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The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. 1

CONTENTS

Preface to the Revised Edition…………. xxv

The Middle Ages (to 1485)………………….. 1

Medieval English…………………………….. 19

Old & Middle English Prosody…………. 24

OLD ENGLISH POETRY………………… 26

CAEDMON’S HYMN…………………….. 26

THE DREAM OF THE ROOD…………. 27

BEOWULF…………………………………….. 30

THE WANDERER………………………….. 89

THE BATTLE OF MALDON…………… 92

GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-1400)……… 100

THE CANTERBURY TALES………… 105

The General Prologue…………………….. 107

The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale 129

The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale…… 159

The Introduction………………….. .159

The Prologue………………………… 161

The Tale………………………………. 164

The Epilogue………………………… 174

The Nun’s Priest’s Tale………………….. 175

The Miller’s Tale……………………………. 190

The Introduction…………………… 190

The Tale………………………………. 192

The Parson’s Tale…………………………. 207

The Introduction…………………… 207

[The Remedy Against Lechery].. 209

Chaucer’s Retraction…………….. 212

LYRICS AND OCCASIONAL VERSE… 213

To Rosamond……………………………….. 213

To His Scribe Adam………………………. 214

Complaint to His Purse………………….. 214

Merciless Beauty…………………………… 215

Gentilesse…………………………………….. 216

Truth…………………………………………… 217

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (ca. 1375-1400).. 218

PIERS PLOWMAN (B Text, ca. 1377)………….. 273

The Prologue……………………………. 275

Passus I…………………………………… 277

MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS…………. 283

Fowls in the Frith……………………… 284

Alison……………………………………… 284

My Lief Is Faren in Londe………….. 285

Western Wind…………………………… 285

I Have a Young Sister………………… 285

Spring Has Come with Love……….. 286

The Cuckoo Song……………………… 287

Tell Me, Wight in the Broom………. 288

The Henpecked Husband……………. 288

I Am of Ireland…………………………. 288

Sunset on Calvary…………………….. 289

I Sing of a Maiden…………………….. 289

Adam Lay Bound……………………… 290

The Corpus Christi Carol…………… 290

THE SECOND SHEPHERDS’ PLAY (ca. 1385)… 291

EVERYMAN (ca. 1485)………………… 313

POPULAR BALLADS…………………… 335

Lord Randall…………………………….. 338

Edward……………………………………. 338

Barbata Allan…………………………… 340

The Wife of Usher’s Well…………… 341

The Three Ravens……………………… 342

Bonny George Campbell……………. 343

Sir Patrick Spens………………………. 343

The Bonny Earl of Murray…………. 345

Thomas Rhymer……………………….. 345

Robin Hood and the Three Squires. 347

St. Steven and King Herod…………. 350

SIR THOMAS MALORY (ca. 1405-1471)… 351

Morte Darthur………………………….. 353

[The Death of Arthur]………………… 353

WILLIAM CAXTON (ca. 1422-1491)….. 360

Preface to Morte Darthur……………. 361

TOPIC IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE…….. 365

MEDIEVAL ATTITUDES TOWARD LIFE ON EARTH……… 365

CONTEMPT FOR THE WORLD.. 366

Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy…. 366

[Triumph over the World]………….. 366

Earth Took of Earth………………….. 367

Earth upon Earth………………………. 367

Geoffrey Chaucer: [A Thoroughfare Full of Woe]……. 368

THE GODDESS FORTUNE………. 368

Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy       369

[Fortune Defends Herself]…………… 369

Dante: [Fortune an Agent of God’s Will]…… 370

Geoffrey Chaucer: [The Monk’s Definition of Tragedy].. 370

Geoffrey Chaucer: [The Tragedy of Pierre de Lusignan].. 371

“life is sweet”…………………………………………………. 371

[A Vision of Nature in Piers Plowman]………………………. 371

Aucassin and Nicolete: [Aucassin Renounces Paradise].. 372

The Land of Cockaigne……………………………………………. 373

“beauty that must die”…………………………………….. 376

[Ubi Sunt Qui ante Nos Fuerunt]………………………………. 376

Francois Villon: The Ballad of Dead Ladies………………… 377

Geoffrey Chaucer: [This Worlde That Passeth Soone as Floures Faire]… 378

The Sixteenth Century (1485-1603)…………………………………… 379

MAN AND SOCIETY……………………………………………………… 400

SIR THOMAS MORE (1478-1535)’…………. 402

Utopia……………………………………………………………………….. 403

Book I……………………………………………………………………….. 403

Book II: 1. Their Country and Agriculture………………………. 408

Book II: 7. Their Gold and Silver, and How They Keep It…. 411

Book II: 12. Their Marriage Customs…………………………….. 413

Book II: 16. The Religion of the Utopians………………………. 414

THE BOOK OF HOMILIES……………………. 421

An Exhortation Concerning Good Order and Obedience to Rulers and Magistrates     421

SIR THOMAS HOBY (1530-1566)………….. 423

The Courtier……………………………………… 424

Book I: [Grace]………………………………….. 424

Book IV: [Love]………………………………… 426

RICHARD HOOKER (1554-1600)…………… 439

The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity…………. 440

The Preface: [On Moderation in Controversy]… 440

Book I, Chapter 3: [The Law of Nature].. 444

Book I, Chapter 8: [On Common Sense].. 445

Book I, Chapter 9: [Nature, Righteousness, and Sin].. 446

Book I, Chapter 10: [The Foundations of Society]…… 447

Book I, Chapter 12: [The Need for Law].. 449

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)…. 449

[Ulysses’ Speech on Degree]………………… 449

SIR THOMAS WYATT THE ELDER (1503-1542)…….. 452

The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor. 454

Farewell, Love…………………………………… 454

I Find No Peace…………………………………. 455

Madam, Withouten Many Words…………. 455

Whoso List to Hunt……………………………. 456

My Lute, Awake!………………………………. 456

They Flee from Me…………………………….. 457

The Lover Showeth How He is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed     459

Divers Doth Use………………………………… 458

Tangled I Was in Love’s Snare…………….. 458

Mine Own John Poins………………………… 460

HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1517-1547).. 462

Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within

My Thought……………………………………… 463

The Soote Season………………………………. 464

Alas! So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace…… 464

Give Place, Ye Lovers, Here Before……… 464

My Friend, the Things That Do Attain….. 465

The Fourth Book of Virgil………………….. 466

[The Hunt]………………………………………… 466

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586)…………… 467

Ye Goatherd Gods…………………………….. 470

Thou Blind Man’s Mark…………………….. 472

Leave Me, o Love………………………………. 472

Astrophel and Stella…………………………… 473

1 (“Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show”)…… 473

(“It is most true that eyes are formed to serve”)……………….. 473

(“Some lovers speak, when they their Muses entertain”)…… 474

10 (“Reason, in faith thou art well served, that still”)……….. 474

18 (“With what sharp checks I in myself am shent”)………… 474

21 (“Your words, my friend, right healthful caustics, blame”)…….. 475

31 (“With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climb’st the skies!”)…… 475

39 (“Come sleep! Oh sleep, the certain knot of peace”)…….. 475

41 (“Having this day my horse, my hand, my lance”)……….. 476

64 (“No more, my dear, no more these counsels try”)……….. 476

71 (“Who will in fairest book of Nature know”)………………. 476

74 (“I never drank of Aganippe well”)……………………………. 477

An Apology for Poetry………………………. 477

EDMUND SPENSER (1552-1599)………….. 492

The Shepheardes Calendar………………….. 495

October……………………………………………. 495

The Faerie Queene……………………………… 500

A Letter of the Authors………………………. 503

Book I……………………………………………… 506

Walsinghame…………………………………….. 829

The Lie…………………………………………….. 830

Farewell, False Love…………………………… 832

The Author’s Epitaph, Made by Himself. 833

ROBERT SOUTHWELL (1561-1595)………….. …………. 833

The Burning Babe……………………………… 833

SAMUEL DANIEL (1562-1619)………………………………. 834

Delia………………………………………………… 834

33 (“When men shall find thy flower, thy glory pass”) 834

(“Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night”) 835

(“Let others sing of knights and paladins”) 835

MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563-1631)…………………………. 835

Idea…………………………………………………………………… 836

6 (“How many paltry, foolish, painted things”)………. 836

37 (“Dear, why should you command me to my rest”) 836

50 (“As in some countries far removed from hence”).. 836

61 (“Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part”) 837

THOMAS NASHE (1567-1601)……………………………….. 837

Spring, the Sweet Spring…………………….. 837

A Litany in Time of Plague…………………. 838

THOMAS CAMPION (1567-1620)…………………………… 839

My Sweetest Lesbia……………………………. 839

When to Her Lute Corinna Sings…………. 840

When Thou Must Home to Shades of Underground… 840

Rose-cheeked Laura…………………………… 840

What If a Day……………………………………. 841

Never Love Unless You Can……………….. 842

There Is a Garden in Her Face……………… 842

ANONYMOUS LYRICS…………………………………………. 843

Back and Side Go Bare, Go Bare…………. 843

Though Amaryllis Dance in Green……….. 844

Come Away, Come, Sweet Love!…………. 845

Thule, the period of Cosmography………. 845

Madrigal (“My Love in her attire doth show her wit”) 846

Weep You No More, Sad Fountains…….. 846

The Silver Swan………………………………… 847

TOPIC IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE…… 848

THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROSE STYLE……………….. 848

Sir John Cheke: [Our Own Tongue Clean and Pure]… 851

The Bible: Translations of the Twenty-Third Psalm…. 852

The Great Bible…………………………….. 852

A Latin-English Psalter………………….. 852

Thomas Stemhold and John Hopkins’ Psalm-Book 853

The Geneva Bible………………………….. 853

The Bishops’ Bible………………………… 853

The Douai Bible……………………………. 854

The Authorized or King James Bible… 854

John Lyly: Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit 854

Sir Philip Sidney: Arcadia…………………… 856

Philip Stubbes: The Anatomy of Abuses. 856

William Bullein: A Dialogue Against the Pestilence…. 857

The Seventeenth Century (1603-1660)……………………….. 861

JOHN DONNE (1572-1631)…………………… .879

The Good-Morrow…………………………….. 883

Song (“Go and catch a falling star”)……… 883

The Undertaking……………………………….. 884

The Indifferent…………………………………… 885

The Canonization………………………………. 886

Twicknam Garden……………………………… 887

The Apparition…………………………………. 888

Love’s Alchemy………………………………… 888

The Flea…………………………………………… 889

The Bait…………………………………………… 890

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning……. 891

The Ecstasy………………………………………. 892

Lovers’ Infiniteness……………………………. 894

The Sun Rising………………………………….. 895

Air and Angels………………………………….. 896

Break of Day…………………………………….. 896

A Valediction: Of Weeping…………………. 897

The Funeral………………………………………. 898

The Relic…………………………………………. .898

To the Countess of Bedford………………… 899

Elegy IV. The Perfume……………………….. 901

Satire III, Religion……………………………… 903

Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward….. 906

Holy Sonnets…………………………………….. 907

1 (“Thou hast made me, and shall Thy work decay?”)….. 907

5 (“I am a little world made cunningly”)……………………… 908

7 (“At the round earth’s imagined corners, blow”)………. 908

10 (“Death, be not proud, though some have called thee”) 909

14 (“Batter my heart, three-personed God”)……………….. 909

18 (“Show me, dear Christ, Thy spouse so bright and clear”)… 910

A Hymn to Christ, at the Author’s Last Going into Germany… 910

Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness… 911

A Hymn to God the Father…………………. 912

Paradoxes and Problems…………………………………………………… 913

Paradox VI. That It Is Possible to Find Some Virtue in Women 913

Problem II. Why Puritans Make Long Sermons……………………. 914

Problem VI. Why Hath the Common Opinion Afforded Women Souls? 914

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions……. 915

Meditation XIV…………………………….. 915

Meditation XVII……………………………. 916

Sermon LXXVI…………………………………. 918

[On Falling Out of God’s Hand]………. 918

BEN JONSON (1572-1637)……………………. 919

To Penshurst…………………………………….. 921

To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare… 924

To William Camden…………………………… 926

On My First Daughter………………………… 926

On My First Son……………………………….. 927

To John Donne………………………………….. 927

It Was a Beauty That I Saw………………… 927

Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H………………….. 928

An Elegy………………………………………….. 928

Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount…………………….. 929

Queen and Huntress…………………………… 930

Gypsy Songs…………………………………….. 930

Though I Am Young and Cannot Tell…… 931

Song: To Celia…………………………………… 931

Come, My Celia………………………………… 932

The Triumph of Chans……………………….. 932

Still to Be Neat………………………………….. 933

Ode to Himself………………………………….. 934

The Vision of Delight…………………………. 935

ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674)……………. 941

The Argument of His Book…………………. 943

Discontents in Devon…………………………. 943

Delight in Disorder…………………………….. 944

Upon Julia’s Clothes………………………….. 944

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time…. 944

Upon a Child That Died……………………… 945

Another Grace for a Child…………………… 945

Corinna’s Going A-Maying…………………. 945

Oberon’s Feast………………………………….. 947

His Return to London………………………… 949

To the Water Nymphs Drinking at the Fountain…. 949

Upon Pru, His Maid…………………………… 950

Upon His Spaniel Tracy……………………… 950

The Pillar of Fame……………………………… 950

GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633)…………… 951

Easter Wings…………………………………….. 952

Virtue………………………………………………. 952

Jordan (I)………………………………………….. 953

Jordan (II)………………………………………… 954

Denial………………………………………………. 954

The Altar………………………………………….. 955

The Flower……………………………………….. 956

The Collar………………………………………… 957

The Pulley………………………………………… 958

Discipline………………………………………… 95 8

Prayer (I)………………………………………….. 959

Anagram………………………………………….. 960

Sin’s Round………………………………………. 960

Aaron………………………………………………. 961

Love (III)………………………………………….. 961

RICHARD CRASH AW (ca. 1613—1649).. 962

In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God….. 963

The Flaming Heart…………………………….. 966

On Our Crucified, Lord, Naked and Bloody 967

To the Infant Martyr………………………….. 967

Am the Door…………………………………….. 967

Luke 11…………………………………………… .968

Upon the Infant Martyrs…………………….. 968

Luke 7……………………………………………… 968

On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord….. 968

HENRY VAUGHAN (1621-1695)…………… 969

The Retreat……………………………………….. 970

Cock-Crowing…………………………………… 971

Regeneration…………………………………….. 972

Peace……………………………………………….. 974

Corruption……………………………………….. 975

The World………………………………………… 976

They Are AH Gone into the World of Light!….. 977

Man…………………………………………………. 978

ANDREW MARVELL (1621-1678)…………. 979

The Garden………………………………………. 980

The Mower, Against Cardens………………. 982

The Mower’s Song…………………………….. 983

Bermudas…………………………………………. 984

A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body.. 985

Mourning…………………………………………. 986

To His Coy Mistress………………………….. 987

The Definition of Love……………………….. 988

An Horatian Ode……………………………….. 989

JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)………………….. 993

L’Allegro………………………………………….. 995

Penseroso…………………………………………. 999

At a Solemn Music…………………………… 1003

Comus……………………………………………. 1004

Sweet Echo…………………………………. 1004

Sabrina Fair………………………………… 1004

By the Rushy-fringed Bank…………… 1004

Lycidas…………………………………………… 1005

How Soon Hath Time………………………. 1011

When the Assault Was Intended to the City……… 1012

A Book Was Writ of Late Called Tetrachordon…. 1012

On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament… 1013

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont……… 1014

Lawrence, of Virtuous Father Virtuous Son…. 1014

When I Consider How My Light Is Spent…….. 1015

Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint…… 1015

Of Education…………………………………&