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| Ben Jonson | Sejanus — Ben Jonson |
Sejanus “`Not these are safe, where nothing is." Yourselfe,/While thus you stand but by me, are not safe./Was Silius safe? or the good Sosia safe?/Or was my Neice, deare Claudia Pulchra saf…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Ben Jonson | Every Man in His Humour — Ben Jonson |
Every Man in His Humour “How happy would I estimate my selfe,/Could I (by any meane) retyre my son,/From one vayne course of study he affects?/He is a scholler (if a man may trust/The lib'rall voyce of dou…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Ben Jonson | Bartholomew Fair — Ben Jonson |
Bartholomew Fair “Why? would my Booth have broake, if they had fal'ne out in it? Sir? or would their heate have fir'd it? in, you Rogue, and wipe the pigges, and mend the fire, that they fall not, o…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Ben Jonson | Epicoene, or the Silent Woman — Ben Jonson |
Epicoene, or the Silent Woman “The doing of it, not the manner: that must be priuate. Many things, that seeme foule, in the doing, do please, done. A lady should, indeede, study her face, when we thinke she slee…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Ben Jonson | The New Inne — Ben Jonson |
The New Inne “Playes in themselues have neither hopes, nor feares,/Their fate is only in their hearers eares:/If you expect more then you had to*night,/The maker is sick, and sad. But do him rig…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Ben Jonson | Cynthia's Revel's — Ben Jonson |
Cynthia's Revel's “Is that thy Boy Hedon?/G/2.2 Aye, what thinkst thou of him?/H/2.2 Shart, I would gelde him; I warrant he has the Philosophers stone.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Ben Jonson | Catiline — Ben Jonson |
Catiline “When Orestilla by her bearing well/These my retirements, and stolne times for thought/Shall give their effects leaue to call her Queene/Of all the world, in place of humbled Rome.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Ben Jonson | The Alchemist — Ben Jonson |
The Alchemist “If thou beest more, thou art an Vnderstander, and then I trust thee. If thou art one that tak'st vp, and but a Pretender, beware at what hands thou receiu'st thy commoditie; for th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Ben Jonson | Volpone — Ben Jonson |
Volpone “A Hold thee, Mosca,/Take of my hand; thou strik'st on truth, in all:/And they are enuious, terme thee Parasite./Call forth my Dwarfe, my Eunuch, and my Foole,/And let them make me …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Ben Jonson | Cynthia's Revels — Ben Jonson |
Cynthia's Revels “MER. Nay, Cupid, leave to speak improperly; since we are turn'd cracks, let's study to be like cracks; practise their language, and behaviours, and not with a dead imitation: Act f…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Ben Jonson | Every Man in his Humour — Ben Jonson |
Every Man in his Humour “A modernized version of Mr. Johnson's work.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Ben Jonson | Every Man Out Of His Humour — Ben Jonson |
Every Man Out Of His Humour “A more modernized version.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Ben Jonson | Epicoene: Or, The Silent Woman — Ben Jonson |
Epicoene: Or, The Silent Woman “Enough. Now, Cutbeard, with the same discipline I use to my family, I will question you. As I conceive, Cutbeard, this gentlewoman is she you have provided, and brought, in hope sh…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Ben Jonson | The Alchemist — Ben Jonson |
The Alchemist “MAM. That is his fire-drake,/ His Lungs, his Zephyrus, he that puffs his coals,/ Till he firk nature up, in her own centre./ You are not faithful, sir./ This night, I'll change/ Al…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Ben Jonson | Discoveries and Some Poems — Ben Jonson |
Discoveries and Some Poems “Opinio.--Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing; settled in the imagination, but never arriving at the understanding, there to obtain the tincture of reason. We labou…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Ben Jonson | The Poetaster — Ben Jonson |
The Poetaster “Ovid. I like not this sudden and general heaviness amongst our godheads; 'tis somewhat ominous. Apollo, command us louder music, and let Mercury and Momus contend to please and rev…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Christopher Marlowe | Tamburlaine the Great, Part 2 — Christopher Marlowe |
Tamburlaine the Great, Part 2 “TAMBURLAINE. Then will we triumph, banquet and carouse;/Cooks shall have pensions to provide us cates,/And glut us with the dainties of the world;/Lachryma Christi and Calabrian wi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Christopher Marlowe | Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1 — Christopher Marlowe |
Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1 “We'll lead you to the stately tent of war,/Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine/Threatening the world with high astounding terms,/And scourging kingdoms with his conquerin…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Christopher Marlowe | The Massacre at Paris — Christopher Marlowe |
The Massacre at Paris “QUEENE MOTHER. My noble sonne, and princely Duke of Guise,/Now have we got the fatall stragling deere,/Within the compasse of a deadly toyle,/And as we late decreed we may perfourm…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Christopher Marlowe | The Jew of Malta — Christopher Marlowe |
The Jew of Malta “BARABAS. Thus, like the sad-presaging raven, that tolls/The sick man's passport in her hollow beak,(54)/And in the shadow of the silent night/Doth shake contagion from her sable wi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Christopher Marlowe | Dr. Faustus — Christopher Marlowe |
Dr. Faustus “FAUSTUS. How am I glutted with conceit of this!/Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please,/Resolve me of all ambiguities,/Perform what desperate enterprise I will?/I'll have them…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Christopher Marlowe | Edward II — Christopher Marlowe |
Edward II “K. Edw. Away then! touch me not.----Come, Gaveston.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Thomas Middleton | The Changeling — Thomas Middleton |
The Changeling “FRANCISCUS /Luna is now big-bellied, and there's room /For both of us to ride with Hecate; /I'll drag thee up into her silver sphere, /And there we'll kick the dog, and beat the bu…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Thomas Middleton | The Second Maiden's Tragedy — Thomas Middleton |
The Second Maiden's Tragedy “HELVETIUS / Think? You come too late /If you seek there for me. I know't and see't. /I'll sooner give my blessing to a drunkard, / Whom the ridiculous power of wine makes humble /A…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Thomas Middleton | A Fair Quarrel — Thomas Middleton |
A Fair Quarrel “CAPTAIN AGER/ The son of a whore? / There is not such another murdering-piece /In all the stock of calumny; it kills/ At one report two reputations, /A mother's and a son's. If it …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Thomas Middleton | The Puritan, or The Widow of Watling Street — Thomas Middleton |
The Puritan, or The Widow of Watling Street “MOLL /Not marry? Forswear marriage? Why, all women know 'tis as honourable a thing as to lie with a man, and I, to spite my sister's vow the more, have entertained a suitor already…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Thomas Middleton | The Phoenix — Thomas Middleton |
The Phoenix “Of all deeds yet, this strikes the deepest wound /Into my apprehension. / Reverend and honourable matrimony, /Mother of lawful sweets, unshamed mornings,/ Dangerless pleasures, tho…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Thomas Middleton | The Old Law — Thomas Middleton |
The Old Law “ANTIGONA /To what end, sir? /The bell of this sharp edict tolls for me / As it rings out for you. I'll be as ready, /With one hour's stay, to go along with you.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Thomas Middleton | No Wit, No Help like a Woman's — Thomas Middleton |
No Wit, No Help like a Woman's “WEATHERWISE / Marry, sir, I'll give it out abroad that I have lain with the widow myself, as 'tis the fashion of many a gallant to disgrace his new mistress when he cannot have his…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Thomas Middleton | A Chaste Maid in Cheapside — Thomas Middleton |
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside “MOLL /You must dispatch with all the speed you can, / For I shall be missed straight; I made hard shift /For this small time I have.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Thomas Middleton | Your Five Gallants — Thomas Middleton |
Your Five Gallants “GOLDSTONE /For instance; / [To Pursenet] Put case yourself, after some robbery done, /Were pursu'd hardly, why, there were your shelter, /You know your sanctuary; nay, say you were…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Thomas Middleton | The Family of Love — Thomas Middleton |
The Family of Love “GERARDINE /The coast is clear, and Argus' wakeful eyes /Securely sleep: time turns to us his front. /Come sweet Maria, of th' auspicious hours /Let's take advantage.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Thomas Middleton | A Yorkshire Tragedy — Thomas Middleton |
A Yorkshire Tragedy “MAID /Sleep, sweet babe: sorrow makes thy mother sleep. /It bodes small good when [Heaven] falls so deep. /Hush, pretty boy, thy hopes might have been better; /'Tis lost at dice wh…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Thomas Middleton | The Witch — Thomas Middleton |
The Witch “HECATE /Titty and Tiffin, Suckin and Pidgen, Liard and Robin, /White spirits, black spirits, grey spirits, red spirits, /Devil-toad, devil-ram, devil-cat, and devil-dam!…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Thomas Middleton | The Honest Whore, Part One — Thomas Middleton |
The Honest Whore, Part One “HIPOLITO /If any be dispos'd to trust your oath,/Let him: I'll not be he. I know you feign /All that you speak, ay, for a mingled harlot /Is true in nothing but in being false. /Wh…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Thomas Middleton | The Nice Valour, or The Passionate Madman — Thomas Middleton |
The Nice Valour, or The Passionate Madman “PASSIONATE LORD /[To La Nove] I do confess it freely, precious lady, /And love's suit is so: the longer it hangs, /The worse it is; better cut off, sweet madam. /Oh, that same draw…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Thomas Middleton | A Trick to Catch the Old One — Thomas Middleton |
A Trick to Catch the Old One “LUCRE / My adversary evermore twits me with my nephew, forsooth, my nephew; why may not a virtuous uncle have a dissolute nephew? What though he be a brotheller, a wastethrift, a c…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Thomas Middleton | The Roaring Girl, or Moll Cutpurse — Thomas Middleton |
The Roaring Girl, or Moll Cutpurse “MOLL /[Aside] Oh, here's my gentleman: if they would keep their days as well with their mercers as their hours with their harlots, no bankrout would give seven score pound for a se…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Thomas Middleton | The Revenger's Tragedy — Thomas Middleton |
The Revenger's Tragedy “VINDICI /And therefore I'll put on that knave for once, /And be a right man then, a man a' th' time, /For to be honest is not to be i' th' world. /Brother, I'll be that strange-com…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Thomas Middleton | Anything for a Quiet Life — Thomas Middleton |
Anything for a Quiet Life “KNAVESBEE /I had last night one of the strangest dreams;/Methought I was thy confessor, thou mine, /And we reveal'd between us privately /How often we had wrong'd each other's bed …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing — William Shakespeare |
Much Ado About Nothing “Content yourself. God knows I lov'd my niece;/And she is dead, slander'd to death by villains,/That dare as well answer a man indeed/As I dare take a serpent by the tongue./Boys, a…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice — William Shakespeare |
The Merchant of Venice “To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgrac'd me and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned m…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew — William Shakespeare |
The Taming of the Shrew “I tell thee, Kate, 'twas burnt and dried away,/And I expressly am forbid to touch it;/For it engenders choler, planteth anger;/And better 'twere that both of us did fast, Since, of…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | Two Gentlemen of Verona — William Shakespeare |
Two Gentlemen of Verona “Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus:/ Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits./Were't not affection chains thy tender days/To the sweet glances of thy honour'd love,…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part II — William Shakespeare |
Henry IV Part II “Between that royal field of Shrewsbury/And this worm-eaten hold of ragged stone,/Where Hotspur's father, old Northumberland,/Lies crafty-sick: the posts come tiring on,…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part I — William Shakespeare |
Henry IV Part I “So shaken as we are, so wan with care,/Find we a time for frighted peace to pant,/And breathe short-winded accents of new broils/To be commenced in strands afar remote.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | Henry V — William Shakespeare |
Henry V “Into an hour-glass: for the which supply,/Admit me Chorus to this history;/Who, prologue-like, your humble patience pray,/Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark — William Shakespeare |
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark “Thou pray'st not well. I prithee, take thy fingers from my throat; For, though I am not splenitive and rash, Yet have I something in me dangerous,…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra — William Shakespeare |
Antony and Cleopatra “Most worthy sir, you therein throw away The absolute soldiership you have by land; Distract your army, which doth most consist Of war-mark'd footmen; leave unexecuted Your own reno…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | Othello — William Shakespeare |
Othello “Even now, now, very now, an old black ram Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise; Awake the snorting citizens with the bell, Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you:…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | King Lear — William Shakespeare |
King Lear “Poor Tom; that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the tadpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swal…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | Macbeth — William Shakespeare |
Macbeth “Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | Henry VI Parts I, II and III — William Shakespeare |
Henry VI Parts I, II and III “All here for you…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | King John, Richard II, Richard III, Henry VIII — William Shakespeare |
King John, Richard II, Richard III, Henry VIII “Rounding out our Shakespearian history collection. In one text.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | Five Comedies — The Merry Wives of Windsor, |
Five Comedies “A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labours Lost, All's Well That Ends Well, The Comedy of Errors -- in one volume…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | Five Comedies — As You Like It, Pericles |
Five Comedies “Cymbeline, Measure for Measure, and Troilus and Cressida. In one vol. Also have the Chaucer version of Troilus and Creseyde, will soon have the Chretian de Troyes.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | Twelth Night, A Winter's Tale, the Tempest — William Shakespeare |
Twelth Night, A Winter's Tale, the Tempest “That completes our collection of Shakespearian plays.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | Five Tragedies — Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, |
Five Tragedies “Timon of Athens, and Titus Andronicus. Complete in one vol.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | The Sonnets — William Shakespeare |
The Sonnets “All 154 Sonnets, with index to first lines.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | A Lover's Complaint — William Shakespeare |
A Lover's Complaint “Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne,/ Which on it had conceited characters,/ Laund'ring the silken figures in the brine/ That season'd woe had pelleted in tears,/ And often re…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | The Passionate Pilgrim — William Shakespeare |
The Passionate Pilgrim “Paler for sorrow than her milk-white dove,/ For Adon's sake, a youngster proud and wild;/ Her stand she takes upon a steep-up hill:/ Anon Adonis comes with horn and hounds;/ She, s…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | Preface to Shakespeare's Plays — Samuel Johnson |
Preface to Shakespeare's Plays “What mankind have long possessed they have often examined and compared, and if they persist to va- lue the possession, it is because frequent comparisons have confirmed opinion in …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | Characters of Shakespeare's Plays — William Hazlitt |
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays “The secret of Falstaff's wit is for the most part a masterly presence of mind, an absolute self-possession, which nothing can disturb. His repartees are involuntary suggestions of …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown — Andrew Lang |
Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown “A phrase has been used to explain the Greek element in Shakespeare's work, namely, "congruity of genius," which is apt to be resented by Baconians. Perhaps they have a right to res…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare | Sonnets — William Shakespeare |
Sonnets “Improved text, supersedes earlier version.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare: Apocrypha | Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music — William Shakespeare: Apocrypha |
Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music “Long was the combat doubtful, that love with love did fight,/ To leave the master loveless, or kill the gallant knight;/ To put in practice either, alas, it was a spite/ Unto the s…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare: Apocrypha | Sir Thomas More — William Shakespeare: Apocrypha |
Sir Thomas More “MESSENGER./ My lord, ill news; and worse, I fear, will follow,/ If speedily it be not looked unto:/ The city is in an uproar, and the Mayor/ Is threatened, if he come out of his ho…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare: Apocrypha | The Two Noble Kinsmen — William Shakespeare: Apocrypha |
The Two Noble Kinsmen “HIPPOLITA./ Sir, farewell; repeat my wishes/ To our great Lord, of whose succes I dare not/ Make any timerous question; yet I wish him/ Exces and overflow of power, and't might be,…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare: Apocrypha | The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine — William Shakespeare: Apocrypha |
The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine “HUMBER./ Courage, my son, fortune shall favour us,/ And yield to us the coronet of bay,/ That decked none but noble conquerours./ But what saith Estrild to these regions?/ How like…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare: Apocrypha | MUCEDORUS — William Shakespeare: Apocrypha |
MUCEDORUS “Full title: A MOST PLEASANT COMEDY OF MUCEDORUS THE KING'S SON OF VALENTIA, AND AMADINE, THE KING'S DAUGHTER OF ARRAGON…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare: Apocrypha | The Merry Devil — William Shakespeare: Apocrypha |
The Merry Devil “MOUNCHENSEY./ I tell thee, Clare, his blood is good and clear/ As the best drop that panteth in thy veins:/ But for this maid, thy fair and vertuous child,/ She is no more disparag…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Shakespeare: Apocrypha | Fair Em — William Shakespeare: Apocrypha |
Fair Em “TROTTER./ Yfaith, I aim at the fairest./ Ah, Em, sweet Em!/ Fresh as the flower,/ That hath pour/ To wound my heart,/ And ease my smart,/ Of me, poor thief,/ In prison bound--/…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Astrophel and Stella |
Astrophel and Stella “Ouing in trueth, and fayne in verse my loue to show,/That she, deare Shee, might take som pleasure of my paine,/ Pleasure might cause her reade, reading might make her know, -- by …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Faerie Queene |
The Faerie Queene “LO I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske,/As time her taught, in lowly Shepheards weeds,/Am now enforst a far vnfitter taske, -- by Edmund Spenser…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Amoretti and Epithalamion |
Amoretti and Epithalamion “MY hungry eyes through greedy couetize,/still to behold the obiect of their paine:/with no contentment can themselues suffize,/but hauing pine and hauing not complaine.-- by Spense…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Duchess of Malfi |
The Duchess of Malfi “ANTONIO. 'Tis great pity He should be thus neglected: I have heard He 's very valiant. This foul melancholy Will poison all his goodness; for, I 'll tell you, If too immoderate sle…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | A Selection From The Lyrical Poems Of Robert Herrick |
A Selection From The Lyrical Poems Of Robert Herrick “I sing of May-poles, hock-carts, wassails, wakes,/Of bride-grooms, brides, and of their bridal-cakes./I write of Youth, of Love;--and have access/By these, to sing of cleanly wanto…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Spanish Tragedy |
The Spanish Tragedy “Now would your lordships favour me so much,/As but to grace me with your acting it,/I mean each one of you to play a part,/Assure you it will prove most passing strange,/And wondro…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | THE SPANISH TRAGEDY (song) — Thomas Kyd |
THE SPANISH TRAGEDY (song) “And finding then his senslesse form,/ The murtherers I sought to finde,/ But missing them I stood forlorne,/ As one amased in his minde,/ And rent and puld my silvered haire,/ And …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Spanish Tragedy — Thomas Kyd |
The Spanish Tragedy “This version of Kyd's work does not include the modernized spellings, etc. (Closer to what Shakespeare probably read when he, err, noticed the plot).--updated, sorry about those it…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | HENDECASYLLABON — Thomas Kyd |
HENDECASYLLABON “Thy prime of youth is frozen with thy faults,/thy feast of ioy is finisht with thy fall:/ Thy crop of corne is tares auailing naughts,/thy good God knowes thy hope, thy hap and all…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | TYCHBORNES ELEGIE — Thomas Kyd |
TYCHBORNES ELEGIE “My tale was heard, and yet it was not told,/my fruite is falne, and yet my leaues are greene:/My youth is spent, and yet I am not old,/I saw the world, and yet I was not seene./My …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | THE ODYSSES OF HOMER — George Chapman |
THE ODYSSES OF HOMER “This is the complete version (have an excerpted one as well) that guys like Shakespeare were reading so long ago.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia — Sir Philip Sidney |
The Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia “But neither was the feuer of such impatient heate, as the inwarde plague-sore of her affection, nor the paine halfe so noysome, as the iealousie shee conceaued of her daughter Phil…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Beggers Ape — Richard Niccols |
The Beggers Ape “In Summers pride did cast a cooling shade,/ Vnder whose leaues from Phoebus burning rayes/ Sweet birds sate singing their Melodious layes,/ There sate I downe vpon the grassy groun…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Ruines of Time — Edmund Spenser |
The Ruines of Time “Looke backe, who list, vnto the former ages,/ And call to count, what is of them become:/ Where be those learned wits and antique Sages,/ Which of all wisedome knew the perfect som…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | French Lear, or The Beggar King — Translated and adapted by F. J. Morlock |
French Lear, or The Beggar King “YOUNGEST DAUGHTER: You know very well, my father, that it is not possible to find more eloquent and beautiful comparisons than those my sister has spoken. I could repeat her words.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | A Biography of Edmund Spenser — John W. Hales |
A Biography of Edmund Spenser “It is said that his friend Harvey introduced him to that famous accomplished gentleman--that mirror of true knighthood--Sir Philip Sidney, and it would seem that Penshurst became f…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Palestina — Robert Chambers |
Palestina “The middle earth sea kept as streight a line vpon the west side of the countrie, so that Reuben beeing seated without the riuer Iordan, vpon the South, and halfe the tribe of Manas…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Prosopopoia: Or Mother Hubberds Tale — Edmund Spenser |
Prosopopoia: Or Mother Hubberds Tale “'Surely (said th' Ape) it likes me wondrous well;/ And would ye not poore fellowship expell,/ My selfe would offer you t' accompanie/ In this adventures chauncefull jeopardie:/ For…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Fowre Hymnes — Edmund Spenser |
Fowre Hymnes “Thenceforth they playne, and make ful piteous mone/ Unto the author of their balefull bane:/ The daies they waste, the nights they grieve and grone,/ Their lives they loath, and he…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |