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Folio
Earth's point but a prison
Folger
V.a.339
f. 1
Lend me thy voice thou choir of heaven
Mason, Dr. [ ]
`An anthem made by...to be sung upon Christmas Day'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 1v
Alpha and Omega God alone
Folger
V.a.339
f. 16v
Excess of wealth great pow'rful God I do not wish to see
`A mean'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 17v
If any be distress'd and fain would gather
Androe, Dr. [ ]
`Dr. Androe's paraphrase on the Lord's Prayer'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 17v
...Yet want I will | Or malice to make faults which now is skill
Folger
V.a.339
f. 18
What is our life? A play of passion
Raleigh, Sir Walter?
`Life's description'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 18
Fleres si scires unum tua tempora mensem
More, Sir Thomas
Folger
V.a.339
f. 22
He that to live well doth the time prolong
[translation of Horace: Vivendi qui recte prorogat horam]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 22
Knowest thou a month should end thy days
More, Sir Thomas
[translation from the Latin: Fleres scires unum tua tempora mensem]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 22
Live in the world as dead to sin
Folger
V.a.339
f. 22
Nemo in sese tentat descendere
Folger
V.a.339
f. 22
No man attempteth this essay
[translation of Latin: Nemo in sese tentat descendere]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 22
The sun the moon and every star the change of night and day
Folger
V.a.339
f. 22
Like to a ring without a finger
Raleigh, Sir Walter?
`Canto'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 22v
To rise by others' fall I deem a losing gain
Folger
V.a.339
f. 22v
We trample grass, and praise the flowers of May
Folger
V.a.339
f. 22v
Vivendi qui recte prorogat horam
Horace
`Hor. 1. i. Epist. 2. 40.'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 24 (formerly 22)
Jehovah here of nothing all things makes
Taylor, John
`Verbum sempiternum'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 24v
...In those parts theris [there is?] fate which hidden are | If then thou be not wrought for by thy star
[translation of the previous lines: ...Fatum et in partibus illis]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 27v
Fie love fie foolish frantic love
`In amorem'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 30
Mongst lions fell in Daniel's den am I
Folger
V.a.339
f. 30v
You that seek what life is in death
Folger
V.a.339
f. 31
The flower fades and doth again revive
Folger
V.a.339
f. 31v
Me tanquam socium te dicis amare Trebati
`Love me love mine'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 339
Shepherds have you seen my love
`Ballad of his mistress'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 37
In youth when years were green
`The wise man's warning'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 38
Him whom the raging floods did not ov'rflow
`Drunkenness'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 40v
The little hearts where light-wing'd passion reigns
Folger
V.a.339
f. 42v
When all his all doth pass from age to age
Folger
V.a.339
f. 42v
When all this all doth pass from age to age
Folger
V.a.339
f. 42v
Farewell sweet boy complain not of my truth
Folger
V.a.339
f. 43
Man dreams no more of curious mysteries
Folger
V.a.339
f. 43v
Virgula divina sorcerers call a rod
Folger
V.a.339
f. 43v
Whenas man's life the light of human lust
Folger
V.a.339
f. 43v
Men that delight to multiply desire
Folger
V.a.339
f. 44
Eternal truth, Almighty infinite,
Folger
V.a.339
f. 44v
Malice and love in their ways opposite
Folger
V.a.339
f. 44v
Down in the depth of mine iniquity
Folger
V.a.339
f. 45
Wrapp'd, up O Lord, in man's degeneration,
Folger
V.a.339
f. 45
In night when colors all to black are cast
Folger
V.a.339
f. 45v
Sion lies waste, and thy Jerusalem,
Folger
V.a.339
f. 45v
Though things past cure should also be past care
Folger
V.a.339
f. 85v
Ye comfortless and coal-black tedious night
Folger
V.a.339
f. 85v
Fortune and I so long have tugg'd together
Folger
V.a.339
f. 86
The silly swain that sweats out all his time
Folger
V.a.339
f. 86
The passions of my mind so much abound
Folger
V.a.339
f. 86v
Wherein damn'd poverty dost thou not wrong me
Folger
V.a.339
f. 86v
Nor sun by day lend me his cheerful light
Folger
V.a.339
f. 87
The full-fac'd silver moon glides silently
Folger
V.a.339
f. 87
How well this suit doth with my mind agree
Folger
V.a.339
f. 87v
I know Jehovah is omnipotent
Folger
V.a.339
f. 87v
Poor bird with children's dandling almost dead
Folger
V.a.339
f. 88
These primroses not half an hou[r] ago
Folger
V.a.339
f. 88
Care-charmer sleep son of the sable night,
Daniel, Samuel
`A sonnet'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 88v
Lo when the sun to th' Irish seas is fled
Folger
V.a.339
f. 88v
Those sapless trees are hung with hoary frost
Folger
V.a.339
f. 88v
The Lord whose dwelling is in heaven
Folger
V.a.339
f. 89
The star is but the instrument, the planet is the same
Folger
V.a.339
f. 89
To keep good diet, you should never feed
Folger
V.a.339
f. 89v
Rides Epicure deum gere nescia pectora fati
Folger
V.a.339
f. 90
By harvest when the leaves do fall
Folger
V.a.339
f. 93
Forewarned time is still approaching near
Vaus, John (1648)
[1648]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 93v
If th'ancientest books which I have read
Vaus, John (1648)
[1648]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 93v
Our sp[r]ing and summer both wax old
Folger
V.a.339
f. 93v
Whenas Noah's flood began, the world was old,
Vaus, John (1648)
[1648]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 93v
The willow though in scorn it's sometimes us'd,
`Sanat sanctificat et ditat surgere mane'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 94
Bodies where heat and moisture dwells
`The description of the four complections'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 96v
Cold quencheth the choler's pride
`Complections of meats are known by their tastes as etc.'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 96v
First in urine four things mark
`Of urine'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 97
Our filthy dung and sex most vile the dregs of nature's food
`The signs of the excrements'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 97v
The choleric man is like a hasty pudding soon hot soon cold
`Four complections'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 97v
Tobacco that outlandish weed
Folger
V.a.339
f. 97v
A pinnace rigg'd with silken sail
`The pinnace'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 105v
O pity me sweet lady mine
`To his lady'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 106
Give place you ladies all
`Give place you ladies'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 107
Kit hath lost her key
`Kit hath lost her key'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 108
Old age and youth did meet
`Youth and age'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 108v
Pass not for ribalds which milkmaids defame
`The praise of milkmaids'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 110
All in a garden green
`All in a garden green'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 111
Whoso defames our London dames
`Dames of London'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 112
Now must I lose my head
`Lady Jane's lament'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 113
Full merrrily sings the cuckoo
`The cuckoo's song'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 113v
The hunt is up the hunt is up | And it is well nigh day
`The King's hunt is up'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 114v
Hough for a bachelor merry doth he live
`The bachelor'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 115
Though idleness in some of us
`Against idleness'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 116v
When raging love with fierce assault
`Beauty's fort'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 117
To all whose wives their masters be
`The married man's lament'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 117v
The hunt is up the hunt is up | Awake my lady free
`The new Hunts up'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 118v
Women are best when they are at rest
`Women best when at rest'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 118v
If ever I marry I'll marry a maid
`Maids and widows'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 119
Whate'er my fortune do with me
`Truth hath a quiet breast'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 119v
Attend thee go play thee
`The lover scoffed'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 120
O cruel pains that now I feel
`The damned soul in hell'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 121
All men that hearken to my song
`The Christian's A.B.C'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 121v
Faith Joan now welcome to the city
`City and country maidens'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 122
After midnight when dreams befall
`Awake and arise'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 123
A country clown
`The clown turned gentleman'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 124
Home is still home be it never so ill
`Home is still home'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 125
When raging love with extreme pain
`When raging love'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 125v
When May is in his prime
`The praise of May'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 126
No wight in this world true wealth can attain
`Against covetousness'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 127
Faith Cicely Cowslip how do you
`The city maid and country maid'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 127v
Lament each one the fatal fire
`The burning of Paul's'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 129a verso
Wilt thou from me thus depart
`Dainty come thou to me'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 129v
Try ere thou trust unto a fawning friend
`Try ere thou trust'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 130
Wine women and dice
`Wine women and dice'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 130v
If I should choose a pretty flower
`The praise of the gilliflower'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 131v
Maid will you marry? I pray sir tarry
`Maid will you marry?'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 132
I am a jolly tinker
`The tinker and the countryman'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 132v
Though Helen were so passing fair
`The wickedness of cruel women'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 134v
Love me little love me long
`Love me little love me long'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 135v
Sweet if thou wilt be as I am to thee
`My pretty little one'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 136
Scoggin a street did pass along
`A jest of Scoggin'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 137
The rushing rivers that do run
`To his lady'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 137v
When rivers turn and run uphill
`Women's tongues'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 138v
My lady's like a flower just bursting with a shower
`What is my lady like?'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 140
Ye dames that of your beauty boast
`A caveat for beauty'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 141v
Dick Tarleton was a merry man
`Tinker's truths'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 142v
Send me thy son and go thy way
`Send me thy son'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 143v
A country damsel came to town
`Tarleton's toy'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 144v
So much I love thee gentle May
`A love song'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 145v
My servant's like a dog that followeth a rogue
`What is my servant like'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 146
Baldness though some dispise
`Defense of a bald head'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 147
When clouds of cares rise all un'wares
`The praise of good ale'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 148v
If any man or woman
`Oyez list the cryer'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 149v
Fain would I have a virtuous wife
`The virtuous wife'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 150
All gallant youths with bold attempt
`Dialogue between Venus and Diana'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 150v
When mountains move into the plain
`When knaves will be honest men'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 151v
What flower is my lady like?
`Of his lady'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 153
Will Elderton's red nose is famous everywhere
`A toy of Elderton'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 154
Full long ago in infant years
`The old man's song'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 155
In choice of friends if danger lies
`The choice of friends'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 155v
If tears could wash away my guilt
`Corsbie's confession'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 157v
Listen awhile and you shall hear
`Fatal fall at Paris Garden'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 159
Lament lament for he is dead
`The death of [Robert] Devereux [earl of Essex]'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 160
Shed tears with me Melpomene
`The life and death of Lo. Graye'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 161
G. Peele and Singer travelling together
`A jest of Peele and Singer'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 161a
If you list unto my story
`Two Spanish lovers'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 162
A prophet of the Lord to Bethel came
`The disobedient prophet'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 165v
Full mournfully hoots Madge Howlet
`Madge Howlet's song'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 165v
Of all the crimes now used are
`God's judgment on a sorcerer'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 167
I have lov'd so long since it is clear
`The praise of a whore'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 168
Nay what art thou that I should give
`Life and death'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 168v
Desire hath driven me from my will
`The song of a lover'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 170
The fire that from heaven fell
`Against the new playhouses'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 170v
Take warning London and beware
`The great earthquake'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 171v
If nature bear thee so great love
`Spurina and Roman ladies'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 172v
Walking abroad in Colchester
`The cobbler of Colchester'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 173v
Sing lullaby as women do
`The lover his lullaby'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 176
I'll gaze no more on her bewitching face
Carew, Thomas
`A charming beauty'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 180v
On a day ('tis in thy power
Folger
V.a.339
f. 180v
Read fair maid and know the heat
Morley, George?
Folger
V.a.339
f. 180v
Come heavy heart whose sighs thy passions show
`One friend desires to participate of another's sadness'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 181
When this fly liv'd she us'd to play
Carew, Thomas
`The fly'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 181
Hark how my Celia with the choice
Carew, Thomas
`On a lady singing to the lute'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 181a verso
Might I a wife choose pleasing to my mind
`A wife'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 181a verso
Read fair maid, and know the heat
Morley, George?
Folger
V.a.339
f. 181v
Fond men whose wretched cares the life soon ending
Folger
V.a.339
f. 182
Since she must go and I must mourn come night
Donne, John
`The departure from his mistress'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 182
A louse without license a man did molest
`The arraignment of a louse'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 182v
Nay pish nay pue nay faith and will you? Fie
`Against Mrs. Joseph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 182v
Come stand about a stand of ale
`Dr. Dale's epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 183
I lov'd thee once I'll love no more
Ayton, Sir Robert
Folger
V.a.339
f. 183
Men are to blame to write and say
Folger
V.a.339
f. 183
There is a wall you say upon Parnassus
Folger
V.a.339
f. 183
Eyes lay awake in hope of wished seeing
Folger
V.a.339
f. 183v
Fair in a morning oh fairest morn was never morn so fair
Folger
V.a.339
f. 183v
Peace saucy knave a rustic swain in clouted shoon and shepherds gray
Folger
V.a.339
f. 183v
Seeming not won yet won she was at length
Folger
V.a.339
f. 183v
What though sweet Phyllis be y-go[ne?] and lov'd elsewhere of lovely knight
`A pastoral wherein though Phyllis be gone from Corydon to her love yet he hath Daphne to delight in'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 184
Fair words in presence
`Friendship'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 184v
If Battas for babbling were turn'd to a stone
Folger
V.a.339
f. 184v
Once time and place allow'd me leave both eye and ear
Folger
V.a.339
f. 184v
This is the only way to make a woman dumb
Folger
V.a.339
f. 184v
Why am I bound that might so well go free
Folger
V.a.339
f. 184v
Women when they take the toy
`Women'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 184v
A silly swain not long ago delighting much to please his eye
Folger
V.a.339
f. 185
Muse no more but mazes be the names
Folger
V.a.339
f. 185
Smiles no more, but mazes be your names
Folger
V.a.339
f. 185
When that thine eye hath chose the dame
S., W.
Folger
V.a.339
f. 185v
A thief of late was hang'd (you know because he had his part
Folger
V.a.339
f. 186
The air with sweet my senses doth delight
Breton, Nicholas
Folger
V.a.339
f. 186
Since the jovial god did enter
Folger
V.a.339
f. 186v
Such men as gape may take disgrace
Folger
V.a.339
f. 186v
What odds is this to take me at the fall
Folger
V.a.339
f. 186v
Draw near good people and give ear unto a doleful ditty
Folger
V.a.339
f. 187
If fortune e'en perform her will
Folger
V.a.339
f. 187
My sheep are thoughts which I both give and serve,
Sidney, Sir Philip
[from The countess of Pembroke's Arcadia; attr. T. L.]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 187
Kind unto all to none art thou unkind
Folger
V.a.339
f. 187v
Lechery consult with witchery how to cause frigidity
Folger
V.a.339
f. 187v
Some are set on mischief so that they care not what they do
Folger
V.a.339
f. 187v
The fairest face and daintiest dames alive
Folger
V.a.339
f. 187v
Beware fair maid of musky courtiers' oaths
Sylvester, Joshua
Folger
V.a.339
f. 188
Why should we so much despise
W., G.
`Tobacco'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 188
It was a time when silly bees could speak
*Essex, Robert Devereux, earl? or Cuffe, Henry?
Folger
V.a.339
f. 188v
Come hither zealous brothers
Folger
V.a.339
f. 189
The great'st archpapist learned Curio
[on Henry Howard, earl of Northampton, 1603/4]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 189
Since maids be gentle all days of their lives
Folger
V.a.339
f. 189v (f. ormerly f. 183v)
Am I mad O noble Festus?
Corbett, Richard
`The distracted puritan to the tune of Jovial timber [tinker?]'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 190
My dear and only love take heed
Folger
V.a.339
f. 190
From Oberon in fairy land
Jonson, Ben
Folger
V.a.339
f. 190v
Come my Celia let us prove
Jonson, Ben
Folger
V.a.339
f. 191v
Fain would I wed a fair young man
Campion, Thomas
Folger
V.a.339
f. 191v
Sweetest mistress beauty's glory lover's harvest height of bliss
Folger
V.a.339
f. 191v
Fly from the world O fly thou poor distrest
Folger
V.a.339
f. 192
In idle love long have I lived
Folger
V.a.339
f. 192
We silly dames that false suspect do fear
Folger
V.a.339
f. 192
Come home my troubled thoughts stay and retire
Folger
V.a.339
f. 192v
I must complain yet do enjoy my love
*Campion, Thomas? or Corn., Sir Char.?
[attr. Sir Char. Corn.]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 192v
Look out Fire fire
Folger
V.a.339
f. 192v
The rose is sweet and womenlike in smell
Folger
V.a.339
f. 192v
Your fair looks inflame my desire quench it again with love
Folger
V.a.339
f. 192v
Maids they are grown so coy of late
Folger
V.a.339
f. 193
Some ask the things they have such is their greedy mind
Folger
V.a.339
f. 193
Ah false love will you begone
Folger
V.a.339
f. 193v
Maidens' love for to be entreated
Folger
V.a.339
f. 193v
Since first I saw your face I resolved
Folger
V.a.339
f. 193v
A young man late that lack'd a mate thus came a-wooing to her
Folger
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f. 194
Can I rejoice to see myself
Folger
V.a.339
f. 194
Adieu desire and welcome woeful grief
Folger
V.a.339
f. 194v
My heart why art you puff'd so full of grief
Folger
V.a.339
f. 194v
Send home my long-strayed eyes to me
Donne, John
Folger
V.a.339
f. 195
Since fortune thou art grown so kind
Folger
V.a.339
f. 195
The bittersweet that yields a sour taste
Folger
V.a.339
f. 195
Last night I thought my true love I caught
`The night's delight'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 195v
My mistress is a shuttlecock
Folger
V.a.339
f. 195v
Brave-minded boys whose lands are highways
Folger
V.a.339
f. 196
Come shepherds deck your heads
Folger
V.a.339
f. 196v
Mistress you think a kiss a look a smile
Folger
V.a.339
f. 196v
Respect of persons stoppeth light
`Respect'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 196v
She is not so incomparably fair
Folger
V.a.339
f. 196v
A lusty prelate fair and fat
Folger
V.a.339
f. 197
Scarce had the sun dried up the dewy morn
Folger
V.a.339
f. 197
Sweet Cytherea sitting by a brook
S., W.
Folger
V.a.339
f. 197
There lives no man so settled in content
`Repentance'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 197
Well one compar'd a woman to the moon
Folger
V.a.339
f. 197
Fair is my love but not so fair as fickle
S., W.
Folger
V.a.339
f. 197v
Venus and Adonis sitting by her
Shakespeare, William?
Folger
V.a.339
f. 197v
When my love swears that she is made of truth
Shakespeare, William
Folger
V.a.339
f. 197v
Before that ancient time that man and wife
Folger
V.a.339
f. 198
It fell out dry bond love and back strong lust
Folger
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f. 198
When Phoebus first did Daphne love
Folger
V.a.339
f. 198
A lady fair that now was almost sped
Folger
V.a.339
f. 198v
The bird which is restrain'd of former part's delight
Folger
V.a.339
f. 198v
The lowest trees have tops the ant her gall
Dyer, Sir Edward
Folger
V.a.339
f. 198v
This is all the work of women
Folger
V.a.339
f. 198v
To leave the thing is my delight doth much augment my carefulness
Folger
V.a.339
f. 198v
Beauty is a flower that fadeth away
Folger
V.a.339
f. 199
I am a tossed bark that sails on sorrow's seas
Folger
V.a.339
f. 199
Milla the glory of whose virtues raise
Folger
V.a.339
f. 199
Who list to here the sum of sorrows state
Raleigh, Sir Walter
Folger
V.a.339
f. 199
All women are good gracious and excellent
Folger
V.a.339
f. 199v
And I will shoot so I may winner prove
Folger
V.a.339
f. 199v
Brief hath two tongues and never woman yet
Folger
V.a.339
f. 199v
Dear do not your fair beauty wrong
*May, Thomas? or Randolph, Thomas?
Folger
V.a.339
f. 199v
Grief hath two tongues and never woman yet
Folger
V.a.339
f. 199v
I in a little corner of my heart
Folger
V.a.339
f. 199v
Keep this (quoth she) till better fortune fall
Folger
V.a.339
f. 199v
Let's purge this choler without letting blood
Folger
V.a.339
f. 199v
Like untun'd golden strings fair women are
Folger
V.a.339
f. 199v
Lovely lady I love full sore to hear
Folger
V.a.339
f. 199v
The light of hid fire itself discovers
Folger
V.a.339
f. 199v
These dryads Diego then bespake
Folger
V.a.339
f. 199v
Want of money makes men sad
`Women'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 199v
Women do hold it joys life life's best treasure
Folger
V.a.339
f. 199v
Age can report and youth doth daily prove
`Age'
Folger
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f. 200
And see in his revolt how honor's fled
`Revolt'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200
High-stomach'd are they both and full of ire
`Rage'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200
I never saw the grandsire's child adorn'd
`Male parta'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200
In May we may make merry if we may
`May'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200
March like bailiffs or usurer's dogs
`March'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200
May never was the month of love
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200
One night if spent in care
`Care'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200
Quorunque aspiceres luctus genitusque sonabant
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200
The countryman with quarrels great
`Lawyers'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200
The dogstar in the Grecian land
`Physic'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200
The good or evil hap of good or evil life
`Wife'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200
When thou dost feel thy conscience rent with grief
`Grief'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200
When year doth leap beware women and sheep
`Leap year'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200
All appetite is deaf I will I must
`Lust'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200v
All souls that will be safe fly from my side
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200v
And to their shame their just and guiltless kin
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200v
As a long parted mother with her child
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200v
Fidelity is flown and fear is hatched
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200v
Give no occasion to the envious pens
`Shame'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200v
Life is a bubble blown up with a breath
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200v
Likeness in manners makes best amity
`Friendship'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200v
My heart is great but it must break with silence
`Silence'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200v
Nothing can temper well a young man's rage
`Youth'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200v
She came adorned thither like sweet May
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200v
Sun moon and stars those lights too little
`Blind'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200v
To turn sad sorrow into jocund mirth
`Mirth'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200v
We can help time to furrow us with age
`Time'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200v
Whilst timorous knowledge stands considering
`Fear'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200v
Who will not bide the burden of distress
`Life'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200v
You rich the fawn you poor (O think but then)
`Adversity'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 200v
I'll make thee shape thy thoughts to marry her
`Constraint'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 201
My name is bound to your benificence
`Ingratitude'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 201
All this thou didst what later age can tell
`Fame'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 201v
Although my verse be ill
`Will'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 201v
By which impostum'd tongues their humors purge
`Shame'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 201v
Convey me to my bed then to my grave
`Love and sul[len?]ness'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 201v
Cruel to him that merits courtesy
`Cruelty'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 201v
Hope vanquish'd fear and gave encouragement
`Fear'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 201v
Humility makes time's observers wise
`Humility'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 201v
The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold
Shakespeare, William
`Care' [from King Richard II]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 201v
Their weakness is no warrant to offend
`Faultiness'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 201v
There might you see, oh I am grieve'd to say
`Ruin'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 201v
Each woman is a brief of womankind
Overbury, Sir Thomas
`Sir Thomas Overbury's wife'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 202v
Why this is time that takes in trust
Raleigh, Sir Walter
`Time'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 204v
Wat I what? [wot] well thy overweening wit
Folger
V.a.339
f. 205v
I pity that the summer's nightingale
Folger
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f. 206
My life, and that which erst I held full dear
Folger
V.a.339
f. 207
So lies my loving heart conceal'd
Raleigh, Sir Walter?
Folger
V.a.339
f. 207
The greatest archpapist learned Curio
[on Henry Howard, earl of Northampton, 1603/4]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 208
O fly O fly those bed brokers unclean
Folger
V.a.339
f. 216v
Things that be bitter bitterer than gall
Folger
V.a.339
f. 217
Immortal babe who this dear day
Folger
V.a.339
f. 217v
Lord what am I? a worm dust vapor nothing
Folger
V.a.339
f. 217v
Leave O my soul this baser world below
[upside down]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 218
For not a graceless soul nor mind unquiet
Folger
V.a.339
f. 218v
Stand who so list aloft (for me)
Folger
V.a.339
f. 218v
Awake O soul and look about
`The sinner's counsel to his soul__sonnet'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 219
Who too well known to others' eyes
Folger
V.a.339
f. 219
Like to the damask rose you see
*Wastell, Simon? or Quarles, Francis?
`The brevity of man's life' [attr. S. W.]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 220
Like to the seed put in earth's womb
`Of man's resurrection'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 220v
What shall I like a man to, man so proud,
Folger
V.a.339
f. 221
With shaking hands and heavy heart
Churchyard, Thomas
`Churchyard's farewell'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 221
From a proud woodcock and a peevish wife
Folger
V.a.339
f. 223
Not that I wish my mistress
Grange, John
`Choice of a mistress'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 223v
Though envious fortune which could never have while
`Fancies and fantastics'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 223v
Come Echo I thee summon tell me truly what is woman?
Folger
V.a.339
f. 224
If all the world were paper, and all the sea were ink
Folger
V.a.339
f. 224a
Give me a kiss from those sweet lips of thine
`An incomparable kiss'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 224a v
But throw a staff in't but this night you shall
Folger
V.a.339
f. 225v
Go catch a star that's falling from the sky
Folger
V.a.339
f. 225v
How dearly dot the simple husband buy
Bastard, Thomas
Folger
V.a.339
f. 225v
Hugh should have gone to Oxford t'other day
Folger
V.a.339
f. 225v
In building of his house my friend hath spent
Folger
V.a.339
f. 225v
It seems that masks do women much disgrace
Folger
V.a.339
f. 225v
Quintus is burnt and may thereof be glad
Folger
V.a.339
f. 225v
The crab of the wood | Is sauce very good |The crab of the sea
Folger
V.a.339
f. 225v
The reason of our growths is easily had
Folger
V.a.339
f. 225v
This late-coin'd gentleman's arms unto his house
Folger
V.a.339
f. 225v
When Marcus fail'd a borrowed sum to pay
Folger
V.a.339
f. 225v
A rich old man loving a fair young lass
Folger
V.a.339
f. 226
A Welshman coming late into an inn
Folger
V.a.339
f. 226
Content is all we aim at which I store
Folger
V.a.339
f. 226
In my conceit Sir John he was to blame
Folger
V.a.339
f. 226
My love and I for kisses play'd
Folger
V.a.339
f. 226
She that will eat her breakfast in her bed
Folger
V.a.339
f. 226
Such maltsters as ill measure sell for gain
Folger
V.a.339
f. 226
The first of all our sex came from the side of man
Davies, Sir John
Folger
V.a.339
f. 226
Time eateth all things could the poets say
Folger
V.a.339
f. 226
Two falling out into a ditch they fell
Folger
V.a.339
f. 226
Wman's the center and the lines be men
Folger
V.a.339
f. 226
Young Cook was married upon Sunday last
Folger
V.a.339
f. 226
A question 'tis why women wear a fall
Folger
V.a.339
f. 226v
An old man sitting at a Christmas feast
Folger
V.a.339
f. 226v
By want of shift since lice at first are bred
Folger
V.a.339
f. 226v
Cornutus call'd his wife both whore and slut
Folger
V.a.339
f. 226v
Ill thrives that hapless family that shows
Folger
V.a.339
f. 226v
In bed a young man with his old wife lay
Folger
V.a.339
f. 226v
The end is all and in the end the praise of all depends
Folger
V.a.339
f. 226v
Were women as little as they are good
Folger
V.a.339
f. 226v
A jealous merchant that a sailor met
Folger
V.a.339
f. 227
Coquus with hunger penniless constrain'd
Folger
V.a.339
f. 227
Kind Katherine to her husband kiss'd these words
Folger
V.a.339
f. 227
Sextus half-salv'd his credit with a jest
Folger
V.a.339
f. 227
Thine old friends thou forgot'st having gotten wealth
Folger
V.a.339
f. 227
When Mingo cries how do you sir? 'tis thought
Folger
V.a.339
f. 227
All things have savor though some very small
Folger
V.a.339
f. 227v
Cotta when he hath din'd saith God be praised
Folger
V.a.339
f. 227v
Doll learning propria quae maribus without book
Folger
V.a.339
f. 227v
Rosa being false and perjur'd once a friend
Folger
V.a.339
f. 227v
Rustic Superbus fine new clothes hath got
Folger
V.a.339
f. 227v
Scylla is toothless yet when she was young
Folger
V.a.339
f. 227v
Some the word wa[n]ton fetch though with small skill
Folger
V.a.339
f. 227v
Two wooers for a wench were each at strife
Folger
V.a.339
f. 227v
Who woos a wife thinks weded men do know
Folger
V.a.339
f. 227v
Will says his wife's so fat she scarce can go
Folger
V.a.339
f. 227v
A homespun peasant with his urine glass
Folger
V.a.339
f. 228
By ever learning Solon waxed old
Folger
V.a.339
f. 228
Clym calls his wife and reckoning his neighbors
Folger
V.a.339
f. 228
He's rich that hath great incomes by the year
Folger
V.a.339
f. 228
I asked Fabulus why he did not wife
Folger
V.a.339
f. 228
One told his wife a hart's head he had bought
Folger
V.a.339
f. 228
Six months (quoth Sym a suitor and not speed
Folger
V.a.339
f. 228
When man and woman dies as poets sing
Folger
V.a.339
f. 228
Why I should love thee Lesbia? I no reason see
Folger
V.a.339
f. 228
Will in a woeful humor needs would wed
Folger
V.a.339
f. 228
A health saith Lucas to his love's bright eye
Folger
V.a.339
f. 228v
Caecus awake was told the sun appear'd
Folger
V.a.339
f. 228v
Caius accounts himself accurst of men
Folger
V.a.339
f. 228v
Cima one time most wonderfully swore
Folger
V.a.339
f. 228v
He that have beauty and withal no pity
Folger
V.a.339
f. 228v
I blame not lust Doll that strives so much
Folger
V.a.339
f. 228v
If heaven's call'd the place where angels dwell
Folger
V.a.339
f. 228v
Opus for need consum'd his wealth apace
Folger
V.a.339
f. 228v
Reuben reports his mistress is a punk
Folger
V.a.339
f. 228v
Sextus six pockets wears two for his uses
Harington, Sir John?
Folger
V.a.339
f. 228v
A lady fairer far than fortunate
Folger
V.a.339
f. 229
Death is a fisherman the world we see
Folger
V.a.339
f. 229
Meg lets her husband boast of rule and riches
Folger
V.a.339
f. 229
Nell's husband said she brought him naught but toys
Folger
V.a.339
f. 229
Priscus was weeping when his wife did die
Folger
V.a.339
f. 229
A lusty old grown grave gray-headed sire
Folger
V.a.339
f. 229v
Jack and Dick both with one woman dwelt
Folger
V.a.339
f. 229v
Lie thus (the fencer cries) thus must you guard
Folger
V.a.339
f. 229v
The morrow after just St. George's Day
Folger
V.a.339
f. 229v
Tonsorius only lives for cutting hair
Folger
V.a.339
f. 229v
Walking and meeting one not long ago
Folger
V.a.339
f. 229v
Tell me who taught you to give so much light
Folger
V.a.339
f. 230
That which upholds our tottering walls of flesh
Folger
V.a.339
f. 230
Virtue we praise but practice not her good
Folger
V.a.339
f. 230
Who says that Giles and Joan at discord be?
Jonson, Ben
Folger
V.a.339
f. 230
All buildings are but monuments of death
Folger
V.a.339
f. 230v
Bad debtors are good liars for they say
Folger
V.a.339
f. 230v
Caecus that sups so duly at the Rose
Folger
V.a.339
f. 230v
I Dunmo asked as we at supper sat
Folger
V.a.339
f. 230v
Nature which headlong into life did througe us
Folger
V.a.339
f. 230v
One asked a madman if a wife he had?
Folger
V.a.339
f. 230v
Three women met upon the market day
Folger
V.a.339
f. 230v
What's friendship? 'Tis a treasure -'tis a pleasure
Folger
V.a.339
f. 230v
Will by the war would seem a domineerer
Folger
V.a.339
f. 230v
Will with prov[i]so will to you testify
Folger
V.a.339
f. 230v
A lecherous gallant's blood a Jesuit's
Folger
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f. 231
Find me an end out in a ring
Folger
V.a.339
f. 231
Tasso Torquato Truewit Manlius
Folger
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f. 231
When Bombus preaches (and that's thrice a year)
Folger
V.a.339
f. 231
When Gillian and her gossip[s?] all are met
Folger
V.a.339
f. 231
A doctor told his patient Omphida
Folger
V.a.339
f. 231v
Death without warning was as bold as brief
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 231v
Good bad rich poor the foolish and the sage
Folger
V.a.339
f. 231v
Here lies one dead under this marble stone
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 231v
Jerusalem's curse is not fulfill'd in me
Stone, Ben
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 231v
Patrons are latrons then by this - the[y] are worst of greedy people
Folger
V.a.339
f. 231v
Physicians are most miserable men - that cannot be denied
Folger
V.a.339
f. 231v
Ralph bids adieu to pleasures good or ill
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 231v
Reader it was born and cried
Hoskins, John
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 231v
The poor the world the heavens and the grave
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 231v
We men in many faults abound
Rowlands, Samuel
Folger
V.a.339
f. 231v
Who from accounts and reckonings ne'er could rest
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 231v
A zealous locksmith died of late
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 232
Bibax the drunkard, while he liv'd would say
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 232
Good reader bless thee be assured
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 232
Here lies a wife was chaste a mother blest
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 232
Here lies puried under these stones
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 232
In this marble casket lies
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 232
Into this world as stranger to an inn
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 232
Like bird of prey__death snatch'd away__this harmless dove
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 232
This nimble footman ran away from death
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 232
This trick he had to make while(?) c----ing
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 232
Tread softly passenger for here doth lie
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 232
Here lies a horse who died but - to make his master go on foot
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 232v
Man's life's a game at tables and he may
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 232v
Stay mortal stay remove not from this tomb
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 232v
Tell her I love and if she ask how well
Folger
V.a.339
f. 232v
That our loves may never alter
Folger
V.a.339
f. 232v
Between two suitors sat a lady fair
Folger
V.a.339
f. 233
Excellent mistress brighter than the moon
Folger
V.a.339
f. 233
Give me a kiss I'll make that odd one even
Folger
V.a.339
f. 233
Good folk for gold or hire - Come help me to a crier
Drayton, Michael
`A heart lost'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 233v
Ladies you that seem so nice and as cold in snow as ice
Folger
V.a.339
f. 233v
Like to the self-inhabiting snail
Folger
V.a.339
f. 233v
When first I saw thee thou didst sweetly play
Folger
V.a.339
f. 233v
You'll ask perhaps wherefore I stay
Carew, Thomas
Folger
V.a.339
f. 233v
...In substance I'm made thin before
Folger
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f. 234
In substance I'm made thin before
Folger
V.a.339
f. 234
Why should I wrong my judgment so
Folger
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f. 234
Of every flower in summer blows
`The English rose'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 236
Dear wife and if all things in this last year
`Husband and wife'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 236v
Murder it is a hateful crime
`Murder of John Bruin'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 238
Sit Deo gloria laus benedictio
`Naufragium nubentium'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 244v
Qui vult in matrimonio
`Aphorismi nuptiales'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 245
Cum ter pulsanti nemo respondit abito
Folger
V.a.339
f. 246
Dicite Pierides quos vos in arma coegit?
Folger
V.a.339
f. 246
Nec noscere preceptum est quantus in adversis brevitas
Petrarch
Folger
V.a.339
f. 246
Down came grave ancient Sir John Crooke
`The fart'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 248v
Bladius farewell and Bath adieu to thee
`A penniless man's farewell to Bath'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 249v
Like a cold fatal sweat which ushers death
King, Henry
`An elegy upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus'
Folger
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f. 250
Here headless heedless matchless Raleigh lies
`An epitaph on Sir Walter Raleigh'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 252
Scoggin his wife by chance mistook her bed
`A sonnet'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 252
My limbs were weary and my head oppress'd
Morley, George
`The nightingale'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 252v
Well fare those three that when there was a dearth
Morley, George
`Upon the crown of a hat drank in for want of a cup'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 253
Dear loss to tell the world I grieve were true
Corbett, Richard
`On the death of the Lady Haddington who died of the smallpox'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 253v
Fair boy alas why fliest thou me?
Rainolds, Henry
`A black maid to a fair boy'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 254v
Black girl complain not that I fly
King, Henry
`His answer' [to Fair boy alas why fliest thou me?]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 255
I that have robb'd so oft am now bid stand
Clavell, John
Folger
V.a.339
f. 255
I [that] have robb'd so oft am now bid stand
Clavell, John
Folger
V.a.339
f. 255
My dame and I live'd twenty years as man and wife together
Folger
V.a.339
f. 255v
Poor silly wight that carks in the night
Folger
V.a.339
f. 255v
From such a face whose excellence May captivate my sovereign's eye
Drummond, William
`The five senses ']
Folger
V.a.339
f. 256
Some say my love is but a man
Folger
V.a.339
f. 256
He that marries a merry lass
Brome, Richard?
Folger
V.a.339
f. 256v
Purses [Purse] who'll not know you have a poet's been
Randolph, Thomas
`Verses upon his empty purse'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 256v
Arithmetic nine digits and no more
Randolph, Thomas
`An epigram made by...on the loss of his little finger'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 257
Muse ere we part let witty Randolph know
`A descant on the precedent verses' [`Arithmetic nine digits and no more...']
Folger
V.a.339
f. 257
Out upon it I have lov'd three whole days together
Suckling, Sir John
Folger
V.a.339
f. 257v
Say but did you love so long troth I needs must blame ye
Matthew, Sir Tobie?
`Responsus' [to Out upon it I have loved three whole days together]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 257v
Here lies Hobbinose our shepherd whilere
`Upon Cecil's death'
Folger
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f. 258
Here lieth enrolled for worm's meat
Folger
V.a.339
f. 258
I am confirm'd a woman can
Suckling, Sir John?
Folger
V.a.339
f. 258v
After so many concurring petitions
Denham, Sir John
`To the five principal members of the House honorable of Commons the humble petition of the poets'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 259
Go empty joys
`Written by Thomas earl of Strafford, 1641' [spurious]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 260v
Not to be wrought by malice gain or pride
Folger
V.a.339
f. 262v
What we have lost in thee we need not write
B., W.
`Upon Sir Richard Greenfield'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 262v
...What honor is't to tell? | That here a sergeant major fell
Folger
V.a.339
f. 263v
Thou that in those black times dar'st to be good
Folger
V.a.339
f. 263v
Heroic martyr whose immortal death
Folger
V.a.339
f. 264
Where shall the next famous Grenfield's ashes stand?
Folger
V.a.339
f. 264
Who like a bulwark stopp'd the full career
Folger
V.a.339
f. 264
Give ear beloved Londoners
`The sense of the House or reasons by some members why they cannot consent to peace or accomodation'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 264v
Since that no wise man dares to say
`The army's litany by the author of Mercurius Melancholicus'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 267
A lady fair did ask of me a pretty thing in privity
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 271v
Fifty and five a hundred and one
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 271v
Four horns it hath no more than a buck
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 271v
I eat my nurse that feeds me still
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 271v
I have but one eye in my head
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 271v
In what place crew the cock so loud
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 271v
My body all but belly is and upon three legs I do stand
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 271v
She set her back against the wall
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 271v
Theives came to my house
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 271v
Who wears his end about his middle
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 271v
Back bent smock rent
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 272
Belly to belly and hand upon back
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 272
God speed fair ladies by one and by one
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 272
He sat him down and sought it
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 272
I am without it and yet I have it
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 272
In bed I lay and woe is so did my wife and worse she was
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 272
What is it that hath five legs on one side and three on the other
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 272
What is that the more it is the less men fear it
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 272
What wight is he doth many feed
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 272
What's that that's rough within and red without
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 272
As I chanc'd to walk of late at nine of clock of night
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 272v
Between a maiden's legs bestride
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 272v
Down in the dale there sits and stands
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 272v
My friend to me doth comfort give without which friend I cannot live
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 272v
To five and fifty-five the first of letter add
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 272v
When sturdy storms of strife are past
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 272v
You ladies all tell out my name which oft you have in hand
`Enigma'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 272v
As I was so be ye
`Epitaph on Scaliger'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273
Here lieth he: which with himself could never agree.
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273
Here lieth Menalcas as dead as a log
`Epitaph on Menalcas'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273
Here lieth Richard a Preen
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273
Here lieth Thom Nicksbody
`Epitaph on a fool'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273
Hic est durandus positus sub marmore dure
`Epitaph on Durandus the priest'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273
Hic quidam terra tegitur
`An epitaph on an abbot of St. A[l]bans'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273
Jesus Christ both God and man
`Epitaph on Sir N. Jernegan'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273
Look man before thee how thy death hasteth
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273
My friend judge not me
`Epitaph of one that brake his neck with a fall from his horse...'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273
Qui sum nosse cupis? caro putrida nil nisi vermis
`Epitaph on a bishop of Lincoln'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273
Terram terra tegit demon peccata resumat
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273
A month or two before September
`Epitaph upon Mr. Prick of Christ College in Cambridge'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273v
Death and the cobbler were long at a stand
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273v
Here lieth he was born and cried
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273v
Hic color haec facies fuerat sed neuter eorum
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273v
Hic mortuus requiescit semel
`Epitaph on a military man etc.'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273v
Hospes erat mundo per mundum semper eundo
`Epitaph on Savaricus that traveled for the redeeming of King Richard'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273v
Non nomen non quo genitus non unde quod egi
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273v
O Deus omnipotens vituli misere Johannis
`Epitaph on John Calfe'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273v
Ten in the hundred lies under this stone
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273v
The fairest morning draws to night
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273v
The times are stranagely changed a pox of worldly pelf
`Epitaph upon Munday in Oxford that hanged himself'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273v
Viewing the grave wherein is laid my friend
`Epitaph'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 273v
If leeks you leek, and do the smell disleek
Harington, Sir John
`Epigram'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 274
Lecania's teath are white as snow Thais her teeth are brown
`Epigram - translation of Martial: Thais habet nigros niveos Lecania dentes'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 274
Old as he was he had a settled hope
`Epigram on Gardner'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 274
Tobacco an outlandish weed
`Epigram on tobacco'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 274
Upon a Sunday or a Sabbath rather
`Epigram on a puritan'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 274
Doll for abuses offered me come meet me at 6 o'clock
`A challenge'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 274v
Sir the kind challenge I accept at six o'clock to try
`Response' [to `Dol for abuses offer'd me come meet me at 6 o'clock']
Folger
V.a.339
f. 274v
The first day of the next new year |Strange things shall in the world appear
`Epigram on a prophecy'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 274v
A light young man who lov'd the like young woman
`On Holland who kept Nell Cotton'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 275
A virtuous lady sitting in a muse
Harington, Sir John
`A couplet or two fastened to...his epigram to do his lady's knight yeoman's service'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 275
Dust is lighter than a feather and the wind more light than either
[translation of Latin: Quid levius? Pulvis quid pulvere? Ventus]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 275
It seems that masks do women much disgrace
`Women's masks'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 275
Mark swears he hath lost his stomach then if one
`On losing a great stomach'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 275
Quid pluma levius? pulvis quid pulvere? ventus
Folger
V.a.339
f. 275
The fencing Gaul (in pride and gallant vaunt
`Church and the French fencer'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 275
The gold hair that Galla wears is hers who would have thought it
Folger
V.a.339
f. 275
The King's Arms tavern Spongius brings full low
`Spongius overthrown by etc.'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 275
The wellborn Muscus wedded hath of late
`Nobly descended Muscus wedding a fat butcher's daughter'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 275
Vertumnus was a god the Romans serv'd
`The strange daring of the young gallants of these familiar times'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 275
When toads ride at tilt and fight with long spears
Folger
V.a.339
f. 275v
Wit's labor reason's hope and wisdom's merit
Folger
V.a.339
f. 275v
Contemptum stulti contemnere Dindime laus est
`Contemptus stultorum'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 276
Druse comedisti quem misit Silvius hircum
`Cibum olentem comedenti'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 276
Multa Solon sed plura Cato me verba docetis
`Bene docentibus etc.'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 276
Pannorum veterum facile contemnitur usus
`Consilium senum'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 276
Prospera non laetam fecere nec aspera tristem
`Upon Maud daughter to Malcolm King of Scots buried at Westminster whither daily she resorted (whilst the court lay there) barefoot'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 276
Who durst dispraise tobacco whilst the smoke is in my nose
`Tobacco'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 276
Women complain they never are at ease
`Women'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 276
Exigis a nobis quem nulli solvis amorem
`In exigentem et nihil dantem'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 276v
Glorior hoc uno quod nunquam vidimus unum
`Of King Henry the Second'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 276v
Mars venerem secum depensam fraude mariti
`Why Mars is fiery and the moon spotted'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 276v
Multi mihi donas vereor ne multa requirans
`Hooked gifts which draw others'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 276v
Nec laus nec probitas nec honor superare puellam
Henry II, king of England?
`Written by K. H. 2 'gainst lewd love'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 276v
Qua doceat sedem quaerit Plotinus et aedem
`That sought a benifice being unlearned'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 276v
Sol vultu roseo rubicundo fulget in ortu
`While the sun is red and seems to blush in the morn'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 276v
Spem mihi dent alii magnam rem tu cito parvam
`Fed with vain hope'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 276v
Tentavi temere vino te posse movere
`An abbot persuaded what would move a lawyer when wine could not returned these three distiches. [1]'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 276v
Tollit ovem de fauce lupi persaepe molossus
`That would defend his flock from others and worry them himself'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 276v
Ut mihi sis mitis tibi misi pocula vitis
`An abbot persuaded what would move a lawyer when wine could not returned these three distiches. [3]'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 276v
Vinum non quaeris sed tinnit si sonus ceris
`An abbot persuaded what would move a lawyer when wine could not returned these three distiches. [2]'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 276v
Vive Deo tibi mors requies tibi vita labori
`Referred also to K. F. 2'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 276v
Mihi est praepositum in taberna mori
Mapes, Walter?
`Walter Mapes archdeacon of Oxford tempore H. 2. who filled England with his merriments confessed his love to good liquor etc.'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 277
Vita lata gradior more inventutis
`An acknowledgment of the corruption and infirmity of our nature prone unto sensuality'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 277
...Not long can marriage linen hold | But worm which use and heat
[translation of the previous lines: Texitur thalassina vestis]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 277v
Fat overpow'rful love doth loathsome prove
[translation of Latin: Pinguis amor nimiumque potens in taedia nobis]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 277v
Fool what hast thou to do what he or she
[translation of Latin: Olle qui ad te]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 277v
It is known what a woman may
[translation of Virgil: Notumque furens quid faemina possit]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 277v
This family if safety would
[translation of Latin: ...Ipsa si velit sallus]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 277v
To borrow light of light who would deny
[translation of Latin: Quis vetat apposito lumen de lumine sumi?]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 277v
We are misled by ornaments what is amiss
[translation of Latin: Auferimur cultu gemmis auroque teguntur]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 277v
Canst not live well? To them it can give place
`Translation of Horace's lines beginning Bibere (vivere) si recte nescis discede peritis'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 278
His diebus non peractis nulla fides est in factis
Folger
V.a.339
f. 278
My dish, my drinking can
[translation of Horace: Et cantharus et lanx]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 278
Quem non vult Pallas artes ediscere doctas
Folger
V.a.339
f. 278
Quid prudentis opus? cum possit nolle nocere
Folger
V.a.339
f. 278
The graybeard plowman sighs shaking his hoary head
[translation of Lucretius: Iamque caput quassans prandis suspirat Arator]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 278
Viribus haud fretus propriis meliora docenti
Folger
V.a.339
f. 278
We therefore see, that those who many ways are bad
[translation of Lucretius: Multimodus igitur pravos turpesque videmus]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 278
Who makes himself too fine
[translation of Italian line: Chi troppos assottiglia si scavezza]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 278
With gifts I am not much acquainted
[translation of Latin: Nec sunt mihi nota potentum munera]
Folger
V.a.339
f. 278
Diversos diversa iuvant non omnibus annis
Folger
V.a.339
f. 278v
Dividor haud aliter quam si mea membra reliquam
Folger
V.a.339
f. 278v
Ipsaque me species quondam dilecta religit
Folger
V.a.339
f. 278v
Me miserum quanti montes volvuntur aquarum
`All sea no land'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 278v
Non aliter stupui quam qui Jovis ignibus ictus
Folger
V.a.339
f. 278v
Non sum qui fuerum periit pars maxima nostri
Folger
V.a.339
f. 278v
Si quis ut in popul nostri immemor illic
Folger
V.a.339
f. 278v
Singula turpe sevi quondam quaesita referre
Folger
V.a.339
f. 278v
Quid obseratis auribus fundis preces
Folger
V.a.339
f. 279
Si quam permerui culpam me prodere vultis
Folger
V.a.339
f. 279
Tantum ne noceas dum vis prodesse videto
Folger
V.a.339
f. 279
Did not my sorrow sigh into a verse
*Earles, John? or Mayne, Jasper?
`Upon the hearse of William earl of Pembroke'
Folger
V.a.339
f. 279v
Like to the tome [tone] of unspoke speeches
Corbett, Richard?
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