John Hunter is Associate Professor of Comparative Humanities at Bucknell University. His previous publications include essays on Francis Bacon and on early modern drama.

"Arranged chronologically, these selections of prose pieces, carols, ballads, songs, and hymns contain introductory notes, suggested readings, and footnotes. Also included are bibliographical references, indexes, and cross references to the Internet resources. Strongly recommended for all libraries." (Library Journal (of the previous edition))

• List of Illustrations xviAlphabetical List of Authors xviiPreface: Representing the Renaissance in the Twenty-First Century xviiiAcknowledgments xxivTimeline: The Tudor and Stuart Monarchs, 1509–1642 xxvIntroduction: Renaissance English History and Literature 1John Skelton (1460?–1529) 17Philip Sparrow [Part I] 18Sir Thomas More (1477/8–1535) 35[From] The History of King Richard the Third (ca. 1513–18) 37[From] A Dialogue Concerning Heresies (1529) 41Letter from Margaret Roper to Alice Alington, August 1534 49Sir Thomas Elyot (ca. 1490–1546) 61[From] The Book Named the Governor 62[From] The First Book of The Castell of Health 75William Tyndale (1494–1536) 81[From] The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528) 82[From] Tyndale’s Translation of the Pentateuch (1530) 98[From] Tyndale’s Translation of the New Testament (1534) 100Mark 4:1–34 [the Parable of the Sower and the Seed] 100The Gospel of John, Chapter 1 101[Tyndale’s Translation of Luther’s] A Prologue to the Epistle of Paul to the Romans 103Sir Thomas Wyatt (ca. 1503–1542) 119[From] Certain Psalms (published 1549) 120[Prologue] 120Psalm 51. Miserere Mei Domine 122Poems Attributed to Wyatt in the Egerton Manuscript and in Tottel’s Miscellany 125[The Long Love] 125[Whoso List to Hunt] 125[The Pillar Perished] 125[Farewell, Love] 126[Sometime I Fled the Fire] 126[Tagus, Farewell] 127[Sighs Are My Food] 127[Lucks, My Fair Falcon] 127[In Court to Serve] 127[They Flee from Me] 128[Madam, Withouten Many Words] 128[And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus?] 129[My Lute, Awake!] 129[Mine Own John Poyntz] 130Broadside Ballads (ca. 1535 onwards) 134A Ballad of Luther, the Pope, a Cardinal, and a Husbandman (ca. 1535) 134London’s Lottery (1612) 137The Silver Age; or, The World Turned Backward (1621) 142Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547) (os) 145[Translations from the Aeneid] 146[From] Book II [The Death of Creusa] 146[From] Book IV [The Suicide of Dido] 148Psalm 55 152[When Ragyng Love] 153[The Soote Season] 154[Set Me Wheras the Sonne] 154[Love That Doth Raine] 155[The Sonne Hath Twyse Brought Forthe] 155[London, Hast Thow Accused Me] 156[W. Resteth Here] 158John Foxe (1517–1587) 160[From] Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days 161Story and Martyrdom of Anne Askew 161Richard Mulcaster (1530?–1611) 177[From] Positions (1581) 178[From] The First Part of the Elementarie (1582) 183Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) 189[Written on a Window Frame at Woodstock] 190[’Twas Christ the Word] 190[The Doubt of Future Foes] 190On Monsieur’s Departure 191[When I Was Fair and Young] 192Verse Exchange Between Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh 192[Raleigh to Elizabeth] 192[Elizabeth to Raleigh] 193[Song on the Armada Victory, December 1588] 194Letter from Princess Elizabeth to Queen Mary, August 2, 1556 194Queen Elizabeth’s Speech at the Closing of Parliament, March 29, 1585 195George Gascoigne (ca. 1534–1577) 198[From] A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573) 199Gascoigne’s Woodmanship 199Gascoigne’s Goodnight 202Certain Sermons or Homilies (1547, 1563) 204A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading and Knowledge of Holy Scripture (1547) 205An Homily of the Misery of All Mankind, and of His Condemnation to Death Everlasting, by His Own Sin (1547) 210An Homily of the State of Matrimony (1563) 215The Book of Common Prayer (1549, 1552, and 1559) (os) 223The Preface (1559) 224Of Ceremonies, Why Some be Abolished, and Some retayned (1559) 226[From] The Litany (1552) 228[From] The order of the ministracion of the lordes supper or holy Communion (1552) 231Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) (os) 233[From] The Shepheardes Calender 235Aprill 235[From] Amoretti 242Epithalamion 253[From] The Faerie Queene 265A Letter of the Authors expounding his whole intention . . . to Raleigh 265Book II, cantos 1, 7, 9–10, 12 267Two Cantos of Mutabilitie 355[From] A View of the State of Ireland 384Anonymous Carols 393[Sing We With Mirth] 393[By Reason of Two] 394[Of All Creatures Women Be Best] 396Richard Hakluyt (ca. 1552–1616) (os) 399[From] The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 400The third troublesome voyage made . . . by M. John Hawkins 400[From] A true discourse of the three Voyages of discoverie . . . 406The woorthy enterprise of John Foxe . . . 411The answere of her Maiestie to the aforesaid Letters of the Great Turke . . . 418John Lyly (ca. 1553–1606) 421[From] Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit 422John Florio (1553?–1625) 477[From] The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne 478To the courteous Reader 478Of the Cannibals 480Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1553–1618) 491Like to a Hermit Poor 492The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd 493The Lie 493A Farewell to False Love 494[Even Such is Time] 495The 21st (and last) Book of the Ocean to Cynthia 495Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) 508The Defense of Poesy 510[From] Astrophil and Stella 542Miscellaneous Poetry 573Poems from The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia 573[As I my little flock on Ister bank] 573[Ye goat-herd gods] 577Sonnets 579[Thou blind man’s mark] 579[Leave me, O love] 580[From] The Psalms of David 580Psalm 22 580Psalm 23 582Psalm 30 583Thomas Hariot (1560–1621) and John White (1540?–1590) 585[From] A briefe and true report of the new found Land of Virginia of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the natural inhabitants (1590) 586To the Adventurers, Favourers, and Well-Willers of the Enterprise for the Inhabiting and Planting in Virginia 586The third and last part . . . with a description of the nature and manners of the people of the country 588Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) 597[From] The Advancement of Learning (1605) 598[From] Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625) 604Of Truth 604Of Simulation and Dissimulation 606Of Innovations 608Of Plantations 609Of Nature in Men 611Of Studies 612Of Vicissitude of Things 613New Atlantis (published 1627) 616Robert Southwell (1561–1595) 640The Burning Babe 640Decease Release 641Man’s Civil War 642Look Home 643Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621) (os) 644To the Angell Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney 645[From] The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke 647Psalm 44 Deus, Auribus 647Psalm 59 Eripe Me De Inimicis 648Psalm 138 Confitebor Tibi 650Psalm 139 Domine, Probasti 650A Mirror for Magistrates (1563, 1587 editions) (os) 652[From] A Mirror for Magistrates 652The Induction 652Cardinal Wolsey 666Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) (os) 678Hero and Leander 679[From] All Ovid’s Elegies 698Book One, Elegia 1 698Book One, Elegia 5 699Book Three, Elegia 7 700Book Three, Elegia 11 701The Passionate Shepherd to his Love 703William Shakespeare (1564–1616) 704The Rape of Lucrece 705[From] Sonnets 752Thomas Campion (1567–1620) (os) 781[From] A Booke of Ayres (1601) 782To the Reader 782I–II 783VI 783X 784XII 784XV 784XXI 785[Female Persona Lyrics] 7852: IX 7852: XV 7864: XVIII 786Thomas Nashe (1567–1601) 788The Choice of Valentines 789[From] Pierce Penniless His Supplication to the Devil (1592) 797Æmilia Lanyer (1569–1645) (os) 814Salve Deus Rex Judæorum 815Ben Jonson (1572–1637) 861[From] Epigrams (1616) 862xi. On Something that Walks Somewhere 862xiv. To William Camden 863xxii. On My First Daughter 863xxiii. To John Donne 863xlv. On My First Son 864lii. To Censorious Courtling 864lxii. To Fine Lady Would-Be 864lxxvi. On Lucy, Countess of Bedford 865lxxxiii. To a Friend 865lxxxix. To Edward Alleyn 865ci. Inviting a Friend to Supper 866cii. To William, Earl of Pembroke 867cv. To Mary, Lady Wroth 867cx. To Clement Edmonds, On His Caesar’s Commentaries Observed, and Translated 868cxviii. On Gut 869cxxxiv. On the Famous Voyage 869[From] The Forest (1616) 874i. Why I Write Not of Love 874ii. To Penshurst 875v. Song: To Celia 877ix. Song: To Celia 878xv. To Heaven 878[From] Underwoods (1640) 8792. A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces 879His Excuse for loving 879Her Triumph 880His discourse with Cupid 8809. My Picture Left in Scotland 88223. An Ode. To Himself 88229. A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme 88347. An Epistle Answering to One that Asked to be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben 88570. To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison 887Miscellaneous Poems 890To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare: And What He Hath Left Us 890John Donne (1572–1631) 893[From] Songs and Sonnets 894The Anniversary 894The Apparition 895The Bait 896The Canonization 896The Ecstasy 898A Fever 900The Flea 901The Funeral 901The Indifferent 902A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day 903The Relic 904Song 905The Sun Rising 905A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 906Elegies 907Elegy 8. To His Mistress Going to Bed 907Elegy 9. Change 909The First Anniversary: An Anatomy of the World 910Religious Poems 920Holy Sonnets: 6–7, 10 920Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward 922[From] Paradoxes, Problems, Essays, Characters (published 1652) 923A Defence of Women’s Inconstancy 923That Nature is our Worst Guide 924Why Puritans make long Sermons? 925[From] Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624) 925XVII. Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris 925John Marston (1576–1634) 928[From] Metamorphosis of Pygmalion’s Image, and Certaine Satyres (1598) 928Satire II 928Martha Moulsworth (1577–?) (os) 933November the 10th 1632, The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth Widdowe 933Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary, Lady Falkland (1585–1639) 937[From] The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry 938The Argument 938Actus Primus. Scena Prima 939Myles Smith (d. 1624) 941The Translators to the Reader – the Preface to the Authorized Version (King James Bible) (1611) 942Lady Mary (Sidney) Wroth (1586?–1651?) 960[From] Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 961[From] The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania 985George Wither (1588–1667) 998[From] A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne 999George Herbert (1593–1633) 1007[From] The Temple 1008The Altar 1008The Agonie 1008Sepulchre 1009Easter 1009Easter Wings 1011Sinne 1011Prayer (I) 1012Love I 1012Jordan (I) 1013Employment (I) 1013The H. Scriptures I 1014Church Monuments 1014The Windows 1015The Quiddity 1016Denial 1016Vertue 1017The Pearl. Matth. 13. 45 1017Life 1019Jordan (II) 1019The British Church 1020The Quip 1021Paradise 1021The Collar 1022The Pulley 1023The Sonne 1024Discipline 1024Death 1025Rachel Speght (1597–?) (os) 1026A Mouzell for Melastomus 1026Gazetteer of Classical and Early Modern Names and Places 1040Bibliography 1060Index of Titles, Introductions, and Notes 1068

John Hunter is Associate Professor of Comparative Humanities at Bucknell University. His previous publications include essays on Francis Bacon and on early modern drama.

"Arranged chronologically, these selections of prose pieces, carols, ballads, songs, and hymns contain introductory notes, suggested readings, and footnotes. Also included are bibliographical references, indexes, and cross references to the Internet resources. Strongly recommended for all libraries." (Library Journal (of the previous edition))

• List of Illustrations xviAlphabetical List of Authors xviiPreface: Representing the Renaissance in the Twenty-First Century xviiiAcknowledgments xxivTimeline: The Tudor and Stuart Monarchs, 1509–1642 xxvIntroduction: Renaissance English History and Literature 1John Skelton (1460?–1529) 17Philip Sparrow [Part I] 18Sir Thomas More (1477/8–1535) 35[From] The History of King Richard the Third (ca. 1513–18) 37[From] A Dialogue Concerning Heresies (1529) 41Letter from Margaret Roper to Alice Alington, August 1534 49Sir Thomas Elyot (ca. 1490–1546) 61[From] The Book Named the Governor 62[From] The First Book of The Castell of Health 75William Tyndale (1494–1536) 81[From] The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528) 82[From] Tyndale’s Translation of the Pentateuch (1530) 98[From] Tyndale’s Translation of the New Testament (1534) 100Mark 4:1–34 [the Parable of the Sower and the Seed] 100The Gospel of John, Chapter 1 101[Tyndale’s Translation of Luther’s] A Prologue to the Epistle of Paul to the Romans 103Sir Thomas Wyatt (ca. 1503–1542) 119[From] Certain Psalms (published 1549) 120[Prologue] 120Psalm 51. Miserere Mei Domine 122Poems Attributed to Wyatt in the Egerton Manuscript and in Tottel’s Miscellany 125[The Long Love] 125[Whoso List to Hunt] 125[The Pillar Perished] 125[Farewell, Love] 126[Sometime I Fled the Fire] 126[Tagus, Farewell] 127[Sighs Are My Food] 127[Lucks, My Fair Falcon] 127[In Court to Serve] 127[They Flee from Me] 128[Madam, Withouten Many Words] 128[And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus?] 129[My Lute, Awake!] 129[Mine Own John Poyntz] 130Broadside Ballads (ca. 1535 onwards) 134A Ballad of Luther, the Pope, a Cardinal, and a Husbandman (ca. 1535) 134London’s Lottery (1612) 137The Silver Age; or, The World Turned Backward (1621) 142Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547) (os) 145[Translations from the Aeneid] 146[From] Book II [The Death of Creusa] 146[From] Book IV [The Suicide of Dido] 148Psalm 55 152[When Ragyng Love] 153[The Soote Season] 154[Set Me Wheras the Sonne] 154[Love That Doth Raine] 155[The Sonne Hath Twyse Brought Forthe] 155[London, Hast Thow Accused Me] 156[W. Resteth Here] 158John Foxe (1517–1587) 160[From] Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days 161Story and Martyrdom of Anne Askew 161Richard Mulcaster (1530?–1611) 177[From] Positions (1581) 178[From] The First Part of the Elementarie (1582) 183Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) 189[Written on a Window Frame at Woodstock] 190[’Twas Christ the Word] 190[The Doubt of Future Foes] 190On Monsieur’s Departure 191[When I Was Fair and Young] 192Verse Exchange Between Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh 192[Raleigh to Elizabeth] 192[Elizabeth to Raleigh] 193[Song on the Armada Victory, December 1588] 194Letter from Princess Elizabeth to Queen Mary, August 2, 1556 194Queen Elizabeth’s Speech at the Closing of Parliament, March 29, 1585 195George Gascoigne (ca. 1534–1577) 198[From] A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573) 199Gascoigne’s Woodmanship 199Gascoigne’s Goodnight 202Certain Sermons or Homilies (1547, 1563) 204A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading and Knowledge of Holy Scripture (1547) 205An Homily of the Misery of All Mankind, and of His Condemnation to Death Everlasting, by His Own Sin (1547) 210An Homily of the State of Matrimony (1563) 215The Book of Common Prayer (1549, 1552, and 1559) (os) 223The Preface (1559) 224Of Ceremonies, Why Some be Abolished, and Some retayned (1559) 226[From] The Litany (1552) 228[From] The order of the ministracion of the lordes supper or holy Communion (1552) 231Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) (os) 233[From] The Shepheardes Calender 235Aprill 235[From] Amoretti 242Epithalamion 253[From] The Faerie Queene 265A Letter of the Authors expounding his whole intention . . . to Raleigh 265Book II, cantos 1, 7, 9–10, 12 267Two Cantos of Mutabilitie 355[From] A View of the State of Ireland 384Anonymous Carols 393[Sing We With Mirth] 393[By Reason of Two] 394[Of All Creatures Women Be Best] 396Richard Hakluyt (ca. 1552–1616) (os) 399[From] The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 400The third troublesome voyage made . . . by M. John Hawkins 400[From] A true discourse of the three Voyages of discoverie . . . 406The woorthy enterprise of John Foxe . . . 411The answere of her Maiestie to the aforesaid Letters of the Great Turke . . . 418John Lyly (ca. 1553–1606) 421[From] Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit 422John Florio (1553?–1625) 477[From] The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne 478To the courteous Reader 478Of the Cannibals 480Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1553–1618) 491Like to a Hermit Poor 492The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd 493The Lie 493A Farewell to False Love 494[Even Such is Time] 495The 21st (and last) Book of the Ocean to Cynthia 495Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) 508The Defense of Poesy 510[From] Astrophil and Stella 542Miscellaneous Poetry 573Poems from The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia 573[As I my little flock on Ister bank] 573[Ye goat-herd gods] 577Sonnets 579[Thou blind man’s mark] 579[Leave me, O love] 580[From] The Psalms of David 580Psalm 22 580Psalm 23 582Psalm 30 583Thomas Hariot (1560–1621) and John White (1540?–1590) 585[From] A briefe and true report of the new found Land of Virginia of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the natural inhabitants (1590) 586To the Adventurers, Favourers, and Well-Willers of the Enterprise for the Inhabiting and Planting in Virginia 586The third and last part . . . with a description of the nature and manners of the people of the country 588Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) 597[From] The Advancement of Learning (1605) 598[From] Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625) 604Of Truth 604Of Simulation and Dissimulation 606Of Innovations 608Of Plantations 609Of Nature in Men 611Of Studies 612Of Vicissitude of Things 613New Atlantis (published 1627) 616Robert Southwell (1561–1595) 640The Burning Babe 640Decease Release 641Man’s Civil War 642Look Home 643Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621) (os) 644To the Angell Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney 645[From] The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke 647Psalm 44 Deus, Auribus 647Psalm 59 Eripe Me De Inimicis 648Psalm 138 Confitebor Tibi 650Psalm 139 Domine, Probasti 650A Mirror for Magistrates (1563, 1587 editions) (os) 652[From] A Mirror for Magistrates 652The Induction 652Cardinal Wolsey 666Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) (os) 678Hero and Leander 679[From] All Ovid’s Elegies 698Book One, Elegia 1 698Book One, Elegia 5 699Book Three, Elegia 7 700Book Three, Elegia 11 701The Passionate Shepherd to his Love 703William Shakespeare (1564–1616) 704The Rape of Lucrece 705[From] Sonnets 752Thomas Campion (1567–1620) (os) 781[From] A Booke of Ayres (1601) 782To the Reader 782I–II 783VI 783X 784XII 784XV 784XXI 785[Female Persona Lyrics] 7852: IX 7852: XV 7864: XVIII 786Thomas Nashe (1567–1601) 788The Choice of Valentines 789[From] Pierce Penniless His Supplication to the Devil (1592) 797Æmilia Lanyer (1569–1645) (os) 814Salve Deus Rex Judæorum 815Ben Jonson (1572–1637) 861[From] Epigrams (1616) 862xi. On Something that Walks Somewhere 862xiv. To William Camden 863xxii. On My First Daughter 863xxiii. To John Donne 863xlv. On My First Son 864lii. To Censorious Courtling 864lxii. To Fine Lady Would-Be 864lxxvi. On Lucy, Countess of Bedford 865lxxxiii. To a Friend 865lxxxix. To Edward Alleyn 865ci. Inviting a Friend to Supper 866cii. To William, Earl of Pembroke 867cv. To Mary, Lady Wroth 867cx. To Clement Edmonds, On His Caesar’s Commentaries Observed, and Translated 868cxviii. On Gut 869cxxxiv. On the Famous Voyage 869[From] The Forest (1616) 874i. Why I Write Not of Love 874ii. To Penshurst 875v. Song: To Celia 877ix. Song: To Celia 878xv. To Heaven 878[From] Underwoods (1640) 8792. A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces 879His Excuse for loving 879Her Triumph 880His discourse with Cupid 8809. My Picture Left in Scotland 88223. An Ode. To Himself 88229. A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme 88347. An Epistle Answering to One that Asked to be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben 88570. To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison 887Miscellaneous Poems 890To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare: And What He Hath Left Us 890John Donne (1572–1631) 893[From] Songs and Sonnets 894The Anniversary 894The Apparition 895The Bait 896The Canonization 896The Ecstasy 898A Fever 900The Flea 901The Funeral 901The Indifferent 902A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day 903The Relic 904Song 905The Sun Rising 905A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 906Elegies 907Elegy 8. To His Mistress Going to Bed 907Elegy 9. Change 909The First Anniversary: An Anatomy of the World 910Religious Poems 920Holy Sonnets: 6–7, 10 920Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward 922[From] Paradoxes, Problems, Essays, Characters (published 1652) 923A Defence of Women’s Inconstancy 923That Nature is our Worst Guide 924Why Puritans make long Sermons? 925[From] Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624) 925XVII. Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris 925John Marston (1576–1634) 928[From] Metamorphosis of Pygmalion’s Image, and Certaine Satyres (1598) 928Satire II 928Martha Moulsworth (1577–?) (os) 933November the 10th 1632, The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth Widdowe 933Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary, Lady Falkland (1585–1639) 937[From] The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry 938The Argument 938Actus Primus. Scena Prima 939Myles Smith (d. 1624) 941The Translators to the Reader – the Preface to the Authorized Version (King James Bible) (1611) 942Lady Mary (Sidney) Wroth (1586?–1651?) 960[From] Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 961[From] The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania 985George Wither (1588–1667) 998[From] A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne 999George Herbert (1593–1633) 1007[From] The Temple 1008The Altar 1008The Agonie 1008Sepulchre 1009Easter 1009Easter Wings 1011Sinne 1011Prayer (I) 1012Love I 1012Jordan (I) 1013Employment (I) 1013The H. Scriptures I 1014Church Monuments 1014The Windows 1015The Quiddity 1016Denial 1016Vertue 1017The Pearl. Matth. 13. 45 1017Life 1019Jordan (II) 1019The British Church 1020The Quip 1021Paradise 1021The Collar 1022The Pulley 1023The Sonne 1024Discipline 1024Death 1025Rachel Speght (1597–?) (os) 1026A Mouzell for Melastomus 1026Gazetteer of Classical and Early Modern Names and Places 1040Bibliography 1060Index of Titles, Introductions, and Notes 1068

John Hunter is Associate Professor of Comparative Humanities at Bucknell University. His previous publications include essays on Francis Bacon and on early modern drama.

"Arranged chronologically, these selections of prose pieces, carols, ballads, songs, and hymns contain introductory notes, suggested readings, and footnotes. Also included are bibliographical references, indexes, and cross references to the Internet resources. Strongly recommended for all libraries." (Library Journal (of the previous edition))

• List of Illustrations xviAlphabetical List of Authors xviiPreface: Representing the Renaissance in the Twenty-First Century xviiiAcknowledgments xxivTimeline: The Tudor and Stuart Monarchs, 1509–1642 xxvIntroduction: Renaissance English History and Literature 1John Skelton (1460?–1529) 17Philip Sparrow [Part I] 18Sir Thomas More (1477/8–1535) 35[From] The History of King Richard the Third (ca. 1513–18) 37[From] A Dialogue Concerning Heresies (1529) 41Letter from Margaret Roper to Alice Alington, August 1534 49Sir Thomas Elyot (ca. 1490–1546) 61[From] The Book Named the Governor 62[From] The First Book of The Castell of Health 75William Tyndale (1494–1536) 81[From] The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528) 82[From] Tyndale’s Translation of the Pentateuch (1530) 98[From] Tyndale’s Translation of the New Testament (1534) 100Mark 4:1–34 [the Parable of the Sower and the Seed] 100The Gospel of John, Chapter 1 101[Tyndale’s Translation of Luther’s] A Prologue to the Epistle of Paul to the Romans 103Sir Thomas Wyatt (ca. 1503–1542) 119[From] Certain Psalms (published 1549) 120[Prologue] 120Psalm 51. Miserere Mei Domine 122Poems Attributed to Wyatt in the Egerton Manuscript and in Tottel’s Miscellany 125[The Long Love] 125[Whoso List to Hunt] 125[The Pillar Perished] 125[Farewell, Love] 126[Sometime I Fled the Fire] 126[Tagus, Farewell] 127[Sighs Are My Food] 127[Lucks, My Fair Falcon] 127[In Court to Serve] 127[They Flee from Me] 128[Madam, Withouten Many Words] 128[And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus?] 129[My Lute, Awake!] 129[Mine Own John Poyntz] 130Broadside Ballads (ca. 1535 onwards) 134A Ballad of Luther, the Pope, a Cardinal, and a Husbandman (ca. 1535) 134London’s Lottery (1612) 137The Silver Age; or, The World Turned Backward (1621) 142Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547) (os) 145[Translations from the Aeneid] 146[From] Book II [The Death of Creusa] 146[From] Book IV [The Suicide of Dido] 148Psalm 55 152[When Ragyng Love] 153[The Soote Season] 154[Set Me Wheras the Sonne] 154[Love That Doth Raine] 155[The Sonne Hath Twyse Brought Forthe] 155[London, Hast Thow Accused Me] 156[W. Resteth Here] 158John Foxe (1517–1587) 160[From] Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days 161Story and Martyrdom of Anne Askew 161Richard Mulcaster (1530?–1611) 177[From] Positions (1581) 178[From] The First Part of the Elementarie (1582) 183Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) 189[Written on a Window Frame at Woodstock] 190[’Twas Christ the Word] 190[The Doubt of Future Foes] 190On Monsieur’s Departure 191[When I Was Fair and Young] 192Verse Exchange Between Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh 192[Raleigh to Elizabeth] 192[Elizabeth to Raleigh] 193[Song on the Armada Victory, December 1588] 194Letter from Princess Elizabeth to Queen Mary, August 2, 1556 194Queen Elizabeth’s Speech at the Closing of Parliament, March 29, 1585 195George Gascoigne (ca. 1534–1577) 198[From] A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573) 199Gascoigne’s Woodmanship 199Gascoigne’s Goodnight 202Certain Sermons or Homilies (1547, 1563) 204A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading and Knowledge of Holy Scripture (1547) 205An Homily of the Misery of All Mankind, and of His Condemnation to Death Everlasting, by His Own Sin (1547) 210An Homily of the State of Matrimony (1563) 215The Book of Common Prayer (1549, 1552, and 1559) (os) 223The Preface (1559) 224Of Ceremonies, Why Some be Abolished, and Some retayned (1559) 226[From] The Litany (1552) 228[From] The order of the ministracion of the lordes supper or holy Communion (1552) 231Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) (os) 233[From] The Shepheardes Calender 235Aprill 235[From] Amoretti 242Epithalamion 253[From] The Faerie Queene 265A Letter of the Authors expounding his whole intention . . . to Raleigh 265Book II, cantos 1, 7, 9–10, 12 267Two Cantos of Mutabilitie 355[From] A View of the State of Ireland 384Anonymous Carols 393[Sing We With Mirth] 393[By Reason of Two] 394[Of All Creatures Women Be Best] 396Richard Hakluyt (ca. 1552–1616) (os) 399[From] The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 400The third troublesome voyage made . . . by M. John Hawkins 400[From] A true discourse of the three Voyages of discoverie . . . 406The woorthy enterprise of John Foxe . . . 411The answere of her Maiestie to the aforesaid Letters of the Great Turke . . . 418John Lyly (ca. 1553–1606) 421[From] Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit 422John Florio (1553?–1625) 477[From] The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne 478To the courteous Reader 478Of the Cannibals 480Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1553–1618) 491Like to a Hermit Poor 492The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd 493The Lie 493A Farewell to False Love 494[Even Such is Time] 495The 21st (and last) Book of the Ocean to Cynthia 495Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) 508The Defense of Poesy 510[From] Astrophil and Stella 542Miscellaneous Poetry 573Poems from The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia 573[As I my little flock on Ister bank] 573[Ye goat-herd gods] 577Sonnets 579[Thou blind man’s mark] 579[Leave me, O love] 580[From] The Psalms of David 580Psalm 22 580Psalm 23 582Psalm 30 583Thomas Hariot (1560–1621) and John White (1540?–1590) 585[From] A briefe and true report of the new found Land of Virginia of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the natural inhabitants (1590) 586To the Adventurers, Favourers, and Well-Willers of the Enterprise for the Inhabiting and Planting in Virginia 586The third and last part . . . with a description of the nature and manners of the people of the country 588Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) 597[From] The Advancement of Learning (1605) 598[From] Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625) 604Of Truth 604Of Simulation and Dissimulation 606Of Innovations 608Of Plantations 609Of Nature in Men 611Of Studies 612Of Vicissitude of Things 613New Atlantis (published 1627) 616Robert Southwell (1561–1595) 640The Burning Babe 640Decease Release 641Man’s Civil War 642Look Home 643Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621) (os) 644To the Angell Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney 645[From] The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke 647Psalm 44 Deus, Auribus 647Psalm 59 Eripe Me De Inimicis 648Psalm 138 Confitebor Tibi 650Psalm 139 Domine, Probasti 650A Mirror for Magistrates (1563, 1587 editions) (os) 652[From] A Mirror for Magistrates 652The Induction 652Cardinal Wolsey 666Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) (os) 678Hero and Leander 679[From] All Ovid’s Elegies 698Book One, Elegia 1 698Book One, Elegia 5 699Book Three, Elegia 7 700Book Three, Elegia 11 701The Passionate Shepherd to his Love 703William Shakespeare (1564–1616) 704The Rape of Lucrece 705[From] Sonnets 752Thomas Campion (1567–1620) (os) 781[From] A Booke of Ayres (1601) 782To the Reader 782I–II 783VI 783X 784XII 784XV 784XXI 785[Female Persona Lyrics] 7852: IX 7852: XV 7864: XVIII 786Thomas Nashe (1567–1601) 788The Choice of Valentines 789[From] Pierce Penniless His Supplication to the Devil (1592) 797Æmilia Lanyer (1569–1645) (os) 814Salve Deus Rex Judæorum 815Ben Jonson (1572–1637) 861[From] Epigrams (1616) 862xi. On Something that Walks Somewhere 862xiv. To William Camden 863xxii. On My First Daughter 863xxiii. To John Donne 863xlv. On My First Son 864lii. To Censorious Courtling 864lxii. To Fine Lady Would-Be 864lxxvi. On Lucy, Countess of Bedford 865lxxxiii. To a Friend 865lxxxix. To Edward Alleyn 865ci. Inviting a Friend to Supper 866cii. To William, Earl of Pembroke 867cv. To Mary, Lady Wroth 867cx. To Clement Edmonds, On His Caesar’s Commentaries Observed, and Translated 868cxviii. On Gut 869cxxxiv. On the Famous Voyage 869[From] The Forest (1616) 874i. Why I Write Not of Love 874ii. To Penshurst 875v. Song: To Celia 877ix. Song: To Celia 878xv. To Heaven 878[From] Underwoods (1640) 8792. A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces 879His Excuse for loving 879Her Triumph 880His discourse with Cupid 8809. My Picture Left in Scotland 88223. An Ode. To Himself 88229. A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme 88347. An Epistle Answering to One that Asked to be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben 88570. To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison 887Miscellaneous Poems 890To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare: And What He Hath Left Us 890John Donne (1572–1631) 893[From] Songs and Sonnets 894The Anniversary 894The Apparition 895The Bait 896The Canonization 896The Ecstasy 898A Fever 900The Flea 901The Funeral 901The Indifferent 902A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day 903The Relic 904Song 905The Sun Rising 905A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 906Elegies 907Elegy 8. To His Mistress Going to Bed 907Elegy 9. Change 909The First Anniversary: An Anatomy of the World 910Religious Poems 920Holy Sonnets: 6–7, 10 920Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward 922[From] Paradoxes, Problems, Essays, Characters (published 1652) 923A Defence of Women’s Inconstancy 923That Nature is our Worst Guide 924Why Puritans make long Sermons? 925[From] Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624) 925XVII. Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris 925John Marston (1576–1634) 928[From] Metamorphosis of Pygmalion’s Image, and Certaine Satyres (1598) 928Satire II 928Martha Moulsworth (1577–?) (os) 933November the 10th 1632, The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth Widdowe 933Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary, Lady Falkland (1585–1639) 937[From] The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry 938The Argument 938Actus Primus. Scena Prima 939Myles Smith (d. 1624) 941The Translators to the Reader – the Preface to the Authorized Version (King James Bible) (1611) 942Lady Mary (Sidney) Wroth (1586?–1651?) 960[From] Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 961[From] The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania 985George Wither (1588–1667) 998[From] A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne 999George Herbert (1593–1633) 1007[From] The Temple 1008The Altar 1008The Agonie 1008Sepulchre 1009Easter 1009Easter Wings 1011Sinne 1011Prayer (I) 1012Love I 1012Jordan (I) 1013Employment (I) 1013The H. Scriptures I 1014Church Monuments 1014The Windows 1015The Quiddity 1016Denial 1016Vertue 1017The Pearl. Matth. 13. 45 1017Life 1019Jordan (II) 1019The British Church 1020The Quip 1021Paradise 1021The Collar 1022The Pulley 1023The Sonne 1024Discipline 1024Death 1025Rachel Speght (1597–?) (os) 1026A Mouzell for Melastomus 1026Gazetteer of Classical and Early Modern Names and Places 1040Bibliography 1060Index of Titles, Introductions, and Notes 1068