Key:E=Excellence.
M=Mediocrity.
AW=Absolute Worthlessness.
Acheley, Thomas.
"A most lamentable and tragical Historie."12mo.1576
A translation from a novel of Bandello |*
Anderson, James.
Ane godly treatis, calit the first andsecond cumming of Christ, with the tone of thewintersnycht. 16mo. Edin.1595 |*
Andrewe, Thomas.
The Unmasking of a feminine Machiavell.4to.1604 |*
Anneson, James.
Carolana, that is to say, a Poeme inHonour of our King, Charles-James, QueenAnne, and Prince Charles, &c. 4to.1614
Arthington, Henry.
Principall Points of Holy Profession.4to.1607 |**
Aske, James.
Elizabetha Triumphans. 4to. Blank Verse.1588 |*
Avale, Lemeke.
A Commemoration or Dirge of bastardeEdmonde Boner. 8vo.1659 |
Balnevis, Henry.
Confession of Faith, conteining how thetroubled man should seeke refuge at his God.12mo. Edin.1584 |
Barnefielde, Richard.
Cynthia with certeyne Sonnettesand the Legend of Cassandra.1594 |
The Affectionate Shepherd. 16mo.[677:A]1595*|
The Encomion of Lady Pecunia. 4to.1598 |
Barnes, Barnabe.
Parthenophil and Parthenope. Sonnettes,Madrigals, Elegies and Odes.1593*|
A Divine Centurie of Spirituall Sonnettes.[677:B]1595*|
Bastard, Thomas.
Chrestoleros. Seven Books of Epigrams.8vo.[677:C]1595*|
Batman, Stephen.
The Travayled Pylgrime. 4to.1569 |***
Beverley, Peter.
The History of Ariodanto and Jeneura.8vo. 2d edit. From Ariosto.1600 |
Bieston, Roger.
The Bayte and Snare of Fortune. Folio.ten leaves. No date.[677:D]
Blenerhasset, Thomas.
The Seconde Part of the Mirrourfor Magistrates. 4to.1578 |*
Bourcher, Arthur.
A Fable of Æsop Versified. 8vo.1566
Bourman, Nicholas.
A Friendelie Well Wishinge to suchas endure. A Ballad.1581
Bradshaw, Thomas.
The Shepherd's Starre. 4to.1591
Brathwayte, Richard.
The Golden Fleece, with otherpoems. Sm. 8vo.1611 |
The Poets Willow, or the Passionate Shepherd. 8vo.1614 |
A Strappado for the Divell. Epigrams and Satyres. 8vo.1615 |
Brice, Thomas.
The Courte of Venus Moralized.1567
Songes and Sonnettes.1567
Broughton, Rowland.
A Briefe Discourse of the Lyfeand Death of the late Right High and Honble SirWillm Pawlet, Knight.1572 |**
Brooke, Thomas.
Certayne Verses in the time of hisimprisonment, the day before his deathe.Norwich.1570
Brooke, Christopher.
Elegy on Prince Henry.1613
Eclogues. Dedicated to Wm Browne.[678:A]1614 |
Bryskett, Lodowick.
The Mourning Muses of Lod.Bryskett upon the deathe of the most noble SirPhilip Sydney knight.[678:B]1587*|
Buc, Sir George.
Δαφνις Πολυστεφανος. An Eclog treatingof Crownes, and of Garlandes, and to whom ofright they appertaine. 4to.1605*|
Carew, Richard.
"Godfrey of Bulloigne, or the Recoverieof Hierusalem." First Five Cantos translatedfrom Tasso. First edition, no date.Second, 4to.1594 |*
Carpenter, John.
A Sorrowfull Song for sinfull soules.8vo.1586
Chester, Robert.
"Loves Martyr, or Rosalins Complaint."From the Italian of Torquato Cœliano. "With the true Legend of famousKing Arthur."[679:A]1601 |*
Chettle, Henry.
The Pope's pitiful Lamentation for thedeath of his deere darling Don Joan of Austria.4to.1578
"The Forest of Fancy." Consisting of apothegmes, histories, songs, sonnets, and epigrams. 4to.1579
A Dolefull Ditty or sorowful sonet of the Lord Darly, some time King of Scots.1579 |
Chute, Anthony.
Beawtie Dishonoured, written under thetitle of Shore's Wife. 4to.1593
Procris and Cephalus.[679:B]1593 |*
Clapham, Henoch.
A Briefe of the Bible's History; Drawnefirst into English poesy. 8vo. Edin.1596 |***
Copley, Anthony.
Loves Owle: an idle conceited Dialoguebetwene Love and an Olde-man. 4to.1595
A Fig for Fortune. 4to.1596 |**
Cottesford, Thomas.
A Prayer to Dannyell.1570
Cotton, Roger.
An Armor of Proofe, brought from theTower of David. 4to.1596
A Spirituall Song. 4to.1596
Culrose, Elizabeth.
Ane Godly Dream. 4to. Edin.1603 |
Cutwode, T.
Caltha-poetarum, or the Bumble Bee, 4to.1599
Davidstone, Johne.
Ane Brief Commendation of Uprichtnes,&c. in Inglis Meter. 4to.1573
A Memorial of the Life and Death of two worthye Chrittians. In English Meter. 8vo.1595
Davies, John.
The Scourge of Folly. Consisting of satyricallEpigramms, &c. 8vo.1611
Humours Heavn on Earth.1605
Microcosmos. The Discovery of the Little World, with the government thereof. 4to.1603
The Muses Sacrifice; or Divine Meditations. 12mo.1612
Wittes Pilgrimage, (by Poeticall Essaies,) Through a World of amorous Sonnets, &c. 4to.[680:A]16
A Select Second Husband for Sir Thos. Overburie's Wife. Small 8vo.1616
Mirum in Modum.[680:B]1602 |**
Davison, Francis.
Davison, Walter.
Sonnets, Odes, Elegies, Madrigals, and Epigrams, by Francis and Walter Davison, brethren. 12mo.[680:C]1602*|
Delone, Thomas.
Strange Histories, or songes and sonnetsof kinges, princes, dukes, lords, ladyes, knights,and gentlemen: &c. 4to.[681:A]1612 |*
Derricke, John.
The Image of Irelande. 4to.1581 |*
Dowricke, Ann.
The French Historie. 4to.1589
Drant, Thomas.
A Medicinable Morall, that is, the twobookes of Horace his satyres, englyshed, &c.4to.1566
Horace his Arte of Poetrie, pistles, and satyres, englished. 4to.1567
Greg. Nazianzen, his epigrammes, and spirituall sentences. 8vo.[681:B]1568 |*
Edwardes, C.
The Mansion of Myrthe1581
Elderton, William.
Elderton's Solace in tyme of his sickness,contayning sundrie sonets upon manypithe parables.1578 |*
Various Ballads from 1560 to[681:C]1590 |*
Elviden, Edmond.
The Closet of Counselles. Translatedand collected out of divers aucthors into Englishverse. 8vo.1569
The History of Pisistratus and Catanea. 12mo.
Evans, Lewes.
The Fyrste twoo Satars or Poyses of Orace.1564
Evans, William.
Thamesiades, or Chastities Triumph. 8vo.[682:A]1602 |*
Fenner, Dudley.
The Song of Songs. Translated out ofthe Hebrue into Englishe Meeter. 8vo.1587
Fennor, William.
Fennor's Descriptions. 4to.[682:B]1616 |*
Ferrers, George.
Legends of Dame Eleanor Cobham andHumfrey Plantagenet—in the Myrrour forMagistrates, edition[682:C]1578 |*
Fetherstone, Christopher.
The Lamentations of Jeremie,in prose and meeter, with apt notes to singethem withall. 8vo.1587
Fleming, Abraham.
The Bucolikes of P. Virgilius Maro,with alphabeticall annotations.1575 |*
The Georgiks or Ruralls: conteyning four books. 4to.[682:D]1589 |*
Fletcher, Robert.
An Epitaph or briefe Lamentation forthe late Queene. 4to.1603
Fraunce, Abraham.
The Lamentations of Amintas for the

death of Phillis: paraphrastically translated outof Latine into English hexameters. 4to.		1588 |*
"The Arcadian Rhetoricke." Verse and Prose. 8vo.1588 |*
The Countess of Pembroke's Emanuel. Conteining the nativity, passion, burial, and resurrection of Christ: togeather with certaine psalmes of David. 4to.1591 |*
The Countesse of Pembroke's Ivychurch. Conteining the affectionate life, and unfortunate death of Phillis and Amyntas. 4to.[683:A]1591 |*
The Third Part of the Countesse of Pembrokes Ivychurch: entitled: Amintas Dale. 4to.1592 |*
Heliodorus's Ethiopics. 8vo.[683:B]1591 |*
Freeman, Thomas.
Rub and a Great Cast: and Runne, anda Great Cast. The second bowle. In 200Epigrams. 4to.[683:C]1614 |
Fulwell, Ulpian.
The Flower of Fame. Containing thebright Renowne, and most fortunate raigne ofKing Henry the viij. 4to.1575 |**
Gale, Dunstan.
Pyramus and Thisbe.[683:D]1597*|
Gamage, William.
Linsi-Woolsie: or Two Centuries ofEpigrammes. 12mo.[684:A]1613 |*****
Garter, Barnard.
The Tragicall History of two EnglishLovers. 8vo.1565
Gifford, Humphrey.
A Posie of Gilloflowers, eche differingfrom other in colour and odour, yet allsweete. 4to.1580*|
Golding, Arthur.
The XV. Bookes of P. Ovidius Naso,entytuled Metamorphosis, a worke very pleasauntand delectable. 4to.1567*|
Googe, Barnaby.
The Zodiake of Life, written by thegodly and learned poet Marcellus PallingeniusStellatus, wherein are conteyned twelve bookes.Newly translated into English Verse. 4to.1565 |
The Popish Kingdome, or reigne of Antichrist. Written in Latine verse by Thomas Naogeorgus, and Englyshed by Barnaby Googe. 4to.[684:B]1570 |
The overthrow of the Gowte: written in Latin verse, by Chr. Balista, translated by B. G. 8vo.[684:C]1577 |
Gordon, Patrick.
The Famous History of the ValiantBruce, in heroic verse. 4to.1615*|
Gorges, Sir Arthur.
The Olympian Catastrophe, dedicatedto the memory of the most heroicall Lord

Henry, late illustrious Prince of Wales, &c.By Sir Arthur Gorges, Knight.[685:A]		1612
Lucan's Pharsalia: containing the Civill Warres betweene Cæsar and Pompey. Written in Latine Heroicall Verse by M. Annæus Lucanus. Translated into English verse by Sir Arthur Gorges, Knight.[685:B]1614*|
Gosson, Stephen.
Speculum Humanum. In stanzas ofeleven lines.[685:C]1580 |
Grange, John.
His Garden: pleasant to the eare anddelightful to the reader, if he abuse not thescent of the floures. 4to.[685:D]1577 |*
Greene, Thomas.
A Poets Vision and a Prince's Glorie. 4to.1603
Greepe, Thomas.
The true and perfect Newes of thewoorthy and valiaunt exploytes, performed anddoone by that valiant knight Syr FrauncisDrake. 4to.[686:A]1587 |*
Grevile, Sir Fulke. Poems, viz.
Cælica, a collection of 109 songs. |
A Treatise of Human Learning, in 150 stanzas. |
Upon Fame and Honour, in 86 stanzas. |
A Treatise of Wars, in 68 stanzas. |
Remains, consisting of political and philosophical poems. |
Poems in England's Helicon.[686:B]1600 |
Griffin, B.
"Fidessa, more chaste than kinde." A collectionof amatory sonnets. 12mo.1596
Griffith, William.
The Epitaph of the worthie KnightSir Henry Sidney, Lord President of Wales.Small 8vo.1591 |*
Grove, Matthew.
The most famous and tragical historieof Pelops and Hippodamia. Whereunto areadjoyned sundrie pleasant devises, epigrams,songes, and sonnettes. 8vo.1587
Grymeston, Elizabeth.
Miscellanea—Meditations—Memoratives.[686:C]1604 |*
Hake, Edward.
A Commemoration of the most prosperousand peaceable raigne of our gratious and deeresoveraigne lady Elizabeth. 8vo.1575 |
A Touchstone for the time present, &c. 12mo.1574 |*
Of Gold's Kingdom and this unhelping age, described in sundry poems. 4to.1604
Hall, Arthur.
"Ten Books of Homer's Iliades." Translatedfrom the French of Hugues Salel.4to.[687:A]1581 |**
Hall, John.
The Courte of Vertue, contayning many holyor spretuall songes, sonnettes, psalms, balletts,and shorte sentences, &c. 16 mo.1565
Harbert, Sir William.
Sidney, or Baripenthes, briefelyshadowing out the rare and never-ending laudesof that most honorable and praise-worthy gent.Sir Philip Sidney, knight. 4to.1586
Harbert, William.
A Prophesie of Cadwallader, lastKing of the Britaines, &c. 4to.[687:B]1604 |
Harvey, Gabriel.
Four Letters and Certaine Sonnets.[687:C]1592 |*
Hawes, Edward.
Trayterous Percyes and Catesbyes Prosopopeia.4to.1606
Heath, John.
Two Centuries of Epigrammes. 12mo.1610 |
Herbert, Mary.
A Dialogue between two shepheards, inpraise of Astrea, by the Countesse of Pembroke.[687:D]1602 |
Heywood, Jasper.
Various Poems and Devises.[687:E]1576 |
Heywood, Thomas.
Troia Britanica: or, Great Britaine'sTroy. A Poem, devided into 17 severall Cantons,&c.[688:A]1609 |
Higgins, John.
The First Part of the Mirour of Magistrates,contayning the falles of the first infortunatePrinces of this Lande: from the commingof Brute to the incarnation of our Saviour, &c.4to.[688:B]1575 |
Holland, Robert.
The Holie Historie of our Lord andSaviour Jesus Christ's nativitie, life, actes,miracles, doctrine, death, passion, resurrectionand ascension: gathered into English meeter,&c. 8vo.[688:C]1594 |*
Howell, Thomas.
The Arbor of Amitie; wherein is comprisedpleasant poems and pretie poesies.12mo.[688:D]1568 |*
Thomas Howell's Devises for his owne exercise and his friend's pleasure. 4to.1581
Hubbard, William.
The Tragicall and Lamentable Historieof two faythfull mates, Ceyx kynge ofThrachyne, and Alcione his Wife.1569
Hudson, Thomas.
The Historie of Judith in forme of aPoeme. Translated from Du Bartas. 8vo.1584 |*
Hume, Alexander.
Hymnes, or Sacred Songes, whereinthe right Use of Poesie may be espied. Edin.4to.1599
Hunnis, William.
A Hyve full of Hunnye, contayning thefirste booke of Moses called Genesis. 4to.1578 |**
A Handfull of Honisuckles.1578 |*
Seven Sobs of a Sorrowfull Soule for Sinne, &c. &c. 24to.1585 |*
Jackson, Richard.
The Battle of Floddon in nine fits.[689:A]1564 |
Jeney, Thomas.
A Discours of the present trooblesin Fraunce, and miseries of this time, compyledby Peter Ronsard, gentilman of Vandome;—translatedby Thomas Jeney, gentilman. 4to.1568
Jenynges, Edward.
The Notable Hystory of Two FaithfullLovers, named Alfagus and Archelaus. Whearinis declared the true figure of amytie and freyndship. 4to.1574
Johnson, Richard.
The Nine Worthies of London. 4to.1592 |*
Anglorum Lachrymæ, in a sad passion, complayning the death of our late Queene Elizabeth. 4to.1603 |*
Kelly, Edmund.
Poems on Chemistry, and on the PhilosophersStone.[689:B]1591 |**
Kempe, William.
A Dutifull Invective against the mostehaynous treasons of Ballard and Babington, &c.4to.1587 |*
Kendall, Timothy.
"Flowers of Epigrammes, out of sundriethe most singular authors, as well auncientas late writers." To which, as a second part,are added
Trifles, by Timothie Kendal, devised and written (for the moste part) at sundrie tymes in his yong and tender age. 16mo.[690:A]1577 |
Knell, Thomas.
An Epitaph on the life and death ofD. Boner, sometime unworthy Bishop of London,&c. 8vo.1569
Answere to the most heretical and trayterous papistical bil, cast in the streets of Northampton, &c.1570
Kyffin, Maurice.
The Blessednes of Brytaine, or a celebrationof the Queene's holyday, &c. 4to.1587 |*
Leighton, Sir William.
The Teares or Lamentations of aSorrowfull Soule. 4to.1613 |*
Lever, Christopher.
Queene Elizabeth's Teares; or Herresolute bearing the Christian Crosse, &c. 4to.1607 |*
Linche, Richard.
The Fountaine of Ancient Fiction.Wherein is lively depictured the Images andStatues of the Gods of the Ancients, &c. Doneout of Italian into English. Verse and Prose.4to.[691:A]1599*|
Lisle, William.
Babilon, a part of the seconde weeke ofGuillaume de Saluste Seigneur du Bartas, withthe Commentarie, and marginall notes ofS. G. S.1596 |**
The Colonyes of Bartas, with the commentarye of S. G. S.[691:B]1597 |**
Lloyd, Lodowick.
The Pilgrimage of Queenes.[691:C]1573 |*
Hilaria: or the triumphant feast for the fift of August.1607 |*
Lok, Henry.
The Booke of Ecclesiastes; and SundryChristian Passions, contayned in two hundredSonnets. 4to.[692:A]1597 |***
Lovell, Thomas.
A Dialogue between Custome and Veritie,concerning the use and abuse of dauncing andminstrelsie. 8vo.1581
Marbeck, John.
The Holie Historie of King David.4to.1579
Markham, Gervase.
The Poem of Poems, or Sion's Muse,contayning the divine song of king Saloman,devided into eight eclogues. 8vo.1595 |
The Most Honorable Tragedy of Sir Richard Grenvill knight; a heroick poem. 8vo.1595 |
"Devoreux. Vertues Tears for the losse of the most Christian King Henry, third of that name, king of Fraunce; and the untimely death of the most noble and heroicall gentleman, Walter Devoreux." From the French of Madam Geneuuesne Petau Maulette. 4to.1597*|
The Tears of the Beloved, or the Lamentation of St. John, containing the death and passion of Christ. 4to.1600 |
Marie Magdalens Lamentations for the losse of her Master Jesus. 4to.[692:B]1601 |
Ariosto's Satyres. 4to.[692:C]1608
The Famous Whore, or Noble Curtizan, conteining the lamentable complaint of Paulina, the famous Roman curtezan, sometimes Mrs. unto the great cardinall Hypolito, of Est. 4to.1609 |
Maxwell, James.
The Laudable Life, and DeplorableDeath, of our late peerlesse Prince Henry, &c.4to.1612 |*
Middleton, Christopher.
The Historie of Heaven, containingthe poetical fictions of all the starres inthe firmament. 4to.1596
The Legend of Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, 4to.1600
Middleton, Thomas.
The Wisdome of Solomon paraphrased,4to.1597
Montgomery, Alexander.
The Cherrie and the Slae, Edin.4to.[693:A]1595**|
Muncaster, Richard.
Nœnia Consolans, or a comfortingcomplaint. Latin and English. 4to.1603 |*
Munday, Anthony.
The Mirrour of Mutabilitie. Selectedout of the sacred Scriptures. 4to.1579 |*
The Pain of Pleasure. 4to.1580 |*
The Fountayne of Fame. 4to.1580 |*
The Sweet Sobbes and Amorous Complaints of Sheppardes and Nymphes.1583 |*
Munday's Strangest Adventure that ever happened. 4to.1601 |*
Murray, David.
"The Tragicall Death of Sophonisba;"in seven line stanzas, to which is added Cœlia:containing certaine Sonets. 12mo.[694:A]1611*|
Newton, Thomas.
Atropoion Delion: or the Death ofDelia, with the teares of her funerall. 4to.1603 |
A Pleasant New History: or, a fragrant posie made of three flowers, rosa, rosalynd, and rosemary.[694:B]1604 |
Nicholson, Samuel.
Acolastus, his after witte. 4to.1600
Nixon, Anthony.
The Christian Navy, wherein is playnelydescribed the perfect course to sayle to thehaven of happiness. 4to.1602
Norden, John.
The Storehouse of Varieties, an elegiacallpoeme. 4to.1601 |
A Pensive Soules Delight. 4to.1603
The Labyrinth of Mans Life, or Vertues Delyght, and Envie's Opposite.[694:C] 4to.1614 |*
Overbury, Sir Thomas.
A Wife: now the Widdow of SirThomas Overburye: being a most exquisiteand singular poem of the Choise of a Wife.4to. 4th edition.[694:D]1614*|
Parkes, William.
The Curtaine-Drawer of the World:or, the Chamberlaine of that great Inne ofIniquity, &c. 4to.[695:A]1612*|
Parrot, Henry.
The Mouse Trap. Consisting of 100Epigrams. 4to.1606 |
The More the Merrier: containing three-score and odde headlesse epigrams, &c. 4to.1608 |
"Epigrams." Containing 160. 4to.1608 |
Laquei Ridiculosi: or Springes for Woodcoks. In 2 books. 12mo.[695:B]1613 |
Partridge, John.
The Most Famouse and Worthie Historieof the worthy Lady Pandavola, &c. 8vo.1566
The Worthye Historie of the most noble and valiaunt knight Plasidas, &c. 8vo.1566
The Notable Historie of two famous princes Astianax and Polixona. 8vo.1566
Payne, Christopher.
Christenmas-Carrolles1569
Peacham, Henry.
Minerva Britanna, or a Garden of HeroicalDevises. 4to.1612*|
Peele, George.
A Farewell, entituled to the famous andfortunate generalls of our English forces: SirJohn Norris and Syr Francis Drake, knights,&c. Whereunto is annexed a tale of Troy.4to.1589 |*
Polyhymnia describing the honourable triumphs at tylt, before her Majestie, &c. 4to.1590 |*
The Honour of the Garter: displaced in a poeme gratulatorie, &c. 4to.[696:A]1593 |*
Peend, Thomas De la.
The Pleasant Fable of Hermaphroditusand Salmacis. 8vo.1565 |*
The Historie of John Lord Mandozze. From the Spanish. 12mo.[696:B]1565 |*
Percy, William.
Sonnets to the fairest Cælia. 4to.1594 |**
Petowe, Henry.
The Second Part of the Loves of Heroand Leander, &c. 4to.1598 |*
Philochasander and Elanira the faire Lady of Britaine, &c. 4to.[696:C]1599 |*
Elizabetha quasi vivans, Elizas funerall, &c. 4to.1603
The Whipping of Runawaies.1603
Pett, Peter.
Times Journey to seek his Daughter Truth,and Truths letter to Fame, of England'sexcellencie. 4to.1599
Phillip, John.
A Rare and Strange Historicall Novell ofCleomenes and Sophonisba, surnamed Juliet;very pleasant to reade. 8vo.1577
A Commemoration of the Right Noble and Vertuous Ladye Margrit Duglases Good Grace, Countes of Lennox, &c.[696:D]1578 |*
Phiston, William.
A Lamentacion of Englande, for theRight Reverent Father in God, John Ivele,Doctor of Divinitie: and Bisshop of Sarisburie.8vo.[697:A]1571 |*
The Welspring of Wittie Conceights, 4to.[697:B]1584 |*
Plat, Hugh.
The Floures of Philosophie, with the Pleasuresof Poetrie annexed to them, &c. 8vo.[697:C]1572 |*
Powell, Thomas.
The Passionate Poet, with a descriptionof the Thracian Ismarus, in verse. 4to.1601
Preston, Thomas.
A Geliflower or swete marygolde, whereinthe frutes of teranny you may beholde.1569 |*
Pricket, Robert.
A Souldier's Wish unto his SovereignLord, King James. 4to.1603 |*
Proctor, Thomas.
Pretie Pamphlets. 4to.[697:D]1578*|
Puttenham, George.
Partheniades.[697:E]1579 |*
Ramsey, Laurence.
Ramsie's Farewell to his late lord andmaster therle of Leicester1588
Rankins, William.
Seven Satyres, &c.1596
Raynolds, John.
Dolarny's Primerose; or the first part ofthe Passionate Hermit, &c. Written by aPractitioner in Poesie and a stranger amongstPoets. 4to.[698:A]1606*|
Rice, Richard.
An Invective against vices taken for vertue:gathered out of the Scriptures, &c. 8vo.1581
Robinson, Richard.
The Rewarde of Wickednesse, discoursingthe sundrye monstrous abuses ofwicked and ungodly Worldelings, &c. 4to.1574 |**
A Dyall of Dayly Contemplacion, or divine Exercise of the Mind, &c. Verse and Prose.[698:B]1578 |**
Rolland, John.
Ane Treatise callit the Court of Venus,devidit into four Buikes. Edin. 4to.1575
The Sevin Seages, translatit out of Prois into Scottis meiter. Edin. 4to.[698:C]1578 |
Rosse, J.
The Author's Teares upon the death of hishonorable freende Sir William Sackvile knightof the ordre de la Colade in Fraunce: sonne

to the right ho. the lorde Buckhurst AnnoDni.[699:A]		1592*|
Rous, Francis.
Thule, or Vertues Historie. In two books.The first booke 4to.1598
Rowland, Samuel.
1. The Betraying of Christ, &c. 4to.1598
2. The Famous History of Guy Earle of Warwicke. 4to.
3. The Letting of Humours Blood in the head-vaine: &c. 4to.[699:B]1600
4. Looke to it for ile stabbe ye. 4to.1604
5. Democritus.1607
6. Humors Looking-Glasse. 8vo.1608
7. Hell Broke Loose, &c. 4to.
8. Doctor Merrieman, or nothing but mirth. 4to.1609
9. Martin Markal, beadle of Bridewell. 4to.1610
10. The Knave of Clubs, or 'tis merrie when Knaves meet. 4to.1611
11. The Knave of Hearts. 4to.[699:C]
12. More Knaves Yet; the Knaves of Spades and Diamonds. 4to.[699:D]1613
13. The Melancholie Knight. 4to.[699:E]1615
14. Tis Merrie when Gossips Meet; newly enlarged, with divers songs. 4to.[700:A] *|
Sabie, Francis.
Pan his Pipe: conteyning three pastorallEglogues in Englyshe hexameter; with otherdelightfull verses. 4to.1595*|
The Fissher-mans Tale: of the famous Actes, Life and love of Cassander a Grecian Knight. 4to.1595 |
Floras Fortune. The second part and finishing of the Fisherman's Tale, &c.[700:B]1595 |
Saker, Aug.
The Labirinth of Liberty.1579
Sampson, Thomas.
Fortune's Fashion, Pourtrayed in thetroubles of the Ladie Elizabeth Gray, wife toEdward the Fourth. 4to.1613 |*
Sandford, James.
Certayne Poems dedicated to the queenesmoste excellent majestie. 8vo.[700:C]1576
Scoloker, Anthony.
Daiphantus, or the Passions of Love,4to.1604
Scot, Gregory.
A Briefe Treatise agaynst certaine errorsof the Romish Church. 12mo.1570
Scott, Thomas.
Four Paradoxes: of Arte, of Lawe, ofWarre, of Service. Small 8vo.[700:D]1602**|
Scott, Thomas.
Phylomythie, or Philomythologie: whereinOutlandish Birds, Beasts, and Fishes, aretaught to speake true English plainely.[701:A]1616 |*
Smith, Jud.
A Misticall Devise of the spirituall and godlylove between Christ the spouse, and the Churchor congregation. Firste made by the wiseprince Salomon, and now newly set forth inVerse, &c. Small 8vo.1575 |**
Smith, William.
Chloris, or the complaint of the passionatedespised shepheard. 4to.1596
Soothern, John.
Pandora, the Musique of the Beautie ofhis Mistresse Diana. 4to.[701:B]1584 |*****
Stanyhurst, Richard.
The First Four Bookes of Virgil'sÆneis, translated into English heroicall verseby Richard Stanyhurst: with other poeticalldevises thereto annexed. 4to.[701:C]1583 |******
Storer, Thomas.
The Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey,cardinall, divided into three parts: his aspiring,triumph, and death. 4to.[702:A]1599*|
Stubbs, Philip.
A View of Vanitie, and Allarum to England,or retrait from sinne. 8vo.1582 |*
Stewart, James the First, King of England.
The Essayesof a Prentise in the Divine Art of Poesie. 4to.Edin.[702:B]1584 |*
His Majesties Poeticall Exercises at Vacant Houres. 4to. Edin.[702:C]1591 |*
Tarlton, Richard.
Toyes: in Verse.1576
Tragicall Treatises, conteyninge sundrie discourses and pretie conceipts, bothe in prose and verse.1577
Tarlton's Repentance, or his farewell to his frendes in his sickness, a little before his deathe.[702:D]1589
Taylor, John.
Heaven's Blessing and Earth's Joy, &c. onthe marriage of Frederick Count Palatine, andthe Princess Elizabeth; including Epithalamia,&c.1613 |**
The Nipping or Snipping of Abuses, or the Wool-gathering of Wit.[703:A]1614 |**
Tofte, Roberte.
Two Tales translated out of Ariosto,&c. With certaine other Italian stanzas andproverbes. 4to.1597 |*
Laura. The toyes of a traveller; or the feast of fancie, divided into 3 parts. 4to.1597
Orlando Inamorato. The three first bookes, &c. Done into English heroicall verse. 4to.1598
Alba, the month's minde of a melancholy lover. 8vo.1598
Honours Academy, or the famous pastorall of the faire shepherdesse Julietta. Verse and prose. Folio.1610 |
The Fruits of Jealousie. Contayning the disastrous Chance of two English Lovers, overthrowne through meere Conceit of Jealousie. 4to.[703:B]1615 |**
Treego, William.
A Daintie Nosegay of divers smelles,containing many pretie ditties to diverse effects.1577
Tudor, Elizabeth, Queen of England.
Two Little Anthemes,or things in meeter of hir majestie.[704:A]1578 |*
Turner, Richard.
Nosce Te (Humors.)[704:B]1607
Twyne, Thomas.
The whole xij Bookes of the Œneidos ofVirgill. Whereof the first ix. and part of thetenth, were converted into English meeter byThomas Phaër esquier, and the residue supplied,and the whole worke together newly setforth, by Thomas Twyne gentleman. 4to.1573 |*
Tye, Christopher.
A Notable Historye of Nastagio andTraversari, no less pitiefull than pleasaunt,translated out of Italian into English. 12mo.1569
Underdowne, Thomas.
Ovid his Invective against Ibis.8vo.1569*|
The Excellent Historye of Theseus and Ariadne, &c. Written in English Meeter. 8vo.1566*|
Vallans, William.
A Tale of Two Swannes, &c. 4to.1590
Vennard, Richard.
"The Miracle of Nature," and otherpoems. 4to.[705:A]1601
Verstegan, Richard.
Odes: in imitation of the SeavenPenitential Psalms. With sundry other poemesand Ditties, tending to devotion and pietie.8vo.1601 |*
Warren, William.
A Pleasant New Fancie, of a fondling'sdevice, intituled and cald, The nurcerieof names, &c. 4to.1581
Webbe, William.
The First and Second Eclogues of Virgil.In English hexameters, and printed in his"Discourse of English Poetrie."1586 |*
Webster, William.
The Moste Pleasant and DelightfulHistorie of Curan, a prince of Danske, and thefayre princesse Argentill, &c. 4to.[705:B] |*
Wedderburn.
Ane Compendious Booke of Godly and SpirituallSongs, collectit out of sundrie partes ofthe Scripture, with sundrie of other Ballateschanged out of Prophane Sanges, for avoydingof Sinne and Harlotrie. 12mo. Edin.[705:C]1597 |*
Weever, John.
A Little Book of Epigrams. 8vo.1599
The Mirror of Martyrs, or the life and death of that thrice valiant capitaine and most godly martyre, Sir John Oldcastle knight, lord Cobham. 18mo.1601
Wenman, Thomas,
The Legend of Mary, Queen of Scots,with other Poems.[706:A]1601 |
Wharton, John.
Wharton's Dreame: conteyninge an invectiveagaynst certaine abhominable caterpillars,&c. 4to.1578
Whetstone, George.
The Rocke of Regard: divided intofoure parts. The first, the Castle of Delight,&c. The second, the Garden of Unthriftinesse,&c. The thirde, the Arbour of Virtue, &c.;and the fourth, the Orchard of Repentance,4to.[706:B]1576 |*
A Report of the Vertues of the right valiant and worthy knight S. Frauncis, Lord Russell, 4to.[706:C]1585 |*
Whitney, Geoffrey.
A Choice of Emblemes, and otherdevises. 4to.1586 |*
Fables or Epigrams. 4to.[706:D]1586
Wilkinson, Edward.
Isahac's Inheritance; dew to ovrhigh and mightie Prince, James the sixt ofScotland, &c. 4to.1603 |*
Willet, Andrew.
Sacrorum Emblematum centura una, inLatin and English verse. 4to.[706:E]
Willymat, William.
A Princes Looking Glasse, or aPrinces Direction, &c. 4to.1603 |*
Wyrley, William.
Lord Chandos. The glorious life andhonourable death of Sir John Chandos, &c.4to.1592 |**
Capitall de Buz. The honourable life and languishing death of Sir John de Gralhy Capitall de Buz. 4to.[707:A]1592 |**
Yates, James.
The Castell of Courtesie, whereunto isadjoyned The Holde of Humilitie; with theChariot of Chastitie thereunto annexed. Alsoa Dialogue betweene Age and Youth; andother matters herein conteined. 4to.[707:B]1582 |*
Yong, Bartholomew.
Diana of George of Montemayer.Translated out of Spanish into English. Proseand Verse. Folio.[707:C]1598*|
Zouche, Richard.
The Dove, or Passages of Cosmography,by Richard Zouche, Civilian of NewCollege, in Oxford.[707:D]1613 |

Several articles in this table, it will be observed, are without any mark designating their merit in the scale, a defalcation which has occurred from our not having been able to procure either the works themselves, or even specimens of them, a circumstance not exciting wonder, if we consider the extreme rarity of the greater part of the pieces which form the catalogue.

Another result which may immediately strike the reader will be, that of one hundred and ninety-three poets included in this list, so few should have risen even one degree above mediocrity, and so many should have fallen below it; but it should be recollected that the nobler bards, amounting to forty, had been previously enumerated, and that poetic excellence is, at all times, of very rare attainment.

The most legitimate subject of admiration, indeed, arising from a review of these details, is the extraordinary fecundity of the Shakspearean era; that in the course of fifty-two years, and independent of any consideration of dramatic effort, or of the various contributors to collections of poetry, nearly two hundred and thirty-three bards in the miscellaneous department should have been produced: and these, not the writers of scattered or insulated verses, but the publishers of their own collected works.

A still more heightened conception of the fertility of the period will accrue from a survey of its numerous Poetical Miscellanies, a species of publication which constitutes a remarkable feature of the age.

Before the reign of Elizabeth, only one production of the kind had made its appearance, namely, the Collection, called by Tottel "The Poems of Uncertaine Auctors," and appended to his edition of Surrey and Wyat in 1557. But, during the first year after the accession of our maiden queen, appeared the Mirrour for Magistrates, a quarto volume containing nineteen legends or characters drawn from English history. The plan originated with Sackville, who, not finding leisure to write more than an Induction and the Legend of Henry Duke of Buckingham, transferred the completion of the work to Richard Baldwyne and George Ferrers, who were further assisted in its prosecution by Churchyard, Phayer, Skelton, Dolman, Seagers, and Cavyl. A second edition, of what may be termed Baldwyne's Mirrour, was printed in 1563, with the addition of eight legends; a third issued from the press in 1571, and a fourth in 1575. With the exception of Sackville's two pieces, on which an eulogium has already been given,

mediocrity may be said to characterise the productions of Baldwyne and his associates.

In the same year which produced the fourth edition of Baldwyne's Collection, a new series of Legends was published in 4to. by John Higgins, which, commencing at an earlier period than his predecessor's work, he entitled "The firste Part of the Mirour for Magistrates." This portion commences, after an Induction, with the legend of King Albanact, the youngest son of Brutus, and terminates with that of Lord Irenglas, "slayne about the yeere before Christ;" including seventeen histories, the sole composition of Higgins. It was reprinted, with little or no alteration, in 1578, and occasioned Baldwyne's prior publication to be called "The Last Part."

The year 1578, however, not only produced this second impression of Higgins's Mirrour, but witnessed a fifth and separate edition of Baldwyne's labours, with the addition of two legends, and an intermediate part written by Thomas Blener-Hasset, containing twelve stories, and entitled "The Seconde part of the Mirrour of Magistrates, conteining the falles of the infortunate Princes of this Lande: from the Conquest of Cæsar unto the commyng of Duke William the Conquerer," 4to.