Chapter I: Front Matter

SOME LONGER ELIZABETHAN POEMS

_AN ENGLISH GARNER_

SOME LONGER
ELIZABETHAN POEMS

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
A. H. BULLEN

WESTMINSTER
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO., LTD.
1903

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

The texts contained in the present volume are reprinted with very slight alterations from the _English Garner_ issued in eight volumes (1877-1890, London, 8vo) by Professor Arber, whose name is sufficient guarantee for the accurate collation of the texts with the rare originals, the old spelling being in most cases carefully modernised. The contents of the original _Garner_ have been rearranged and now for the first time classified, under the general editorial supervision of Mr. Thomas Seccombe. Certain lacunae have been filled by the interpolation of fresh matter. The Introductions are wholly new and have been written specially for this issue.

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CONTENTS

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Sir John Davies--Orchestra, or A Poem of Dancing, 1596, 1

Sir John Davies--Nosce Teipsum:--
1. Of Human Knowledge,}
2. Of the Soul of Man,} 1599, 41

Sir John Davies--Hymns of Astræa, in Acrostic Verse, 1599, 107

Six Idillia, that is six small or petty poems or Æglogues of
Theocritus translated into English Verse (Anon), Oxford,
1588, 123

*Richard Barnfield--The Affectionate Shepheard. Containing
the Complaint of Daphnis for the love of Ganymede,
1594, 147

*Richard Barnfield--Cynthia. With Certaine Sonnets and the
Legend of Cassandra, 1595, 187

*Richard Barnfield--The Encomion of Lady Pecunia: or The
Praise of Money, 1598, 227

*Richard Barnfield--The Complaint of Poetrie for the Death of
Liberalitie, 1598, 241

*Richard Barnfield--The Combat, betweene Conscience and
Covetousnesse in the minde of Man, 1598, 253

*Richard Barnfield--Poems: in divers humors, 1598, 261

Astrophel. A Pastoral Elegy upon the death of the most noble
and valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney. A group of
elegies by Spenser and other hands printed as an
Appendix to Spenser's Colin Clouts come home again,
1595, 271

J. C.--Alcilia: Philoparthen's Loving Folly, 1595, 319

Antony Scoloker--Daiphantus, or The Passions of Love, by
An. Sc. Whereunto is added The Passionate Man's
Pilgrimage, 1604, 363

Michael Drayton--_Odes_ [drawn from _Poems Lyrick and Pastorall_,
1606, and the later _Poems_ of 1619], 405

*The items indicated by an asterisk are new additions to _An English Garner_.