The complete works in verse and prose of Samuel Daniel ::

The complete works in verse and prose of Samuel Daniel

Edited with memorial-introduction and a glossarial index embracing notes and illustrations. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart

Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619)

Vol. I.

I. INEDITED POEMS, ETC.

I. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, SIR Charles Blunt Knight, Lord Mountioy, and Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter, and his most worthy Lord.

II.

II. S. D. TO HIS BOOKE, In the Dedicating thereof to the Librarie in Oxford, erected by Sir Thomas Bodley Knight.

III.

III. To her sacred Maiestie.

V. To the Reader.

II.

II. SONNETS TO DELIA.

TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, THE Lady Mary, Countesse of Pembrooke.

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III.

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VI.

VII.

VIII.

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XI.

SONNET. XI.

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XIII.

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XV.

XVI.

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XVIII.

XIX.

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XXI.

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XXIII.

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XXV.

XXVI.

XXVII.

XXVIII.

XXIX.

XXX.

XXXI.

XXXII.

XXXIII.

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XXXV.

XXXVI.

XXXVII.

XXXVIII.

XXXIX.

XL.

XLI.

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XLIII.

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XLV.

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XLVIII.

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LI.

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LIII.

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LV.

LVI.

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LVIII.

LIX.

LX.

III.

III. THE COMPLAINT OF ROSAMOND.

THE COMPLAINT OF Rosamond.

IV.

IV. A LETTER FROM OCTAUIA TO MARCUS ANTONIUS.

To the right Honourable and most vertuous Lady, the Lady Margaret Countesse of Cumberland.

A Letter sent from Octauia to her husband Marcus Antonius into Ægypt.

V. A PANEGYRIKE CONGRATVLATORIE TO THE KING

A PANEGYRIKE CONGRATVLATORIE to the Kings most excellent Maiestie.

VI.

VI. A Fvnerall Poeme Vpon the Death of the late noble Earle of Deuonshire.

A FVNERALL Poeme.

VII.

VII. CERTAINE EPISTLES.

TO Sr. THOMAS EGERTON Knight, Lord Keeper of the Great seale of England.

TO THE LORD HENRIE HOWARD, one of his Maiesties Priuy Councell.

TO THE LADIE MARGARET Countesse of Cumberland.

TO THE LADIE LVCIE Countesse of Bedford.

TO THE LADIE ANNE Clifford.

TO HENRY VVRIOTHESLY Earle of Southamton.

VIII.

VIII. Musophilus, or Defence of all Learning.

To the right VVorthy and Iudicious Fauorer of Vertue, Master Fulke Greuill.

MVSOPHILVS

IX.

IX. OCCASIONAL POEMS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

An Ode.

A Pastorall.

A Description of Beauty, translated out of Marino.

To the Angell Spirit of the most excellent, Sr. Phillip Sidney.

Vlisses and the Syren.

“To Edward Seymour Earle of Hertford:

Of William Jones, his “Nennio 1595.”

From “Penelopes Complaint: Or, A Mirrour for wanton Minions.

From “Il Pastor Fido; or The Faithfull Shepheard.”

From “BARTAS his Deuine Weekes & Workes.”

From Clement Edmundes (Remembrancer of the Cittie of London): his “Obseruations vpon Cæsars Comentaries, 1609.”

From “Queen Anna's New World of Words,” etc. Collected by John Florio. 1611.

From John Florio's 1613 edition of his “Done into English” Essayes written in French by Michael Lord of Montaigne.

Concerning the honor of bookes.

From “The Essayes, of Morall Politike and Millitarie Discourses of Lo: Michaell de Montaigne, Knt, 1603 edition.”

To the Right Reuerend Father in God, Iames Montague, Lord Bishop of Winchester, Deane of the Chapell, and one of his Maiesties most Honorable Priuy Councell.

II.

VOL. II. THE CIVILE WARS BETWEEN THE TWO HOUSES OF LANCASTER AND YORKE. 1595–1623.

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SONNET. XI.

[Teares, vowes, and prayers, winne the hardest hart]

Teares, vowes, and prayers, winne the hardest hart,
Teares, vowes, and prayers haue I spent in vaine;
Teares cannot soften flint, nor vowes conuart,
Prayers preuaile not with a quaint disdaine.
I lose my teares where I haue lost my loue,
I vow my faith, where faith is not regarded;
I pray in vaine, a mercilesse to moue:
So rare a faith ought better be rewarded.
Yet, though I cannot winne her will with teares,
Though my soules Idoll scorneth all my vowes;
Though all my prayers be to so deafe eares,
No fauour though, the cruell faire allowes,
Yet will I weepe, vow, pray to cruell shee:
Flint, frost, disdaine, weares, meltes, and yeeldes we see.

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SONNET. XI.

[Teares, vowes, and prayers, winne the hardest hart]