-1612).
The heart of stone 45

Henry Constable (1561-1613).
A shepherd's song to his love 46

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619).
Love now, for roses fade 47
Early love 48
Love is a sickness 49

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593).
The passionate shepherd to his love 50

Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618).
Love's omnipresence 52

Michael Drayton (1563-1631).
A parting, or Love's last chance 53

William Shakespeare (1564-1616).
Who is Silvia? 54
Sigh no more, ladies 55
A morning song for Imogen 56

Anon. (_circa_ 1564).
The unfaithful shepherdess 57

Anon.
True loveliness 59
A woman's reason 61
Love will find out the way 62
Phillida flouts me 64
In praise of two 66

Sir Robert Aytoun (1570-1638).
To his forsaken mistress 67
On women's inconstancy 69

Thomas Middleton (1570?-1627).
The three states of women 71
My love and I must part 72

Ben Jonson (1573?-1637).
Perfect beauty 73
To Celia 74

Dr. John Donne (1573-1631).
A woman's constancy 75
Sweetest love 76

William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (1567?-1640).
To Aurora 77

William Drummond (1585-1649).
Phillis 78

Beaumont and Fletcher (1584-1616; 1579-1625).
Take those lips away 79

Francis Beaumont (1584-1616).
Tell me what is love 80
Pining for love 81
Fie on love 82

John Wootton (_circa_ 1600).
Damoetas' praise of his Daphnis 83

George Wither (1588-1667).
Shall I, wasting in despair 85

Thomas Carew (1598?-1639?).
To one who, when I praised my mistress'
beauty, said I was blind 87
He that loves a ros