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THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF SIXTEENTH CENTURY
EMRYS JONES, Editor
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF
SIXTEENTH-CENTURY VERSE
EMRYS JONES is Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of New College. His publications include Scenic Form in Shakespeare (1971) and The Origins of Shakespeare (1977).
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THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF
SIXTEENTH CENTURY VERSE Chosen and edited by EMRYS JONES
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
OXPORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Great Clarendon Street, Oxford 0x2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi Sao Paulo Shanghai Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto with an associated company in Berlin Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York Introduction, Notes and Selection © Ernrys Jones 1991 The moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 1991 First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback 1992 Reissued 2002 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organizations. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data The New Oxford book of sixteenth century verse / chosen and edited by Emrys Jones. p. cm. 1. English poetry—Early modern, 1500-1700. Jones, Emrys, 1931— 821'.308-dc20 PR1205.N49 1992 91-46612 ISBN 0-19-280195-3 1 3 5 7 9 1 08 6 4 2 Printed in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc
CONTENTS xxv
Introduction J O H N SKELTON (c. 1460-15 29)
from 1. 2. 3. from 4. from 5. from 6. 7. from 8. from 9. 10.
The Garland of Laurel To Mistress Isabel Pennell To Mistress Margaret Hussey [My darling dear, my daisy flower] The Bouge of Court 'The sail is up, Fortune ruleth our helm' Philip Sparrow 'Pla ce bar Magnificence [Fancy's song and speech] [The conclusion of the play] Elinour Rumming [Visitors to the ale-house] Speak, Parrot [The opening stanzas] [The conclusion]
1 2
3 4
9 18 20 22
26 30
ANONYMOUS
11. The Nutbronm Maid
32
STEPHEN HAWES (l475?-IS23?)
from The Pastime of Pleasure 12. [The epitaph of graunde amoure] 13. [Against Swearing]
43 43
ANONYMOUS
14. Western Wind 15. 'By a bank as I lay'
44 45
HEATH (first name and dates unknown) 16. 'These women all"
46
A T T R I B U T E D TO K I N G H E N R Y V I I I (1491-1547)
17. 'Pastime with good company" 18. 'Whereto should I express' 19. 'Green groweth the holly'
47 48 48
W I L L I A M C O R N I S H (d. 1523)
20. 'You and I and Amyas'
49 v
CONTENTS ANONYMOUS
21. [The juggler and the baron's daughter]
50
SIR T H O M A S M O R E (1477 Or 1478-1535) 22. A Lamentation of Queen Elizabeth 23. Certain metres written by master Thomas More ... for "The Book of Fortune'
55
A L E X A N D E R B A R C L A Y (l475?-I552) from Eclogues 24. ['The Miseries of Courtiers'. . . Eating in Hall]
62
ANONYMOUS from Scottish Field 25. [The Battle of Flodden]
67
SIR T H O M A S WYATT (c.1503-1542) 26. 'And wilt thou leave me thus?' 27. 'Madam, withouten many words' 28. 'in aeternum' 29. 'Whoso list to hunt' 30. 'Farewell, Love' 31. 'Forget not yet' 32. 'Is it possible' 33. 'My lute, awake!' 34. 'They flee from me' 35. 'With serving still' 36. 'What should I say' 37. 'In court to serve' 38. 'Sometime I fled the fire' 39. 'Quondam was I' 40. 'Who list his wealth and ease retain' 41. 'In mourning wise' 42. 'Tagus, farewell' 43. 'If waker care' 44. 'The pillar perished is' 45. 'Lucks, my fair falcon' 46. 'Sighs are my food' 47. 'Throughout the world, if it were sought' 48. 'Fortune doth frown' 49. [Part of a Chorus from Seneca's Thyestes] 50. Psalm 130 ['From depth of sin and from a deep despair'] 51. 'Mine own John Poyntz' 52. 'My mother's maids when they did sew and spin' 53. 'A spending hand that alway poureth out'
vi
52
'74 74 75 76 76 77 77 78 80 80 81 82 82 82
83 84 86 86 86 87 87 87 88 88 88 89 92 95
CONTENTS A T T R I B U T E D TO SIR T H O M A S WYATT
54. 'I am as I am and so will I be'
97
ANONYMOUS
from The Court of Lave 55. [The birds' matins and conclusion of the poem]
98
HENRY H O W A R D , EARL OF SURREY (15 17?-1547)
56. 57. 58. 59. 60. from 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67.
'When raging love' 'The soote season' 'Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green' 'Alas, so all things now do hold their peace' 'O happy dames' Certain Books of Virgil's '/Eneis' [Creusa] [Dido in love] [The Happy Life] 'So cruel prison' An excellent epitaph of Sir Thomas Wyatt 'Th'Assyrians' king' [Epitaph for Thomas Clere]
102 IO2 103 103 IO4 105
108 109 109 in 112 113
R O B E R T C O P L A N D (fl. 1508-1547)
from The High Way to the Spital House 68. 'To write of Sol in his exaltation'
"3
J O H N H A R I N Q T O N (d. 1582)
69. 70. 71. 72.
To his mother [Husband to wife] [Wife to husband] A sonnet written upon my Lord Admiral Seymour
119 120 121 122
ANONYMOUS
73. [How to obtain her]
122
A N N E A S K E W (1521-1546)
74. The Ballad which Anne Askew made and sang when she was in Newgate SIR THOMAS SEYMOUR (BARON SEYMOUR OF SUDELEY)
75. 'Forgetting God'
123
(1508?-1549) 125
J O H N H E Y W O O D (c.1497-c.1580)
76. [A quiet neighbour]
126
N I C H O L A S G R I M A L D (15 I9?-I562?)
127
77. Description of Virtue
vii
CONTENTS THOMAS, LORD VAUX (1510-1556) 78. The Aged Lover Renounceth Love 79. [The Pleasures of Thinking] 80. [Death in Life] 81. [Age looks back at Youth]
127 129 130 130
G E O R G E C A V E N D I S H (l499?-I56l?)
82. An Epitaph of our late Queen Mary
131
T H O M A S P H A E R (l510?-I560)
from The nine first books of the Eneidos 83. [Euryalus and Nisus meet their deaths]
135
B A R N A B Y G O O G E (1540-1594)
84. To Doctor Bale 85. Of Money 86. Coming homeward out of Spain
137 138 138
T H O M A S S A C K V I L L E , E A R L O F D O R S E T (1536-1608)
from The Mirror for Magistrates 87. The Induction
:
39
ANONYMOUS 88. A Dialogue between Death and Youth
154
E D W A R D DE VERE, EARL OF OXFORD (1550-1604) 89. 'The lively lark stretched forth her wing' 90. 'If women could be fair and yet not fond' 91. 'The labouring man, that tills the fertile soil' 92. 'Sitting alone upon my thought' 93. [A Court Lady addresses her Lover] 94. 'When wert thou born, Desire?' 95. 'What cunning can express'
157 157 158 159 160 161 162
ATTRIBUTED TO EDWARD DE VERE, EARL OF OXFORD
96. 'When I was fair and young'
163
ANONYMOUS 97. The lover compareth himself to the painful falconer
164
ARTHUR G O L D I N G (£.1536-1605) from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' 98. [Ceyx and Alcyone]
165
J O H N P I K E R Y N G (c.1567) from The History of Herestes 99. [Haltersick's Song]
174
viii
CONTENTS 100. [Song sung by Egistus and Clytemnestra] 101. [The Vice's Song]
175 177
ANONYMOUS
102. 'Fain would I have a pretty thing'
178
G E O R G E T U R B E R V I L L E (c.1544-c.1597)
103. A poor Ploughman to a Gentleman for whom he had taken a little pains 104. To his friend P. of courting, travelling, dicing, and tennis 105. [Epigram from Plato] 106. [A Letter from Russia]
179 180 180 181
Q U E E N E L I Z A B E T H I (1533-1603)
107. from 108. 109.
'The doubt of future foes' Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy 'All human kind on earth' 'Ah, silly pug, wert thou so sore afraid?'
183 184 185
ANONYMOUS
110. 'Christ was the Word that spake it'
185
T H O M A S TUSSER (l524?-158o)
from Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry III. [December's Husbandry] 112. [Advice to Housewives]
186 189
I S A B E L L A W H I T N E Y (fl. 1567-1573)
from The Manner of her Will and What she left to London ... 113. 'I whole in body and in mind"
192
GEORGE G A S C O I G N E (1534-1577)
114. 115. 116. 117. 118. 119. 120.
Gascoigne's Woodmanship Magnum vectigal parsimonia Gascoigne's Lullaby Gascoigne's Good Morrow Gascoigne's Goodnight ]No haste but good] The Green Knight's Farewell to Fancy
BEWE (first name unknown) (fl. c.1576) 121. 'I would I were Actaeon'
196 200 202 203 205 206 209 211
THOMAS PROCTOR (ft. c.1578)
122. Respice Finem
212
ix
CONTENTS T H O M A S C H U R C H Y A R D (l520?-l604)
123. A Tale of a Friar and a Shoemaker's Wife
213
TIMOTHY KENDALL (fl. 1577)
from 124. 125. 126. 127. 128.
Flowers of Epigrams The difference between a King and a Tyrant A Tyrant in deep, naught dijfereth from a common man Of a good prince and an evil Desire of Dominion Upon the grave of a beggar
227 227 228 228 228
N I C H O L A S B R E T O N (c.1555-1626)
129. 130. 131. 132. 133. 134.
[Service is no Heritage] 'In the merry month of May' The Chess Play A Report Song 'Who can live in heart so glad' 'In time of yore'
229 232 232 235 235 237
E D M U N D S P E N S E R (c..1552-1599)
135. from 136. from 137. 138. 139. 140. 141.
To ... Master Gabriel Harvey Mother Hubbard's Tale [The Fox and the Ape go to Court] The Faerie Queene [Guyon's Voyage to the Bower of Bliss] [The House of Busyrane] [The Vision of the Graces] [Mutability claims to rule the world] [A Faerie Queene Miscellany] (i) 'He making speedy way through spersed ayre' (ii) 'By this the Northerne wagoner had set' (iii) 'The noble hart, that harbours vertuous thought' (iv) 'Right well I wote most mighty Soueraine' (v) 'And is there care in heauen? and is mere loue' (vi) 'Nought vnder heauen so strongly doth allure' (vii) 'When I bethinke me on that speech whyleare' from Amoretti 142. 'New year, forth looking out of Janus' gate' 143. 'Most glorious Lord of life, that on mis day' 144. 'One day I wrote her name upon the strand' 145. 'Lacking my love, I go from place to place' 146. Epithalamion 147. Prothalamion
x
238 239 246 2SS 262 268 277 278 278 278 279 280 280 281 281 282 282 282 293
CONTENTS SIR P H I L I P S I D N E Y (1554-1586)
from The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia 148. 'My sheep are thoughts, which I both guide and serve' 149. 'O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness' 150. 'My true love hath my heart, and I have his' 151. 'Why dost thou haste away' 152. 'Ye goat-herd gods, that love the grassy mountains' from Certain Sonnets 153. 'Ring out your bells' from Astrophil and Stella 154. 'Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show' 155. 'Let dainty wits cry on the sisters nine' 156. 'It is most true, that eyes are formed to serve' 157. 'Some lovers speak, when they their muses entertain' 158. 'Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend' 159. 'You that do search for every purling spring' 160. 'With what sharp checks I in myself am shent' 161. 'On Cupid's bow how are my heart-strings bent' 162. 'Fly, fly, my friends, I have my death wound, fly' 163. 'Your words, my friend, right healthful caustics, blame' 164. 'The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness' 165. 'Because I oft, in dark abstracted guise' 166. 'You that with allegory's curious frame' 167. 'Whether the Turkish new moon minded be' 168. 'With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies' 169. 'Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace' 170. 'As good to write, as for to lie and groan' 171. 'Stella oft sees the very face of woe' 172. 'In martial sports I had my cunning tried' 173. 'Because I breathe not love to every one' 174. 'Who will in fairest book of nature know' 175. 'Have I caught my heavenly jewel' 176. 'I never drank of Aganippe well' 177. 'Of all the kings that ever here did reign' 178. 'Only joy, now here you are' 179. 'In a grove most rich of shade' 180. 'Go, my flock, go get you hence' 181. 'Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame' 182. 'Be your words made, good sir, of Indian ware' 183. 'When far-spent night persuades each mortal eye' 184. 'Who is it that this dark night' from The Psalms of David Translated into English Verse 185. Psalm ij ['How long, O lord, shall I forgotten be?']
xi
297 297 298 299 299 302 303 303 304 304 304 305 305 306 306 306 307 307 307 308 308 309 309 309 310 310 310 3" 312 312 312 314 317 318 318 319 319 320
CONTENTS SIR E D W A R D DYER (d. 1607)
186. 'Prometheus, when first from heaven high'
321
ATTRIBUTED TO SIR E D W A R D DYER
322
187. In praise of a contented mind ANONYMOUS
188. 'The lowest trees have tops, the ant her gall'
323
H U M P H R E Y G I F F O R D (/?. £.1580)
189. For Soldiers 190. In the praise of music
324 325
R I C H A R D S T A N Y H U R S T (1547-1618)
from The First Four Books of Virgil his /Eneis 191. [Polyphemus]
327
T H O M A S W A T S O N (£.1557-1592)
192. My love is past
33i
ANONYMOUS
193. Verses made by a Catholic in praise of Campion .. . 194. [Hymn to the Virgin]
332 337
T H O M A S G I L B A R T (fl. c.1583)
195. A declaration of the death of John Lewes . . .
339
ANONYMOUS
196. A new courtly sonnet of the Lady Greensleeves 197. A Nosegay
343 345
J O H N LYLY (c.1554-1606)
from 198. 199. 200. from 201. 202. from 203. 204. from 205. 206. 207. 208.
Campaspe 'O for a bowl of fat Canary' 'Cupid and my Campaspe played' 'What bird so sings, yet so does wail?' Sapho and Phao 'O cruel love, on thee I lay' The Song in making of the Arrows Endimion 'Stand! Who goes there?' 'Pinch him, pinch him black and blue' Midas 'My Daphne's hair is twisted gold' 'Pan's Syrinx was a girl indeed' "Las, how long shall F 'Sing to Apollo, God of Day' xii
349 349 35° 35° 35° 351 352 352 352 353 353
CONTENTS F U L K E G R E V I L L E , L O R D B R O O K E (1554-1628)
from 209. 210. 211. 212. 213. 214. 215. 216. 217. 218. 219. 220. 221. from 222.
Caelica 'The world, that all contains, is ever moving' 'I with whose colours Myra dressed her head' 'All my senses, like beacon's flame' 'When all this All doth pass from age to age' 'Love is the peace, whereto all thoughts do strive' 'The earth with thunder torn, with fire blasted' 'When as man's life, the light of human lust' 'Man, dream no more of curious mysteries' 'Eternal Truth, almighty, infinite' 'Wrapt up, O Lord, in man's degeneration' 'Down in the depth of mine iniquity' 'Three things there be in man's opinion dear' 'Sion lies waste, and thy Jerusalem' Mustapha [Chorus of Priests ('O wearisome condition of humanity')]
354 355 355 357 357 358 358 359 359 360 360 361 362 362
S I R W A L T E R R A L E G H (