Printed Poetry Collections of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Tottel's Miscellany – Table of Contents
Songes and sonettes, written by the right honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other. Songes and sonettes, written by the right honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other.
Descripcion of the restlesse state
‘The sunne hath twise brought furth his tender grene’ sig. Aiir
Description of Spring
‘The soote season, that bud and blome forth brings’ sig. Aiiv
Description of the restlesse state of a louer
‘When youth had led me half the race’,sig. Aiiir
Description of the fickle affections
‘Such waiward waies haue some when folly stirres their braines’ sig. Aiiir – sig. Aiiiv
Complaint of a louer, that defied loue
‘When sommer toke in hand the winter to assail’ sig. Aiiiir
Complaint of a louer rebuked
‘Loue, that liueth, and raigneth in my thought’ sig. Aiiiiv
Complaint of the louer disdained
‘In Ciprus, springes (where as dame Uenus dwelt)’ sig. Bir
Description and praise of his loue Geraldine
‘From Tuskane came my Ladies worthy race’ sig. Bir
The frailtie and hurtfulnes of beautie
‘Brittle beautie, that nature made so fraile’ sig. Bir – sig. Biv
A complaint by night of the louer not beloued
‘Alas so all things now do hold their peace’ sig. Biv
How eche thing saue the louer in spring
‘When Windsor walles susteyned my wearied arme’ sig. Biv – sig. Biir
Vow to loue faithfullie howsoeuer he be rewarded
‘Set me wheras the Sunne do parche the grene sig. Biir
Complaint that his ladie after she knew of his loue
‘I neuer saw my Ladie laye apart’ sig. Biir
Request to his loue to ioyne bountie with beautie
‘The golden gift that nature did thee geue’ sig. Biiv
Prisoned in windsor, he recounteth his pleasure there passed
‘So cruell prison how could betide, alas’ sig. Biiv, sig. Biiir, sig. Biiiv
The louer comforteth himselfe with the worthinesse of his loue
‘When raging loue with extreme payne’ sig. Biiiv
Complaint of the absence of her louer being vpon the sea
‘O Happy dames, that may embrace sig. Biiiir – sig. Biiiiv
Complaint of a diyng louer refused vpon his ladies iniust mistaking
‘In winters iust returne, when Boreas gan his raigne’ sig. Biiiiv, sig. Cir, sig. Civ
Complaint of the absence of her louer being vpon the sea
‘Good Ladies: ye that haue your pleasures in exile’ sig. Civ – sig. Ciir
A praise of his loue wherein he reproueth them
‘Geue place you Ladies and be gone’ sig. Ciir – sig. Ciiv
To the ladie that scorned her louer
‘Although I had chek’ sig. Ciiv – sig. Ciiir
A warning to the louer how he is abused by his loue
‘To derely had I bought my grene and youthfull yeres’ sig. Ciiir
The forsaken louer describeth and forsaketh loue
‘O Lothsome place where I’ sig. Ciiiv – sig. Ciiiir
The louer describes his restlesse state
‘AS oft as I behold and see’ sig. Ciiiir
A carelesse man, scorning and describing, the suttle vsage of women
‘Wrapt in my carelesse cloke, as I walkt to and fro’ sig. Dir
An answer in the behalfe of a woman of an vncertain author
‘Girt in my giltles gowne as I sit here and sow’ sig. Div
The constant louer lamenteth
‘Sins fortunes wrath enuieth the wealth’ sig. Div – sig. Diir
A song written by the earle of Surrey
‘Eche beast can chose his fere according to his minde’ sig. Diir, sig. Diiv, sig. Diiir
The faithfull louer declareth his paines
‘If care do cause men cry, why do not I complaine?’ sig. Diiir – sig. Diiiv
The meanes to attain happy life
‘Martial, the thinges that do attain’ sig. Diiiv
Praise of meane and constant estate
‘Of thy life, Thomas, this compasse wel mark’ sig. Diiiir
Praise of certaine psalmes of Dauid
‘The great Macedon, that out of Persle chased’ sig. Diiiiv
Of the death of the same sir T. W.
‘Dyuers thy death do diuersly bemone’ sig. Diiiiv
Of the same
‘Wresteth here, that quick could neuer rest’ sig. Diiiiv – sig. Eir
Of the same
‘The rude age when knowledge was not rife’ sig. Eir – sig. Eiv
Of Sardanapalus dishonorable life
‘Thassirian king in peace, with foule desire’ sig. Eiv
How no age is content with his owne estate
‘Layd in my quiet bed, in study as I were’ sig. Eiv – sig. Eiir
Bonum est mihi quod humiliasti me
‘The stormes are past these cloudes are ouerblowne’ sig. Eiir – sig. Eiiv
Exhortacion to learne by others trouble
‘My Ratclif, when thy retchlesse youth offendes’ sig. Eiiv
The fansie of a weried louer
‘The fansy, which that I haue serued long’ sig. Eiiv
The louer for shamefastnesse hideth his desire
‘The long loue, that in my thought I’ sig. Eiiir
The louer waxeth wiser, and will not die
‘Yet was I neuer of your loue agreued’ sig. Eiiir
The abused louer seeth his folie
‘Was neuer file yet half so well yfiled’ sig. Eiiiv
The louer describeth his being striken
‘The liuely sparkes, that issue from those eyes’ sig. Eiiiv
The wauering louer willeth, and dreadeth
‘Such vain thought, as wonted to mislead me’ sig. Eiiiir
The louer hauing dreamed enioying of his loue
‘Vnstable dreame according to the place’ sig. Eiiiir
The louer vnhappy biddeth happy louers reioice in Maie
‘Ye that in loue finde luck and swete abundance’ sig. Eiiiiv
The louer confesseth him in loue with Phillis
‘If waker care: if sodayn pale colour’ sig. Eiiiiv
Of others fained sorrow, and the louers fained mirth
‘Cesar when that the traitour of Egipt’ sig. Fir
Of change in minde
‘Eche man me telth, I change most my deuise’ sig. Fir
How the louer perisheth in his delight
‘Some fowles there be that haue so perfit sight’ sig. Fir – sig. Fiv
Against his tonge that failed to vtter his sutes
‘Because I stil kept thee fro lyes, and blame’ sig. Fiv
Description of the contrarious passion in a louer
‘I finde no peace, and all my warre is done’ sig. Fiv – sig. Fiir
The louer compareth his state to a ship
‘My galley charged with forgetfulnesse’ sig. Fiir
Of doutful loue
‘Auisyng the bright beames of those fayre eyes’ sig. Fiir – sig. Fiiv
The louer sheweth how he is forsaken
‘They flee from me, that sometime did me seke’ sig. Fiiv
o a ladie to answer directlie with yea or naie
‘Madame, withouten many wordes’ sig. Fiiv – sig. Fiiir
To his loue whom he had kissed against her will
‘Alas, Madame, for stealing of a kisse’ sig. Fiiir
Of the Ielous man that loued the same woman
‘The wandring gadling, in the summer tide’ sig. Fiiir – sig. Fiiiv
To his loue from whom he had her gloues
‘What nedes these threatning woordes, and wasted wynd’ sig. Fiiiv
Of the fained frend
‘Right true it is, and sayd full yore ago’ sig. Fiiiv
The louer taught, mistrusteth allurementes
‘It may be good like it who list’ sig. Fiiiv – sig. Fiiiir
The louer complaineth that his loue doth not pitie him
‘Resownde my voyce ye woodes, that heare me plain’ sig. Fiiiir
The louer reioyseth against fortune that by hindering his sute had happily made him forsake his folly
‘In faith I wot not what to say’ sig. Fiiiir – sig. Fiiiiv
A renouncing of hardly escaped loue
‘Farewell the hart of crueltie sig. Fiiiiv – sig. Gir