POETIC TREASURES:

or,

PASSAGES FROM THE POETS.

Chronologically Arranged.

BY THE

REV. DR. GILES,

FORMERLY FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, oxford.

BIBLIOTHE

OCT 1881

SODLEIANA

LONDON:

WARD, LOCK, & CO., WARWICK HOUSE,

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS.

I. JOHN BARBOUR, 1316?-1396,

Freedom

IK-GEOFFREY CHAUCER, 1328-1400.

1. Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

2. Morning Walk

III.-JOHN GOWER, 1325 ?-1402.

A fragment

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IV.—JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND, 13941437.

The Lady in the Garden

IV.*-ANDREW WINTON, about 1420.

Saint Serf's Ram

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VI.*-JOHN SKELTON, 1485?-1529.

To Margaret

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

Blame not my Lute

VI.***--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

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XI.-THOMAS SACKVILLE, LORD BUCKHURST, EARL OF

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

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XIV.-SIR WALTER RALEIGH, 1552—1618.

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1. Answer to the Shepherd's Song..

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2. Lines composed the night before his execution

XV.-EDMUND SPENSER, 1553-1599.

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

XVII.-ROBERT SOUTHWELL, 1550-1595.

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

20. Macbeth's Soliloquy

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

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

23. Hamlet's Soliloquy on Death

24. Soliloquy of the King in Hamlet...

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