The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1B: The Early Modern Period

*** denotes selection is new to this edition.THE EARLY MODERN PERIODJOHN SKELTON***The Bowge of Courte***PERSPECTIVES: THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY SONNET***Sir Thomas WyattThe Long Love, That in My Thought Doth HarborCompanion ReadingPetrarch: Sonnet 140Whoso List to HuntCompanion ReadingPetrarch: Sonnet 190My GalleySome Time I Fled the FireHenry Howard, Earl of SurreyLove That Doth Reign and Live within My ThoughtTh’Assyrians’ King, in Peace with Foul DesireSet Me Whereas the Sun Doth Parch the GreenThe Soote SeasonAlas, So All Things Now Do Hold Their PeaceCompanion ReadingPetrarch: Sonnet 164George GascoigneSeven Sonnets to Alexander NevilleEdmund SpenserAmoretti1 (“Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands”)4 (“New yeare forth looking out of Janus gate”)13 (“In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth”)22 (“This holy season fit to fast and pray”)62 (“The weary yeare his race now having run”)65 (“The doubt which ye misdeeme, fayre love, is vaine”)66 (“To all those happy blessings which ye have”)68 (“Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day”)75 (“One day I wrote her name upon the strand”)Sir Philip SidneyAstrophil and Stella1 (“Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show”)3 (“Let dainty wits cry on the sisters nine”)7 (“When Nature made her chief work, Stella’s eyes”)9 (“Queen Virtue’s court, which some call Stella’s face”)10 (“Reason, in faith thou art well served, that still”)14 (“Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend”)15 (“You that do search for every purling spring”)23 (“The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness”)24 (“Rich fool there be whose base and filthy heart”)31 (“With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb’st the skies”)37 (“My mouth doth water and my breast doth swell”)39 (“Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace”)45 (“Stella oft sees the very face of woe”)47 (“What, have I thus betrayed my liberty?”)52 (“A strife is grown between Virtue and Love”)60 (“When my good Angel guides me to the place”)63 (“O grammar-rules, O now your virtues show”)64 (“No more, my dear, no more these counsels try”)68 (“Stella, the only planet of my light”)71 (“Who will in fairest book of Nature know”)Second song (“Have I caught my heavenly jewel”)74 (“I never drank of Aganippe well”)Fourth song (“Only joy, now here you are”)86 (“Alas, whence came this change of looks? If I...”)Eighth song (“In a grove most rich of shade”)Ninth song (“Go, my flock, go get you hence”)89 (“Now that, of absence, the most irksome night”)90 (“Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame”)91 (“Stella, while now by honor’s cruel might”)97 (“Dian, that fain would cheer her friend the Night”)104 (“Envious wits, what hath been mine offense”)106 (“O absent presence, Stella is not here”)107 (“Stella, since thou so right a princess art”)108 (“When sorrow (using mine own fire’s might)”)Richard BarnfieldSonnets from Cynthia1 (“Sporting at fancy, setting light by love”)5 (“It is reported of fair Thetis’ son”)9 (“Diana (on a time) walking the wood”)11 (“Sighing, and sadly sitting by my love”)13 (“Speak, Echo, tell; how may I call my love?”)19 (“Ah no; nor I myself: though my pure love”)Michael DraytonSonnet 12 (“To nothing fitter can I thee compare”)Sonnet 61 (“Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part”)SIR THOMAS WYATTThey Flee from MeMy Lute, Awake!Tagus, FarewellForget Not YetBlame Not My LuteLucks, My Fair Falcon, and Your Fellows AllStand Whoso ListMine Own John PoynsHENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREYSo Cruel PrisonLondon, Hast Thou Accused MeWyatt Resteth HereMy Radcliffe, When Thy Reckless Youth OffendsSIR THOMAS MOREUtopiaResponse***Sir Francis Bacon: from New Atlantis***WILLIAM BALDWIN***Beware the Cat ***EDMUND SPENSER***The Faerie Queene ***The Sixthe Booke of the Faerie Queene ***The Two Cantos of Mutabilitie***SIR PHILIP SIDNEYThe Apology for Poetry ISABELLA WHITNEYThe Admonition by the AuthorA Careful Complaint by the Unfortunate AuthorThe Manner of Her WillMARY HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKEPsalm 71: In Te Domini Speravi (“On thee my trust is grounded”)Psalm 121: Levavi Oculos (“Unto the hills, I now will bend”)The Doleful Lay of ClorindaPERSPECTIVES: EARLY MODERN BOOKS***Ranulf Higdenfrom Polychronicon John Foxe***from Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days***The Geneva BibleThomas Hariot*** from The True Pictures and Fashions of the People in That Part of America Now Called Virginia** John Gerardfrom The Herball or Generall historie of plantesGeoffrey WhitneyThe Phoenix Robert Fluddfrom Utriusque cosmic, maioris scilicet et minoris, metaphysica atque technica historiaFrancis Baconfrom Advancement of LearningEnglish Handwriting Samples**Frontispiece to A Certain Relation of the Hog-faced GentlewomanELIZABETH IWritten with a Diamond on Her Window at WoodstockWritten on a Wall at WoodstockThe Doubt of Future FoesOn Monsieur’s DepartureSpeechesOn MarriageOn Mary, Queen of ScotsOn Mary’s ExecutionTo the English Troops at Tilbury, Facing the Spanish ArmadaThe Golden SpeechAEMILIA LANYERThe Description of CookhamCHRISTOPHER MARLOWEHero and LeanderThe Tragical History of Dr. FaustusResponseC.S. Lewis: from The Screwtape LettersSIR WALTER RALEIGHNature That Washed Her Hands in MilkTo the QueenOn the Life of ManThe Author’s Epitaph, Made by HimselfAs You Came from the Holy Landfrom The 21st and Last Book of the Ocean to CynthiaPERSPECTIVES: ENGLAND, BRITAIN, AND THE WORLD***Fynes Moryson***from An Itenerary, Obseravations on the Ottomon Empire***Fynes Moryson***from An Itenerary, Obeservations of Italy and Ireland***Edmund Spenser***from A View of the State of Ireland***Thomas Hariotfrom A Brief and True Report of the Newfound Land of VirginiaJohn Smithfrom General History of Virginia and the Summer IslesWILLIAM SHAKESPEARESonnets1 (“From fairest creatures we desire increase”)12 (“When I do count the clock that tells the time”)15 (“When I consider every thing that grows”)18 (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”)20 (“A woman’s face with Nature’s own hand painted”)29 (“When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes”)30 (“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought”)31 (“Thy bosom is endearèd with all hearts”)33 (“Full many a glorious morning have I seen”)35 (“No more be grieved at that which thou hast done”)55 (“Not marble nor the gilded monuments”)60 (“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore”)71 (“No longer mourn for me when I am dead”)73 (“That time of year thou mayst in me behold”)80 (“O, how I faint when I of you do write”)86 (“Was it the proud full sail of his great verse”)87 (“Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing”)93 (“So shall I live, supposing thou art true”)94 (“They that have pow’r to hurt, and will do none”)104 (“To me, fair friend, you never can be old”)106 (“When in the chronicle of wasted time”)107 (“Not mine own fears nor the prophetic soul”)116 (“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”)123 (“No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change”)124 (“If my dear love were but the child of state”)126 (“O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power”)128 (“How oft, when thou my music play’st”)129 (“The expense of spirit in a waste of shame”)130 (“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”)138 (“When my love swears that she is made of truth”)144 (“Two loves I have, of comfort and despair”)152 (“In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn”)Twelfth Night; or, What You WillOthello***King Lear***PERSPECTIVES: TRACTS ON WOMEN AND GENDERJoseph Swetnamfrom The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant WomenRachel Speghtfrom A Muzzle for MelastomusEster Sowernamfrom Ester Hath Hanged HamanHic Mulier and Haec-Virfrom Hic Mulier; or, The Man-Womanfrom Haec-Vir; or, The Womanish-ManBEN JONSONThe AlchemistOn Something, That Walks SomewhereOn My First DaughterTo John DonneOn My First SonInviting a Friend to SupperTo PenshurstSong to CeliaQueen and HuntressTo the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left UsTo the Immortal Memory, and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. MorisonPleasure Reconciled to VirtueJOHN DONNEThe Good MorrowSong (“Go, and catch a falling star”)The UndertakingThe Sun RisingThe IndifferentThe CanonizationAir and AngelsBreak of DayA Valediction: of WeepingLove’s AlchemyThe FleaThe BaitThe ApparitionA Valediction: Forbidding MourningThe EcstasyThe FuneralThe RelicElegy 19: To His Mistress Going to BedHoly Sonnets1 (“As due by many titles I resign”)2 (“Oh my black soul! Now thou art summoned”)3 (“This is my play’s last scene, here heavens appoint”)4 (“At the round earth’s imagined corners, blow”)5 (“If poisonous minerals, and if that tree”)6 (“Death be not proud, though some have called thee”)7 (“Spit in my face ye Jews, and pierce my side”)8 (“Why are we by all creatures waited on?”)9 (“What if this present were the world’s last night?”)10 (“Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you”)11 (“Wilt thou love God, as he thee? Then digest”)12 (“Father, part of his double interest”)Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions[“For whom the bell tolls”]LADY MARY WROTHPamphilia to Amphilanthus1 (“When night’s black mantle could most darkness prove”)5 (“Can pleasing sight misfortune ever bring?”)16 (“Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers”)17 (“Truly poor Night thou welcome art to me”)25 (“Like to the Indians, scorched with the sun”)26 (“When everyone to pleasing pastime hies”)28 Song (“Sweetest love, return again”)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?”)55 (“How like a fire does love increase in me”)68 (“My pain, still smothered in my grièved breast”)74 Song (“Love a child is ever crying”)A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love77 (“In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?”)82 (“He may our profit and our tutor prove”)83 (“How blessed be they then, who his favors prove”)84 (“ He that shuns love does love himself the less”)103 (“My muse now happy, lay thyself to rest”)ROBERT HERRICKHesperidesThe Argument of His BookTo His BookAnother (“To read my book the virgin shy”)Another (“Who with thy leaves shall wipe at need”)To the Sour ReaderWhen He Would Have His Verses ReadDelight in DisorderCorinna’s Going A-MayingTo the Virgins, to Make Much of TimeThe Hock-Cart, or Harvest HomeHis Prayer to Ben JonsonUpon Julia’s ClothesUpon His Spaniel TracieThe Dream (“Me thought (last night) Love in an anger came”)The Dream (“By dream I saw one of the three”)The VineThe VisionDiscontents in DevonTo Dean-Bourn, a Rude River in DevonUpon Scobble: EpigramThe Christian MilitantTo His Tomb-MakerUpon Himself Being BuriedHis Last Request to JuliaThe Pillar of FameHis Noble NumbersHis Prayer for AbsolutionTo His Sweet SaviourTo God, on His SicknessGEORGE HERBERTThe AltarRedemptionEasterEaster WingsAffliction (1)Prayer (1)Jordan (1)Church MonumentsThe WindowsDenialVirtueManJordan (2)TimeThe CollarThe PulleyThe ForerunnersLove (3)RICHARD LOVELACETo Lucasta, Going to the WarsThe GrasshopperTo Althea, from PrisonLove Made in the First Age: To ChlorisHENRY VAUGHANRegenerationThe RetreatSilence, and Stealth of DaysThe WorldThey Are All Gone into the World of Light!The NightANDREW MARVELLThe CoronetBermudasThe Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her FawnTo His Coy MistressThe Definition of LoveThe Mower Against GardensThe Mower’s SongThe GardenAn Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return from IrelandKATHERINE PHILIPSFriendship in Emblem, or the SealUpon the Double Murder of King CharlesOn the Third of September, 1651To the Truly Noble, and Obliging Mrs. Anne OwenTo Mrs. Mary Awbrey at PartingTo My Excellent Lucasia, on Our FriendshipThe WorldPERSPECTIVES: THE CIVIL WAR, OR THE WARS OF THREE KINGDOMSJohn Gaudenfrom Eikon BasilikeJohn Miltonfrom EikonoklastesOliver Cromwellfrom Letters from IrelandJohn O’Dwyer of the GlennThe Story of Alexander Agnew; or, Jock of Broad ScotlandJOHN MILTONL’AllegroIl PenserosoLycidasHow Soon Hath TimeOn the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long ParliamentTo the Lord General CromwellOn the Late Massacre in PiedmontWhen I Consider How My Light Is SpentMethought I Saw My Late Espoused Saintfrom AreopagiticaParadise LostBook 1Book 2Book 3Book 4Book 5Book 6Book 7Book 8Book 9Book 10Book 11Book 12ResponsesMary Wollstonecraft: from A Vindication of the Rights of WomanWilliam Blake: A Poison Tree