Character of a Happy Life, by Sir Henry Wotton, 293.

Charades, by Winthrop Mackworth Praed, 460, 461.

Charis, Ben Jonson's Triumph of, 267, 268.

Charles II., On the Death of, by Charles Montague, 343, 344.
Chatterton, Thomas, 390, 391.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 37-50.

, by Aubrey de Vere, 487.

Cherry Ripe, by Robert Herrick, 303.

Chess Play, The, by Nicholas Breton, 243, 244.

Chettle, Henry, 262, 263, 269.

Chevy Chase, Earlier and Later Versions, 101-109.

Children in the Wood, The, 263–265.

Child's Question, Answer to a, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 426.
Chloris and Hylas, by Edmund Waller, 302.

Choice, The, by John Pomfret, 347, 348.

of a Wife, Of the, from Tottel's Miscellany, 162.

Christabel, Coleridge's, 420–426.

Christmas, Ceremonies of, by Robert Herrick, 303, 304.
Churchyard, Thomas, 201, 202.

Citizens of London, Satire against the, by the Earl of Surrey,
158, 159.

Cleges, Sir, a Fabliau, 24-30; 504.

Clere, Epitaph on, by the Earl of Surrey, 159.
Clerk's Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer's, 38-50.

Cleveland, John, 315, 316.

Clock and Dial, Allan Ramsay's, 363, 364.

Cloud, The, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 448, 449.
Clough, Arthur Hugh, 477–479.

Coelica and Philocell, Fulke Greville's, 223-225.
Cokaygne, The Land of, 18-23.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 419-427.

Hartley, 464.

Colin Clout, John Skelton's, 130-144.

Collins, William, 381, 382.

"Come, Poet, come," by Arthur Hugh Clough, 479.
Complaint of a Deserted Lover, Sir Thomas Wyatt's, 155.
that his Lady kept her Face hidden, by the Earl of
Surrey, 158.

Congreve, William, 346.

Conquest of Granada, George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham,
on a passage in Dryden's, 328.

Constable, Henry, Sonnets by, 236, 237.

Constancy, by George Herbert, 299.

by Sir John Suckling, 300.

Constantia's Song, by Abraham Cowley, 308.

Content, Sweet, a Song, from "Patient Grissel," 270.

Contented Mind, Of a, by Thomas Lord Vaux, 160.
Cooper's Hill, by Sir John Denham, 305-308.

Corbet, Richard, 313, 314.

Corn-Law Rhyme, by Ebenezer Elliot, 464.

Cosmelia, John Oldham's Verses on presenting a Book to, 342.
Cottar's Saturday Night, The, by Robert Burns, 406-408.
Cotton, Charles, 338.

Courage in Love, by William Broome, 371.

Courtier, The True, by Edmund Spenser, 227, 228.

Courtier's Life, The, a Satire by Sir Thomas Wyatt, 153, 154.
Cowley, Abraham, 308, 309; 322, 323.

Cowper, William, 398-403.

thornden, 295.

Donne, John, 275, 276.

Dora, by Alfred Tennyson, 466, 467.

Dorus playing on the Lute, by Sir Philip Sidney, 213.
Douglas, Gavin, 117-128.

Dover Cliffs, A Sonnet at, by William Lisle Bowles, 410.
Dowsabell, Michael Drayton's, 279, 280.

Drake and Norris, George Peele's Farewell to, 247, 248.
Drayton, Michael, 253, 255, 256, 278–286.

to Thomas Morley, 245.

Dream, The, by Lord Byron, 443–445.

-, A, by William Wordsworth, 458.

Dreams, a Song by Francis Beaumont or John Fletcher, 272,

273.

Googe, Barnaby, 199-201.

"Forget not yet," by Sir Thomas Wyatt, 155.

Fortitude, a Sonnet by Charlotte Smith, 410.

"Fortune smiles! Cry holiday," by Thomas Dekker, 270.
Fortunes of Men, The, from the Exeter Book, 8-11.

Frere, John Hookham, 430–432.

Friend of Humanity and Knife-grinder, by George Canning and
John Hookham Frere, 431.

The Praise of a True, from Tottel's Miscellany, 164.

Friendly Admonition, Richard Hill's, 168, 169.

Friendship, by Nicholas Grimald, 161, 162.

Gooseberry Pie, Ode on, by Robert Southey, 428, 429.
Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions, A, 238.

Gottingen, University of, Rogero's Song, by George Canning

and George Ellis, 432.

Gower, John, 50-53.

Grahame, James, 440.

Grange, Robert Herrick's, 302, 303.

Gratulatory to Ben Jonson, Thomas Randolph's, 295.
Gray, Thomas, 378-381.

Greek War Song, Version of, by Lord Byron, 442.
Greene, Robert, 249, 250.

Greensleeves, Lady, from the "Handefull of Pleasant Delites,'
239, 240.

Greville, Fulke, Lord Brooke, 220-226.

Grim, King of the Ghosts, by Matthew Gregory Lewis, 432-
434.

Grimald, Nicholas, 161-164.

Grisildis, Patient, Geoffrey Chaucer's Tale of, 38-50.
Grongar Hill, by John Dyer, 366, 367.

Guines Castle, Laurence Minot's Poem on the Taking of, 36, 37.

Habington, William, 297, 298.

H.

Hag, The, by Robert Herrick, 303.

Hall, Joseph, 256, 257.

Happy Life, by Abraham Cowley, after Martial, 323.
Hare and Many Friends, John Gay's, 359, 360.

Heart's Desire, by Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, 226.

Hearts, Two, by Sir John Suckling, 300.

Hemans, Felicia, 473-475.

Hendyng, Proverbs of, 17, 18.
Henryson, Robert, 74-81.

Herbert, George, 298, 299.

Hermit, Thomas Parnell's, 355-357.
Herrick, Robert, 302-304.

Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Cromwell, Dryden's, 321, 322.
Heywood, Jasper, 168.

Thomas, 274.

Higgins, John, 182-184.
Hill, Richard, 168, 169.

Hoccleve's Misrule, 56-64.

Hogg, James, 456.

Idea, Sonnets to, by Michael Drayton, 255, 256.

"If thou desire to live in rest," by William Hunnis, 167.
Ignorance, Samuel Butler on, 338.

Image of Death, by Thomas Lord Vaux, 160, 161.
Immortality, a Sonnet by Matthew Arnold, 486.

Induction to the Mirror for Magistrates, Thomas Sackville's,

170-177; Part I., by John Higgins, 182 184.

"I remember, I remember," Thomas Hood's, 462.
Irish Melodies, by Thomas Moore, 455, 456.
Italy, Addison's Letter from, 349, 350.

Itylus, by Algernon Charles Swinburne, 486.

King, William, 372, 373.

Kingsley, Charles, 480, 481.

Kinwelmarsh, Francis, 168.

Knife-grinder and Friend of Humanity, by George Canning and
John Hookham Frere, 431.

L.

Laird o' Cockpen, Lady Nairne's, 467, 468.

Lament for the Makars, by William Dunbar, 109-112.
Land of Cokaygne, The, 18-23.

o' the Leal, by Lady Nairne, 476.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth, 473.
Landor, Walter Savage, 463, 464.
Lark, Sir John Davies to the, 260.

and Nightingale, a Song by Hartley Coleridge, 464.

Last Cradle Song, by James Hogg, 457.

Rose of Summer, by Thomas Moore, 456.

Learning, Advancement by, Kinwelmarsh's, 168.
Lesbia on her Sparrow, by William Cartwright, 294.

Lessius's Rule of Health, Richard Crashaw in praise of, 297.
Letter from Italy, Joseph Addison's, 349, 350.
Lewis, Matthew Gregory, 432-434.

Life, by Francis Bacon, 274.

Character of a Happy, by Sir Henry Wotton, 293.

A Happy, from Martial, by Abraham Cowley, 323.

Lindsay, Sir David, 144-150.

Lindsay's Complaint, 149-151.

Llywarch Hen, The Lament of, modernised by Felicia Hemans,

May, Invitation to, from Thomas Morley's "Book of Ballets,"
245.

Mayne, Jasper, 304.

Maypole, The, from Thomas Morley's "Book of Ballets," 245,
Melancholy, by Beaumont or Fletcher, 273.
Memorabilia, by Robert Browning, 469.

Meredith, George, 487, 488.

Middleton, Thomas, 273.

Milton, John, 309-313, 330, 331.

Mind not quietly settled, Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford's, 167.

a Kingdom, by Sir Edward Dyer, 218.

Minot, Laurence, 30-37.

Mirror for Magistrates, The, 170–184.

of Mutability, Anthony Munday's, 239.

Miscellanies, Poetical, of Elizabeth's Reign, 238–246.
Mistress Drowned, Thomas Sprat on his, 340.

Mole in the Ground, John Bunyan on the, 341.
Montague, Charles, 343, 344.

Montgomery, James, 440.

Montross, by Charles Cotton, 338.

Monument, The, a Satire by Joseph Hall, 257.

Ion, Sonnet to the, by Charlotte Smith, 410.
Moore, Thomas, 455, 456.

Mother's Picture, On Receipt of his, by William Cowper, 402,
403.

Mountain Daisy, To a, by Robert Burns, 406.

Mouse, To a, by Robert Burns, 405, 406.
Munday, Anthony, 238, 239.

Muse, Akenside to the, 382, 383.

Musical Instrument, A, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 484.
Music and Poetry, Richard Barnfield to R. L. in Praise of, 261.
My Mind to me a Kingdom is, by Sir Edward Dyer, 218.
Mysteries of Nobility, by Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, 225.

Phillida and Corydon, by Nicholas Breton, 244.
Phillis, A Message to, by Thomas Heywood, 274.

To, by Thomas Lodge, 251.

Phoenix Nest, The, 243, 244.

Pibroch of Donald Dhu, by Walter Scott, 437, 438.
Picture, My, by Abraham Cowley, 308, 309.

Pitt, Christopher, 371, 372.

Plantagenet, Richard, Earl of Cambridge, put to death, by
William Baldwin, 182.

Pleasure is mixed with every Pain, by Sir Thomas Wyatt, 154.
, No, without some Pain, by Thomas Lord Vaux, 167.

Poet, The, by Alfred Tennyson, 465.

by Arthur Hugh Clough, 479.

Poet's Wish, The, by Allan Ramsay, 364.

Poets, Our English, by Thomas Churchyard, 202.

Poins, John, Sir Thomas Wyatt to, 153, 154.

Pomfret, John, 347, 348.

Poor Jack, by Charles Dibdin, 439, 440.

Pope, Alexander, 352, 353, 367-370.

Posset for Nature's Breakfast, A, by Margaret, Duchess of
Newcastle, 339.

Praed, Winthrop Mackworth, 460, 461.

Praise of a True Friend, from Tottel's Miscellany, 164.

Preaching, The Art of, by Christopher Pitt, 371, 372.

Primrose, John Donne on the, 275.

Prior, Matthew, 350-352.

Prison, To Aithea from, by Richard Lovelace, 314, 315.

Procter, Adelaide Anne, 490.

Bryan Waller, 477.

Proserpine, Hymn to, by Algernon Charles Swinburne, 484, 485.

Proverbs of Hendyng, 17, 18.

Puritan, The, by John Cleveland, 315, 316.

Pyramus and Thisbe, I. Tomson's, 241, 242.

Rich and rare were the Gems she wore, by Thomas Moore, 455.
Robin and Makyn, by Robert Henryson, 74-76.

Hood, A Lytell Geste of, 82-101.

Robinson, Clement, his "Handefull of Pleasant Delites," 239
242.

Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 336, 337.

Rogero's Song, by George Canning and George Ellis, 432.
Rogers, Samuel, 457, 458.

Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of, 324 -328.

Rose, The Message of the, by Edmund Waller, 302.
Aylmer, by Walter Savage Landor, 463.

Rossetti, Christina, 490.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 483.
Rovers, Scene from the, by Canning, Frere, and Ellis, 431, 432.
Rule Britannia, by James Thomson or David Mallet, 383, 384.
Ruth, by Thomas Hood, 462.

S.

Sacharissa, Edmund Waller's, 301.

Sackville, Charles, Earl of Dorset, 330, 331.
Thomas, 170-177.

Sadness, by William Cartwright, 293, 294.

Saint George, The Soldiers of, by George Whetstone, 249.
Romauld, by Robert Southey, 429.

Saints' Encouragement, The, by Alexander Brome, 316, 317.
Sappho, Fragment of, translated by Ambrose Philips, 360.
Satire, Part of a, by John Oldham, 342.

upon the Citizens of London, by the Earl of Surrey, 158.
Satires, by Joseph Hall, 257.

[Dryden's "Mac Flecknoe" (p. 333) and other Satires are
entered under their several titles].

Savage, Richard, 385.

Scott, Sir Walter, 437, 438.

Sonnet on departure of, for Naples, by
William Wordsworth, 458, 459.

Sea Fight, Laurence Minot's Poem on a, 35, 36.
Seasons, Hymn of the, by James Thomson, 364, 365.
Sedley, Sir Charles, 337, 338.

Self, The Second, a Sonnet, by Shakespeare, 253.
Serenade from Shakespeare's Cymbeline, 252.
Serious Ballad, A, by Alexander Brome, 316, 317.
Sextain, A, by William Drummond of Hawthornden, 296.
Shakespeare, William, 251-253.

Sigh no more, Ladies, Song by Shakespeare, 251.
Signs of Love, by Sir John Suckling, 299.
Silence Broken, by Sir Charles Sedley, 338.
Silent Love, by Aphra Behn, 339.

Lover, Sir Walter Raleigh's, 211, 212.
Silvia, Song by William Shakespeare, 251.
Singer, To a Fair, by Andrew Marvell, 319.

Sir Cleges, a Fabliau, 24-30.

Skelton, John, 129–144.

Skylark, The, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 447, 448.
Smatterers, Samuel Butler on, 338.

Smith, Charlotte, 410.

James and Horace, 453-455.

254, 255; by Michael Drayton, 255, 256; by James VI. of
Scotland, 260; by Richard Barnfield, 261; by John Davies
of Hereford, 276; by Joshua Sylvester, 276, 277; by
William Drummond of Hawthornden, 295, 296; by John
Milton, 310, 330; by Charlotte Smith, 410; by William
Lisle Bowles, 410, 411; by Robert Lovell, 428; by William
Wordsworth, 435, 436, 458, 459, 460; by Percy Bysshe
Shelley, 449; by John Keats, 449, 450; by Hartley Cole-
ridge, 464.

Sots, Samuel Butler on a Club of, 338.

Soul's Errand, The, by Sir Walter Raleigh, 211.
Sound of the Sea, by Felicia Hemans, 474, 475.

Southey, Robert, 419, 420, 428-431, 458, 459.
Southwell, Robert, 258, 259.

Spenser, Edmund, 203-209, 226–235.

Splendid Shilling, The, by John Philips, 360, 361.
Sprat, Thomas, 340.

Spring, Lines written in Early, by William Wordsworth, 428.
Song, by Bryan Waller Procter, 477.

Stage, Satire on the, by Joseph Hall, 257.

Starlight, by William Habington, 298.

Steel Glass, The, by George Gascoigne, 184-198.
Stella, Sir Philip Sidney's, 215-217.

Suckling, Sir John, 299, 300.

Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, 156-159.

Sweet Content, a Song from "Patient Grissel," 270.

Swift, Jonathan, 353-355.

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 484, 485, 486.
Sylvester, Joshua, 276, 277.

Tennyson, Alfred, 464-467.

T.

The Harp that once through Tara's halls, by Thomas Moore,

455.

There be none of Beauty's daughters, by Lord Byron, 445.
There's not a joy the world can give, by Lord Byron, 445.
Thieves' Song, from "The Widow," 273, 274.

Thirty-sixth Year, Lord Byron on the Completion of his, 445,
446.

Thomson, James, 64, 365, 383, 384.

Thorn's "This World is but a Vanity," 169.

Three Fishers, The, by Charles Kingsley, 480.

Tickle Times, by Edwin Waugh, 482.

Time, a Discourse of, by Thomas Churchyard, 202.

411.

Lost, by Robert Greene, 249, 250.

Passes, by Jasper Mayne, 304.

a Sonnet, by William Shakespeare, 252.

The Touch of, a Sonnet by William Lisle Bowles, 410,

Times go by Turns, by Robert Southwell, 259.
Tobacco, by Barten Holiday, 304.

Tombs in Westminster Abbey, Francis Beaumont on the, 273.
Tomson, I., 242.

Tottel's Miscellany, 161–164.

Trafalgar, Thanksgiving off Cape, by James Grahame, 440.
Translated Verse, Lord Roscommon's Essay on, 324-328.
Treasure of Hope, The, by Lewis Morris, 488.
Treasures of the Deep, by Felicia Hemans.

Tresilian, The Fall of Chief Justice, by George Ferrers, 177-
179.

Triumph of Charis, Ben Jonson's, 267, 268.

Troubadour, The, by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, 473.
True-born Englishman, Defoe's First Lines of the, 347
Trump of Death, John Gower's Tale of the, 50-53.
Turbervile, George, 201.

Two Sovereigns, by Thomas Dekker, 270.

U.

Ungrateful Beauty threatened, by Thomas Carew, 300.
Up-hill, by Christina Rossetti, 490.

Uplandis Mouse and the Burges Mouse, Henryson's Tale of
the, 77-81.

V.

Valedictory Sonnet, by William Wordsworth, 460.
Vanity of Human Wishes, by Samuel Johnson, 375-378.
This World is but a, from the "Paradise of Dainty
Devices," 169.

Vaux, Thomas Lord, 160, 161–167.

Venus and Adonis, The Shepherd's Song of, 237, 238.
Vere, Aubrey de, 487.

Edward, Earl of Oxford, 167.

Verse, The Birth of, by Lewis Morris, 490.

Village Poor, Crabbe on the, 403–405.

Villiers, George, Duke of Buckingham, 328.

Virgin, The, by Katherine Philips, 340.

Virtue, by George Herbert, 298, 299.

Voltaire, A Dedication to, by Edward Young, 385, 386.