RICHARD BARNFIELD
Address to the Nightingale

ALEXANDER HUME
Thanks for a Summer's Day

OTHER SCOTTISH POETS

SAMUEL DANIEL
Richard II., the morning before his Murder in Pomfret Castle
Early Love
Selections from Sonnets

SIR JOHN DAVIES
Introduction to the Poem on the Soul of Man
The Self-subsistence of the Soul
Spirituality of the Soul

GILES FLETCHER
The Nativity
Song of Sorceress seeking to tempt Christ
Close of 'Christ's Victory and Triumph'

JOHN DONNE
Holy Sonnets
The Progress of the Soul

MICHAEL DRAYTON
Description of Morning

EDWARD FAIRFAX
Rinaldo at Mount Olivet

SIR HENRY WOTTON
Farewell to the Vanities of the World
A Meditation

RICHARD CORBET
Dr Corbet's Journey into France

BEN JONSON
Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke
The Picture of the Body
To Penshurst
To the Memory of my beloved Master, William Shakspeare, and what
he hath left us
On the Portrait of Shakspeare

VERE, STORBER, &c

THOMAS RANDOLPH
The Praise of Woman
To my Picture
To a Lady admiring herself in a Looking-glass

ROBERT BURTON
On Melancholy

THOMAS CAREW
Persuasions to Love
Song
To my Mistress sitting by a River's Side
Song
A Pastoral Dialogue
Song

SIR JOHN SUCKLING
Song
A Ballad upon a Wedding
Song

WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT
Love's Darts
On the Death of Sir Bevil Grenville
A Valediction

WILLIAM BROWNE
Song
Song
Power of Genius over Envy
Evening
From 'Britannia's Pastorals'
A Descriptive Sketch

WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING
Sonnet

WILLIAM DRUMMOND
The River of Forth Feasting
Sonnets
Spiritual Poems

PHINEAS FLETCHER
Description of Parthenia
Instability of Human Greatness
Happiness of the Shepherd's Life
Marriage of Christ and the Church

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SPECIMENS, WITH MEMOIRS, OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS.