Chapters (49)
- AFFECTIONATE SHEPHERD:
- RICHARD BARNFIELD.
- A.D. 1594.
- EDITED BY
- JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, Esq. F.R.S.
- HON. M.R.I.A., HON. M.R.S.L., F.S.A., ETC.
- COUNCIL
- OF
- The Percy Society.
- PREFACE.
- THE
- AFFECTIONATE SHEPHEARD.
- CONTAINING THE COMPLAINT OF DAPHNIS FOR THE LOUE OF GANYMEDE.
- Amor plus mellis, quam fellis, est.
- TO THE RIGHT EXCELLENT AND MOST BEAUTIFULL LADY, THE LADIE PENELOPE RITCH.
- THE AFFECTIONATE SHEPHEARD.
- THE TEARES OF AN AFFECTIONATE SHEPHEARD SICKE FOR LOVE, OR THE COMPLAINT OF DAPHNIS FOR THE LOVE OF GANIMEDE.
- THE SECOND DAYES LAMENTATION OF THE AFFECTIONATE SHEPHEARD.
- THE SHEPHEARDS CONTENT, OR THE HAPPINES OF A HARMLES LIFE. WRITTEN UPON OCCASION OF THE FORMER SUBJECT.
- SONNET.
- THE COMPLAINT OF CHASTITIE, BRIEFELY TOUCHING THE CAUSE OF THE DEATH OF MATILDA FITZWALTERS, AN ENGLISH LADIE, SOMETIME LOVED OF KING JOHN, AFTER POYSONED. THE STORIE IS AT LARGE WRITTEN BY MICHAEL DREYTON.
- NOTES.
- [Pg iii]
- [Pg iv]
- [Pg 3]
- [Pg 5]
- [Pg 8]
- [Pg 12]
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- [Pg 14]
- [Pg 15]
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- [Pg 21]
- [Pg 24]
- [Pg 27]
- [Pg 30]
- [Pg 33]
- [Pg 35]
- [Pg 40]
- [Pg 41]
- [Pg 42]
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- [Pg 45]
- [Pg 46]
- [Pg 48]
- [Pg 49]
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- [Pg 51]
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