POETIC TREASURES:

OR,

PASSAGES FROM THE POETS.

Chronologically Arranged.

BY THE

REV. DR. GILES,

FORMERLY FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, oxford.

BIBLIOTHE LIR

OCT 1881

SODLEIANA

LONDON:

WARD, LOCK, & CO., WARWICK HOUSE,

1. Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

2. Morning Walk

III.-JOHN GOWER, 1325 ?-1402.

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IV. JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND, 1394-1437.

The Lady in the Garden

IV.*—ANDREW WINTON, about 1420.

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VI.-WILLIAM DUNBAR, 1465-1530.

Vanity of Earthly Joys

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

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VII.-GAWAIN DOUGLAS, 1475-1522.

Shipwreck of the Caraval...

VIII.-SIR DAVID LINDSAY, 1490-1557.

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

XIV.-SIR WALTER RALEIGH, 1552-1618.

1. Answer to the Shepherd's Song

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2. Lines composed the night before his execution 22

XV.-EDMUND SPENSER, 1553-1599.

1. The Butterfly...

2. Charity

3. Envy

1. Delay

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XVI.-ANONYMOUS author of "Crabbed Age and Youth" 25

XVII.-ROBERT SOUTHWELL, 1550-1595.

2. Vicissitude

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3. Content and Rich

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

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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

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