Renaissance Literature: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose, 2nd Edition

List of Illustrations xvi

Alphabetical List of Authors xvii

Preface: Representing the Renaissance in the Twenty-First Century xviii

Acknowledgments xxiv

Timeline: The Tudor and Stuart Monarchs, 1509–1642 xxv

Introduction: Renaissance English History and Literature 1

John Skelton (1460?–1529) 17

Philip Sparrow [Part I] 18

Sir Thomas More (1477/8–1535) 35

[From] The History of King Richard the Third (ca. 1513–18) 37

[From] A Dialogue Concerning Heresies (1529) 41

Letter from Margaret Roper to Alice Alington, August 1534 49

Sir Thomas Elyot (ca. 1490–1546) 61

[From] The Book Named the Governor 62

[From] The First Book of The Castell of Health 75

William Tyndale (1494–1536) 81

[From] The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528) 82

[From] Tyndale’s Translation of the Pentateuch (1530) 98

[From] Tyndale’s Translation of the New Testament (1534) 100

Mark 4:1–34 [the Parable of the Sower and the Seed] 100

The Gospel of John, Chapter 1 101

 [Tyndale’s Translation of Luther’s] A Prologue to the Epistle of Paul to the Romans 103

Sir Thomas Wyatt (ca. 1503–1542) 119

[From] Certain Psalms (published 1549) 120

[Prologue] 120

Psalm 51. Miserere Mei Domine 122

Poems Attributed to Wyatt in the Egerton Manuscript and in Tottel’s Miscellany 125

[The Long Love] 125

[Whoso List to Hunt] 125

[The Pillar Perished] 125

[Farewell, Love] 126

[Sometime I Fled the Fire] 126

[Tagus, Farewell] 127

[Sighs Are My Food] 127

[Lucks, My Fair Falcon] 127

[In Court to Serve] 127

[They Flee from Me] 128

[Madam, Withouten Many Words] 128

[And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus?] 129

[My Lute, Awake!] 129

[Mine Own John Poyntz] 130

Broadside Ballads (ca. 1535 onwards) 134

A Ballad of Luther, the Pope, a Cardinal, and a Husbandman (ca. 1535) 134

London’s Lottery (1612) 137

The Silver Age; or, The World Turned Backward (1621) 142

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547) (os) 145

[Translations from the Aeneid] 146

[From] Book II [The Death of Creusa] 146

[From] Book IV [The Suicide of Dido] 148

Psalm 55 152

[When Ragyng Love] 153

 [The Soote Season] 154

[Set Me Wheras the Sonne] 154

[Love That Doth Raine] 155

[The Sonne Hath Twyse Brought Forthe] 155

[London, Hast Thow Accused Me] 156

[W. Resteth Here] 158

John Foxe (1517–1587) 160

[From] Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days 161

Story and Martyrdom of Anne Askew 161

Richard Mulcaster (1530?–1611) 177

[From] Positions (1581) 178

[From] The First Part of the Elementarie (1582) 183

Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) 189

[Written on a Window Frame at Woodstock] 190

[’Twas Christ the Word] 190

[The Doubt of Future Foes] 190

On Monsieur’s Departure 191

[When I Was Fair and Young] 192

Verse Exchange Between Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh 192

[Raleigh to Elizabeth] 192

[Elizabeth to Raleigh] 193

[Song on the Armada Victory, December 1588] 194

Letter from Princess Elizabeth to Queen Mary, August 2, 1556 194

Queen Elizabeth’s Speech at the Closing of Parliament, March 29, 1585 195

George Gascoigne (ca. 1534–1577) 198

[From] A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573) 199

Gascoigne’s Woodmanship 199

Gascoigne’s Goodnight 202

Certain Sermons or Homilies (1547, 1563) 204

A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading and Knowledge of Holy Scripture (1547) 205

An Homily of the Misery of All Mankind, and of His Condemnation to Death Everlasting, by His Own Sin (1547) 210

An Homily of the State of Matrimony (1563) 215

The Book of Common Prayer (1549, 1552, and 1559) (os) 223

The Preface (1559) 224

Of Ceremonies, Why Some be Abolished, and Some retayned (1559) 226

[From] The Litany (1552) 228

[From] The order of the ministracion of the lordes supper or holy Communion (1552) 231

Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) (os) 233

[From] The Shepheardes Calender 235

Aprill 235

[From] Amoretti 242

Epithalamion 253

[From] The Faerie Queene 265

A Letter of the Authors expounding his whole intention . . . to Raleigh 265

Book II, cantos 1, 7, 9–10, 12 267

Two Cantos of Mutabilitie 355

[From] A View of the State of Ireland 384

Anonymous Carols 393

[Sing We With Mirth] 393

[By Reason of Two] 394

[Of All Creatures Women Be Best] 396

Richard Hakluyt (ca. 1552–1616) (os) 399

[From] The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 400

The third troublesome voyage made . . . by M. John Hawkins 400

 [From] A true discourse of the three Voyages of discoverie . . . 406

The woorthy enterprise of John Foxe . . . 411

The answere of her Maiestie to the aforesaid Letters of the Great Turke . . . 418

John Lyly (ca. 1553–1606) 421

[From] Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit 422

John Florio (1553?–1625) 477

[From] The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne 478

To the courteous Reader 478

Of the Cannibals 480

Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1553–1618) 491

Like to a Hermit Poor 492

The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd 493

The Lie 493

A Farewell to False Love 494

[Even Such is Time] 495

The 21st (and last) Book of the Ocean to Cynthia 495

Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) 508

The Defense of Poesy 510

[From] Astrophil and Stella 542

Miscellaneous Poetry 573

Poems from The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia 573

[As I my little flock on Ister bank] 573

[Ye goat-herd gods] 577

Sonnets 579

[Thou blind man’s mark] 579

[Leave me, O love] 580

[From] The Psalms of David 580

Psalm 22 580

Psalm 23 582

Psalm 30 583

Thomas Hariot (1560–1621) and John White (1540?–1590) 585

[From] A briefe and true report of the new found Land of Virginia of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the natural inhabitants (1590) 586

To the Adventurers, Favourers, and Well-Willers of the Enterprise for the Inhabiting and Planting in Virginia 586

The third and last part . . . with a description of the nature and manners of the people of the country 588

Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) 597

[From] The Advancement of Learning (1605) 598

[From] Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625) 604

Of Truth 604

Of Simulation and Dissimulation 606

Of Innovations 608

Of Plantations 609

Of Nature in Men 611

Of Studies 612

Of Vicissitude of Things 613

New Atlantis (published 1627) 616

Robert Southwell (1561–1595) 640

The Burning Babe 640

Decease Release 641

Man’s Civil War 642

Look Home 643

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621) (os) 644

To the Angell Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney 645

[From] The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke 647

Psalm 44 Deus, Auribus 647

Psalm 59 Eripe Me De Inimicis 648

Psalm 138 Confitebor Tibi 650

Psalm 139 Domine, Probasti 650

A Mirror for Magistrates (1563, 1587 editions) (os) 652

[From] A Mirror for Magistrates 652

The Induction 652

Cardinal Wolsey 666

Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) (os) 678

Hero and Leander 679

[From] All Ovid’s Elegies 698

Book One, Elegia 1 698

Book One, Elegia 5 699

Book Three, Elegia 7 700

Book Three, Elegia 11 701

The Passionate Shepherd to his Love 703

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) 704

The Rape of Lucrece 705

[From] Sonnets 752

Thomas Campion (1567–1620) (os) 781

[From] A Booke of Ayres (1601) 782

To the Reader 782

I–II 783

VI 783

X 784

XII 784

XV 784

XXI 785

[Female Persona Lyrics] 785

2: IX 785

2: XV 786

4: XVIII 786

Thomas Nashe (1567–1601) 788

The Choice of Valentines 789

[From] Pierce Penniless His Supplication to the Devil (1592) 797

Æmilia Lanyer (1569–1645) (os) 814

Salve Deus Rex Judæorum 815

Ben Jonson (1572–1637) 861

[From] Epigrams (1616) 862

xi. On Something that Walks Somewhere 862

xiv. To William Camden 863

xxii. On My First Daughter 863

xxiii. To John Donne 863

xlv. On My First Son 864

lii. To Censorious Courtling 864

lxii. To Fine Lady Would-Be 864

lxxvi. On Lucy, Countess of Bedford 865

lxxxiii. To a Friend 865

lxxxix. To Edward Alleyn 865

ci. Inviting a Friend to Supper 866

cii. To William, Earl of Pembroke 867

cv. To Mary, Lady Wroth 867

cx. To Clement Edmonds, On His Caesar’s Commentaries Observed, and Translated 868

cxviii. On Gut 869

cxxxiv. On the Famous Voyage 869

[From] The Forest (1616) 874

i. Why I Write Not of Love 874

ii. To Penshurst 875

v. Song: To Celia 877

ix. Song: To Celia 878

xv. To Heaven 878

[From] Underwoods (1640) 879

2. A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces 879

His Excuse for loving 879

Her Triumph 880

His discourse with Cupid 880

9. My Picture Left in Scotland 882

23. An Ode. To Himself 882

29. A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme 883

47. An Epistle Answering to One that Asked to be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben 885

70. To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison 887

Miscellaneous Poems 890

To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare: And What He Hath Left Us 890

John Donne (1572–1631) 893

[From] Songs and Sonnets 894

The Anniversary 894

The Apparition 895

The Bait 896

The Canonization 896

The Ecstasy 898

A Fever 900

The Flea 901

The Funeral 901

The Indifferent 902

A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day 903

The Relic 904

Song 905

The Sun Rising 905

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 906

Elegies 907

Elegy 8. To His Mistress Going to Bed 907

Elegy 9. Change 909

The First Anniversary: An Anatomy of the World 910

Religious Poems 920

Holy Sonnets: 6–7, 10 920

Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward 922

[From] Paradoxes, Problems, Essays, Characters (published 1652) 923

A Defence of Women’s Inconstancy 923

That Nature is our Worst Guide 924

Why Puritans make long Sermons? 925

[From] Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624) 925

XVII. Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris 925

John Marston (1576–1634) 928

[From] Metamorphosis of Pygmalion’s Image, and Certaine Satyres (1598) 928

Satire II 928

Martha Moulsworth (1577–?) (os) 933

November the 10th 1632, The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth Widdowe 933

Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary, Lady Falkland (1585–1639) 937

[From] The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry 938

The Argument 938

Actus Primus. Scena Prima 939

Myles Smith (d. 1624) 941

The Translators to the Reader – the Preface to the Authorized Version (King James Bible) (1611) 942

Lady Mary (Sidney) Wroth (1586?–1651?) 960

[From] Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 961

[From] The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania 985

George Wither (1588–1667) 998

[From] A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne 999

George Herbert (1593–1633) 1007

[From] The Temple 1008

The Altar 1008

The Agonie 1008

Sepulchre 1009

Easter 1009

Easter Wings 1011

Sinne 1011

Prayer (I) 1012

Love I 1012

Jordan (I) 1013

Employment (I) 1013

The H. Scriptures I 1014

Church Monuments 1014

The Windows 1015

The Quiddity 1016

Denial 1016

Vertue 1017

The Pearl. Matth. 13. 45 1017

Life 1019

Jordan (II) 1019

The British Church 1020

The Quip 1021

Paradise 1021

The Collar 1022

The Pulley 1023

The Sonne 1024

Discipline 1024

Death 1025

Rachel Speght (1597–?) (os) 1026

A Mouzell for Melastomus 1026

Gazetteer of Classical and Early Modern Names and Places 1040

Bibliography 1060

Index of Titles, Introductions, and Notes 1068