SOME LONGER ELIZABETHAN POEMS _AN ENGLISH GARNER_ SOME LONGER ELIZABETHAN POEMS WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. H. BULLEN [Illustration] WESTMINSTER ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO., LTD. 1903 PUBLISHERS' NOTE The texts contained in the present volume are reprinted with very slight alterations from the _English Garner_ issued in eight volumes (1877-1890, London, 8vo) by Professor Arber, whose name is sufficient guarantee for the accurate collation of the texts with the rare originals, the old spelling being in most cases carefully modernised. The contents of the original _Garner_ have been rearranged and now for the first time classified, under the general editorial supervision of Mr. Thomas Seccombe. Certain lacunae have been filled by the interpolation of fresh matter. The Introductions are wholly new and have been written specially for this issue. Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty CONTENTS PAGE Sir John Davies--Orchestra, or A Poem of Dancing, 1596, 1 Sir John Davies--Nosce Teipsum:-- 1. Of Human Knowledge,} 2. Of the Soul of Man,} 1599, 41 Sir John Davies--Hymns of Astræa, in Acrostic Verse, 1599, 107 Six Idillia, that is six small or petty poems or Æglogues of Theocritus translated into English Verse (Anon), Oxford, 1588, 123 *Richard Barnfield--The Affectionate Shepheard. Containing the Complaint of Daphnis for the love of Ganymede, 1594, 147 *Richard Barnfield--Cynthia. With Certaine Sonnets and the Legend of Cassandra, 1595, 187 *Richard Barnfield--The Encomion of Lady Pecunia: or The Praise of Money, 1598, 227 *Richard Barnfield--The Complaint of Poetrie for the Death of Liberalitie, 1598, 241 *Richard Barnfield--The Combat, betweene Conscience and Covetousnesse in the minde of Man, 1598, 253 *Richard Barnfield--Poems: in divers humors, 1598, 261 Astrophel. A Pastoral Elegy upon the death of the most noble and valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney. A group of elegies by Spenser and other hands printed as an Appendix to Spenser's Colin Clouts come home again, 1595, 271 J. C.--Alcilia: Philoparthen's Loving Folly, 1595, 319 Antony Scoloker--Daiphantus, or The Passions of Love, by An. Sc. Whereunto is added The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage, 1604, 363