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1 Upon the graving of her Name upon a Tree in Barnelmnes Walks
by Katherine Philips (1632 - 1664)
2 My prime of youth is but a frost of cares
by Chidiock Tichbourne (? 1558 - 1586)
3 Immediately they came.....
from Arthur Golding's 1567 translation of Ovid's Metamorphosis
4 A garden in Rome
from Thomas Nashe's "The Unfortunate Traveller" 1594.
5 Though the world be histrionical......
from Thomas Browne's Christian Morals and Urn Burial
6 Love and Life, a Song
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647 -80)
7 Of his ring sent to his lady
unknown author in "Tottel's Miscellany", 1557
8 Eyes/beauty
from Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, 1628
9 The Art of Writing
from A'in -i- Akbari. about 1590
10 The Golden Vanity
from a recording and sea shanty book.
11 I lothe that I did love
by Thomas Vaux (1510 - 1556) , in "Tottel's Miscellany"
12 from Areopagitica , 1644
by John Milton
13 Oh Shenadoah
by David Boyle, 2000.
14 In time of pestilence
by Thomas Nashe
15 The dew as diamonds did hang, and So sweet a kiss......
By Alexander Montgomerie (1545 - 1611)
16 The rolling wheels that runneth often round, Sonnet XVII
by Edmund Spenser (1552 -1599)
17 Since there's no help...
by Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631)
18 The Aviator
by Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
19 A Crown of Sonnets dedicated to Love
by Lady Mary Wroth (1586? - 1651?)
20 On the memory of Mr. Edward King, drown'd in the Irish sea (1638)
by John Cleveland (1613 - 1658)
21 Masters and owners look out 1831
by an unknown miner
22 Yes and No (anon)
23 from Toxophilus (1545) by Roger Ascham
24 Extracts from works by Blaise Pascal, John Taylor, Francis Bacon and Jonathan Swift.
25 from All is Vanity by Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea.
26 Excerpt from Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais.
27 The Candle Flame from The Chemical History of the Candle by Michael Faraday, 1850's
28 from Leviathan by Hobbes
29 from UTOPIA by More
30 Written night before execution by Michael Drayton
31 The Fox by John Gay