AN ENGLISH GARNER INGATHERINGS FROM OUR HISTORY AND LITERATURE BY EDWARD ARBER, F.S.A. '_Yea, history hath triumphed over time--which besides it, nothing but eternity hath triumphed over._' SIR W. RALEIGH, Hist. of the World. '_Airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers._' J. MILTON, Areopagitica. ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. 2 WHITEHALL GARDENS, WESTMINSTER MDCCCXCVII Contents of the Eighth Volume. PAGE JOHN LYDGATE. _The Siege of Harfleur and the Battle of Agincourt._ (1415.) [Printed c. 1530.] 13 JOHN FOX. _How the Lord CROMWELL helped Archbishop Cranmer's Secretary._ (July 1539.) 25 JOHN PROCTOR. _The History of Sir THOMAS WYAT's Rebellion._ (Jan.-Feb. 1544.) [Printed Jan. 1555.] 37 ---- _The True Report of the burning of the Steeple and Church of Paul's in London._ (4 June 1561.) 109 R. W[ITC]. _Against the wilful inconstancy of his dear foe E. T._ (? 1566.) 32 IS. W._To her unconstant Lover._ (? 1566.) 227 W. G. _A Love Letter to an unconstant Maiden._ (? 1566.) 239 [GEORGE GASCOIGNE.] _The Spoil of Antwerp._ It is better known as The Spanish Fury at Antwerp. (Nov. 1576.) 141 GEORGE ELLIOT. _A very true Report of the apprehension of that arch-Priest EDMUND CAMPION and three other Jesuit Priests._ (July 1581.) 203 [MARY.] _The Scottish Queen's Burial at Peterborough._ (1 August 1587.) [Printed 1589.] 341 THEOCRITUS. _Six Idillia._ Translated by E. D. [? Sir EDWARD DYER]. (1588.) 117 Rev. RICHARD HAKLUYT and Captain NICHOLAS DOWNTON. _The Destruction, Capture, &c., of Portuguese Carracks_ [Santa Cruz, Madre de Dios, Las Cinque Llagas,] _by English seamen_. (1592-1594.) 245 [GILES FLETCHER, LL.D.] _LICIA, or Poems of Love--The Rising to the Crown of Richard III._ (Sept. 1593.) 413 RICHARD HASLETON. _Strange and wonderful things that happened to him in his Ten Years' Travels in many foreign countries._ (1582-1592.) [Printed 1595.] 367 WILLIAM SMITH. _CHLORIS, or the Complaint of the passionate despised Shepherd._ (1596.) 171 R[OBERT] T[OFTE]. _LAURA_ [_i.e._, Mistress E. CARIL]. _The Toys of a Traveller, or The Feast of Fancy._ (1597.) 267 ---- _The Merchant's Daughter of Bristow_ [Bristol]. (? 1600.) 399 [? THOMAS DELONEY.] _The Spanish Lady's Love._ (? 1600.) 200