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Notes by Crawford on Nicholas Breton (3 unnumbered pages at the beginning, followed by some blank pages)

1. Henry Willoby, Willobie His Avisa (1594): pp. 1-279N
2. Peter Colse, Penelope's Complaint or A Mirrour for wanton Menions (1596): pp. 282-407
3. Constant Penelope. A Looking-glass for Ladies (no date) (a ballad copied from Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 3rd series, book 3, no. 10 [1802]): pp. 408-17
4. The Ballad of Constant Susanna (no date): pp. 418-29
5. Extract from The Phoenix Nest (1593): pp. 430-45; specifically (pp. 433-45), the "Apology for the Earl of Leicester, "Crawford's title for The Dead Mans Right,Written upon the death of the Right Honorable the Earle of Leicester
6. George Gascoigne, "Extracts from the 1573 'Posies" [Crawford's short title for] A Hundreth sundrie Flowres bounde up in one small Poesie (1573): pp. 446-75; from p. 468 to p. 475 is "Miscellaneous matter in the 1573 Quarto omitted in the 'Posies' of 1575"

A -- George Gascoigne, "Extracts from the 1573 'Posies": (continued from Volume I), ending with Crawford's note: "End of Extracts from 1573 Quarto omitted altogether or altered in the edition of 1575": pp. 476-93)

B -- Brief extracts from various authors and works, scattered throughout the rest of the volume on the following pages (pp. 493A 935O):

1. William Shakespeare pp. 493A-B: Dedication to the Sonnets (1609); pp. 493C-F: Address to the Reader from the 1609 Quarto ofTroilus and Cressida; (copied fromThe Shakespeare Allusion-Book, I.207-8); pp. 527-29: "[Stalling the Deer]," Extract from The Passionate Pilgrime (1599)
2. Nicholas Breton (pp. 494-97: Extract from "The Countess of Pembroke's Love" (1592); pp. 534-39, 550-59, 642-43; 672-73, 817A-97: Extracts from The Arbor of Amorous Devices (1597); pp. 540-47, 560-87, 640-41, 668-71, 682-89, 699C-701, 706-31, 738-45, 746-49, 750-53, 766-95: Extracts from Brittons Bowre of Delights (1597); pp. 588-95, 606-11, 674-81, 690-95, 899-935: Extracts from Daffodils and Primroses (1593); pp. 646-51: Extract from A Post with a Packet of Madde Letters (1603/1637); pp. 652-67: Extracts from The Toyes of an Idle Head (1582); pp. 761A-H: Extracts from The Wil of Wit (1599))
3. Sir Philip Sidney (Extracts from the Arcadia: pp. 498-501: "Sapphics" from the 1590 edition; pp. 795A-795B: two sonnets added to the 1598 edition)
4. Francis Davison (Extracts from A Poetical Rapsody (1602): pp. 500-503: "Sapphics upon the Passion of Christ" (copied from A.H. Bullen's edition [1890-91], 2.97); pp. 506-507A: "Ode XI: To his Muse" (from Bullen, 2.68); pp. 612-39: "An Eclogue Made long since upon the Death of Sir Philip Sidney" (from Bullen, 1.63) and "An Epigram to Sir Philip Sidney in Elegiacal Verse," "Hexameters upon the never-enough praised Sir Philip Sidney," "Another upon the same," "Others upon the same (from Bullen, 2.90-92))
5. Extracts from The Phoenix Nest (1593 all copied from Heliconia, ed. T. Park [1815]):(pp. 504-505: "Sapphics"; pp. 530-33: "[Cleopatra's Adders.] 'A Counterlove'"; pp. 600-605: "Elegies on Sir Philip Sidney"; pp. 696-99: "A Most Excellent Passion Set downe by N.B. Gent.")
6. [J. Bodenham]: pp. 508-13: "Fair Phyllis and her Shepherd," Extract from England's Helicon (1600)
7. [John Lyly]: pp. 514-25D: "[Women, like castles, are to be won with perseverance]" (from R.W. Bond's edition The Complete Works [1902-10], III.459)
8. William Byrd, Extracts from First Book of Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety (1588): pp. 596-99: "The Funeral Songs of that Honourable Gentleman, Sir Philip Sidney, Knight" (copied from A.H. Bullen's Shorter Elizabethan Poems, pp. 22-23); pp. 702-705: "[The rest are all disgraced]," "[A Sonet of faire womens fickleness in love]" (from Bullen, pp. 13, 10 respectively)
9. Richard Edwards: pp. 644-45: "For Christmas day," extract from The Paradyse of Dainty Devises (1576)
10. George Puttenham (?): pp. 754-55: "Puttenham's version of the 'Desire' song," Extract from The Arte of English Poesie (1589) (copied from Edward Arber's edition of 1869)
11. Thomas Deloney, Extracts from A Garland of Goodwill (?1593): pp. 756-59 (copied from Percy's Reliques), pp. 796-817B (copied fromThe Works of Thomas Deloney, ed. F.O. Mann [1912])
12. Thomas Watson: pp. 764-65: Sonnet 22 from his Hekatompathia (1582)
13. Sir John Davies: Hymns of Astraea in Acrostic Verse (1599): pp. 935a-935N (copied from Edward Arber's An English Garner, vol. 5)

(Brief extracts from various authors and works, scattered throughout the volume on the following pages:)

1. Nicholas Breton (pp. 936-41, 984-99: Extracts from Daffodils and Primroses (1593); pp. 998-1003 Five pieces from the Tanner MS of Breton's works; pp. 958-81: Extracts from The Toyes of an Idle Head (1582); pp. 982-83: Extract from The Strange Fortunes of Two Excellent Princes (1600); pp. 1022-25: Extracts from The Wil of Wit (?1582); pp. 1316-21, 1334-37: Extracts from Melancholike Humours (1600) (copied from A.B. Grosart's edition of Breton [1879]); 1338-41: Extracts from An Olde Man's Lesson and a Young Man's Love (1605))
2. Richard Edwards (pp. 942-45, 1040-43: Extracts from The Paradyse of Dainty Devises (1576))
3. William Byrd (pp. 946-57: Extracts from First Book of Psalms, Sonnets, andSongs of Sadness and Piety (1588))
4. John Taylor (pp. 1004-5: Extract from The Sculler (1612))
5. George Whetstone (pp. 1006-7: Extract from The Rock of Regard (1576); pp. 1026-29: Extract from An Heptameron (1582); pp. 1034-35: Extract from The English Myrror (1586))
6. George Gascoigne (pp. 1008-9: Extract from The Steele Glasse (1576); pp. 1012-17: Extracts from The Posies (1575 edition))
7. Edmund Spenser (pp. 1010-11: Extract from The Faerie Queene (1590))
8. Timothy Kendall: pp. 1018-19, 1084-93:Extracts from Flowers of Epigrammes (1577)
9. Roger Cotton (pp. 1020-21: Extract from A Spirituall Song containing an Historicall Discourse (1596))
10. William Browne (pp. 1030-33: Extract from Britannia's Pastorals (?1625))
11. Robert Toft (pp. 1036-39: Extracts from Laura (1597) (copied from Arber's An English Garner, 8.27, 340))
12. Richard Barnfield (pp. 1044-67B: Extracts from Greenes Funeralls (1594) (copied from R.B. McKerrow's edition of 1911))
13. [John Bodenham]: (pp. 1067E-F, 1078-83: Extracts from Politenphinia, Wits Commonwealth (1650 and 1597 editions respectively); pp. 1068-75: Extracts from England's Helicon (1600); pp. 1076-77, 1094-1109 Extracts from Belvedere, or The Garden of the Muses (1600))
14. [John Lyly] (pp. 1109A-D: "Of lingering Love," a poem from Rawlinson MS. Poet. 148, ff. 2-3 (copied from Bond's edition, III.463))
15. Clement Robinson et alii: pp. 1109F-J: "A Warning for Lovers" from A Handefull of Pleasant Delites (1584) (copied from Heliconia edition, p. 53)
16. The Phoenix Nest (1593) (pp. 1110-1251 Extracts (copied from Heliconia edition, pp. 28-147 passim); pp. 1252B-77: "A Most Rare and Excellent Dreame" (copied from A.H. Bullen's Shorter Elizabethan Poems [1903], p. 129); (1600) (from Bullen, p. 107))
17. John Wilbye (pp. 1280-81: "[Woe-begone me]", from The First Set of English Madrigals (1598) (copied from Bullen's Shorter Elizabethan Poems, p. 151))
18. Sir Philip Sidney (pp. 1282B-87: Extracts from the Arcadia (1593) (copied from Grosart's edition, 3.218); pp. 1286-87: Extract from the Arcadia (1590); pp. 1342-45: Dedication to Astrophel and Stella (1591) (copied from Grosart's edition, 3.212))
19. Christopher Marlowe (pp. 1288B-91: Epistle by Thomas Thorpe prefixed to Marlowe's translation of The First Booke of Lucan (1600) (copied from Dyce's edition [1858], p. 369); pp. 1292-93: Dedication by Edward Blunt to Hero and Leander (1598) (from Dyce, p. 277); pp. 1294-97: "Ignoto Verses in Marlowe's Works" (from Dyce, p. 366))
20. Thomas Proctor et al., The Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions (1578) (pp. 1298B-99: "Verses by A.M." (copied from Heliconia edition, p. ix); pp. 1300-1307: Verses by Owen Roydon (copied from Heliconia edition, pp. x, 1))
21. Robert Allott (pp. 1308-11: Dedication and "To the Reader" from England's Parnassus (1600) (copied from Crawford's edition [1913], pp. 3, 4))
22. Richard Al[l]ison (Extract from An Howres Recreation in Musicke (1606) (copied from Bullen's Shorter Elizabethan Poems, p. 264))
23. Author Uncertain (pp. 1322-25: "A Farewell to the Vanities of the World" (copied from John Hannah Works of Wotton and Raleigh [1910], p. 109))
24. Robert Southwell (pp. 1345C-49: Dedication by H.W. to A Foure-fold Meditation of the Foure Last Things (1606))
25. Francis Davison et alii (pp. 1350-55: "The Lie," a poem from A Poetical Rhapsody (1602) (copied from Bullen's edition, 1.28))
26. Anthony Munday: pp. 1356-65: Introductory matter to A Banquet of Daintie Conceits (1588) (copied from Park's edition of the anthology printed in The Harleian Miscellany [1812], 9.219)
27. Alexander Niccholes (pp. 1365A-Z: Extracts from A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving (1615) (copied from The Harleian Miscellany [1744-46], 2.141-67))

(Brief extracts from various authors and works, scattered throughout the volume on the following pages:)

1. John Dowland (pp. 1366-67: "[Too chaste, and too cruel]," extract from The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (1603) (copied from Bullen's Shorter Elizabethan Poems, p. 119))
2. Thomas Deloney (pp. 1368-71: Dedication to Jack of Newberie (?1597) (copied from F.O. Mann's edition [1912], p. 2); pp. 1374-79: Dedications (2) to The Gentle Craft, Part II (?1597); pp. 1420-23: Dedication to "Canaan's Calamatie," from The Works (1597), vol. 2))
3. Sir Edward Dyer (alleged): pp. 1380-93: Two poems ("[The Man of Woe]" and "A Fancy") (copied from Hannah's Poems of Wotton and Raleigh [1910], pp. 153 and 154); pp. 1882-87: "My Mind to me a Kingdom is" (copied from Percy's Reliques (with collations from the Rawlinson manuscript and from Byrd's First Book of Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs [1588])
4. Sir Philip Sidney: pp. 1580-1627 Poems appended to the Arcadia (1598) (copied from Arber's English Garner, II.171-93); pp. 1628-43: Additions to Astrophel and Stella first found in the Arcadia (1598) (copied from Grosart,Complete Poems, I.54, 185, et passim and Arber's English Garner, I.521, 573, et passim); pp. 1644-59: Poems (not by Sidney) added to Newman's "surreptitious" edition of Astrophel and Stella (1591) (copied from Arber's English Garner, I.582-600 passim); pp. 1672-73: Henry Olney's address to the reader from his edition of An Apologie for Poetrie (1595); pp. 1674-89: Extracts from Book VI of the Arcadia (1624) attributed to Richard Beling (copied from the Routledge edition of the Arcadia . . . with the additions of . . . Richard Beling [1907 or 1921], pp. 630-78 passim.
5. Arthur Bourch(i)er (pp. 1660-67: Poems printed in Geffrey Whitney A Choice of Emblemes (1586), and The Paradyse of Dainty Devises (1576))
6. William Byrd (pp. 1690-1709 1756-63: Extracts from Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety (1588) (copied from Bullen's Shorter Elizabethan Poems, pp. 3-21 passim); pp. 1710-41: Extracts from Songs of Sundrie Natures (1589) (copied from Bullen, pp. 27-49 passim); pp. 1742-55: Extracts from the 2nd Book of Songs and Sonnets (1611) (copied from Bullen, pp. 52-58); pp. 1848-49: La Verginella" (copied from Bullen, p. 75))
7. George Whetstone (pp. 1764-67: Publisher's Dedication (by Thomas Cadman) to his edition of the Elegy on Sir Philip Sidney (?1586 or 1587))
8. John Wilbye (pp. 1854-55, 1859-61: Extracts from the 1st Set of Madrigals (1598) (copied from Bullen, Shorter Elizabethan Poems, pp. 152 and 145, 147))
9. Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford (pp. 1856-57: "Fain would I sing, etc." from Poems (a1604) (copied from John Hannah's Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh . . . with those of Sir Henry Wotton and other courtly poets [1910]))
10. Christopher Marlowe: pp. 1878-79: R[ichard] J[ones]'s address to the readers from Tamburlaine (1590)
11. Sir Walter Raleigh (pp. 1880-81: "Fain would I, but I dare not," verses found in MS. Rawlinson 41, f. 41 (copied from Hannah's Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh . . . with those of Sir Henry Wotton [1910]))
12. John Lyly (?) (pp. 1888-95: Six poems found in MS. Additional 22,601 (copied from Bond's edition, III.451-53))

(Brief extracts from various authors and works, scattered throughout the volume on the following pages:)

1. Nicholas Breton (pp. 1-41: The Countess of Pembroke's Passion (n.d.; 1st published in 1853 by J.O. Halliwell, A Brief Description of the Ancient and Modern Manuscripts Preserved in the Public Library, Plymouth . . . [privately printed]); pp. 42-93: The Countess of Pembroke's Love (1592 printed with the following item); pp. 94-197: The Pilgrimage to Paradise (1592))
2. Thomas Watson (pp. 198-255: The Tears of Fancy (1593) Bartholomew Griffin: pp. 256-327: Fidessa, more chaste then kind (1596)?)
3. John Chalkhill (pp. 327A-403: Alcilia: Philoparthen's Loving Folly (1595) (copied from A.H. Bullen, An English Garner [1903]))
4. Francis Davison et alii (pp. 403A-501: Selections from A Poetical Rapsodie (1602) (copied from Bullen's edition [1890-91], volumes I and II passim))
5. William Shakespeare (pp. 501A-501J: Dedication and address to readers from the "First Folio" of Shakespeare's works (1623) (copied from The Shakespeare Allusion-Book, I.313-16); pp. 501K-501N: Title page and address to the reader from The Tragedy of Othello (1622))

(Brief extracts from various authors and works, scattered throughout the volume on the following pages:)

1. Francis Davison et alii: pp. 502-97: Extracts from A Poetical Rapsodie (1602) (copied from Bullen's edition, vol. II passim); pp. 892-917: Poems by various authors from A Poetical Rapsodie (1602) (copied from Bullen's edition, vol. II passim and I.86)
2. R. B.: pp. 598-647B: Orpheus his Journey to Hell (1595)
3. [J. Bodenham]: pp. 648-773: Extracts from England's Helicon (1600) (copied from Bullen's edition passim)
4. J[ohn] H[ind]: pp. 936-43: Extracts from The Mirrour of Worldly Fame (1603) (copied fromThe Harleian Miscellany, ed. W. Oldys [1744-46])
5. William Shakespeare (pp. 919-29, 935 (lower half): Sonnets (1609)
6. Henry Chettle: pp. 930-35 (upper half): Address "To the Gentlemen Readers" from Kind-Hartes Dreame (1592) (copied from the Bodley Head reprint [1923]); pp. 944-65: Extracts from England's Mourning Garment (1603) (copied from The Harleian Miscellany, ed. W. Oldys [1744-46])
7. Richard Niccols (pp. 966-77, 997-99: Epicedium (1603) (copied from Bond's edition [1902], I.509-16)?
8. John Lyly: 978-81: "Entertainment to Elizabeth at Cowdray" (1591); pp. 983-85: "Entertainment to Elizabeth at Elvetham" (1591); pp. 985-89: "Entertainment to Elizabeth at Quarrendon" (1592); p. 991: "Entertainment to Elizabeth at Sudeley" (1592) (all copied from Bond's edition, vol. I passim)
9. Robert Southwell (pp. 992-93: Dedication by the publisher, W. Barret, from a 1620 collection of Southwell's Poems (copied from W.B. Turnbull, The Poetical Works [1856]); pp. 994-95: Verses by the publisher from Southwell's Triumphs over Death (1595))

(Brief extracts from various authors and works, scattered throughout the volume on the following pages:)

1. Robert Jones (pp. 1013-21, 1024-27: Extracts from The First Booke of Songes and Ayres (1600) (copied from Bond's edition of Lyly, vol. III passim); pp. 1022-23: Extract from Muses Gardin for Delights (1610) (copied from Bond, III.490))
2. Nicholas Breton:
   • pp. 1028-97: Melancholike Humours (1600) (copied from G.B. Harrison's edition [1929])
   • pp. 1112-19: Extracts from The Wil of Wit (1599) (copied from Elizabethan and Jacobean Pamphlets, pp. 112, 85-86)
   • pp. 1137-97: The Passionate Shepheard (1604) (copied from Grosart's edition)
   • pp. 1198-1201: Extract from Pasquils Mad-cappe (1626)
   • pp. 1202-1209: Extracts from Pasquils Fooles-cap (1600)
   • pp. 1211-17: Extracts from Pasquils Passe and passeth not (1600)
   • pp. 1218-19: Title page to A Solemne Passion of the Soules Love (1623)
   • pp. 1220-25: Extracts from The Ravisht Soule and the Blessed Weeper (1601)
   • pp. 1226-33: Extracts from The Longing of a Blessed Heart (1601)
   • pp. 1234-37: Extracts from The Soules Harmony (1602)
   • pp. 1238-43: Extracts from The Mothers Blessing (1602)
   • pp. 1244-51: Extracts from The Soules Immortall Crowne (1605)
   • pp. 1252-55: Extracts from A True Description of Unthankfulnesse (1602)
   • pp. 1256-59: Extracts from The Honour of Valour (1605)
   • pp. 1260-61: Extract from An Invective against Treason (1616)
   • pp. 1262-65: Extracts from I Would and I Would not (1614)
   • pp. 1266-67: Title page to The Workes of a young Wit (1577)
   • pp. 1268-69: Poem attributed to Breton from John Hind's Eliosto Libidinoso (1606)
   • pp. 1270-75: Extracts from Auspicante Jehova (1597)
   • pp. 1276-79: Extracts from Wits Trenchmour (1597)
   • pp. 1280-87: Extracts from A Floorish upon Fancie (1582)
   • pp. 1288-89: Extracts from The Scholler and the Souldiour (1599)
   • pp. 1290-93: Extracts from The Miseries of Mavillia (1599)
   • pp. 1294-99: Extracts from The Praise of Vertuous Ladies (1599)
   • pp. 1300-1305: Extracts from The Strange Fortunes of Two Excellent Princes (1600)
   • pp. 1306-1309: Title pages to Crossing of Proverbs (n.d./1616))
3. Sir Philip Sidney (pp. 1098-99: Poem from "Pansies" (?copied from A.B. Grosart The Complete Poems [1877]))
4. Ralph Sidley (pp. 1100-1103 "Verses of Praise" (in Robert Greene, Greenes Never Too Late [1590], Parts I and II) (copied from Grosart's edition of Greene's Part I Never Too Late and Francesco's Fortunes, or Part II Never Too Late))
5. Richard Stapleton (pp. 1104-1105 "To the Author," verses prefixed to George Chapman's Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595) (copied from the Chatto & Windus edition, p. l iii); pp. 1128-31: "To the Curteous and Courtly Ladies of England," verses praising Robert Greene's Mamillia, Part II (1593) (copied from Grosart's Works of Robert Greene [1881-86], II.146-48))
6. R.S. (pp. 1106-1107 (upper part): "In prayse of Gascoignes 'Posies', "verses from George Gascoigne's The Posies (1575) (copied from J.W. Cunliffe's edition of The Complete Works [1907-10], 1.20); pp. 1106-1107 (lower part): verses commending Spenser's The Faerie Queene I))
7. [D.] (pp. 1108-1109 "In prayse of Gascoigne and his 'Posies'," verses from George Gascoigne's The Posies (1575))
8. [George Gascoigne] (pp. 1110-1111 "The Printer in commendation of Gascoigne and his works," verses from George Gascoigne's The Posies (1575))
9. Sir Henry Wotton (pp. 1120-27: Extracts from Reliquiae Wottonianae (1651-85) (copied from John Hannah's Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh . . . with those of Sir Henry Wotton and other courtly poets [1875 or 1910]))
10. G.B. (p. 1133 "In Praise of the Author and his Booke," verses praising Robert Greene's Mamillia, Part II (1593) (copied from A.B. Grosart's Works of Robert Greene [1881-86], 2.249-50))
11. Ed. Percy (p. 1135 Verses "In Praise of the Author" of Greene's Mamillia)
12. Alcida (1617) (copied from A.B. Grosart's Works of Robert Greene (1881-86), 9.9-10)
13. Samuel Pick (pp. 1400-1401 Printed note on his Festum Voluptatis, Or the Banquet of Pleasure (1639))

1. pp. 1-2: "Index" to Volume I and a few notes about the Spenser Society edition (1875) of Belvedere, from which the quotations are copied
2. p. 3: Original title page, with Belvedere spelled Bel-vedere
3. p. 4: Note by Crawford explaining that the following list was drawn up by him and differs from the original and that for convenience he has arranged the extracts by numbers from 1 to 4482
4. pp. 5-7: "An Alphabetical List of the Sections" (by subject, from "Advice" to "Zeal")
5. p. 9: "October 31, 1929. Index of Quotations Identified."
6. pp. 9-69 (odd pages): "Index" proper, alphabetically arranged by author or work; pp. 8-68 (even pages): notes passim on various items in the Index
7. p. 71: "Other Quotations Identified after October 31, 1929" (4 items)
8. p. 78: Note by Crawford that the address on the next page was written by Nicholas Breton
9. pp. 79-89 (odd pages): "To the Reader," with occasional notes in the right margins
10. pp. 89-93 (odd pages): "The Conclusion" (to the address)
11. pp. 95-101 (odd pages): Sonnets and "Verses of Commendation"
12. p. 102: Notes by Crawford on what follows
13. pp. 103-540: Quotations numbered 1-1467