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The garland of Good Will

Diuided into three parts: Containing many pleasant Songs, and prety poems, to sundry new Notes. With a Table to finde the names of all the Songs. Written by T. D. [i.e. Thomas Deloney]
Deloney, Thomas (1543?-1600)

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[The First Part.]
  
1. A Mournfull Dittie, on the death of Rosamond, King Henry the seconds Concubine.
  
2. A New Sonnet,
  
3. A new Song of King Edgar,
  
4 How Couentry was made free by Godina, Countesse of Chester.
  
5 How the Dukes daughter of Cornwall being married vnto King Locrine, was by him put away, and a strange Lady whom he better loued, hee married, and made her his Queene, and how his wife was auenged.
  
6 A song of Queene Isabel,
  
7. A Song of the banishment of two Dukes, Hereford and Norfolke.
  
8. The Noble Acts of Arthur of the round Table.
  
9. A Song in praise of Women.
  
19. A Song in praise of a single life,
  
12. The widdowes solace,
  
12. A Gentlewomans complaint,
  
13. Of a prince of England,
  
Of the faithfull friendship that lasted betweene two faithfull friends.
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The second part of the Garland of good Will.
  
1. A pastorall Song,
  
2. Of patient Grissel and a Noble Marquesse:
  
2. A pleasant Dialogue betweene plaine Truth, and blind Ignorance.
  
3. The ouerthrow of proud Holofernes, and the triumph of vertuous Queene Iudith.
  
5. A Princely Ditty, in praise of the English Rose.
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The third part of the Garland of good Will.
  
Song. 1.
  
2.
  
3. The Winning of Cales.
  
4. Of King Edward the third, and the faire Countesse of Salisbury, setting forth her constancy and endlesse glory.
  
5. The Spanish Ladies Loue to an English Gentleman.
  
9. A farewell to Loue.
  
The Louer by his gifts thinkes to conquer chastitie, And with his gifts sends these verses to the Lady.
  
The womans answer.

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5. A Princely Ditty, in praise of the English Rose.

Among the Princely Paragons,
bedect with dainty Diamonds,
Within mine eye, none doth come nie,
the sweet red Rose of England,
The Lillies passe in brauery,
in Flanders, Spain, and Italy:
But yet the famous flower of France
doth honour the Rose of England.
As I abroad was walking,
I heard the small birds talking:
And euery one did frame her Song
in praise of the Rose of England,
The Lillies, &c.
Cæsar may vant of Victories,
and Crœsus of his happinesse:
But he were blest, that might bear in his brest
the sweet red Rose of England,
The Lillies, &c.
The brauest Lute bring hither,
and let vs sing together:
While I do ring on euery string,
the praise of the Rose of England,
The Lillies, &c.
The sweet Perfumes and Spices,
the wise men brought to Iesus:
Did neuer smell a quarter so well
as doth the Rose of England,
The Lillies, &c.
Then faire and princely flower,
that ouer my heart doth tower,
None may be compared to thee,
which art the fair Rose of England.
The Lillies, &c.
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