The Project Gutenberg EBook of An English Garner (4 of 8), by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. Title: An English Garner (4 of 8) Author: Various Editor: Edward Arber Release Date: August 21, 2014 [EBook #46645] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN ENGLISH GARNER (4 OF 8) *** Produced by Richard Tonsing, Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) AN ENGLISH GARNER. VOLUME IV. AN ENGLISH GARNER INGATHERINGS FROM OUR HISTORY AND LITERATURE BY EDWARD ARBER, FSA. &c. "YEA, HISTORY HATH TRIUMPHED OVER TIME: WHICH BESIDES IT, NOTHING BUT ETERNITY HATH TRIUMPHED OVER." Sir W. Raleigh, Hist. of the World. "AIRS AND MADRIGALS THAT WHISPER SOFTNESS IN CHAMBERS." J. Milton, Areopagitica. VOLUME IV ONLY TO BE OBTAINED BY APPLICATION TO E. ARBER, 1 Montague Road, Birmingham. England 16 Jan., 1882. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED MITCHELL INVT·ET·DEL Contents of the Fourth Volume. PAGE [? Thomas Occleve, Clerk in the Office of the Privy Seal.] The Letter of Cupid. (1402.) 54 Edward Underhill, Esq., of the Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, surnamed, "The hot Gospeller." Examination and Imprisonment in August 1553; with anecdotes of the Time (? 1562.) 72 [Luke Shepherd, M.D.] John Bon and mast Parson. (? 1551.) 101 Robert Tomson, of Andover, Merchant. Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico, 1556-1558, A.D. 11 John Fox, the Martyrologist. The Imprisonment of the Princess Elizabeth. (1563.) 112 Rev. Thomas Brice. A compendious Register in metre, containing the names and patient sufferings of the members of Jesus Christ, and the tormented, and cruelly burned within England; since the death of our famous King, of immortal memory, Edward the Sixth, to the entrance and beginning of the reign of our Sovereign and dearest Lady Elizabeth, of England, France, and Ireland, Queen; Defender of the Faith; to whose Highness truly and properly appertaineth, next and immediately under GOD, the supreme power and authority of the Churches of England and Ireland. (1559.) 143 George Ferrers, the Poet. The winning of Calais by the French, January 1558 A.D. General Narrative of the Recapture. (? 1568.) 173 The Passage of our dread Sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth, through the City of London to Westminster, the day before her Coronation. (1558.) 217 Lord Wentworth, the Lord Deputy of Calais, and the Council there. Letter to Queen Mary, 23rd May, 1557 186 Lords Wentworth and Grey, and the Council at Calais. Report to Queen Mary, 27th December, 1557 187 Lord Wentworth, at Calais. Letter to Queen Mary, 1 January, 1558, 9 p.m. 190 ---- Letter to Queen Mary, 2 January, 1558, 10 p.m. 192 John Highfield, Master of the Ordnance at Calais. To the Queen, our sovereign Lady. (? 1558.) 196 Rev. William Harrison, B.D., Canon of Windsor, and Rector of Radwinter. Elizabeth arms England, which Mary had left defenceless, (? 1588.) 248 Alcilia: Philoparthen's Loving Folly. (1595.) 253 Lyrics, Elegies, &c. The First Book of Songs or Airs. By John Dowland, Bachelor of Music. (1597.) 28 ---- The Second Book of Songs or Airs. By John Dowland, Bachelor of Music. (1600.) 519 ---- The Third and Last Book of Songs or Airs. By John Dowland, Bachelor of Music. (1603.) 609 ---- A Pilgrim's Solace. By John Dowland, Bachelor of Music. (1612.) 644 Sir Thomas Overbury his Observations in his Travels, upon the State of the Seventeen Provinces, as they stood Anno Domini 1609: the Treaty of Peace being then on foot. (1626.) 297 Tobias Gentleman, Fisherman and Mariner. England's Way to Win Wealth, and to employ Ships and Mariners. (1614.) 323 Ben Jonson. Answer to Master Wither's Song, Shall I, wasting in despair. (1617.) 577 King James. The King's Majesty's Declaration to his Subjects, concerning lawful Sports to be used. (1618.) 511 The Famous and Wonderful Recovery of a Ship of Bristol, called the Exchange, from the Turkish Pirates of Argier. With the unmatchable attempts and good success of John Rawlins, Pilot in her, and other slaves: who, in the end (with the slaughter of about forty of the Turks and Moors), brought the ship into Plymouth, the 13th of February [1622] last, with the Captain a Renegado, and five Turks more; besides the redemption of twenty-four men and one boy from Turkish slavery. (1622.) 581 Geo. Wither. Fair Virtue, the Mistress of Phil'arete. (1622.) 353 ---- A Miscellany of Epigrams, Sonnets, Epitaphs, and such other Verses as were found written with the Poem aforegoing. (1622.) 495 John Rushworth, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn. The Sequestration of Archbishop Abbot from all his Ecclesiastical Offices, in 1627. 535 R[ichard] Y[?oung]. The state of a Christian lively set forth, by an allegory of a Ship under Sail. (1636.) 49 Abraham Cowley. The Chronicle. A Ballad. (1669.) 319 A true and just Relation of Major-General Sir Thomas Morgan's Progress in France and Flanders with the Six Thousand English, in the years 1657 and 1658, at the taking of Dunkirk, and other important places. (1699.) 623 FIRST LINES OF POEMS AND STANZAS. PAGE Adieu 478 Adieu, fond Love! 291 Admire not, Shepherd 423 A foul vice it is 59 After dark night, the 268 After long sickness 271 After long storms 285 "Ah, Lady mine!" 55 "Ah, me!" 476 A lad, whose faith 399 Alas, poor fools! 101 Albeit that men find 59 Alcilia's eyes have set 267 Alcilia said 270 All in vain is Ladies' 529 All the day, the sun 45 All their riches 492 All the night, my sleeps 45 All ye, whom love 42 A lover of the 456 Although through 57 And all the little lime 322 And for that every 56 And, furthermore, have 57 And GOD, to whom 68 And if thine Ears 525 And if those, who 491 And Love itself is 621 And, now, no more 426 And of mercy, hath 69 And O grant, thou 359 And the book 61 And this shall be the 386 And though I never 386 And though the work 260 And touching this 67 And trusteth well 63 And when he saddest 46 And when this man 56 And where men say 68 And yet although 426 And yet, I do not fear 424 And yet, if in time 507 And you, my Thoughts 35 An old proverb there 60 Another Mary then 320 Another wretch, unto 57 "Are we the two that 433 Are you false gods! 616 Are you fled, Fair! 616 As Heat to Life 648 A Shepherd in a shade 530 As Hope hath here 169 As Love had drawn 266 "A thousand lives I 401 A thousand times 275 Awake, sweet love! 46 Away with these 47 A wicked tree 60 Base servile thoughts 292 Beauty can want no 613 Behold a wonder 612 Be not proud, because 487 Be thou still 493 Betrayin not men 57 Better a thousand times 37 Blush not, my Love! 266 Both knit in one 654 Bound to none 484 Boy! ha' done! 406 Burst forth my tears! 38 "But could thy fiery 613 But fie! my foolish 426 But her in heart 62 But in her eyes 385 But in her place 321 But I will briefer 322 But kissing and 431 But let nor Nymph 405 But lest this conquest 435 But, maugre them 62 But nought, alas 262 But O, the fury 42 But, O, thrice happy! 424 But say! What fruit 383 But should I now 321 But such as will run 622 But such visions 508 But, trust me! 505 But, understandeth 70 But what can stay 34 But when Isabella 321 But why 476 But, yet, at last, I 456 But yet it is a sport 622 By a fountain where 617 By greatest titles 484 By process moveth 55 By these imperfections 506 By thine error thou 530 By this, thy tunes 520 'By thy Beauty 359 Can he prize the 428 Can Love be rich 36 Can she excuse my 36 Care that consumes 43 'Cause her fortunes seem 579 'Cause her fortunes 579 'Cause her fortune 454 Cease, cease, cease 656 Clear or cloudy 533 Clerkis feign also there 65 Cold as ice frozen 617 Cold, hold! the sun 619 Come again! Sweet 44 Come again! that I 44 Come away! come 40 Come away! come 41 "Come, gentle Death! 205 Come, heavy Sleep! 47 Come, my Muse! 381 Come, Shadow of my 47 Come, when I call 622 Come, ye heavy States 528 Come, You Virgins of 528 Cupido (unto whose 54 Daphne was not so 613 Dear! if I do 38 Dear, if you change! 38 Dear! let me die 648 Dear! when I from thee 37 Declare the griefs 273 Die not before thy day! 523 Disdain me still 648 Do as thou wouldst 100 Down her cheeks, the 509 Down vain lights! 523 Each hour, amidst 44 Each natural thing 295 Ear never heard of 405 Earth with her flowers 38 Eliza, till this hour 319 Enough of this! 275 Ere I had twice 480 "Every woman" 58 Example we have 100 Experience which 526 Failed of that hap 289 Fain would I speak 269 Fain would I tell 403 Fair is my love! 265 Fair! Since thy 453 Fair tree, but fruitless! 273 Fair with garlands 618 False World! farewell! 653 Farewell 477 Farewell, too fair! 611 Farewell, too dear! 611 Farewell, Unkind! 619 Fast fixed in my heart 262 Fear to offend forbids 271 Fie on this feigning! 620 Fine knacks for ladies! 526 Flow, my tears! 523 Flow not so fast 614 Fly, my Breast! 530 "For if thy heart 432 For if thou shalt not 493 For like two suns 455 For, lo, a dream I had 402 For Love hath kindled 404 For my heart, though 530 For next, shall thy 507 For on my chin 481 "For should we do 433 For when I waking 403 From Fame's desire 525 From silent night 653 Fulfilled be it! 71 Full hard it is 55 Gentle Henriette 321 Gentle Love draw 45 Gentle Swain! 490 God Cupid's shaft, 47 Go, nightly cares! 653 Go, wantons, now 435 Great gifts are guiles 527 Great men have helps 425 Great, or Good 455 Great, or Good, or 580 Grief, alas, though 650 Grieve not thyself 289 Had I a Mistress 405 Hail, fair Beauties! 387 Hail! thou Fairest 358 Happy are these 490 Hark, you shadows! 523 Haste hapless sighs! 39 Heart's Ease and I 272 Hence, away! 427 Her body is straight 265 Her dainty palm 431 Here may you find 259 Here Phil'aret did 488 Her fires do inward 651 Her Grace, like June 533 Her heapèd virtue 68 He's a fool, that 428 He that Courtly 491 He that in matters 295 He that hath this 100 He that receiveth all 649 His golden locks 45 His helmet, now 46 Hope by disdain 43 How friendly was 65 "How glad, and fain 401 How happy, once 290 "How might I that 614 How shall I then 34 How vain is Youth 295 Humour say I 533 I am no Italian lover 361 I am not sick, and yet 264 I am now inclined 534 I die! 478 I do scorn, to vow 428 If all men could 491 If any carp, for that 494 If any eye therefore 654 I fare like him who 291 If Cynthia crave 48 If I should my sorrows 381 If I should tell 322 If I speak! 41 If it be Love 264 If love doth make 36 If Music and sweet 28 If my complaints 36 If no delays can move 43 If she, at last 47 If she esteem the 46 If she for this 35 If she will yield to 37 If such weak thoughts 424 If that in ought mine 264 If that these men, 63 If you boast that 485 I have a Love that's 424 I have elsewhere 427 I have heard that 382 I have wept, and 381 I'll go to the woods 650 I'm no slave to such 427 In any book also 69 In company 273 In general, we wollin 54 Ingrateful Love! 289 In her presence all 534 In looking back 293 In midst of winter 268 In my Legend of 65 In prime of Youth 295 In Reason's Court 276 In song, Apollo gave 403 In spite of others' hates 386 In these lonely groves 492 In these thoughts 488 In vain do we 290 "I pray thee, tell! 267 I saw my Lady weep' 522 Is this a fair avaunt? 56 I that have oft 480 I to a thousand 481 It was a time when 620 It was my chance 261 I wandered out 455 I will no longer spend 293 I will not call for aid 259 Judge not by this 260 Justice gives each 532 Knew I my Love 481 Leave me! then 429 Lend your ears to my 617 Let love which never 46 Let not thy tongue 275 Let those doters on 360 Like to a man that 289 Like to the silver 613 Like to the winds 39 Lines to some 382 Long have I 268 Lo here, the Record 296 Loose Idleness! 294 Lordly Gallants! 484 Love and I are now 283 Love and Youth 283 Love! Art thou blind? 268 Love causèd GOD 153 Love GOD, above 100 Love is honey mixed 283 Love is sorrow mixt 284 Love is the sickness 284 Love now no more 612 Love, then I must 650 Lovers' Conceits 291 Lovers, lament! 275 Love stood amazed 616 Love! those beams 650 Lute! Arise and 520 Malice of women! 66 Many one eke would 58 Margarita first 319 Martha soon did it 319 Mary then, and 320 Means of harbour 381 Meanwhile, vouchsafe 260 Me! me! and none 613 Men, alas, are too 381 Men bearing, eke 64 Men sayin that our 66 Mirth, then, is 534 Mispend not a morning 504 Most sacred Queen! 276 Mount, then, my 652 Mourn! Day is with 524 Mourn! Look, now 524 Much good do 't them 493 My fair Alcilia! 267 My Heart and Tongue 654 My heart is full nigh 480 My heart where have 531 My liege! gods grant 621 My Love, by chance 266 My love doth rage 42 My merry mates! 654 "My only Dear!" 399 My songs, they be 48 My Thoughts are 35 My Spirit, I 286 NARCISSUS like 482 Nature two eyes 528 Nay, think not Love! 294 Ne no wight disceiveth 67 Never hour of pleasing 41 New found, and only 654 No charge is what 62 None comes hither 490 No! No! Where 36 No pain so great 271 No sooner had the 474 Note of me 486 Nought can I say 64 "No vulgar bliss 434 Now cease my 527 Now Grace is of such 153 Now have I spun 288 Now holdith this 70 Now Love sits all alone 294 Now none is bald 525 Now, O now 37 Now prick on fast! 58 Now, Young Man! 504 O crystal tears! 39 O do not smile at 480 O'ertired by cruel 402 O, every man ought 60 O fairer than ought 522 O fairest mind 652 Oft have I dreamed 615 Oft have the Nymphs 404 Of thy worth, this 358 Of Troy also 65 Of twelve Apostles 60 "O Heavens!" quoth 400 O, how honoured are 436 O, I am as heavy 534 O, if she may be 483 "O, if the Noblest 401 O judge me not 270 Once did I love 288 Once, I lived! 617 Once, in a dream 482 One man hath but one 527 One month, three days 320 On every bush, the 430 On this Glass of thy 360 Open the sluices 271 O pity me, you Powers 404 O, rather let me die 385 O, sweet words 525 O that Love should 529 O that thy sleep 40 Out, alas! my faith 45 Ovid, in his book 61 O well were it, Nature 269 O what a life 292 O, what are we 432 O what hath 618 O, why had I a heart 481 Our wished wealth hath 169 Pale Jealousy! 271 Pardie! this Clerk 63 Parting from thee! 270 Parve liber Domini 257 Passing all land is 54 Pausing a while 261 Peruse with patience 153 Pity is but a poor 532 Poor Collin grieves 482 Poor, or Bad, or 580 Praise blindness 525 Pray we, therefore 169 Princes hold conceit 533 Proud she seemed 429 Rest awhile 41 Retire, my wandering 274 Sad Eyes! What do you 384 Sad pining Care 39 "Say, Love! if ever 613 Say, you purchase 485 Seek to raise your 485 See! these trees 457 Shall a woman's vices 579 Shall a woman's 578 Shall a woman's 454 Shall I, mine 577 Shall I strive with 650 Shall I sue? 531 Shall I swear, 381 Shall I, wasting in 454 Shall I, wasting 577 Shall my foolish heart 578 Shall then, in earnest 385 She, little moved with 400 Should my foolish 578 Should my heart be 454 Should then my love 40 Show some relenting! 620 Silly wretch! Forsake 531 "Since Reason ought 278 Since you desire 269 Sleep is a reconciling! 619 Sleep now, my Muse! 272 Sleep wayward thoughts 42 Some say that 425 Something I want; 264 Sometimes I seek for 269 Somewhat, then, I 510 So movingly these 479 So much grief 509 So powerful is the 612 Sorrow! Sorrow, stay! 523 Sorrow, to see my 653 Sorrow was there made 522 So those virtues 493 Stay awhile! my 622 Stay, happy pair! 656 Stay, merry mates 655 Stay Time, awhile 651 "Still keep thy forehead 402 "Still, when any wooèd 510 Straight on me she 509 Such are thy parts 267 Such beams infused 612 Such equal sweet 455 "Sweet Heart!" 453 Sweet! stay awhile! 648 Sweet Summer! 533 Take me, Assurance! 532 Tears but augment 652 Tell me, my heart! 383 Tell me, True Love! 652 That Gait and those 506 That GOD's true Word 169 That Forehead 505 That Lust, which thy 507 That Strength 504 The acts of Ages past 495 The ancient poets write 266 The child, for ever 292 The Cynic being asked 270 The day I see is clear 618 The days are now come 272 Thee! entirely 360 The envious swelling 67 Thee! unknown 509 The fire of Love 274 The force of Love 153 The grief whereof 399 The Ladies ever 61 The Ladies smiled oft 483 The longest day 285 The lowest trees 621 The more the virtue 70 Their word is, spoken 55 Then all those rare 505 Then, as I, on Thee 362 Then from high rock 616 Then his tears 616 Then I forthwith took 618 Then Love and Folly 286 Then, O, why so 492 Then mote it follow 64 Then sit thee down! 524 Then Thou, that art 502 Then thus I buzzed 620 Then what new study 383 Then, while their loves 362 Then will I thus 70 The painful ploughman 269 There, a fountain 509 Therefore have the 492 Therefore know! 429 Therefore on my 508 There lives no Swain 481 There was but One 291 These faults had 285 These Ladies 63 These, thy flocks do 490 The Spring of Youth 292 The sun hath twice 296 The sweet content 268 The tender Sprigs 274 "The things we have 293 The time will come 294 The wishes of the 170 The worth that 48 Think'st thou, then 39 This Beauty shews 612 This I knowing, did 382 This, thy Picture 361 Those Ears, thou 505 Those Eyes, which 506 Those Fancies that 507 Those Lips, whereon 506 Those sorry books 61 "Those that have set 401 Those, that Mistresses 361 Those tresses of Hair 505 Those, whom the 489 Though a stranger 359 Though I vainly do 485 Though little sign 247 Though of dainties 486 Though thou be fair 294 Though thy praise 358 Though you Lord it 489 Thou, their folly 492 Thou, to no man 361 Thus have I long 288 Thus Love and Grace 153 Thus, Precious Gem! 69 Thus sang the Nymph! 493 Thy Affection 490 Thy grief in my deep 36 Thy large smooth 295 Thy leave 477 Thy joints are yet 504 Thy Teeth, that stood 506 Time can abate the 615 Time's eldest son 524 Time stands still 611 'Tis not the vain 619 'Tis the Eye that 382 To all, save me 44 To ask for all thy love 649 "To err and do amiss 290 To her! Nay! 56 To her, then, yield 614 To Master Jean 64