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An English Garner

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Accept in gree 273

After that Harflete 20

A gallant Master 401

A gallant Whistle 121

A gallant Youth 399

A gentle tame 326

A' [=Ah] LICIA sigh! 449

"A King I was 466

Alas, wilt thou 242

All that this earth 556

All youthful wights 32

Also I find that 230

A Lucrece for 232

A maiden 360

Am I a Gorgon? 179

Amongst the 311

And, after many 404

And arm in arm 408

And as there 547

And by these 560

And cast me into 33

And cheerfully 546

And diversely 530

And ere her 402

And fain I would 401

And feeds him 536

"And for myself 549

"And if they crown 470

And if ye list to 558

And if you cannot 229

And in her heart 400

And in my choice 533

And in regions 547

"And I a Whistle 121

"'And I protest' 471

"And I," quoth he 404

And I, who was 238

"And me, not long ago 123

And now, "Farewell!" 234

And now he pries 238

And now to take 399

And raised my 415

And since doomed 535

And since the Feast 557

And since the fish 238

And taking many 548

And that great 562

And the ambitious 547

And this whereso 229

And Thou, the Genius 174

And though the 273

And thus I end 36

And thyself such 241

And turning to 549

And unto me 231

"And wantonly 535

And what's 544

And when he to our 19

And when they 409

And when you 233

And whether Nature 415

And why not I? 529

"An English Friar 407

An ocean Sea of 315

A painter drew 429

Apollo and the 529

Are those two stars? 446

As are the sands 433

As Britons that 531

As burnished 289

As by Eneas, first 230

As close as you 229

As duty wills 240

As his prisoner 200

As rocks become, 300

As sacrifice 335

A she there was 462

As those 530

"A tempest 122

A wise man poor 108

Beauty is like 362

Behold the 399

Being likewise 185

Believe it, he 552

Between [South]hampton 16

Beware of fair and 234

"Blest be the land 404

"Blest be the time 201

"Blood and Revenge 474

Bold are her (bis) 459

Both gems, and 312

Bright matchless 424

Bring forth your 557

Britans, you stay 546

But, all in vain 233

"But as the wolf 468

But, at last, there 200

But did declare 407

But ere the 402

But heaven shall 464

But heavens 463

But here, good 35

But how shall we 555

But if his falsehood 231

But if I cannot 232

But if I seem as yet 127

But if that every 32

But if that thou 35

But I'll not 560

But let that pass 233

But let the Poets 133

But like Leander 237

But, lo, in happy 553

"But most of all 405

But now, alas 405

But now let Venus 35

But now the harvest 33

But now what 242

But of thy 238

But of thy heart 198

But Plaints and 463

But rather than 232

But She, good Sir! 559

But sith thy 238

But such as I can 234

But 'tis dissolved 555

But wavering 243

"But well I know 126

But when the 408

But will ye not 235

By her a kiss 462

Can plighted 240

Can they that sit 240

Cease eyes to weep 180

Changed is my 291

Clip me no more 561

"Clusters of 468

Cold are her lips 459

Colin, I know that 199

Colin, my dear and 173

Come forth, fair 127

Come, my Love 359

"Commend me to that 202

Condemned he was 405

Conflicts as 543

Consider these 243

Courteous Calliope 175

Courteous Lady 202

Coventry that 561

Cruel fair Love 446

Cupid's Posies 366

Dear City! 563

Death, in a rage 428

Diana shineth 288

Die, die, my Hopes 196

Distance of 462

Do not too 363

Doris, I love not 454

Down from the 278

Down in a bed 461

"Do you resolve 464

Drawn, cunning 302

Each beast in 193

Each frown of 364

"Each little bird 553

Ease by Disease 56

Elstred I pity 466

Eunica scorned 137

Even as the lamp 293

"Fair Bridegroom 134

Fair Bristow 400

Fairfax the 611

"Fair Maid," quoth 402

Fair Maids, my 366

Fair matchless 443

Fair Maudlin 400

Fair Shepherdess 195

Fair stood the 548

Fairest, wear 365

Far better had 292

Farewell! Adieu! 243

"Farewell," quoth 399

Far more's my 317

Fearing of harm 542

Feed, silly sheep! 176

First did I fear 434

"For certainty it 555

"For ere I will 407

For every great gun 17

For God's sake 560

For he always did 237

For help the 19

For I, by suit 32

For if alone 445

For, lo, my careful 33

"For, look, what 408

For only Thee 274

For she that 232

For to behold my 286

For they be such 529

For they, for 231

For trial shall 235

For we, her peers 135

For when he, by 230

"Fortune and I 466

Fortune, cross 275

Frequent not 35

From milk of 304

"Gallant Captain 200

Give her th' Eoan 532

Give warmth to 173

Glad was her 460

Gloucester that Duke 551

"'GOD bless thee' 472

GOD that all this 14

Gold upon gold 331

Good folk, for 560

"Grammercy, Sirs! 15

"Grant, fairest 432

Grant me my 407

Grant me, thy 406

Great Janus, I 532

Great ordnance 15

Great sickness 20

Great semptuous 317

Great was the 277

Had she been 562

Half this is of 555

Hard are the 428

Hark, Lovers! 300

Hear how my Sighs 442

He ne'er seemed 612

Henry the Sixth 467

Her bosom full 533

Her canopy I'll 553

"Here is no place 407

Her father, he 409

Her gentle 409

Her loved I 558

Her Master 407

Her mother takes 403

Hero did try 236

He sighs, and sobs 405

He shipped there 23

He thinks his hap 237

"He then replied 470

He took his ship 230

How did my Heart 556

How doth fair 405

How durst he 231

How should'st thou 201

"How well were I 405

"I and the Council 472

"I called the 471

Idea, in which 562

I doubtless cannot 34

I grant an honour 454

I had the vow 559

"I have a brother 401, 406

"I have neither 201

I have no Love 456

If, aged Charon 445

If April fresh 302

If case such hap 240

If cruel, thou 327

If every woman 35

If he be dead in 447

"If his shafts 535

If in the midst 285

If I, poor wretch 34

If I somewhile 297

If Laura, thou 279

If lovely Lass 282

If love, wherein 313

If poor thou art 108

If sad Complaint 463

If scalding 337

If Scylla had not 235

If Sea, no other 283

If that I die, fair 449

If those, by hope 464

If thou art cold 321

If thou intend'st 365

If thus we needs 555

If what is heavy 299

If whilom, in times 298

If white's the 293

If you so would 229

I live, sweet Love 437

"I'll pawn a calf 120

"I'll pawn no lamb 120

"I might have died 435

I never spent one 34

I paid for love 35

I pray the leave! 561

I rather wish 232

I saw, sweet Licia 448

I send you here 363

I sowed both pure 33

I speak, fair Licia 442

I stood amazed 432

I swear, fair 433

I that Cupid 354

"I then began to 126

I think King 231

I thrust my hand 34

"I will both see 120

"I will spend my 202

I will, yea, and 529

I wish sometimes 430

I wrote my sighs 440

Immortal fame to 131

Inamoured Jove 431

In Ida Vale 430

In kenning of 547

In King Antiochus 130

In Love his 322

In places far, or 541

In silver stream 324

In Sparta, long 134

In such a height 556

In tears she 400

In the Egean 276

In time the 438

Into a pleasant 401

Into despair it 34

"Into the land 400

In vasty sea 338

It came to me 555

It cannot two 555

It is a pity you 361

It shall suffice 232

It told me, "In 555

"It would be a 201

Jason, that came 230

Joy of my soul! My 324

Justly of thee 288

King Nisus had a 236

Lady, the sun 284

Lady, thou 290

Lady, what time 299

Laura is fair and 329

"Leave me not 201

Leave off, sweet 455

Lest for a heart 360

Let Theseus be! 231

"Let us conspire 464

"Let's laugh at 554

Let your Jests fly 557

Licia, my Love 435

Like Memnon's 448

Like to the blacksome 276

Like to the shipman 192

Little fish, what 237

"London's Lord 473

Long since the 540

Loose humour nor 537

Lo, thus our 23

Loud are my sighs 458

Love and my Love 426

Love, being blind 279

Love, I repent me 451

Love is like a 358

Love, ope my 311

"Love this fair 332

Love was laid 429

Love, with her hair 427

Madam, two hearts 555

Madmen, what gain 130

"Maidens, why 534

Marvel I do not, 297

"Maudlin", quoth 406

Meet are my 458

Messengers went 18

Most good, most 538

Mother, your 353

Mournful Amyntas 182

Muse, bid the Morn 553

My brother (bis) 467

My brother Clarence 17

My brother died 468

My Debtor hath 33

"My father 467

My fixed faith 191

My grief began 444

My lips I'll 553

My Laura wonders 305

"My Lord," she said 470

My Love, amazed 427

My Love, I cannot 184

My Love lay 431

My Love was 436

My Mistress 332

"My Mistress 334

My mourning 301

"My thoughts 463, 468

Nay, just are they 241

Nay, then I see 454

"Nay," then said our 15

Never, I think, had 556

New is my love 457

Non convitia 415

None dares now 333

None stands so 559

No art nor force 105

No gifts, no gold 241

No man can be so 537

No more a man, as 294

No more I, for 552

No, No; not so, for 241

No pain like this 464

No sooner do I 308

No sooner had fair 178

No sooner Laura 323

Nor adamant 534

Nor bravery doth 537

Nor is he foul 454

Nor is't the Verse 531

"Nor Pelops' kingdom 122

Nor speak I now 474

Nor think the 317

"Nor weep I now 466

Not I, but many 34

"Not long this 469

Not vouching 243

"Now as the sea 473

"Now in the Spring 534

Now may you hear 231

"Now two there were 473

Now were their 408

"Now will I walk 404

"O Cyclops! 128

"O Daphnis, what a 123

"O fair, O lovely 135

O fairest Fair, to 186

O Faith, think not 241

"O Galatea fair 126

"O happy Bridegroom 135

"O how happy is 202

"O husband of the 122

O Jupiter, and thou 132

O Love leave off 188

O Nicias, there is 125

O rapture great 533

O should a 243

"O Sir," she said 405

"O Sir," the gentle 408

O sugared talk! 450

O that I were sly 309

O thou self-little 533

O what a wound 193

O wretched 545

O yes! O yes! 560

Of all that living 130

Of constant love, I 305

Of the Siege of 24

Of thy streets 562

Old King Cole 633-636

On quicksedge 330

"On the seas are 202

"One kiss in two 554

One lovely 307

Or him that Rome 531

Or if Demophoon's 236

Or if she had 235

Or if strewed 542

Or if such 236

Or if the deeds 557

Or if you mind 228

Or made posies 542

Our King fully 16

Our King himself 20

Our King landed 17

Our King rode forth 21

Our King sent into 14

Our King went up 22

Ovid, within his 235

Painter, in lively 325

Pale are my looks 441

Pardened of 320

Perchance, my words 228

Perchance, ye 232

Phœbus had once 323

Poets did feign 444

Poets have still 129

Poitiers and 549

"Possessed with 469

Priests of Apollo 556

Proud is her (bis) 458

Rankle the wound 285

Remember thou the 242

"Rest you still 201

Revoke and call 242

Rich Damask 315

Rich is the 306

Rich statue 532

"Rivers and Grey 469

Rivers unto the 313

"Rivers was wise 469

Rocked in a cradle 283

"Rosamond was fair 465

Sad, all alone, not 425

"Sad Muse! set down 467

Sad was her joy (bis) 460

St. George was seen 22

Say, Cupid, since 330

"Say, gentle friend 309

Scorn not my 456

Seated on marble 294

Seven are the 437

She did her duty 406

She falls upon 401

She feigned a 461

She hath no 559

She kindly takes 401

She scrat[ched] 237

She walks under 405

Shoot forth no 298

Shore's Wife, a 465

Should faith to 240

Should hate his guerdon 240

Should I envy 455

Show me no more 561

Si cœlum patria 416

S' impossibly I 539

Since then among 124

Since thou hast 291

Sing Hymns to 558

Sing me the Rose! 541

"Sith you repose 401

Small was her (bis) 459

Smile not, fair 453

Some in their 189

Some shipboys' 402

Some use the 234

"So did I live 474

So his, which 530

So, Lady, boldly 295

So, Lady, I finding 339

So shall the 230

So that I silly 33

So then was Daphnis 124

Soowthern, I long 531

Strange is this 335

Such is the 314

Sweet are my 457, 458

Sweet Bride, good 136

Sweetheart, my 361

Sweet, I protest 443

"Sweet Laura 327

"Sweet, love me 462

Sweet sang thy 292

"Sweet Youth," 403

Take heed, for thou 36

Take thou not 36

Tall was her 460

"Telling what he 535

Tell me, my dear, 180

Thanked be Jesu! 19

Thanks, gentle 404

That by the 530

That crimson 319

That day wherein 194

That divided 542

That early 537

That have a sore 32

That I myself 545

That instrument 530

That ivory hand 328

That most 542

That Princess, to 562

That spray to 533

That time, fair 434

That whilst she 545

The beast thus 140

The beauty, that 280

The bird of Thrace 192

"The Bishop came 470

"The Bishop home 471

The Blazing Star 310

The blood of fair 314

The Card'nal went 471

The Crow makes 310

The cruel Nero 321

The crystal 438

The Druids 530

The Duke of York 549

The dusky cloud 304

"The elder son 469

The flaming torch 320

The freedom of 539

The Frenchmen threw 21

The Gentiles used 286

The golden 326

The great guns 20

The Grecians 307

The hapless 337

The heavens 316, 426

The heavens begin 331

The heavens yet 132

The Hound, by 184

Th' immortal 316

The Irish I 531

The King at 15

The King to 16

"The Laws do 472

"The lion 468

The little fish 237

The Macedonian 295

The matter of 228

The Merchant 402

The Muse should 543

The night drew 461

The night is 400

The Normands 18

Th' old British 552

The old man 563

The perils which 183

The Phœnix fair 186

The Phocean it 529

The price that I 35

The Primrose 543

"The Queen was 472

The raging sea 190

The red, or white 542

The Ryme nor mars 543

The Sea Nymphs 453

The ship full 558

The silly 464

The snakes 328

The snow-white 329

"The sparrow 554

"The Stage is set 465

The stately lion 194

The stranger, that 236

The swift 281

The toiling 464

The wildest of 530

The World's a City 108

The young man 399

Their course 16

Then as the sun 295

"Then as the wolf 473

"Then, at the 473

Then bethought 14

Then blew the 22

Then cast she 406

Then doubt me not 274

Then gives she 402

Then hadst thou 238

Then more 470

Then said our 19

"Then send me 463

Then she, who 236

Then should my 463

"Then stay, sweet 461

Then though a 339

"Then wilt thou 120

There are no 34

"There both the 122

Therefore boast 559

Therefore buy 228

There shone a 447

Thereto I wish 233

These are no 241

These bracelets 362

These Lyric 552

These waves no 190

These weeping 182

These words I 233

They now to fight 550

They see thy conscience 241

Things of most 364

This done, as they 402

This from the 613

This girdle 363

This heart so 534

This little 363

This modest she 462

This scarf will 361

This Scylla stole 236

This while we are 540

This while our 550

Those ceaseless 532

Those grim and 541

Those parallels 533

Thou didst 237

Thou glorious Sun 196

Thou, merry 290

Thou stranger 282

Though I do part 275

Though in the 540

Though pale my 455

Though they 187

Though we be all 531

Though you be 188

Through his 612

Through thee, not 273

"Thus Farewell, 202

"Thus have I told 474

Thus is the 317

Thus of all as 24

Thus of this 23

Thus Polyphemus 128

Thus sang these 122

Thus still You 539

Thus, through 403

Thus to the sea 403

"Thus tyrant 471

Thy ancient 532

Thy beauty 175

Thy friend in 244

Thy Love, fair 453

Thy Voyages 548

Till to that 556

TIMANTES, when he 339

"Time-tyrant Fate 466

"'Tis ever Spring 122

To give that life 278

To hear this talk 456

To him deserving 537

To raise his mean 536

To those that 531

"To Vulcan 535

To whose, the 547

To you, I speak! 234

Tread you the 460

True are my (bis) 457

Trust not a man 235

Turned to a stone 277

Two winds, one 308

Unbare that 333

Under this 611

Unto an Image 312

Unto the fountain 179

Unto thy favour 289

Upon Saint 551

Upon this sinful 536

Upon triumphant 280

Warwick in blood 551

Weary was Love 425

"Welcome, sweet 404

Well it thine age 550

Were it cemented 555

Wer't granted me 539

What cruel star 189

"What if we call 121

What lack you? 228

What need I mourn? 178

What now is 559

What should I 360

"What then? What 120

"What therefore shall 120

What though 541

What time fair 181

What time, with 284

When all the 613

When as her lute 439

When as I wish 441

When as my Licia 439

When as my Love 436

When as the 547

When Chloris first 198

When down their 550

When first the 303, 450

When first the sun 303

When GOD made all 108

When he had read 407

When I did part from 301

When I did part, my 338

When I more large 197

When I, of my 336

When M. heard her 406

When no 408

When she had 408

When She was 322

When she was born 197

When Venus first 139

When you appear 287

Where be the Graces? 557

Whereby I see that 33

Wherefore I pray 233

Where Nature hath 546

Which, in his 548

Which heart I let 32

Which I pour forth 183

Which life, I pray 233

Which, six long 242

Which unto gods 242

"Which we have 55

Which vow gave 242

Whilst angry Juno 281

Whilst foaming 306

Whilst this 545

"Whistler Menalcas 120

White art thou 334

White was the 287

Who do not know 187

Who joys in love? 319

Who would a [have] 243

Whole showers of 176

Whom promise 536

Whom the base 537

Whose constancy 537

Whose constantness 229

Whose heart hath 243

Whose trade if 230

Why have ye such 235

Will you hear a 200

"Wilt thou in singing 120

With gold and 325

With lovely 119

With patience 191

With Spanish yew 550

With that bespake 403

With thousand 336

With trickling 400

"Wolf, spare my 123

"Ye groves and 121

"Ye pleasant 121

"Ye Shepherds tell 136

Ye Virgins, that 234

Ye wasteful 185

Years, months 440

Yet do I hope 339

Yet, if I be 534

Yet if thou chance 36

Yet (if you shall 205

Yet in a fine 536

Yet many rivers 541

"'Yet take my son 472

Yet these me not 545

Yet this Critic 545

Yet will you 540

You brave heroic 546

You Fauns and 177

You know I 229

You lofty Pines 177

You that embrace 199

You whom the 174

You whose deep wits 174

Your course 546

Yours was so 556

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