Renaissance literature: an anthology

Introduction: The Renaissance in Cultural and Critical Theory

Woefully Arrayed

Philip Sparrow Part I

Laud and Praise Made for Our Sovereign Lord the King / John Skelton

Lamentation of Queen Elizabeth

[From] Utopia

Translator to the Gentle Reader

Epistle

Confutation of Tyndale's Answer

[From] The Preface to the Christian Reader

[The Princes' Murder from] The History of King Richard III (os)

[From] A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation

[Letter] to Margaret Roper, 5 July 1535 / Thomas More

[From] The Book Named the Governor / Thomas Elyot

[With owt Dyscorde]

[O My Hart] / King Henry VIII

[From] The Obedience of a Christian Man

Interpretation of Scripture

W. T. unto the Reader

Gospel of Saint Matthew 5-7

Gospel of Saint Mark 4:1-34

Gospel of Saint Luke 1-2

Gospel of Saint John I

[Tyndale's Translation of Luther's] A Prologue to the Epistle of Paul to the Romans

Epistle of the Apostle St. Paul to the Romans I / William Tyndale

[From] Certain Psalms

[Prologue]

Psalm 51. Miserere mei domine

Psalm 102. Domine exaudi orationem meam

Psalm 130. De profundis clamavi

[The Long Love]

[Whoso List to Hunt]

[My Galley]

[Unstable Dream]

[If Waker Care]

[The Pillar Perished]

[Farewell, Love]

[Sometime I Fled the Fire]

[Tagus, Farewell]

[Sighs Are My Food]

[Lucks, My Fair Falcon]

[Throughout the World]

[In Court to Serve]

[They Flee from Me]

[Madam, Withouten Many Words]

[And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus?]

[My Lute, Awake!]

[Mine Own John Poyntz] / Thomas Wyatt

[From] The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women / John Knox

[From] Book II [The Death of Creusa]

[From] Book IV [The Suicide of Dido]

Psalm 55

[When Ragyng Love]

[The Soote Season]

[Set Me Wheras the Sonne]

[Love That Doth Raine]

[I Never Saw Youe]

[Alas, So All Thinges Nowe Doe Holde Their Peace]

[From Tuscan Cam]

[The Sonne Hath Twyse Brought Forthe]

[Geve Place, Ye Lovers]

[Such Waiwarde Waies]

[Wrapt in My Carelesse Cloke]

[London, Hast Thow Accused Me]

[W. Resteth Here] / Henry Howard

[From] Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days

Story and Martyrdom of Anne Askew

Life and Martyrdom of William Tyndale / John Foxe

[From] The Survey of London

Sports and Pastimes of Old Time Used in This City / John Stow

[From] Positions Concerning the Training up of Children (os)

How Much [a Woman Ought to Learn] / Richard Mulcaster

[Written on a Window Frame at Woodstock]

[Written with a Diamond]

['Twas Christ the Word]

[No Crooked Leg]

[The Doubt of Future Foes]

On Monsieur's Departure

[When I Was Fair and Young]

Now Leave and Let Me Rest

[Verse Exchange Between Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh]

[Elizabeth to Raleigh]

[Song on the Armada Victory, December 1588]

[Letter from Princess Elizabeth to Queen Mary, August 2, 1556]

[Queen Elizabeth's First Speech, Hatfield, November 20, 1558]

[A Copy of "The Golden Speech" from the Papers of Sir Thomas Egerton, Privy Councillor]

[Prayer on the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, September 1588] / Queen Elizabeth I.

[From] A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres

Gascoigne's Woodmanship

Gascoigne's Goodnight / George Gascoigne

Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading and Knowledge of Holy Scripture

Exhortation Concerning Good Order, and Obedience to Rulers and Magistrates

Information for Them Which Take Offence at Certain Places of the Holy Scripture

Homily of the State of Matrimony / Certain Sermons or Homilies

Ordre for Mattyns dayly through the yere

Order of the Purificacion of Woemen / The Book of Common Prayer

[All This Tyme]

[Tydynges, Tydynges]

[Now Let Vs Syng]

[Syng We with Myrth]

[Synge We All]

[By Reason of Two]

[Shall I, Moder, Shall I?]

[Gawde, for Thy Joyes Five]

[Of All Creatures Women Be Best]

[Grene Growith the Holy] / Anonymous Carlos

[From} The Shepheardes Calender

Aprill

Amoretti

Epithalamion

[From] The Faerie Oueene

Letter of the Authors expounding his whole intention ... to Raleigh

Book II

Two Cantos of Mutabilitie

[From] A View of the State of Ireland / Edmund Spenser

[From] The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation / Richard Hakluyt

[From] Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit / John Lyly

[From] The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne

Of the Cannibals / John Florio

Praised be Diana's Fair and Harmless Light

Like to a Hermit Poor

Conceit Begotten by the Eyes

As You Came from the Holy Land

Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

Lie

Farewell to False Love

Verses Made the Night Before He Died

21st and Last Book of the Ocean to Cynthia / Walter Raleigh

Defense Of Poesy

Astrophil and Stella

Miscellaneous Poetry

Poems [From] The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

[From] The Psalms of David / Philip Sidney and Thomas Harriot

[From] A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia

arriual of the Englishemen in Virginia

weroan or Great Lorde of Virginia

On of the chieff Ladyes of Secota

On of the Religeous men in the towne of Secota

younge gentill woeman daughter of Secota / John White

[From] The New Organon

[From] Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Of Truth

Of Death

Of Unity in Religion

Of Simulation and Dissimulation

Of Marriage and the Single Life

Of Love

Of Nobility

Of Travel

Of Counsel

Of Cunning

Of Innovations

Of Discourse

Of Plantations

Of Masques and Triumphs

Of Nature in Men

Of Custom and Education

Of Usury

Of Beauty

Of Deformity

Of Studies

Of Vicissitude of Things

New Atlantis / Francis Bacon

Burning Babe

Decease Release

Man's Civil War

Look Home / Robert Southwell

To the Angell Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Phillip Sidney

[From] The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke

Psalm 44 Deus, auribus

Psalm 59 Eripe me de inimicis

Psalm 138 Confitebor tibi

Psalm 139 Domine, probasti

Psalm 149 Cantate domino

Psalm 150 Laudate dominum / Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke

Sonnet 15

Pastoral 7

Sonnet 16

Sonnet 17

Pastoral 5

Sonnet 18

Sonnet 19

Sonnet 20 / Robert Sidney

Induction

Cardinal Wolsey / The Mirror for Magistrates

Hero and Leander

[From] All Ovid's Elegies

Passionate Shepherd to his Love / Christopher Marlowe

Rape of Lucrece

Sonnets / William Shakespeare

[From] A Booke of Ayres

To the Reader

I-XXI

[Female Persona Lyrics]

2:IX

2:XV

3:IV

3:XVI

3:XXVII

4:IX

4:XIII

4:XVIII

4:XXIV

[From] The Third Booke of Ayres

3:XII / Thomas Campion

Choice of Valentines / Thomas Nashe

[From] Salve Deus Rex Judoeorum

Description of Cooke-ham / AEmilia Lanyer

[From] Epigrams

11. On Something that Walks Somewhere

14. To William Camden

22. On My First Daughter

23. To John Donne

45. On My First Son

52. To Censorious Courtling

62. To Fine Lady Would-Be

76. On Lucy, Countess of Bedford

83. To a Friend

89. To Edward Alleyn

101. Inviting a Friend to Supper

102. To William, Earl of Pembroke

105. To Mary, Lady Wroth

110. To Clement Edmondes, On His Caesar's Commentaries Observed and Translated

118. On Gut

134. On the Famous Voyage

[From] The Forest

1. Why I Write Not of Love

2. To Penshurst

4. To the World

5. Song: To Celia

9. Song: To Celia

15. To Heaven

[From] Underwoods

2. A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces

His Excuse for Loving

Her Triumph

His Discourse with Cupid

9. My Picture Left in Scotland

23. An Ode. To Himself

29. A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme

47. An Epistle Answering to One that Asked to be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben

70. To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison

Miscellaneous Poems

To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us

To a Friend. An Epigram of Him

Ode / Ben Jonson

[From] Songs and Sonnets

Air and Angels

Anniversary

Apparition

Bait

Blossom

Break of Day

Broken Heart

Canonization

Community

Computation

Curse

Damp

Dissolution

Dream

Ecstasy

Expiration

Fever

Flea

Funeral

Good-morrow

Indifferent

Lecture Upon the Shadow

Legacy

Lovers' Infiniteness

Love's Alchemy

Love's Deity

Love's Diet

Love's Exchange

Love's Growth

Love's Usury

Message

Negative Love

Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, being the shortest day

Paradox

primrose

prohibition

relic

Song

Song

sun rising

Twickenham Garden

undertaking

valediction: forbidding mourning

valediction: of weeping

will

Woman's constancy

Elegy 1 Jealousy

Elegy 2 The Anagram

Elegy 3 Change

Elegy 9 The autumnal

Elegy 16 On his mistress

Elegy 18 Love's progress

Elegy 19 To his mistress going to bed

First Anniversary: An Anatomy of the World

[From] Holy Sonnets: 1-7, 9-11, 13

Good Friday, 1613. Riding westward

Hymn to God my God, in my sickness

[From] Devotions

XVII. Nunc lento sonitu dicunt, morieris / John Donne

Affectionate Shepheard

Sonnets / Richard Barnfield

Satire II

To Everlasting Oblivion / John Marston

Nouember the 10th 1632, The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth Widdowe / Martha Moulsworth

[From] The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry

To Diana's Earthly Deputess, and My Worthy Sister, Mistress Elizabeth Cary

Argument

Actus Primus. Scena Prima / Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary, Lady Falkland

Pamphilia to Amphilanthus

[Part I]

[From] The Countess of Montgomery's Urania / Lady Mary (Sidney) Worth

[From] A Collection of Emblemes Ancient and Moderne

As soone, as wee to bee, begunne; We did beginne, to be Vndone

No passage can divert the Course, Of Pegasus, the Muses Horse

Live, ever mindfull of thy dying; For, Time is alwayes from thee flying

For whatsoever, Man doth strive, the Conquest, God alone, doth give

How ever thou the Viper take, A dang'rous hazzard thou dost make

In all thine Actions, have a care, That no unseemlinesse appeare / George Wither

My Lady Greensleeves

In Praise of Ale

Robin Goodfellow

Spanish Armado / Anonymous Ballads

[From] The Temple

Altar

Sacrifice

Thanksgiving

Reprisal

Agony

Good Friday

Redemption

Sepulchre

Easter Wings

Easter

H. Baptism (I)

H. Baptism (II)

Sin (I)

Affliction (I)

Prayer (I)

Prayer (II)

H. Communion

Church Lock-and-Key

Love I

Love II

Temper (I)

Temper (II)

Jordan (I)

Employment (I)

H. Scriptures I

H. Scriptures II

Whitsunday

Grace

Church Monuments

Church Music

Windows

Quiddity

Sunday

Employment (II)

Denial

Christmas

World

Vanity (I)

Virtue

Pearl. Matth. 13. 45

Affliction (IV)

Man

Life

Mortification

Jordan (II)

Obedience

British Church

Quip

Iesu

Dialogue

Dullness

Sin's Round

Peace

Bunch of Grapes

Storm

Paradise

Size

Artillery

Pilgrimage

Bag

Collar

Joseph's Coat

Pulley

Search

Flower

Son

True Hymn

Bitter-sweet

Aaron

Forerunners

Discipline

Banquet

Elixir

Wreath

Death

Doomsday

Judgement

Heaven

Love (III) / George Herbert

[From] The Compleat Angler

Part II: Chapter VII / Izaak Walton

Movzell for Melastomus / Rachel Speght

Unknowne Sheepheards Complaint

Another of the Same Sheepheards

Phillidaes Love-call to her Coridon, and his Replying

Sheepheards Description of Love

Sheepheards Sorrow for His Phaebes Disdaine

Olde Melibeus Song, Courting His Nimph

Nimphs Disdaine of Love

Sheepheard to the Flowers

Sheepheards Slumber

Another of the Same Nature, Made Since

Thirsis the Sheepheard, to His Pipe

Dispraise of Love, and Lovers Follies

Heroicall Poeme

Lovers Absence Kils Me, Her Presence Kils Me

Love the Only Price of Love

Defiance to Disdainefull Love

Philistus Farewell to False Clorinda

Lycoris the Nimph, Her Sad Song

Sheepheards Consort

Heard-mans Happie Life

To Amarillis

Of Phillida

Philon the Sheepheard, His Song / England's Helicon

Translators to the Reader - the Preface to the Authorized Version (King James Bible).