A web-based edition of early seventeenth-century political poetry from manuscript sources. It brings into the public domain over 350 poems, many of which have never before been published.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

H. The Overbury Murder Scandal (1615-1616)

H1. There was an ould ladd rode on an ould padd  (html),   (pdf)

H2. In England there lives a jolly Sire  (html),   (pdf)

H3. From Roberts coach to Robins carr  (html),   (pdf)

H4. Robbin of Essex all in a rage  (html),   (pdf)

H5. A page, a knight, a viscount and an Erle  (html),   (pdf)

H6. Heere lyes hee that once was poore  (html),   (pdf)

H7. When Carr in Court a Page at first began  (html),   (pdf)

H8. The Sommers sun is sett  (html),   (pdf)

H9. I.C.U.R  (html),   (pdf)

H10. Poore Pilote thou hast lost thy Pinke  (html),   (pdf)

H11. The wealth he gott to make his meanes greate  (html),   (pdf)

H12. Why how now Robine? discontented quite  (html),   (pdf)

H13. From Car a Carter surely tooke his name  (html),   (pdf)

H14. Dazal’d thus with hight of place  (html),   (pdf)

H15. If ever woe possest a stubbern heart  (html),   (pdf)

H16. A bird ill hatchd, from out a Cuckowes nest  (html),   (pdf)

H17. She with whom troops of bustuary slaves  (html),   (pdf)

H18. from Cathernes docke theer launcht A pritty Pinke  (html),   (pdf)

H19. Me thinks I see a lady sitt and mourne  (html),   (pdf)

H20. Looke, and lament behould a face of Earth  (html),   (pdf)

H21. Anagram on Frances Howard  (html),   (pdf)

H22. Anagram on Sir Thomas Overbury  (html),   (pdf)

H23. Sir you are one of those, who dare commend  (html),   (pdf)

H24. Once dead and twice a live; death could not frame  (html),   (pdf)

H25. Hadst thou lik other Sirs and knights of worth  (html),   (pdf)

H26. Hesperides, within whose gardens grow  (html),   (pdf)

H27. The house of the Howards  (html),   (pdf)

H28. Here under lyes a Counsellor of State  (html),   (pdf)