MOXON'S POPULAR FOETS.

POETIC TREASURES:

PASSAGES FROM THE POETS.

Chronologically Arranged.

BY THE

REV. DR. GILES,

FORMERLY FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, OXFORD.

(OCT 1881

POOLELANA

LONDON:
WARD, LOCK, & CO., WARWICK HOUSE,

SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C.

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS.

I.JOHN BARBOUR, 1316 2—1396,

Freedom

IL-GEOFFREY CHAUCER, 1328—1400.

1. Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

2. Morning Walk

III. JOHN GOWER, 1325 ?-1402.

A fragment ...

IV. -JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND, 1394-1487.

The Lady in the Garden ...

IV.*_ANDREW WINTON, about 1420.

Saint Serf's Ram

IV **-_RCBERT HENRYSON, 1425-148x

Simple Life ...

IV.***_BLIND HARRY, about 1460.

The Death of Wallace

V.-JOHN LYDGATE, 1375–1460.

1. The Golden Age

2. God's Providence

VI.-WILLIAM DUNBAR, 1465—1530.

Vanity of Earthly Joys ...

VI.*_JOHN SKELTON, 1485 ?- 1529.

To Margaret ...

VI.**_SIR THOMAS WYATT, 1503-1541.

Blame not my Lute ...

51.***--ANDREW BOURD, 14**_1539.

The Englishman

VII. GAWAIN DOUGLAS, 1475—1522.

Shipwreck of the Caraval...

VIII.—SIR DAVID LINDSAY, 1490—1557.

The Peasant ...

IX.-EARL OF SURREY, 1517–1546.

Spring ... .

X.-SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, 1554–1586.

Lover's Argument

XI.-THOMAS SACKVILLE, LORD BUCKHURST, EARL OF

DORSET, 1530–1607.

1. Midnight ...

2. Misery

3. Sleep

4. Old Age

11.--ANONYMOUS.

Song ...

XIII.--CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, 1562–1593.

1. Edward II., Leicester, and Winchester ...

2. Edward II., and Lightborn

8. The Death of Faustus ...

4. The Shepherd's Song ...

XIV.-SIR WALTER RALEIGH, 1552–1618.

1. Answer to the Shepherd's Song ...

2. Lines composed the night before his execution

XV.-EDMUND SPENSER, 1553—1599.

1. The Butterfly...

2. Charity ...

3. Envy ...

XVI.-ANONYMOUS author of "Crabbed Age and Youth"

XVII.–ROBERT SOUTHWELL, 1550—1595.

1. Delay

2. Vicissitude...

3. Content and Rich ...

XVIII.--JOSHUA SILVESTER, 1563–1618.

A Contented Mind

XIX.-FULK GREVILLE LORD BROOKE, 1554--1628.

To Tyrants ... ...

XX.-SIMON WASTELL.

Man's Mortality ...

XXI.-SIR JOHN DAVIES, 1570_1626.

The Soul .

XXII.-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, 1564-1616.

1. Othello's Apology ... ...

2. Duke and Lord

3. Henry V and Lord Chief Justice

4. Night

5. Ariel's Song: Full Fathom, &c. ...

6. Ariel's Song: Where the Bee, &c.

7. The Progress of Life ...

Life

9. Hamlet and Horatio ...

10. Queen Mab ...

11. The Apothecary

12. Hotspur's description of a Fop

13. Clarence and Brackenbury

14. Scroop and Richard ...

15. Henry IV's Soliloquy on Sleep ...

16. Henry IV and Prince Henry ...

17. Henry V to his Soldiers

18. Wolsey and Cromwell ...

19. Lear

20. Macbeth's Soliloquy ...

21. Antony's Funeral Oration over Cæsar's Body

22. Hamlet's Soliloquy on his Mother's Marriago

23. Hamlet's Soliloquy on Death ...

24. Soliloquy of the King in Hamlet...