The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: One-Volume Compact Edition - The Medieval Period through the Twenty-First Century

Preface Acknowledgments THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD Errata Slip – on the use of “Anglo-Saxon” (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) History, Narrative, Culture Before the Norman Conquest Celts in Medieval Britain and Ireland Roman Britain Early Anglo-Saxon Britain Celtic Culture Celtic Christianity Later Anglo-Saxon Britain Invasion and Unification England after the Norman Conquest The Normans and Feudalism Henry II and an International Culture Wales, Scotland, Ireland: Norman Invasions and Their Aftermath The Thirteenth Century The English Monarchy Cultural Expression in the Fourteenth Century Fifteenth-Century Transitions Language and Prosody HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE AND OF PRINT AND MANUSCRIPT CULTURE BEDE (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from Ecclesiastical History of the English People A Description of the Island of Britain and Its Inhabitants The Coming of the English to Britain The Life and Conversion of Edwin, King of Northumbria; the Faith of the East Angles Abbess Hild of Whitby; the Miraculous Poet Cædmon Cædmon’s Hymn in Old and Modern English EARLY IRISH LYRICS The First Satire [A Bé Find, in rega lim] Fair lady, will you go with me [Messe ocus Pangur Bán] Me and white Pangur [Is acher in gáith innocht] The wind is wild tonight [Techt do Róim] Going to Rome? The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare EXETER BOOK ELEGIES The Wanderer The Seafarer (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) The Wife’s Lament The Ruin (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) THE DREAM OF THE ROOD BEOWULF IN CONTEXT: Background Material (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Glossary of Proper Names Genealogies The Geatish-Swedish Wars ÆLFRIC OF EYNSHAM (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) The Passion of Saint Edmund, King and Martyr MARIE DE FRANCE Bisclavret (The Werewolf) (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Lanval MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS Sumer is icumen in Foweles in the frith Betwene Mersh and Averil (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Stond well, moder, under Rode I lovede a child of this cuntree I have a gentil cock (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) I sing of a maiden Adam lay ibounden (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Farewell this world, I take my leve forever (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Bring us in good ale Of all creatures women be best My lefe is faren in a lond CONTEXTS: THE CRISES OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY The Great Famine from Anonymous (the “Monk of Malmesbury”), Life of Edward the Second The Hundred Years’ War from Jean Froissart, Chronicle from Prince Edward, Letter to the People of London The Black Death from Ralph of Shrewsbury, Letter (17 August 1348) from Henry Knighton, Chronicle The Uprising of 1381 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from Regulations, London (1350) from Statute of Laborers (1351) from Statute (1363) from Jean Froissart, Chronicle, Account of a Sermon by John Ball John Ball, Letter to the Common People of Essex, 1381 from Henry Knighton, Chronicle SIR ORFEO (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) IN CONTEXT: Sir Orfeo from King Alfred’s translation of Boethieus’s Consolation of Philosophy from Walter Map, De Nugis Curialium SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT IN CONTEXT: Illustrations from the Original Manuscript GEOFFREY CHAUCER To Rosemounde from The Canterbury Tales The General Prologue The Knight’s Tale The Miller’s Prologue and Tale The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale The Prioress’s Prologue and Tale (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) The Nun’s Priest’s Prologue and Tale (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Chaucer’s Retraction Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse JULIAN OF NORWICH from A Revelation of Love Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 5 Chapter 7 Chapter 11 Chapter 27 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Chapter 28 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Chapter 50 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Chapter 51 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Chapter 58 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Chapter 60 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Chapter 86 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) MARGERY KEMPE from The Book of Margery Kempe The Proem The Preface from Book 1 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 from Chapter 4 from Chapter 11 Chapter 50 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Chapter 52 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Chapter 53 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Chapter 54 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Chapter 55 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) CONTEXTS: RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL LIFE Celtic Christianity Church and Cathedral Religion for All: The Apostle’s Creed, the Pater Noster, and the Hail Mary The Apostle’s Creed The Pater Noster The Hail Mary from Robert Manning of Brunne, Handlyng Synne from William of Pagula, Priest’s Eye from The Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council Sin, Corruption, and Indulgence from William Langland, The Vision of Piers the Plowman (B-text) from Passus 1 Passus 5 from Passus 7 from Thomas Wimbleton, Sermon Lollardy from Account of the Heresy Trial of Margery Baxter The Persecution of the Jews from Thomas of Monmouth, The Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich from Roger Howden, Chronicle from Ordinances of the Jews from Charter of King John to the Jews from Ordinances of Henry III Edward I’s Order MEDIEVAL DRAMA THE WAKEFIELD MASTER (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) The Second Shepherds’ Play IN CONTEXT: Biblical Source Material from Douay-Rheims Bible, Luke 2.8–21 EVERYMAN MANKIND (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) SIR THOMAS MALORY from Morte Darthur from Book 1: From the Marriage of King Uther unto King Arthur Book 8: The Death of King Arthur IN CONTEXT: Early Editions of Morte Darthur Caxton’s Preface Illustrating Morte Darthur THE RENAISSANCE AND THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY THE RENAISSANCE AND THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Humanism Scientific Inquiry The Reformation in England Wales, Scotland, Ireland Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I Elizabeth I and Gender Homoeroticism and Cross-Dressing Economy and Society in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries “The Round Earth’s Imagined Corners” The Stuarts and the Civil Wars Literary Genres Literature in Prose and the Development of Print Culture Poetry The Drama The English Language in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE AND OF PRINT CULTURE SIR THOMAS MORE from Utopia: The Best State of a Commonwealth and the New Island of Utopia from Book 1 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from Book 2 Chapter 1 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from Chapter 2: The Cities, and Especially Amaurote (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from Chapter 4: Crafts and Occupations (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from Chapter 5: Their Dealings With One Another (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from Chapter 6: Traveling (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from Chapter 7: Slavery (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from Chapter 8: Warfare (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from Chapter 9: The Religions in Utopia (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) IN CONTEXT: Illustration of Utopia WILLIAM TYNDALE Tyndale’s English Bible, King James Bible, Geneva Bible, Douay-Rheims Bible Genesis: Chapter 1–23 Matthew: Chapter 5–29 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) SIR THOMAS WYATT Sonnets 10 (“The long love that in my thought doth harbour”) 29 (“The pillar perished is whereto I leant”) 31 (“Farewell, Love, and all thy laws forever”) Epigrams 38 (“Alas, madam, for stealing of a kiss”) 48 (“Vulcan begat me; Minerva me taught”) 60 (“Tagus, farewell, that westward with thy streams”) Ballads 80 (“They flee from me that sometime did me seek”) 94 (“Blame not my lute, for he must sound”) (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Songs 109 (“My lute, awake! Perform the last”) (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) 123 (“Who list his wealth and ease retain”) (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Epistolary Satires 149 (“Mine own John Poyns, since ye delight to know”) (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) IN CONTEXT: Epistolary Advice (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY Love, that Doth Reign and Live within My Thought Set Me Whereas the Sun Doth Parch the Green (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Alas! So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace So Cruel Prison How Could Betide Wyatt Resteth Here (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from Certain Books of Virgil’s Aeneis: Book 2 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) THE ELIZABETHAN SONNET AND LYRIC The Continental Background Francesco Petrarch from Rime Sparse 134 (“Pace non trovo et non ò da far guerra”) 134 (“I find no peace and all my war is done”) 140 (“Amor, che nel penser mio vive et regna”) 140 (“Love, that doth reign and live within my thought”) 189 (“Passa la nave mia colma d’oblio”) 189 (“My galley chargèd with forgetfulness”) 190 (“Una candida cerva sopra l’erba”) 190 (“Whoso list to hunt, I know where is a hind”) Gaspara Stampa (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) 132 (“Quando io dimando nel mio pianto Amore”) 132 (“When in my weeping I inquire of Love”) Joachim Du Bellay (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) 113 (“Si nostre vie est moins qu’une journée”) 113 (“If this, our life, be less than but a day”) Pierre de Ronsard (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) (“Je vouldroy bien richement jaunissant”) (“I would in rich and golden coloured rain”) (“Quand vous serez bien vielle, au soir à la chandelle”) (“When you are very old, by candle’s flame”) Samuel Daniel (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from Delia 6 (“Fair is my love, and cruel as she’s fair”) 28 (“Raising my hopes on hills of high desire”) 33 (“When men shall find thy flower, thy glory pass”) Michael Drayton (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from Idea 6 (“How many paltry, foolish, painted things”) 61 (“Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part”) 63 (“Truce, gentle Love, a parley now I crave”) William Shakespeare from Romeo and Juliet (Act 1, Scene 5) Sir John Davies from Gulling Sonnets 3 (“What eagle can behold her sun-bright eye”) John Davies of Hereford (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from The Scourge of Villany (“If there were, oh! an Hellespont of cream”) Richard Barnfield (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from Cynthia 14 (“Here, hold this glove (this milk-white cheverel glove)”) 17 (“Cherry-lipped Adonis in his snowy shape”) George Gascoigne Gascoigne’s Lullaby Anonymous Ode (“Absence, hear thou my protestation”) EDMUND SPENSER from The Faerie Queene from Book 1 Canto 1 Canto 2 Canto 3: Summary Canto 3 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Canto 4: Summary Canto 4 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Canto 5: Summary Canto 6: Summary Canto 7: Summary Canto 7 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Canto 8: Summary Canto 8 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Canto 9: Summary Canto 9 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Canto 10: Summary Canto 10 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Canto 11 Canto 12 from Book 3 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Canto 6 Letter to Sir Walter Ralegh on The Faerie Queene IN CONTEXT: The Redcrosse Knight (Illustration) IN CONTEXT: Christian Armor from Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians, 6.11–17 (Geneva Bible) from Desiderius Erasmus, Enchiridion militis Christiani [Handbook of the Christian Soldier] IN CONTEXT: Spirituality and The Faerie Queene Heading to the Song of Solomon (Geneva Bible) from Amoretti 1 (“Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands”) 3 (“The soverayne beauty which I doo admyre”) 6 (“Be nought dismayd that her unmovèd mind”) 15 (“Ye tradefull Merchants, that with weary toyle”) 22 (“This holy season fit to fast and pray”) 26 (“Sweet is the Rose, but growes upon a brere”) 34 (“Lyke as a ship that through the Ocean wyde”) 37 (“What guyle is this, that those her golden tresses”) 54 (“Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay”) 64 (“Comming to kisse her lyps, (such grace I found)”) 67 (“Lyke as a hunstman after weary chace”) 68 (“Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day”) 69 (“The famous warriors of the anticke world”) 70 (“Fresh spring the herald of loves mighty king”) 74 (“Most happy letters fram’d by skilfull trade”) 75 (“One day I wrote her name upon the strand”) 80 (“After so long a race as I have run”) 82 (“Joy of my life, full oft for loving you”) 89 (“Lyke as the Culver on the barèd bough”) Epithalamion (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) SIR PHILIP SIDNEY from Astrophil and Stella 1 (“Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show”) 2 (“Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot”) 7 (“When Nature made her chief work, Stella’s eyes”) 18 (“With what sharp checks I in myself am shent”) 20 (“Fly, fly, my friends, I have my death wound; fly!”) 21 (“Your words, my friend, (right healthful caustics) blame”) 22 (“In highest way of heav’n the Sun did ride”) 23 (“The curious wits seeing dull pensiveness”) 24 (“Rich fools there be, whose base and filthy heart”) 25 (“The wisest scholar of the wight most wise”) 26 (“Though dusty wits dare scorn astrology”) 27 (“Because I oft in dark abstracted guise”) 31 (“With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb’st the skies”) 34 (“Come, let me write. ‘And to what end?’ To ease”) 39 (“Come, Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace”) 41 (“Having this day my horse, my hand, my lance”) 45 (“Stella oft sees the very face of woe”) 47 (“What, have I thus betrayed my liberty?”) 48 (“Soul’s joy, bend not those morning stars from me”) 49 (“I on my horse, and Love on me doth try”) 50 (“Stella, the fullness of my thoughts of thee”) 51 (“Pardon mine ears, both I and they do pray”) 52 (“A strife is grown between Virtue and Love”) 53 (“In marital sports I have my cunning tried”) 54 (“Because I breathe not love to every one”) 55 (“Muses, I oft invoked your holy aid”) 61 (“Oft with true sighs, oft with uncallèd tears”) (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) 69 (“O joy too high for my low style to show!”) 71 (“Who will in fairest book of Nature know”) 94 (“Grief find the words, for thou hast made my brain”) 95 (“Yet Sighs, dear Sighs, indeed true friends you are”) (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) 96 (“Thought, with good cause thou lik’st so well the Night”) (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) 97 (“Dian, that fain would cheer her friend the Night”) (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) 98 (“Ah bed, the field where joy’s peace some do see”) (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) 99 (“When far-spent night persuades each mortal eye”) (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) 100 (“Oh tears, no tears, but rain from Beauty’s skies”) (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) 101 (“Stella is sick, and in that sickbed lies”) 102 (“Where be those roses gone, which sweetened so our eyes?”) (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) 103 (“Oh happy Thames, that didst my Stella bear”) (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) 104 (“Envious wits, what hath been mine offence”) (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) 105 (“Unhappy sight, and hath she vanished by”) (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) 106 (“Oh absent presence, Stella is not here”) 107 (“Stella, since thou so right a princess art”) (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) 108 (“When Sorrow (using mine own fire’s might)”) from The Defence of Poesy (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) IN CONTEXT: The Abuse of Poesy (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from Plato, The Republic, from Book 2 from Stephen Gosson, The School of Abuse ELIZABETH I, QUEEN OF ENGLAND Written on a Wall at Woodstock Written in Her French Psalter The Doubt of Future Foes On Monsieur’s Departure When I Was Fair and Young To Our Most Noble and Virtuous Queen Katherine To the Troops at Tilbury Two Letters from Elizabeth to Catherine de Bourbon On Marriage On Mary, Queen of Scots On Mary’s Execution The Golden Speech IN CONTEXT: The Defeat of the Spanish Armada CONTEXTS: CULTURE: A PORTFOLIO Music from Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler Painting from Nicholas Hilliard, A Treatise Concerning the Art of Limning from A Letter to F.P. Verney from the Countess of Sussex Oliver Cromwell, Instructions to His Painter, as Reported by George Vertue, Notebooks Games and Pastimes Selected Illustrations Food and Drink from An Anonymous Venetian Official Traveling in England, A Relation, or Rather a True Account, of the Island of England from Fynes Moryson, Itinerary Selected Illustrations from Sarah Longe, Mrs. Sarah Longe Her Receipt Book from William Harrison, Chronologie Children and Education Selected Illustrations The Supernatural and the Miraculous from Reginald Scot, The Discovery of Witchcraft from George Gifford, A Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils by Witches and Sorcerers from Joseph Hall, Characters of Virtues and Vices from Sir John Harington, “Account of an Audience with King James I,” as recorded in Nugae Antiquae Anonymous Broadsheet, “The Form and Shape of a Monstrous Child” Crime from “A True Report of the late Horrible Murder Committed by William Sherwood” Print Culture AEMILIA LANYER To the Virtuous Reader from Salve Deus Rex Judæorum “Invocation” “Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women” The Description of Cooke-ham To the Doubtful Reader SIR WALTER RALEIGH A Vision Upon This Conceit of the Fairy Queen Sir Walter Ralegh to His Son The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd The Lie (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Nature That Washed Her Hands in Milk (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Part 1, Preface from Part 5 Letter to His Wife FRANCIS BACON (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from Essays Of Truth Of Marriage and Single Life Of Studies (1597) Of Studies (1625) Of Love CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Hero and Leander (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) The Passionate Shepherd to His Love The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (“A” Text) IN CONTEXT: Dr. Faustus from Anonymous, The History of the Damnable Life, and Deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus from Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, De Occulta Philosophia (Of Occult Philosophy) IN CONTEXT: Dr. Faustus, the “B” Text (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sonnets 1 (“From fairest creatures we desire increase”) 2 (“When forty winters shall besiege thy brow”) 12 (“When I do count the clock that tells the time”) 15 (“When I consider everything that grows”) 16 (“But wherefore do not you a mightier way”) 18 (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”) 19 (“Devouring time, blunt thou the lion’s paws”) 20 (“A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted”) 23 (“As an unperfect actor on the stage”) 29 (“When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes”) 30 (“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought”) 33 (“Full many a glorious morning have I seen”) 35 (“No more be grieved at that which thou hast done”) 36 (“Let me confess that we two must be twain”) 55 (“Not marble, nor the gilded monuments”) 60 (“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore”) 64 (“When I have seen by time’s fell hand defaced”) 65 (“Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea”) 71 (“No longer mourn for me when I am dead”) 73 (“That time of year thou mayst in me behold”) 74 (“But be contented when that fell arrest”) 80 (“O how I faint when I of you do write”) 87 (“Farewell—thou art too dear for my possessing”) 93 (“So shall I live supposing thou art true”) 94 (“They that have power to hurt and will do none”) 97 (“How like a winter hath my absence been”) 98 (“From you have I been absent in the spring”) 105 (“Let not my love be called idolatry”) 106 (“When in the chronicle of wasted time”) 109 (“O never say that I was false of heart”) 110 (“Alas, ’tis true, I have gone here and there”) 116 (“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”) 117 (“Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all”) 127 (“In the old age black was not counted fair”) 128 (“How oft when thou, my music, music play’st”) 129 (“Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame”) 130 (“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”) 135 (“Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will”) 136 (“If thy soul check thee that I come so near”) 138 (“When my love swears that she is made of truth”) 143 (“Lo, as a careful housewife runs to catch”) 144 (“Two loves I have, of comfort and despair”) 146 (“Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth”) 147 (“My love is as a fever, longing still”) 153 (“Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep”) 154 (“The little love-god lying once asleep”) Twelfth Night (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) IN CONTEXT: Performance and Sources IN CONTEXT: Gender and Sexuality IN CONTEXT: Theater and Society IN CONTEXT: Music and the Passions IN CONTEXT: Dueling A Midsummers Night’s Dream (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) The Merchant of Venice (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) IN CONTEXT: Sources and Context IN CONTEXT: Jews and Christians IN CONTEXT: Revenge IN CONTEXT: Commercial Life: Of Venice, Merchants, Usurers, and Debtors IN CONTEXT: Friendship and Love between Men IN CONTEXT: Women, Family, and Obedience King Lear (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) IN CONTEXT: Facsimile Pages IN CONTEXT: King Lear: Sources and Analogues IN CONTEXT: King Lear: Seventeenth-Century Reception History IN CONTEXT: The Shakespearean Theater (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) The Swan Theatre Titus Andronicus in Performance The Plot of an Elizabethan Play Early Editions of Shakespeare’s BEN JONSON To the Reader To My Book (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) On Something that Walks Somewhere (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) To William Camden (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) On My First Daughter To John Donne On My First Son On Lucy, Countess of Bedford Inviting a Friend to Supper To Penshurst (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Song: To Celia To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, And What He Hath Left Us Ode to Himself (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) My Picture Left in Scotland (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of That Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Karolin’s Song (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Hymn to Cynthia (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Clerimont’s Song (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) JOHN DONNE Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness from Songs and Sonnets The Good-Morrow Song (“Go, and catch a falling star”) Woman’s Constancy The Sun Rising The Canonization Song (“Sweetest love, I do not go”) Air and Angels Break of Day (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) The Anniversary (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Twicknam Garden (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) A Valediction: of Weeping The Flea A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day The Bait The Apparition (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning The Ecstasy (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) The Relic (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from Elegies 1. Jealousy (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) 8. The Comparison (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed from Satires (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) 3 (“Kind pity chokes my spleen; brave scorn forbids”) from Verse Letters (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) To Sir Henry Wotton An Anatomy of the World The First Anniversary from Holy Sonnets 2 (“As due by many titles I resign”) (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) 5 (“I am a little world made cunningly”) 6 (“This is my play’s last scene, here heavens appoint”) 7 (“At the round earth’s imagined corners, blow”) 9 (“If poisonous minerals, and if that tree”) 10 (“Death be not proud, though some have called thee”) 13 (“What if this present were the world’s last night?”) 14 (“Batter my heart, three personed God; for you”) 18 (“Show me, dear Christ, Thy spouse, so bright and clear”) 19 (“Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one”) Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward A Hymn to God the Father from Devotions Meditation 17 LADY MARY WROTH from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 1 (“When night’s black mantle could most darkness prove”) 6 (“My pain, still smothered in my grieved breast”) 7 (“Love leave to urge, thou know’st thou hast the hand”) 13 (“Dear, famish not what you your self gave food”) 14 (“Am I thus conquered? have I lost the powers”) 15 (“Truly poor Night thou welcome art to me”) 22 (“Like to the Indians, scorched with the sun”) 23 (“When every one to pleasing pastime hies”) 35 (“False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill”) from A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love 77 (“In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?”) Railing Rhymes Returned upon the Author by Mistress Mary Wroth IN CONTEXT: The Occasion of “Railing Rhymes” Edward Denny, Baron of Waltham, To Pamphilia from the father-in-law of Seralius THOMAS HOBBES (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from Leviathan; Or the Matter, Form, & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil The Introduction Chapter 13: Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning their Felicity and Misery ROBERT HERRICK The Argument of His Book Delight in Disorder Corinna’s Going A-Maying To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home Upon Julia’s Clothes GEORGE HERBERT The Altar Redemption Easter Wings Affliction (1) (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Prayer (1) Jordan (1) Church-Monuments (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) The Windows (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Denial (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Virtue (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Man (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Time The Bunch of Grapes (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) The Collar The Pulley The Flower (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Discipline (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Death (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Love (3) ANDREW MARVELL The Coronet (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Bermudas (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) A Dialogue between the Soul and Body (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) To His Coy Mistress The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) The Mower against Gardens Damon the Mower (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) The Garden An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) KATHERINE PHILIPS A Married State Upon the Double Murder of King Charles On the Third of September, 1651 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship Friendship’s Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Friendship in Emblem, or the Seal, To My Dearest Lucasia JOHN MILTON L’Allegro Il Penseroso Lycidas (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Sonnets 7 (“How soon hath Time the subtle thief of youth”) 16: To the Lord General Cromwell (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) 18: On the Late Massacre in Piedmont 19 (“When I consider how my light is spent”) 23 (“Methought I saw my late espoused saint”) from Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England from Paradise Lost The Verse Argument to Book 1 Book 1 Argument to Book 2 Book 2 Argument to Book 3 from Book 3 Argument to Book 4 Book 4 Argument to Book 5 Argument to Book 6 Argument to Book 7 from Book 7 Argument to Book 8 Argument to Book 9 Book 9 Argument to Book 10 Book 10 Argument to Book 11 Argument to Book 12 from Book 12 IN CONTEXT: Illustrating Paradise Lost THE RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY THE RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Religion, Government, and Party Politics Empiricism, Skepticism, and Religious Dissent Industry, Commerce, and the Middle Class Ethical Dilemmas in a Changing Nation Print Culture Poetry Theater The Novel The Development of the English Language HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE AND OF PRINT CULTURE JOHN DRYDEN Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Mac Flecknoe To the Memory of Mr. Oldham A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day from An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) SAMUEL PEPYS from The Diary IN CONTEXT: Other Accounts of the Great Fire from The London Gazette APHRA BEHN The Disappointment Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave. 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