tAwA Ic^C CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 924 095 909 093 DATE DUE cpn«YT™ jWP'^' our I o ^004 j^l^^ ■^j-gon^ iJUcM^'^Wi^ ^W* GAYLORD PRINTED IN U.SA A Cornell University S Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924095909093 In compliance with current copyright law, Cornell University Library produced this replacement volume on paper that meets the ANSI Standard Z39.48-1992 to replace the irreparably deteriorated original. 2002 ToTTEL's Miscellany. Sondes and Sonettes ■H ENR Y H OWARD, Earl of S u i< k I. \ , Sir Thomas Wyatt, the Elder. Nicholas Grimalu, AND U}ucrtaiu Au tlioi-s . FIRST EDITION OF 5TH JUNE; COLLATED WITH THE SECOND EDITION OF 31 ST JULY, I 557- BY EDWARD ARBfiK, AjP'ociate, Kings's CoUege, London, F.R.G.S,, (St'l LONDON : 5 i^)Ut:hi\ sijUARK. hi 01 iMSI-U I' \ , W ' Eiit. Slal. 1/nll.] . I October, 1870. [All Rights refenied. A. 2.^^^'« 5- CONTENTS^^ J V^CA>V PAGE A Prologue ......"} The Table of First Lines . . . ■ yi Chronological Memoranda, &c. . . . i" Introduction ...... "v I. TOTTEL's MISCELLANY. First Edition, 5 June, 1557. Songs and Sonnets ■written by the right honourable Lord Henry Howard, late Earl of Svva's.y, and other i 1. The Printer to the Reader . . ., . 2 2. Thhty-six poems by the Earl of Surrey . . 3-32 3. Ninety poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt . . 33-95 4. Forty poems by Nicholas Grimald . .96-125 5. Ninety-five Poems by Uncertain Authors : among CLci,„^i^< whom were certainly Thomas Churchyard, Thomas Lord Vaux, Edward Somerset, John Heywood, and Sir Francis Bryan . 61, 126-217 Of these 95 poems ; the following Authors only have been as yet ascertained (a) Two poems attributed to Lord Vaux . .; 172-4 jb) A poem attributed to John Hevwood . 763 (c) A poem apparently written by Edward Somerset 164 6. Four other Poems by the Earl of Surrey . 218-222 7. Six otlier Poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt . 223-225 8. Colophon ...... 226 IL TOTTEL's MISCELLANY. Second Edition, 31 July, 1557. Collated with First Edition : variations are shown in the footnotes. 9. Thirty-nine additional Poems by Uncertain Authors, first found in the Second Edition . . 22']-2']i L.-VTER Bibliogkaphy ..... 272 Of the entire collection, the following were selected out of the poems of The Earl of Surrey ..... 40 Sir Thomas Wyatt .... 96 Nicholas Grimald . ... 40 And of Uncertain AittJtors .... 134 Total number in the Miscellany . . . 310 Of the 134 poems by U^icertain AniJwrs', there are still 130, of which the authorship has yet to be a.icertaincd. A PROLOGUE. |HE immenfe quantity of Englifh verfe that was wi-itten between 1530-1600 is probably far beyond the concep- tion of moft readers of our literature. The printed Poetry — whether it appeared as the produftion of a fmgle Poet or in the fhape of Poetical Colleflions, (not to fpeak of the innumerable commendatoiy verfes prefixed to profe works) — conftitute the bulk of all the publications of tliat time ; jufb as Religious literature does in the prefent day. Put a flight recol- lecftion of thofe publications, will confirm the following teflimony of William Webbe, in 1586. Aniorig the innumerable sortes of Enplyshe Bookes, and infinite fardles of printed pamphlets, wherewith thys Conntrey is pestered, all shoppes stuffed, and euery study furnibhed : the greatest part I tliinke in any one kinde, are such as are eittier meere Poeticall, or which tende in some respecte (as either in matter or forme) to Poetry. — Pru'Jace to A Discourse of Eitglisk Poetrie. To this printed Poetry ; mufl be added in our eftimate, all the nmmifcrift verfe at prefent extant in all our various public and private collections. Laftly, we muft allow fomewhat, for the Poems — both printed and manufcript — that have perifhcd beyond all poffibility of recovery. 2. The Poets of that age, wrote for their own deled^ation and for that of their friends : and not for the general public. They generally had the grcatefl averfion to their works appearing in print. In The Arte of Engiijlu Poefie, 1589, attributed to George Puttenham, are the two notable complaints of this baflifulnefs. *' Now also of such among the Nobilitie or gentrie as be very well scene in many laudable sciences, and especially in making or Poesie, it is so come to passe that they haue no courage to write and if they haue, yet are they loath to be a knowen of their skill. So as I know very many notable Gentle- men in the Court that haue written commendably and suppressed it agayne, or els suffred it to be publisht without their owne names to it : as if it were a discredit for a Gentleman, to seeme learned, and to shew him selfe amorous of any good Art." J>. 37. A'tf. 1869. "And in her Maiesties time that now is aresprongvp an other crew of Courtly makers Noble men and Gentlemen of her INIaiesties owne seruaunte=, who haue written excellently well as it would appeare if their doings could be found out and made pubhcke with the rest." Ji. 75. Md, 1869. Numerous inftances of this hefitation arifing out of fear of criticifm or of natural baflifulnefs, could be readily given. The refult of this hefitation was, that a large number of poems never came to the prefs at all ; at leaft in that age. Coinciding with thefe numerous unprinted compositions ; was a frequent praflice of keeping Poetical Note-books by many who were not poets themfelves. As the manufcript or fcarce printed Poems paffed from hand to hand, they were neatly copied into folio or quarto fliaped books ; fuch as we find in the Bodleian or the Britifli M ufeum. All thefe copies, however, are not clear gain as to quantity. They fometimes contain additions to the printed texts ; but as often fimply prefent merely verbal variations. Thus, with iv A PROLOGUE. originals and copies together, it has come to pafs that the Eliza- bethan verfe extant in manufcript is in greater proportion in bulk to that which was then printed than is the cafe in the prefent day. 3. With regard to the totality of this veife : there is yet much to be done. Chiefly however it is to reflore — in a juft meafure ot fame — not a few of our bejl EngliJIi Poets to their places in the National Literature. All our good Poets are not yet recognifed. When all thefe hidden and pviblifned poems have been brought to light, verified, and collated : we may hope to gauge the poefy, and to poffefs — in much larger bulk than is now thought to exift — the poems of Queen Elizabeth ; Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford; Thomas, Lord Vaux; Henry, Lord Paget; Sir Edward Dyer; Sir John Graunge; Thomas Lodge, M. D. ; Edwyn Sandys, M.D. ; William Hunnis ; Clement Robin- son ; William Wilmot ; Francis and George Davison ; and who not ? Then may we hope to folve t?ie whole hofl of Initials and Pfeudynoms which are, but often vainly, fuppofed to attefl the authorfhip of fo many extant poetical pieces. Then may we afpire to wipe away Ignoto from verfes, the compofers of which were unknown to their own contemporaries. 4. Nor fhall, in any cafe, the fearch go unrewarded. The Eliza- bethan age produced the mofl blithefome of our Englilh Song. True Poetry is not cramped like Profe to the expreffion of the fait. It is not limited to the locality of its own age and civilization, A Thing of Beattty, a Joy for ever, it refreflies all after time : and the Searcher will find that the aggi'egate Minor Poets of Elizabeth's reign — varying infinitely in merit among themfelves — do far surpafs, both in the quantity and quality of their producftions, all their Englifli compeers that have written fnice. 5. Putting afide from our further confideration the 7>iami/i:ri/t poeti*y; let us return to what was adliually publifhed. It feems very defirable that with the reproduilion of works by fingle Poets, the celebrated Poetical Mifcellanies fliould, as far as poffible, be alfo repoffeffed by the public. Not a very numerous clafs : they are diftingnifhed by great intrinfic charm and beauty of thought and expreffion ; by the exceffive rarity and value of the very few copies of the early editions that have come down to us ; and by the coftlinefs of the exceffively limited editions, which Englilh Scholars have publiflied of them in the courfe of this cen- tury ; not for an univerfal enjoyment, for which they thought the world not refined enough, but for the prefervation oi the Texts from the accidents and ravages of Time. 6. How popular thefe Mifcellanies were will be feen uom the following Lift of editions : which is the more eNnreffive, as thefe Collections would almofl only circulate among uie cultivated of that time A P R O L O G U K. Eavlu 350ittons of ^pocticiil itlisccllnnirs. 1st. 2ud. 3rd. 4th. 5tli. 6th. 7th. 8th. 9th. Songs and Sonnets. By H. Howard Earl of Surrey and otlnjra. 1557- '557- 1559- ^5^5- ^S^?- i574- 1585- 1587- 5 June. 31 July. A Myrrour for Magistrates. [Ed. by W. Baldwin, J. Hiugins, T. BlENNER-H ASSET.] 1559- 1563- 1571- ^574- 1575- 1578. 1587. 1610. 1621? The Paradise op Dainty Devises. [Collected by R. Edwardes.] i576> 1577- 1578. 1580. 1585. [1590.] 1596. 1600. 1606, A GoRcious Gallery of Gallant Inventions. Ed. by[0. Roydon? and] T. P[roctor.] 1578. Ofi/y two copies known. A Handefull of Pleasant Delites. By Clement Robinson and divers other. 1584. Only one copy knoivn. The Phcenix Nest. Ed. by R. S. ^593- Tivo copies /c/iow}t. Englands Helicon. [Ed. by J. Bodenharl] 1600. 1614. A Poetical Rapsody. Ed. by Francis Davison. 1602. 1608. 1611. 1621. 7. To thefe, the following works, as being fomewhat akin to lliem, may be added. CoUcctiong of IDoctical ©uofatioi'.s. Englands Parnassus. [Ed. by R. Allot ?] 1600. Belvedere, or the Garden of the Muses. [Ed. by J. Eodeniiam. x6oo. 1610. IRare ©Hovfts fig sinalc ^ods. Sometimes including Prose, and occasionally poetical contributions by the Author's friends. B. GooGE. Eglogs Epyiaphcs and Soneites. 88 leaves. 1563- 1570. Three copies known. G. TuRBERViLLE. Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs a^id Sonets ivith a Dis- course of the Freiidly AJfcctions of Tymetes to Pyndara his Ladie. 145 leaves. ? 1567- [^570.] Only one copy of 1567 edition known. N. B[retton.] a small Handf till of Fragrant Flouuers. 8 leaves. 1575 Only one copy known. G. Whetstone. The Rocke of Regard, deuided into 4 parts. The Castle of delight. The Garden of Vnthriftijtesse. The Arbour of Vertite. The Ortchard of Repcntfucc. 132 leaves. 1576. Not more than three copies seem to exist. T. Lodge. Phillis hoiwured with Pastoral Sonnets, Elegies andamorons delights, &^c. 1593. Five copies known. 8. It would, at this moment, be a great prcfumption to afpire to the reproducftion of even half of the above. Even that is quite impoffible without the a]jproval and generofity of the pof- felTors of the unique or rare copies. What we may leave undone ; let others finifli. IMeanwhile may it pleafe the reader to accept, as an earneft, one of the firfl of thefe CoUcdlions in Importance as it is the firfl in point of Time — Tottel's iJifcclldny. THE TABLE OF FIRST LINES. It is quite a further study, altogether beyond the limits of the present edi- tion, to distinguish which of the following poems are translations or imiLitions of Latin or Italian verse, and which may lay claim to originality and of a native English vein. In grouping the first Lines under each known Author : the first word of Poems that only appear in the First Edition is put in Small Capitals : those first added in the Second Edition are shown in Italic letter. Hrnry Howard, ^i7r/o/"SuRREY. 1 Alas so all thinges nowe /. lo 2 Although I had a check . 21 3 As oft I as behold and se 24 4 Brittle Beaiitie, that nature . 10 5 Dyuers thy death doe diuersly 28 6 Eche beast can chose hys fere 218 7 From Tuskane came my . 9 8 Geue place ye louers, here 20 9 Good Ladies, ye that haue 19 10 I neuer sawe my Ladye laye 12 1 1 If care do cause men crj', why 220 12 In Ciprns, springes (whereas 9 13 In the rude age when .- . 218 14 In winters iust returne, when 16 15 Layd in my quiet bed, in . 30 16 Loue that liueth, and reigneth 8 17 Martiall, the thinges that do 27 18 My Ratclif, when thy . . 32 19 O happy dames, that may . 15 20 O lothsome place where I . 22 21 Of thy lyfe, Thomas, this . 27 22 Set mewheras the sunne doth 11 23 So cruell prison how coulde . 13 24 Such waiward waies hath loue, 6 25 Syns fortunes wrath enuieth 217 26 Thasslrian king in peace, with 30 27 I'he fansy which that I haue 32 28 The golden gift that nature 12 29 The great Macedon, that out 28 30 The Sonne hatli twise brought 3 31 The soote season, that bud and 4 32 Ihe slormes are past these 31 33 Though I regarded not . 24 34 To dearly had I bought my . 22 35 W. resteth here, that quick 29 36 When ragyng loue with . 14 37 When sommer toke in hand 7 38 When Windsor wall es . .11 39 When youth had led me halfe 5 40 Wrapt in my carelesse cloke, 26 ^zV Thomas Wyatt. 1 Accused though I be, without 55 2 A face that should content me 63 3 A lady gaue me a gift she had 223 54 C9 39 81 4 A spendyns; hand that alway/. 90 5 Alas, j\ladame, for stealing 41 6 AI in thy loke my life doth tS T Avising the bright beames of 40 8 Because I still kept thee fro 38 9 Behold, Loue, thj' power how 53 10 Cesar, when that the traytour 37 11 Desire Jalas) my master, and 80 12 Disdainemenotwithoiitdesert 58 13 Driuen by desire I did this dede 84 14 Eche man me telth, I change 37 15 Ever my hap is slack and . 68 16 Farewell, Loue, and all thy 70 17 Farewell the hart of crueltie . 44 18 For shamefast harm of great 8-2 ig For want of will, in wo I playne 59 20 From these hie hilles as when 46 21 Go burning sighes vnto the . 73 22 He is not dead, that somtime 23 How oft haue I, my deareand 24 I find no peace, and all my 25 I see that chance hath chosen 26 If amourous fayth, orif an , 70 27 If euer man might himauaunt 59 28 If thou wilt mighty be, flee 224 29 Ifwakercare: ifsodaynpale 36 30 In court to serue decked with 83 31 In doubtfull breast whiles . 84 32 In fayth [ wot not what tosay 44 33 It burnethyet, alas, my hartes 79 34 It may be good like it who list 42 35 Loue, Fortune, and my minde 69 36 Lux, my faire fawlcon, and 68 37 Lyke as the birde, within the 225 38 Lyke vnto these vnmesurable 7a 39 Madame, withouten many . 41 40 Maruell no more altho . . 50 41 Myne olde dere enmy, my_ . 46 42 Myne owne lohn Poyns: sins 88 43 My galley charged with . 39 44 My hart I gaue thee, not to do 71 45 My loue to skorne, my . 55 46 My lute awake performe the 64 47 My mothers niaides when they 8s 48 Mystrustfull mindes be moued 78 49 Nature that gaue the Bee so 65 50 Of Carthage he that worthy . 83 5T Of purpose, loue chose first to 80 52 Once as me thought fortune 63 The TAiiLE OF FiRbT Lines. 53 Passe forth my wonted crves/. 56 54 Perdy I sayd it not . 66 55 Resownde my.voyce ye 43 56 Right true it is, and sayd full 42 57 She sat, and sowed : that hath 52 58 So feble is the threde, that 73 59 Some fowles there be, that . 3S 60 Somtime I fled the fire, . 54 61 Speake thou and spede where 224 62 Stond who so list vpon the . S3 63 Suchis the course, that natures 62 64 Such vain thought, as wonted 35 65 Sufifised not (iiiadame) that 76 66 Syghes are my foode : my . 82 67 Synce loue wyll nedes, that I 77 68 Tagus farewel that westward 84 6g They fiee from me, that . i\o 70 Through out the world if it . 83 71 The answere that ye made 62 72 The enmy of life, decayer of 6j 73 The flaming sighes that boyle 71 74 The furious goonne, in his . 54 75 The liuely sparkes, that issue 34 76 The longe loue, that in my j3 77 The piller perisht is whereto 72 78 The restfull place, renewer of 45 79 The wandring gadling, in the 41 80 Vnstable dreame, accordyng 35 81 Vnwarely so was neuer no . 65 82 Venemous thorres that are so 223 S3 Vulcane begat me : Minerua 82 64 Was neuer file yet half so well 34 85 What man hath hard such 52 86 What nedes these threatnyng 42 87 What rage is this 1 what . 80 88 What vaileth troth ? or by it, 53 89 What word is that, that . 223 go When Dido feasted first the 93 91 When first mine eyes did view, 76 92 Where shall I hatie, at myne 51 93 Within my brest I neuer , 56 94 Ye that in loue finde luck and 36 95 Yet was I neuer of your loue 33 96 Your lokes so often cast 57 Nicholas Grimald. 1 A HEAL'yhart, with wo 703 2 As THIS first daye of latius . 106 3 By heauens hye gift, incase 102 4 Charis the fourth, Pieris the 103 5 Deserts of Nymphs, that . 105 6 For Tullie, late, a toomb I . 125 7 For Wilford wept first men, 112 8 Gorgeous attire, by art made 107 9 Imps of King loue, and quene 100 TO In workyng well, if trauell loi II LouERS men warn the corps 98 12 Man, byawoman lern, this/. 113 13 Mee thought, of late when . iig 14 Myrrour of matrones, flowr 113 15 No image earned with , . 108 16 Now, blythe Thaley, tliy . 113 17 Now clattering arms, now . 120 18 Now flaming Phebus, passing 105 ig Of all the heauenly gifts, that no 20 One is my sire : my soona, . 102 21 Phebe twise took her horns, q6 22 So HAPpy bee the course of . 106 i 23 Sythe, Blackwood, yuu haue 99 24 Sythe, Vincent, I haue minde 99 25 The auncient time commended 108 26 The issue of great loue, draw iii 27 The noble Henry, he, that . 118 28 Therefore, when restlesse rage 123 29 The worthy Wllfords bodj', 112 30 To YOU, madame, I wish bothe 106 31 To YOU this present yere full 107 32 What cause, what reason . 104 33 What One art thou, thus in 108 34 What path list you to tred ? log S5 V/hat race of life ronne yuu ? log 36 WHATsweetreleeftheshowers 96 37 Who wold beleeue mans life 101 38 When princes lawes, with no 39 Why, Nicolas, why doest . 115 40 Yea, and a good cause why 115 Thorias, Lord Vaux. I lothe that I did loue . 173 When Cupid scaled first the fort 172 John Heywood. Geue place you Ladies and begon 163 Edward Somerset. Experience now doth shew \\h?t 164 1 A cniell Tis;cr all loith teeth 259 2 Adieu dcscrty ho7v art thou 263 3 Ahllbcriiejtoivhaitc I Icarjicd 259 4 Ah loue hozv ivaiivard is his 251 5 A kiiide of coal is (7J vicu say 246 6 Al you that frend,hip do . 185 7 Alas that cuer death such , 153 8 Alas liiheu shall 1 ioy . . 270 g A Man may Hue thrise . 212 10 Among dame natures workes 183 II As Cypres tree that rent is by 177 12 As 1 haue bene so will I euer be 188 13 As Lawrell leaues that cease 199 14 A student at his book so plast 157 15 At libertie I sit and see . , 191 16 Behold my picture here well 169 17 Bewaile with me all ye that 170 Tke Table of First Lines. i8 Ey fortune as I lay in bed, p. 137 19 Cojiiplaine ive vzay: innch is 243 20 Cruell and vnkind whom . 179 21 Death and the kyng did as it 187 22 Do all yotir dcdes by ffood . 245 23 Do way your phis i Ice I faint 258 24 Eche thing I se hath time . 168 25 False may he be, and by the 199 26 Farc'Ki€lltJio7ifrose7t hart and 268 27 Flee from the prese and dwell 194 2S For loue AppoUo (his . 197 29 For that a re.stles head must 166 30 From worldly wo the mede of 210 31 Full faire and white she is, 152 32 Girt in my giltlesse gowne as 198 33 Holding my peace alas how 260 34 If euerwofuUmanmightmoue .126 35 If it were so that God would 180 36 If right be rackt, and . 129 37 If that thy wicked wife had 212 38 I heard when Fame with . 201 39 I lent my loue to losse and 158 40 J n Bayes I boast whose braiinch 26^ 41 In court as I bchclde, the . 266 42 I ne can clofe in short and . 203 43 In fredome was my fantasie . 182 44 In Grece somtime there dwelt 131 45 I read how Troylus serued in 192 46 In sekyng rest vnrest I finde 161 47 I see there is no sort . . 171 48 I scly Haw whose hope is past 260 49 / that Vlysscs yeres haue 241 50 It is no fire that geues no . 152 51 It was the day on which tJie 230 52 / wold I found not as I fele . 254 53 Lodcadhcliues^thativhilouie 228 54 Lohere lieth G. vnder the . 211 55 Lo here the end of man the 141 ^6 Lyke as the brake within the 187 57 Lyke as the lark within the 132 58 Lyke as the ra^e of raii^e . igo 59 Lyke the Phenixa birde most 214 60 My youthfuU yeres are past . 168 61 Nature that taught my silly 166 62 No ioy haue /j but litte in . 255 63 Hot like a God came Inpiter 240 64 O euyll tonges, which clap at 135 65 O lingrifi^ vtalceVlissesdere, 229 66 O Petrarke hed and prince of 178 t"] O temerous tauntres that , 177 68 Phylida was a fayer mayde . 138 6^ Procrynthatsometymeserued 213 70 I\ esigne you dames whom . 269 71 Shall I thus euer longj and be 154 72 Since tho.i my ring mayst p. 166 73 Sins Mars first mouedwarre 195 74 Sith that the way to welth is 155 75 Some men would thinke of 61 76 Stay gentle /rend tfiat . 248 77 Suche grene to me as you 187 78 Such waiwardwaies haue some T97 79 Sythe singyng gladdeth oft 144 80 The bird that sometime built 240 81 The blinded boy that bends the 252 82 The dolefull bell that still . 196 83 The doubtfull man hath feuers 154 84 The flickeryng fame that flieth 205 85 The golden apple that the 188 86 The lenger lyfe, the more . 132 87 The lyfe is long, that . 129 88 The plage is great, where . 134 89 The restlesse rage of depe . 137 90 The secret _fiaine that made 238 91 The shinyng season here to 177 92 The smoky sighes the bitter 175 93 The soules that lacked grace 227 94 Thestilis is a sely man, when 165 95 Thestilis thou sely man, why 189 96 The Sjinne when he had . 230 97 The winter with his griesly 160 98 The wisest ivay, thy bote, in 255 99 The vertue of Vlysses wife . 213 100 Tho Cowerd oft whom deinty 188 101 Thou Cupide God of loue, . 1^1 102 Though in the waxe a perfect i8g 103 To false report and flying fame 210 104 To liue to dye, and dye to 175 T05 To loue, alas, who would not i8i 106 To my mishap alas I fynde . 184 107 To this my song geue eare, 133 108 To trust the fayned face, to 215 log To walke on doubtfull ground, 136 no Vaine is the ffeting ivelth . 257 111 Vnto the liuyng Lord for . 142 112 Walkyng the pathe of pensiue 208 113 What harder is then stone, 228 114 What thing is that which I . 153 T15 When Audley had runne out 167 116 When dredful swelling seas, 159 117 When Phebus had the serpent 265 118 Who craftly castes to stere his 157 119 Who justly may reioyce in . 128 120 Who list to lead a gniet life . 245 121 Who list to liue vpright, and 142 122 Who lones to liue in peace, 205 123 Whom fansy forced first to 249 124 Why fearest thou thy outward 204 125 Who so that wisely weyes the 256 126 With petrarke to compare . 178 127 Yearetoyoun^tobryng'ineiu 267 128 Yet once againe my muse I 203 129 Your borrowd ineajie to moite 248 130 Vou that in play peruse my 22q CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA CONNECTED "WITH THIS MISCELLANY. nOncerning the six ascertained Writers — not to speak of those others whose names cannot even be guessed at — who, in part, composed these famous poems : there is much truth yet to be learned, as well as many fables to be forgotten. Confusion respecting them began early. Even the title page is a misnomer: Lord Henry Howard, K.G., was not actually Earl of Surrey, as his father was ; but was so called by courtesy. In the next generation, Puttenham confounds Sir Nicholas the ist, with Thomas the 2nd Baron Vaux. Fifteen years onwards, Tom Nashe published his Unfortunate Traveller fabulous adventures on the Continent, by the Earl of Surrey ; which were re- ceived as gospel by Drayton, and credited for a long time afterwards. And since Sirype's time, Grimald, the chaplain, in 1556, of Thomas Thirleby, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Ely, has been confounded with Grymbold, a chaplain of the Protestant Bishop Ridley. All existing statements respec- ting these SIX ascertained authors seem to require a severe testing; and m.iny new facts respecting them would no doubt reward a further lengthened inquiry. For our present purpose the few following notes, selected from many others, may suffice : and we would refer the reader to the Rev. Dr. Nott's bulky ed tion of the Works of Surrey and Wyatt, 1815-16, as a starting point for further research. 1485. Stu0. 22. ftjcnrg FEE. iicrnme fting. 1503.— T. Wyatt, son of Sir Henry Wyatt, was born at Allington Castle, Kent. 1509. Slpril 22. lEjenrg 17EEE. f)cgins to rcifln. 1514.— I Feb, After the battle of Flodden Field, king Henry VIII,, being desirous of rewarding the services of Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Surrey, and of his son Thomas, created the former Duke of Norfolk, and the latter, 3rd Earl of Surrey, on i Feb. 1514 : the Duke, before the grant, formally sur- rendering the Earldom to his son, for his lifetime. This 3rd Earl of Surrey had five children. The names of three of them have been preserved. Henry, the Poet. Thomas, created by Queen Elizabeth, on 13 Jan. 1559, Viscount Howard of Bindon. Mary, who was affianced to Henry Fitz-Roy, Duke of Richmond. 1515. — T. "Wyatt admitted to St. John College Cambridge; which had been founded in 1512. 1516. — Dr. Nott supposes Henrv HovVAED to have been born about this year. He quotes a household book of the family between 1513 and 18 Jan. 1524: which proves that our Poet must have passed his infancy in the summer time at Tendring Hall, Suffolk ; and in the winter tide at Hunsdon, in Hert- fordshire. 1518.— T. Wyatt takes his B.A. at Cambridge. Henry Fitz-R'^y, a natural son of Henry VIIT. by Elizabeth, widow of Lord Talboys, born about this time. 1519. — N. Grimald is supposed to have been born this year in Hunting- tonshire. He has given us the story of his childhood in a beautiful Funeral Song upon the decease of Annes, his mother, see/. 115, 1523. —[Sir William Vaujr, of Harrowden, adhered to King Henry VI., and was slain at the battle of Tewkesbury.] Upon the accession of Edward IV., Nicholas Vaux, son and heir of Sir Willia'-i. was despoiled of his estates in virtue of an act of attainder passed again-' lis father ; but in the ist of Henry VII., this attainder was totally reversed, and Nicholas, then Sir Nicholas, was restored to all the possessions of which he had then been deprived. Sir Nicholas was highly distinguished as a statesman and a warrior, and was much in favour with Henry VII, and Henry VIII.; by tiie latter he was summoned to parliament, as Baron Vaux, of Harrowdeny the 27 of April, 1523, but did not long enjoy his honours, as he d. 24 May following. Thomas, 2nd Lord Vaux, was only twelve years of age upon his father's death ; he took his seat in parliament on attaming his majority, in the 22nd of Henry VIII., and rt. in 1562. Bnrke''s Peerage. 1870. X Chronological Memoranda 1523,— T. Churchyard is believed to have been born this year. He lived on till 1604. In this year Wyatt married. 1524.— On the death of his father ; Thomas, 3rd Earl of Surrey, becomes 3rd Duke of Norfolk; but his son Henry, the Poet, does not become 4th Earl of Surrey, but only has that title by courtesy. He appears to have pissed his boyhood at Kenninghall. 1625. — iS June, Henry Fitz-Roy is created Duke of Richmond, &c. 1527.— Jan. IntheG^w^. Mag. Sept. 1850,/ 237, Mr. J. Bruce quotes from a collection of family papers made by Richard Wyatt (who died Dec : 1753, set. 80), then, in 1S50, m the possession of the Rev. B. D. Hawkins, of Riven- hall in Essex. Among the MSS. in this volume, is a paper by a iirandson (name not stated) of Sir Thomas Wyatt, who gives the following; on the autho- rity of Edward, 3rd Earl of Bedford [succeeded tn the title 1585 ; d. 1627], Sir John Russell [made ist Baron Russell, 9 Mar. 1539 ; ist Earl of Bed- ford 19 Jan. 1550; d. 1555], after lord privy seal, having his depeache of Embassage from Henry VIIL to the Pope, in his journey on the Thames encountered Sir Thomas Wyatt, and after salutations, was demanded of him whither he went, and had answer ' To Italy, sent by the king.' ' And T,' said Sir Thomas, 'will, if you please, ask leave, get money, and go with you.' 'No man more welcome.' answered the amba.ssador. So this accordingly done, they passed in post together." Thi.'=. is the principal authority for Wy.\tt's visit to Italy. "" 1533. — 5 Jan. Parliament sits ; Tho.\ias Lord Vaux is summoned to it. T. W\-ATT is sworn of the Privy Council, this year. 1534. — About this time Surrey and Fitzroy were livingtogether at Windsor. 1535. — Fitzroy is affianced to Surrey's sister Mary, but the marriage is never consummated. He dies in the next year. 153S. — t8 Mar. Wvatt is kn'ghted. ArT- celebrated secret letter nf this date from Blois, lodging grievous complaints against Wyatt, in the/'^/jt MSS, No. ^j,/ol. g, in the Inner Temple. This letter was unheeded till after T. Cromwell's execution, when Wvatt was thrown into the Tower, and in- terrnr-ated upon it. 1539.- -Wyatt's-ffCi?/^!^ embassage to the Emperor in France and Flanders. 1510. — Grimald, educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, lake.s his B A. 18 Dec. Thomas Thirleby created the first Bishop of Westminster. 1541. — Harl. MS. 78. Arts. 6 and 7, contains Wvatt'.s most brilliant Defence of himself from Bonner's charees: written in the Tower. He is exonerated and received into the King's favour again. 154:2. — Sir T. Wyatt journeying to Falmouth in too great haste, to bring the Emperor's ambassador to London, dies at Shcrbourne ; and is buried on the II Oct. in the great Church there. John Leland, the antiquary, publisher a Latin poem of six leaves, Xtoii'ce in viortcin ThomiF Viati Rqniiis Uicoinparabilis, which he dedicates to the Earl of Surrey. This tract contains a striking portrait of Wyalt, having a head somewhat bald, a keen face, and a flowing beard : drawn on wood by Holbein. [At the J\Iote, near Maidstone, the Earl of Romney has charming portraits of Sir Cloiid^slcy .->hovel. Sir Henry Wiatt in prison, wiih thecal that fed him there ; his son. Sir T. Wiatt, the elder ; and his son, Sir Thomas Wiatt, the younger; all historic characters (all most authentic) : Lord Romney re- presenting the families. N. & Q. 3rd. S. viii., 367.] April. Grimald is incorporated at Oxford. Mav. G'-imald is elected a probationer fellow of Mcrton College, Oxford. 1544 — P. Beth.nm, in his translation of The Earl of Purlilla'^ f Jacupo di Porcia] Precepts ofivar^xzizx^ to Surrey, in his Dedication to Lord C. Audley. 14 July. King Henry crosses to Calais on the 19th, the English army lays siege to BnulDgne. and is joined by the king on 26 July. 'I'he town surren- ders on 25 Sept., and the king returns to Dover on i Oct. 1546.— Grimald tak-^s his M A. at Oxford. 12 Dec. Th. D of Norfolke, and Henry Earle of Surrey hi.s son and heire, vpon certain surmises of treason, were committed to the tower of London, the one by water, the other by land, that the one knew not of the others ap- prehension, y. Stow. Chronicle, p. 997. Ed. 160a. 1547. — 13 J 'VN. The king then lying dangerously sick, the Earle of Surrey Connected with this Miscellany. xi was arraigned in the Guild liall of London, before the Lord Maior, the lord L-hancelor, and other lords and ludges being there in commission; some thinges hee flatly denied, weakening the credite of his accusers, by certaine circumstances, other hee excused with interpretations of his meanings to proue the same to be far other otherwise than was alleadged against him : the especiallest matter wherewith he was charged, was, for bearing certaine armes that were said belonged to the king and prince : the bearing whereof he iustified, that as he tooke it, he might beare them, as belonging to his an- cestors, and withall affirmed that he had the opinion of the heraults therein, and so to his indictment he pleaded, not guilty. And for that he was no lord of the parliament, he was enforced to stand to the triall of a common inquest of his countrey, which found him guiltie, and thereupon he had iudgement of death : and shortly after, to wit, on the ig of January he was beheaded on the tower hill. Stowe, idem. 15^7. 3an. 20. lEotoart TK. aeccnlis tljc tljronc. 154S. — August. Sir F. Bryan translates and publishes from the French, Anthony Aleegre's translation from the Spanish of Anthony Guevara's. A dispraise of the life of a Courtier and a coviinendacioji of the life of the labonryiig man. Bryan dedicates this scarce work to the Marquis of Northampton. A second edition edited by Rev. T. Tyn^n^^j appeared in 1575. Sir F. Bryan was the second of the three husbands of Joan, Countess of Ormond. 1549 —6 Jan. The Privy Council inform Lord Deputy Bellyngham that Sir F. Bryan is to be Marshall of the Army in Ireland. [He was also Lord Justice]. Bryan appears to have died this year. Aischam in his Scholemaster, 1570, thus alludes to him. "If his stile be still euer rancke and lustie, as some men being neuer so old and spent by yeares, will still be full of youthfuU conditions as was Syr F. Bryaji, and euermore would haue bene,"^. 112. Ed. 1870. 31 Dec. The printing Wyatt's translation of the Seven Peniieniial Psalms finished. Surrey's verses thereon, see/. 28, were first printed in this work. 1550. — I April. Thirleby, Bp. of Westminster, translated to Norwich. The Bishopric of Westminster is suppressed. 1553. Sulg 6. jfEaru siircrctts to the tljronc. 1554.— IS Sept. Thirleby, Bp. of Norwich, is translated to Ely. 1555. — Tottel, who Ames states, " had his name spelt as different as pos- sible," and who seems to have printed chiefly Law and Poetry; printed this year Stc-phtn "Ra-wcs' G7'a7i;/de A moare ajtd la i>ei Piicell, 1556. — R. Tottel prints Grimald's translation of Cicero's Z>e Officiis. This is dedicated to the Bp. of Ely. This fact explodes the Grymbold theory. 1557.— 1. 5 June. London, i vol. 8vo. .F/rj^ edition of Tottel's Mi.s- cellany. See Title at/, i, and Colophon at/. 226. Blalone's copy in the Bodleian is the only known copy. Mr. J. P. Collier re-discovered its importance, and printed a limited edition of 50 copies of this impression of it in 1867, in his Seven English Poetical Miscellanies. The principal peculiarities are the additional Poems by Surrey and Wyatt, added at the end, see//. 217-225, incorporated in their proper places in later edi- tions : its containing Thirty Poems by Nicholas Grimald, not found anywhere else ; and the ab.ience of a Table of First Lines. 21 June. London, i vol. 8vo. Tottel on this day finished the First Edi- tion of Surrey's translation of the Second and Four Books of the jEneid. These were the first ivritteji blank verse in English, although some by Grimald had preceded it in print in the Miscellany. This translation occu- pies it% similarly printed leaves, and was produced in 16 days, including Sundays : at the same speed, Tottel would have begun the first edition of this Miscellany in April. ,o.,,ir- _t^-- 2. 31 July. London, ivol. 8vo. Tottel finished the 6^ccee p. 172.] [It is confidently believed that, though Puttenham is so precise he mistook Sir Nicholas Vaux, who only 27 days enjoyed the t^tlfi of Lord Vaux in 1523 ; xiv Chronological Memoranda, etc. for his son. Lord Thomas Vaux, who possessed the title for 39 years. Poems by Lord I'atijc the elder were contributed to The Paradyse of Dainty De- vises. 1576, &c. : but the Christian name is not quoted. All that this proves, is that they were written by the father or grandfather of William, the then 3rd Lord Vaux, who succeeded hi:? father in,? 1562-3, and d. 1595. It is, how* ever, certain that the Lord Vaux who wrote in ' Queen Mary's time,' was LordTno-MAS: and as the poem, / loathe, &>€., quoted as his by Forrest, see 1573 above, immediately f.iUows herein, IVhen Citpide scaled, «&^c., see pfi. 172-174; the inference amounts to certainty that Puttenham mistook the Chri-^tian name ; as it is altc^ether beyond credence that the poems of two Lords Vaux, the only ones that had ever been, should follow, in like style, one after the other, in the fame early Aliscellany. The modern belief is further strengthened by the fact that Vaux is always mentioned after Wyatt and Surrey. Lord Nicholas Vaux dying in 1523 could not be, as Puttenham states above, "in the same time or not lonsf after," as Wyatt was in that year 20, and Surrey about 8 years old.] 1591. — G. Bishop printed a Latin prose paraphrase by N. Grimoald of the Four Books of Virgil's Georgics \ made at Christ Church, Oxford, in the second year of Ed. VL [Grimald is also spelt Grimoald and Griin-.old.] 1592, — Grimald has been credited, on the strength of the translator's initials N.G. to the Epistle Ded. ; with having translated George Sohn's treatise Quod Papa Romamis sit antichristus, &=€., of which work a transla- tion was published at Cambridge this year as "A true description of the Antichrist:" but as Sohn's dedication is dated Heidelburg, 16 Aug, 1588^ twenty-six years after Grimald's death, this must be incurrect. 1SS3. — Churchyard thus befrins a list of his works in Clinrckyard^s Challenge, '* The bookes that 1 can call to memoiie alreadie Printed : are these that follnwes. First in Kins Edwards daies, a book named Dauie Dicars dreame, which one Caviell wrote a^'ainst, whom I openly confuted Shores ivi/e I penned at thai season. Another booke in ihose daies called the Mirror of JM aft. Ill Queen Maries raigne, a book called a New-years gift to all England, which book treated of rebellion. And many things in the booke of songs and Sonets, printed then, were ol my making. Since that time till this day I wrote all these works . . . " . 1591. — Tom Nash in his novel of Tlie Vnfortimate Traveller, or TJie JLife of Jack mitou, represents Wilton, after witnessing the destruction of the Anabaptists at Rlunster, meeting the Earl of Surrey at Middleborough, and they journeying to Italy via Rotterdam, where they listen to Erasmus and More, whereupon More concludes to wriie his Utopia [which book was written in 1516, the year Surrey was born], come to Vv'ittemburg, and thence to ttie Emperor's court, and thence to Florence, where they separate. 1598 — Nashe's farrago of fabulous adventures was apparently credited by Michael Drayton. \'i\.\C\% Englands Heroicall Epistks; Drayton gives a suppositions Epistle from Surrey to Geraldine, based upon Nash's romance. 16C4 — 4 Ai'RiL. T. Churchyard having written over 60 works, and known in his iild age as ' the old court poet,' died poor, and on this day was buried near the grave of Skelton, in the choir of St. Margaret's Church, Westminster. 1637. — Michael Drayton writing Of Poets and Poesie, among Elegies, al the end of The Battaile of Aginconrt, &c., thus refers to the present work. Vi'Tien after those, foure ages very neare, They with the Muses which conuersed, were That Princely Surrey, early in the time Of the Eight h'c:iry, who was then the prime OT E»gla7ids noble youth ; with him there came IVyat ; with reuerei ce whom we still doe name Amongst niir Poets, Brian had a share, With the two former, which accoinpied are That times best makers, and the autliors were Of those small poems, which the title beare. Of songs and sonnets, wherein of they hit On many dainty passa^'es of wit. This passage is the autliority for associating Sir Francis Bryan with the Unceitain Authors of this work. IN TROD UCTION. IT would be interefting to know with whom originated the idea of this firft Mifcellany of Englilh Verfe. Who were its firft editors ? Wliat was the principle of felecflion ? Who were the Uncertain Aiit/iorsl This much we do know : that quite half of the CoUeflion was pofthumous. Wyatt had been dead fourteen, Surrey ten, Bryan eight years when it appeared : and if it includes poems by George Bullen, Earl of Rocliford ; twenty-one years had elapfed fince his execution upon Tower Hill. Of other of itscontributorsliving; there were Lord Vaux, who was about 46, Grimald 39, Heywood 50, and Churchyard 37 years of age. If to any of thefe four, we might affign as a gii.-fs, firft the exiftence of the work, in conjuncftion with the printer; then its chief editing and fupervifion through the prefs ; it would be to Grimald. We know that he was previously in bufiness relations with the Printer of this work : for Tottel had printed in 1556, Grimaid's tranflation of Cicero's De Officiis, dedicated by him, as his humble " Oratour," to Thirleby, Biiliop of Ely : andon the 23 April 155S, Tottel finifhed a Second edition of the fame work. It is probable, alfo, that it was to Grimaid's pofition as Chaplain to that genial Biftiop, that Tottel was able to put Cum priui- Icgio on fo buoyant a book, at a time when the martyrs' fires were luridly lighting up England. Furthermore, the only poems fuppreffed in the revifion, are Grimaid's own. It may, therefore, be fairly gueAed that Grimald, if not the Originator, was the chief Editor of this Colledlion of Poetry upon a plan then new to Englilh Literature. 2. Mr. Collier, to whofe refearch the reader ultimately owes the prefent reprint, thus writes of this work : — - Everybody at all acquainted with the history of our literature, will be well aware of the value of all these productions, which may be looked upon as the earnest revival of a true taste for poetry, after a dreary century be- tween the death of Chaucer and the birth of Surrey. Tottel's ' Songes and Sonettes,' by Henry, Earl of Surrey, 'and other,* published on 5th June, 1557 (although hitherto not supposed to have made its first appearance until 31st July in that year) has usually been considered our oldest Poetical Miscellany, and perhaps, strictly speaking, such is the fact; but the earliest collected edition of Chaucer's Works in 1532 (printed by Thomas Godfray) was a Miscellany consisting, in the main, of productions by him,but including also pieces by Lidgate, Occleve, Gower, Scoggin, and anonymous writers in prose and verse. Pre/, iff Seven En^. Foet. Misc. 1867. 3. In the two firft editions ; we poffefs the work both in its imperfeft and its perfeft conception. Their collation together affures us of the whole and exadl text. The Firft edition, imme- diately after its publication, was fubjeifled to a moft thorough revifion ; in which the anonymity of the work increafed. The name of Nicholas Grimald difappears and is fubfequently repre- fented by N. G. ; and fimilar inftances will be feen in the foot- notes. In like manner, Grimaid's Funeral Song over his Mother (a companion poem to Cowper's On the receipt of my Mother's Pic- ture) ; his New Year's verfes to Catherine Day, Damafcene Aud- xvi Inti-oduilion. ley, and other lady friends ; his Elegies over the deaths of his bofom friend William Chambers and of his brother Nicholas ; all thcfe per/onal poems are removed to make way for thirty-nine others by Uncertain Authors — undoubtedly a defignation more of concealment than ignorance — of a more general, imaginative, and idealiftic caft. So that while the Firft edition contains 271, and the Second 280 poems ; there are between the two, 3 10 in all. 4. Rank undoubtedly placed Surrey's name on the Title page; but Sir T. Wyatt is the moil important of all the Contributors, both as to priority in time, as to literary influence, and as to the number of poems contributed. The whole of thefe poems may be faid to hr ■ been written within the thirty years, be- tween 1527-1557. It is fuggefled that this work fliould be iludied in clofe connedtion with the fecond and third Books of Puttenham's Arte of Eng. Poefte, 1589 ; to which it furnifhes many examples. 5. This work has been fmgularly unfortunate in its printed impreffions. The ea.-ly Texts became more and more cornjpt. Modern editors have often both repeated and added to thefe inac- curacies. Hence the importance of the Firft and Second editions. Miftakes have alfo been common as to the authorthip of fome of the poems. Yet there is Sun-ey's fignature at /. 32 ; and Wyatt's at p. 95, to attefl the foregoing poems as their own. Which is the more conclufive, inafmuch as the poem on p. 61, was elimi- nated in the revifion, from Wyatt's contributions and tranfferred to Uncertain Authors. To prevent further error, the Author's name when known, has been placed in the Headline. 6. There was a freenefs of fancy among the Contributors to our Early Poetical Mifcellanies and fimilar works, which often provoked them, when fome Complaint or other had been recog- nifed as excellent, to endeavour to cap it with as good an Anfwer, and that frequently in like metre. It is highly probable that the various Anfwers in this Mifcellany v/ere all written, while the work was going thi-oiigh the prefs. They will all be found to- wards the aid of the Fii-il edition ; and in the order of the Second, they were ihifted, fo as to follow the Verfes of which they were the Refponfes. A later anfwer, that by .S/zf/. TonieioPliylidawas nfayer 77iayde, awp. 138 ; is in Englajids Helicon, 1600. Many of the^^fl^/Vz^^o'ofthepoemsalso, may have been fuppliedby the Editor. 7. It mufl not be forgotten that thefe Poetical Mifcellanies are but Seleflions. Their effential principle is, to feparate ths Verfe from its antecedents and occafion, even to the ufmg the Author's name fimply as a label ; in order to prefent its intrinfic Excellence and Beauty to the clofe Attention and fubtle Penetration of the Reader. We, at leaft, may be moll thankfnl to their feveral Editors ; for their prefervation to us, in them, of io many beautiful Poems, which we fhould not otherwife have known : and may not a little wonder, that fuch Literary Treafures fhould have for fo long a time been hid from the world at large. The Printer to the Reader! ^ Hat to haue wel written in verfe, yea and in fmall parcelles, deferueth great praife, the workes' of diuers Latines, Italians, 'and other, doe proue fufficiently. That our tong is able in that kynde to do as praifeworthely as ye reft, the honor- able ftile of the noble earle of Surrey, and the weight-'neffe of the depewitted fir Thomas Wyat the elders verfe, with feuerall graces in fondry good Englifhe writers, doe fhow abundantly. It refteth nowe (gentle reder) that thou thinke it not euill doon, to publifh, to the honor of the Englifhe tong, and for profit of the ftudious of Englifhe elo- quence, thofe workes which the vngentle borders vp of fuch trealure haue heretofore enuied thee. And for this point (good reder) thine own profit and pleafure, in thefe prefently, and in moe hereafter, fhal anfwere for my defence. If parhappes fome millike the flate- Imeffe of ftile remoued from the rude fkill of common eares : I a(ke help of the learned to defend their learned frendes, the authors of this work : And I exhort the %Tileamed, by reding to leame to be more flcilfull, and to purge that fwinelike groffeneffe, that maketh the fwete maierome not to fmell to their delight. 1 Ta the reder. > wourkers SONGES AND SONETTES, written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry H award late Earle ofStcr- rey, and other. Apud Richardum Tottel. i557-_ Cum priuile^. [Poems by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.] Defc-ripcion of the rejlleffe flatc of a louer, with fiUe to his ladie^ to me on his diyng hart. |p£ Hefonne hath t wife brought furth his tender grenc, "■~^~^ And' clad the earth in huely hidineffe : Ones haue the windes the trees defpoiled clene, j And new ^ again begins their cruehieffe, ( Since I haue hid vnder my brefl the harm That neuer fliall recouer heahhfuhieffe. The winters hurt recouers with the warm : The parched grene reflored is with the' flrade. What warmth (alas) may ferue for to difarm The frofen hart that mine in flame hath made ? What colde againe is able to reflore My frefh grene yeares, that wither thus and fade ? Alas, I fe, nothing hath hurt fo fore, But time in time reduceth a returne : In time my harm increafeth more and more, And femes to haue my cure alwaies in fcorne. Strange kindes of death, in life that I doe trie, At hand to melt, farre of in flame to burne. And like as time lift to my cure aply, So doth ache place my comfort cleane refufe. All thing aliue, that feeth the heauens with eye, With cloke of night may couer, and excufe It felf from trauail of the dayes ynrefl, Saue I, alas, againfl. all others vfe. That then flirre vp the tormentes of my brefl;, And curfe eche.flerre as caufer of my fate. And when the fonne hath eke the dark opprefl. And brought the day, it doth nothing abate The trauailes of mine endles fmart and payn, For then, as one that hath the light in hate, I wifh for night, more couertly to playn. And me withdraw from euery haunted place, ' Twise ^ ones » oJii the. SongCS [Surrey.; Led by ray chere my chance appere to playn : And in my minde I meafure pace by pace, To feke the place where I my felf had loil, That day that I was tangled in the lace, In femyng flack that knitteth euer mofl : But neuer yet the trauaile of my thought Of better (late coulde catche a caufe to bofl.. For if I found fometime that I haue fought, Thofe flerres by whome I trufled of the porte, My fayles doe fall, and I aduance right nought. As ankerd faft, my fpretes' doe all reforte To Hande agazed, and fmke in more and more The deadly harme which flie dothe take in fport. Lo, if I feke, how I doe finde my fore : And yf I flee I carie with me flill The venomde fliaft, which dothe his force refl.ore By haft of flight, and J may plaine my fill Vnto my felfe, vnleffe this carefuU fong Printe in your harte fome parcell of my tene For I, alas, in filence all to long Of myne olde hurte yet fele the wounde but gi-ene. Rue on my life ; or els your cruell wronge Shall well appere, and by my death be fene. Defcription of Spring, wherin eche thing renewes, fazie onelie the louer. MV He foote feafon, that bud and blome furth brmges, 7i)| With grene hath clad the liill and eke the vale : ti^'-The nightingale with fethers new Ihe fmges : The turtle to her make hath tolde her tale : Somer is come, for euery fpray nowe fpringes, The hart hath hong his olde hed on the pale : The buck in brake his winter cote he flinges : The fifhes flote^ with newe repaired fcale : The adder all her floughe awaye flie flinges : The fwift fwalow purfueth the flyes fmale : The bufy bee her honye now fhe minges : [Surrey.] and SoilclfcS. Winter is wonie that was the flowers bale : And thus I fee among thefe pleafant thinges Eche care decayes, and )-ct my forow fpringes. Defcripcion of the rcJiUffeJiate of a lojier. ■^WyZ'Hen youth had led me halfe the race, mV' That Cupides fcourge mc caufde to ronne,' "'-^ I loked back to mete the place, P'rom whence my wery coujfe begonne. And then I fawe how my defire Mifguiding me had led the way : Mine eyen to gredy of their hire. Had made me lofe a better pray. For when in fighes I fpent the day. And could not cloke my griefe with game, The boiling fmoke did flill bewray The perfaunt heate of fecrete flame. And when fait teares doe bayne my brefl, Where loue his pleafant traines hath fovven Her bewty hath the fruites opprefl, Ere that the buds were f])ronge and blowen. And when myne eyen d3-d ftyll purfue The flying chace that was their qucfl,- Their gredy lokes dyd oft renewe. The hidden ^vound within my brefl.. When euery loke thefe chekes might flaine, From deadly pale to gloA\'ing red : By outwarde fignes appered plaine, The woe wherin my hart was fed." But all to late loue learneth me. To painte all kinde of colours new, To blinde their eyes that els fhoulde fee, My fpecled chekes with Cupides hewe. And nowe the couert brefl. I claim e. That worflript Cupide fecretely : And norifhed his facred flame. From whence no blafing fparkes doe flye. ' That Cupides scourge iincl made mc runne : - I'he fliyug chiice of their request 3 I'u her for help uiy hart w.is fled. 6 SongeS [Surrey.] Dcfcription of the fickle affections panges and fieightes of loue. W Vche waiward waies hath loue, that mofl. part in difcord ^Our willes do fland, whereby our hartes but feldom doe ^^ accord, Difceit is' his delight, and to begile, and mock [flrok, The fimple hartes whom he doth flrike with froward diuers He makes the one^ to rage with golden burning dart, And doth alay with leaden colde agayn the other hart. Whote glemes of burn3'ng fire, and eafy fparkes of flame In balance of vnegall weight he pondereth by aime. From eafy forde, where I miglit Avade and paffe ful wel. He me withdrawes, and doth me driue into a depe dark hel. And me withholdes where I am calde and offred place, And willes me that my mortall foe I doe befeke of grace : He lettes me to purfue a conquefl welnere wonne. To folow where my paines were loft ere that my fuitebegonne. So by this meanes I know how foone a hart may turne. From warre to peace, from truce to flrife, and fo againe returne, I know how to content my felf in others lull, Of litle fluffe vnto my felf to weaue a webbe of truft. : And how to hide my harmes with foft diffembling chere. When inmy face the painted though tes would outwardly apere. I know how that the blood forfakes the face for dred : And how byfhameitflaines again the chekes with flaming red. I know vnder the grene the ferpent how he lurkes. The hammer of the reflles forge I wote eke how it wurkes. I know and can by roate the tale that I would tel : But oft the wordes came' furth awrie of him that loueth wel. I know in heat and colde the louer how he fhakes : In fmging how he doth complain, in flepyng how he wakes : To languifh without ache, fickleffe for to confume : A thoufand thinges for to deuife refoluing all in fume. And though he lift to fe his ladies grace ful fore, Such pleafures as deli^;ht the* eye doe not his health reflore. I know to feke the track of my defired foe. And feare to finde that I do feke. But chiefly this I know, 1 in 2 He cau^etli thone ^ cnme '' his [Surrey.] and SoitetfeS. 7 That loners mufl. tranfforme into the thing beloued, Andliue(alaswhowouldbeleue?) withfprite from Hferemoued, I know in harty figlies, and laughters of the fplene, At once to change ciyflate, mywyll,andeke mycoloure clene. I know how to deceaue my felf with others help : And how the Lion chaflifed is by beating of the whelp. In flandyng nere my fire I know how that I freze, Farre of I burne, in both I wall, and fo my life I leze. I know how loue doth rage vpon a yelding mynde : How fmal a net may take and meafh a hart of gentle kinde : Or els with feldom fwete to feafon heapes of gall, Reuiued with a glimfe of grace olde forowes to let fall, The hidden traines I know, and fecret fnares of loue : How foone a loke wil printe a thought, that neuer may remoue. The flipper flate I know, the fodain turnes from wealth, The doubtfulhope, the certain woe, and fure defpeire of health. Complaint of a louer, that defied loue, and was by loue after the more tormented. ''Hen fommer toke in hand the winter to affail, [quail. "/■yiy. With force of might, and vertue gret,his flormy blafls to ■^-^ And when he clothed faire the earth about with grene, And euery tree new gamiented, that pleafure was to fene : Mine hart gan new reuiue, and changed blood dyd flur Me to withdraw my winter woe', that kept within the dore. Abrode, quod my defire : affay to fet thy fote, [rote. Where thou flialt finde the fauour fweete : for fprong is euery And to thy health, if thou were fick in any cafe, Nothing more good, than in the fpring the aire to fele a fpace. There fhalt thou here and fe all kindes of birdes ywrought, Well tune their voice with warble fmal, as nature hath them tought. Thus pricked me my lufl the flnggifli houfe to leaue : And for my health I thouglit it beft, fuche counfail to receaue. So on a morow furth, vnwifl of any wight, I went to proue how well it would my heauy burden light. And when I telt the aire fo pleafant round about, 8 SongeS [Surrey.] Lorde, to my felf how glad I was tliat I had gotten out. There might I fe how Ver had euery bloffom hent : And eke the new betrothed birdes ycoupled how they went. And in their fonges me thought they thanked nature much, That by her lycence all that yere to loue their happe was fuch, Right as they could deuife to chofe them feres throughout : With much reioyfmg to their Lord thus flew they all about. '\^^lich when I gan refolue, and in my head conceaue, What pleafant life, what heapes of ioy thefe litle birdes receue. And fawe in what eflate I wery man was brought. By want of that they had at will, and I reiect at nought: Lorde how I gan in wrath vnwifely me demeane. I curffed loue, and him defied: I thought to turne the (Ireame. But whan I well behelde he had me vnder awe, I aflved mercie for my fault, that fo tranfgrefl his law. Thou blinded god (quoth I) forgeue me this ofifenfe, Vnwillingly' I went alsout to malice thy pretenfe. Wherewith he gaue a beck, and thus me thought he fwore, Thy forow ought fuffice to purge thy faulte, if it were more. The vertue of which founde mine hart did fo reuiue, That I, me thought, was made as hole as any man aliue. But here ye^ may perceiue mine errour all and fome, For that 1 thought that fo it vv^as : yet was it flill vndone : And all that was no more but mine empreffed' mynde. That fayne wouldehaue fome goodrelefe of Cupide welaffinde. I turned home forthwith, and might perceiue it well, That he agreued was right fore with me for my rebell. My harmes haue euer fince increafed more and more, And I remaine, without his help, vndone for euer more. A miror let me be vnto ye loners all : Striue not with loue : for if ye do, it will ye thus befall. Complaint of a louer rebuked. Ijy One that liueth, and reigneth in my thought, J\j That built his feat within my captiue breft, '-is? Clad in the amies, wherin with me he fought, Oft in my face he doth his banner refl. She, that me taught to loue, and fuffer payne, ' Vnwitlingly "I * expressed [s u R R E Y.i and Sonet tes. My dontfull hope, and eke my bote defyre, With (hamefafl cloke to fhadowe and refraine, Her fmilyng grace conuerteth llraight to yre. And cnwarde Loue then to the hart apace Taketh his flight, whereas he kn-kes, and plaines His purpofc lofl, and dare not fhewe his face. For my lordes gilt thus faultleffe byde I paynes. Yet from my lorde fhall not my foote remoue, Swete is his death, that takes his end by loue. i Complaint of the lotier difdairui vjiyN Ciprus, fpringes (whereas dame Venus dwelt) ^^ A well fo hote, that whofo' tafles the lame, ^^Were he of flone, as thawed yfe fliould melt, And kindled fynde his brefl with fired flame. Whofe moyfl poyfon diffolued hath my hate.^ This^ creeping fire my colde lims fo opprefl.,'' That in the hart that harborde freedome late," Endleffe defpeyre longe thraldome hath imprefl. An other fo colde in frozen yfe is founde," Whofe chilling venom of repugnant kynde The feruent heat doth quenche of Cupides wounde : And with the fpot of change infectes the minde : Whereof my dere hath tafled, to my paine. My feruice thus is growen into difdaine.' Defcription and praife of his loite Geraldine. fRom Tufljane came my Ladies worthy race : Faire Florence was fometyme her auncient feate : The Weftern yle, whofe pleafaunt fhore dothe face Wilde Cambers clifs, did geue' her liuely heate : Foflered fhe was with milke of Iriflie brell : i A Well so holle is, that who 2 hart s With i ar supprest , " Feeleth the hart that harborde freeclome smart, " An other well of frosen yse is fonnde, ^ Wherby my seruice growes into disdaine. ^ first gaue ro SongeS [Surrey.] ll'jr fire, an Erie : her dame, of princes blood, l-'rom tender yeres, in Britain flie doth reft', With kinges childe, where flie tafteth coftly food.'' Ilonfdon did firfl prefent her to mine yien : Jiright is her hewe, and Geraldine fhe hight. Hampton me taught to wifhe her firfl for mine : And Windfor, alas, dothe chafe me from her fight, iler beauty of kind her vertues from aboue. Maopy is he, that can obtaine her loue. The frailtie and hurtfubies of beautie. Qcf^Rittle beautie, that nature made fo fraile. rll5,Wherof the gift is fmall, and (hort the feafon, ' ■^-^''Flowring to-day, to morowe apt to faile, 'i'ickell treafure abhorred of reafon, Daungerous to dele with, vaine, of none auaile, Coflly in keping, paR not worthe two peafon, Siipper in Aiding as is an eles taile, Harde to attaine, once gotten not geafon, levvel of ieopardie that perill dothe affaile, Falfe and vntrue, enticed oft to treafon, Enmy to youth : that mofl may I bewaile. Ah bitter fwete infecting as the poyfon: Thou farefl. as frute that with the froft is taken, To day redy ripe, to morowe all to Ihaken. A complaint by night of the Imter not beloued. WLas fo all thinges nowe doe holde their peace. f^'ji-Heauen and earth diflurbed in nothing: '■'