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List of Illustrations xvi Alphabetical List of Authors xvii Preface: Representing the Renaissance in the Twenty-First Century xviii Acknowledgments xxiv Timeline: The Tudor and Stuart Monarchs, 1509-1642 xxv Introduction: Renaissance English History and Literature 1 John Skelton (1460?-1529) 17 Philip Sparrow [Part I] 18 Sir Thomas More (1477/8-1535) 35 [From] The History of King Richard the Third (ca. 1513-18) 37 [From] A Dialogue Concerning Heresies (1529) 41 Letter from Margaret Roper to Alice Alington, August 1534 49 Sir Thomas Elyot (ca. 1490-1546) 61 [From] The Book Named the Governor 62 [From] The First Book of The Castell of Health 75 William 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) 100 Mark 4:1-34 [the Parable of the Sower and the Seed] 100 The Gospel of John, Chapter 1 101 [Tyndale's Translation of Luther's] A Prologue to the Epistle of Paul to the Romans 103 Sir Thomas Wyatt (ca. 1503-1542) 119 [From] Certain Psalms (published 1549) 120 [Prologue] 120 Psalm 51. Miserere Mei Domine 122 Poems 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] 130 Broadside Ballads (ca. 1535 onwards) 134 A Ballad of Luther, the Pope, a Cardinal, and a Husbandman (ca. 1535) 134 London's Lottery (1612) 137 The Silver Age; or, The World Turned Backward (1621) 142 Henry 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] 148 Psalm 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] 158 John Foxe (1517-1587) 160 [From] Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days 161 Story and Martyrdom of Anne Askew 161 Richard Mulcaster (1530?-1611) 177 [From] Positions (1581) 178 [From] The First Part of the Elementarie (1582) 183 Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) 189 [Written on a Window Frame at Woodstock] 190 ['Twas Christ the Word] 190 [The Doubt of Future Foes] 190 On Monsieur's Departure 191 [When I Was Fair and Young] 192 Verse Exchange Between Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh 192 [Raleigh to Elizabeth] 192 [Elizabeth to Raleigh] 193 [Song on the Armada Victory, December 1588] 194 Letter from Princess Elizabeth to Queen Mary, August 2, 1556 194 Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Closing of Parliament, March 29, 1585 195 George Gascoigne (ca. 1534-1577) 198 [From] A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573) 199 Gascoigne's Woodmanship 199 Gascoigne's Goodnight 202 Certain Sermons or Homilies (1547, 1563) 204 A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading and Knowledge of Holy Scripture (1547) 205 An Homily of the Misery of All Mankind, and of His Condemnation to Death Everlasting, by His Own Sin (1547) 210 An Homily of the State of Matrimony (1563) 215 The Book of Common Prayer (1549, 1552, and 1559) (os) 223 The Preface (1559) 224 Of 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) 231 Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) (os) 233 [From] The Shepheardes Calender 235 Aprill 235 [From] Amoretti 242 Epithalamion 253 [From] The Faerie Queene 265 A Letter of the Authors expounding his whole intention . . . to Raleigh 265 Book II, cantos 1, 7, 9-10, 12 267 Two Cantos of Mutabilitie 355 [From] A View of the State of Ireland 384 Anonymous Carols 393 [Sing We With Mirth] 393 [By Reason of Two] 394 [Of All Creatures Women Be Best] 396 Richard Hakluyt (ca. 1552-1616) (os) 399 [From] The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 400 The third troublesome voyage made . . . by M. John Hawkins 400 [From] A true discourse of the three Voyages of discoverie . . . 406 The woorthy enterprise of John Foxe . . . 411 The answere of her Maiestie to the aforesaid Letters of the Great Turke . . . 418 John Lyly (ca. 1553-1606) 421 [From] Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit 422 John Florio (1553?-1625) 477 [From] The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne 478 To the courteous Reader 478 Of the Cannibals 480 Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1553-1618) 491 Like to a Hermit Poor 492 The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd 493 The Lie 493 A Farewell to False Love 494 [Even Such is Time] 495 The 21st (and last) Book of the Ocean to Cynthia 495 Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) 508 The Defense of Poesy 510 [From] Astrophil and Stella 542 Miscellaneous Poetry 573 Poems from The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia 573 [As I my little flock on Ister bank] 573 [Ye goat-herd gods] 577 Sonnets 579 [Thou blind man's mark] 579 [Leave me, O love] 580 [From] The Psalms of David 580 Psalm 22 580 Psalm 23 582 Psalm 30 583 Thomas 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) 586 To the Adventurers, Favourers, and Well-Willers of the Enterprise for the Inhabiting and Planting in Virginia 586 The third and last part . . . with a description of the nature and manners of the people of the country 588 Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) 597 [From] The Advancement of Learning (1605) 598 [From] Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625) 604 Of Truth 604 Of Simulation and Dissimulation 606 Of Innovations 608 Of Plantations 609 Of Nature in Men 611 Of Studies 612 Of Vicissitude of Things 613 New Atlantis (published 1627) 616 Robert Southwell (1561-1595) 640 The Burning Babe 640 Decease Release 641 Man's Civil War 642 Look Home 643 Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621) (os) 644 To the Angell Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney 645 [From] The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke 647 Psalm 44 Deus, Auribus 647 Psalm 59 Eripe Me De Inimicis 648 Psalm 138 Confitebor Tibi 650 Psalm 139 Domine, Probasti 650 A Mirror for Magistrates (1563, 1587 editions) (os) 652 [From] A Mirror for Magistrates 652 The Induction 652 Cardinal Wolsey 666 Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) (os) 678 Hero and Leander 679 [From] All Ovid's Elegies 698 Book One, Elegia 1 698 Book One, Elegia 5 699 Book Three, Elegia 7 700 Book Three, Elegia 11 701 The Passionate Shepherd to his Love 703 William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 704 The Rape of Lucrece 705 [From] Sonnets 752 Thomas Campion (1567-1620) (os) 781 [From] A Booke of Ayres (1601) 782 To the Reader 782 I-II 783 VI 783 X 784 XII 784 XV 784 XXI 785 [Female Persona Lyrics] 785 2: IX 785 2: XV 786 4: XVIII 786 Thomas Nashe (1567-1601) 788 The Choice of Valentines 789 [From] Pierce Penniless His Supplication to the Devil (1592) 797 Æmilia Lanyer (1569-1645) (os) 814 Salve Deus Rex Judæorum 815 Ben Jonson (1572-1637) 861 [From] Epigrams (1616) 862 xi. On Something that Walks Somewhere 862 xiv. To William Camden 863 xxii. On My First Daughter 863 xxiii. To John Donne 863 xlv. On My First Son 864 lii. To Censorious Courtling 864 lxii. To Fine Lady Would-Be 864 lxxvi. On Lucy, Countess of Bedford 865 lxxxiii. To a Friend 865 lxxxix. To Edward Alleyn 865 ci. Inviting a Friend to Supper 866 cii. To William, Earl of Pembroke 867 cv. To Mary, Lady Wroth 867 cx. To Clement Edmonds, On His Caesar's Commentaries Observed, and Translated 868 cxviii. On Gut 869 cxxxiv. On the Famous Voyage 869 [From] The Forest (1616) 874 i. Why I Write Not of Love 874 ii. To Penshurst 875 v. Song: To Celia 877 ix. Song: To Celia 878 xv. To Heaven 878 [From] Underwoods (1640) 879 2. A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces 879 His Excuse for loving 879 Her Triumph 880 His discourse with Cupid 880 9. My Picture Left in Scotland 882 23. An Ode. To Himself 882 29. A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme 883 47. An Epistle Answering to One that Asked to be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben 885 70. To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison 887 Miscellaneous Poems 890 To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare: And What He Hath Left Us 890 John Donne (1572-1631) 893 [From] Songs and Sonnets 894 The Anniversary 894 The Apparition 895 The Bait 896 The Canonization 896 The Ecstasy 898 A Fever 900 The Flea 901 The Funeral 901 The Indifferent 902 A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day 903 The Relic 904 Song 905 The Sun Rising 905 A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 906 Elegies 907 Elegy 8. To His Mistress Going to Bed 907 Elegy 9. Change 909 The First Anniversary: An Anatomy of the World 910 Religious Poems 920 Holy Sonnets: 6-7, 10 920 Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward 922 [From] Paradoxes, Problems, Essays, Characters (published 1652) 923 A Defence of Women's Inconstancy 923 That Nature is our Worst Guide 924 Why Puritans make long Sermons? 925 [From] Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624) 925 XVII. Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris 925 John Marston (1576-1634) 928 [From] Metamorphosis of Pygmalion's Image, and Certaine Satyres (1598) 928 Satire II 928 Martha Moulsworth (1577-?) (os) 933 November the 10th 1632, The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth Widdowe 933 Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary, Lady Falkland (1585-1639) 937 [From] The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry 938 The Argument 938 Actus Primus. Scena Prima 939 Myles Smith (d. 1624) 941 The Translators to the Reader - the Preface to the Authorized Version (King James Bible) (1611) 942 Lady Mary (Sidney) Wroth (1586?-1651?) 960 [From] Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 961 [From] The Countess of Montgomery's Urania 985 George Wither (1588-1667) 998 [From] A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne 999 George Herbert (1593-1633) 1007 [From] The Temple 1008 The Altar 1008 The Agonie 1008 Sepulchre 1009 Easter 1009 Easter Wings 1011 Sinne 1011 Prayer (I) 1012 Love I 1012 Jordan (I) 1013 Employment (I) 1013 The H. Scriptures I 1014 Church Monuments 1014 The Windows 1015 The Quiddity 1016 Denial 1016 Vertue 1017 The Pearl. Matth. 13. 45 1017 Life 1019 Jordan (II) 1019 The British Church 1020 The Quip 1021 Paradise 1021 The Collar 1022 The Pulley 1023 The Sonne 1024 Discipline 1024 Death 1025 Rachel Speght (1597-?) (os) 1026 A Mouzell for Melastomus 1026 Gazetteer of Classical and Early Modern Names and Places 1040 Bibliography 1060 Index of Titles, Introductions, and Notes 1068

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