Early Stuart Libels: First-line index

FIRST-LINE INDEX

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A

A bird ill hatchd, from out a Cuckowes nest H16

A health to my Lady Duchess R6

A page a knight a Vicount, and an Earle [1613 version] F1

A page, a knight, a viscount and an Erle H5

A Phillipp once to england came Nv7

A Prince out of the North shall come Ni3

A proud cuckold tollit cornua Q5

A Romane right, then rotten at the Kore B12

A thinge gott by candle light Oiii15

A yere of wonder to the world was 88 Pi5

Above in the skies shall Gemini rise L1

Adew deere Don & Priest for ever Niii2 Back to top^

Admir-all weaknes wronges the right A8

Advance, advance my ill-disposed Muse D2

Ah was there nott a time when one man swayed D3

All earthlie things by Water knowe I25

All the newes thats stirringe now Nv15

All you that will goe with me Oii13

Anagram on Count Gondomar Niii3

Anagram on Frances Howard H21

Anagram on George Villiers Pi4

Anagram on John Felton Pii1

Anagram on John Felton Pii2

Anagram on John Williams Miii4

Anagram on Sir Thomas Overbury H22

And art return’d againe with all thy Faults Oii12

And art thou dead! who whilome thought’st thy state Pi21 Back to top^

And wilt thou goe, great Duke, and leave us heere Oii5

Arme, arme, in heaven there is a faction L7

As Cats over houses do go a catter-walting B9

As sick men feare the cure & startle more Oii14

At Hattfeilde neere Hartforde there lyes in a coffin D18

At Portsmouth Duke I will no longer staye Pi28

Avaunt you giddie-headed Multitude Oiii5

Awake, sad Brittaine, and advance at last Pii20

Away, away, great George, o come not here Pi32

B

Bancroft Was for Playes B20

Beehold this Obsequie: but without teares Pi10

Beholde Brave Raleigh here interr’d I13

Blame not the Poet though he make such moane Mii10

Blame not thy wife, for what thy selfe hath wrought Q6 Back to top^

Brave hardie Carre-man that with thy bastinado F8

Bridewell I come be valient muse and strip K2

C

Cease booteless teares, weepe not for him whose Death I21

Chamberlaine Chamberlaine, one of her graces kinn A13

Charles would yee Prevaile your foes, thine better Lucke Oii6

Come all you Farmers out of the Countrey B3

Come arme thy self brave England R4

Come heare, Lady Muses, and help mee to sing Oi16

Contemne not Gracious king our plaints and teares Nvi2

Courts commender states mantayner A5

Courts scorne, states disgracing A4

D

Dazal’d thus with hight of place H14

Dearling off Kings, Patrone off armes Piii3 Back to top^

Death come thy selfe and let thy Image sleepe Piii17

Downe came grave auntient Sir John Crooke C1i

E

England men say of late is bankerupt growne A14

England thy early prime is gone, good Knight A11

England was sick, a plewresey possest her Pi8

Enjoy thy Bondage; make thy Prison know Pii10

Essex bird hath flowen hir cage F5

Essex did spend, Northumberland did spare A16

Essex prayes, Southampton playes A10

Essex thy death’s reveng’d, Lo here I lie I4

Even such is tyme, which takes in trust I3

Excuse me Eliott if I heare name thee Oiii4

F

False on his Deanrye? false nay more, Ile lay Nv4 Back to top^

Falshoods Jewell D11

Feare not brave Felton sith it is thy fate Pii13

Felton, awake, & cheare thyselfe from sorrow Pii3

Fly Fame, report, that all the world may knowe I19

Fly not Momperson sins thear is no inn Mi4

Flye soule the bodies guide A3

For Lambe go ringe some bell Oiii8

Fortunes darling, Kings Content Pi17

Fower Cheyffe Justices late wee had Oi12

From a Gipsie in the morneing L9

From Car a Carter surely tooke his name H13

from Cathernes docke theer launcht A pritty Pinke H18

From Englands happy & unequall state Nv2

From Katherins dock there launcht a pinke F4

From Roberts coach to Robins carr H3 Back to top^

From such a face whose Excellence L8

G

Go Eccho of the minde A6

Goe soule the bodies guest A3

Great Buckinghame Oii3

Great Buckingham’s buried under a stone Pi15

Great Duke, Although I litle am acquainted Pi31

Great Duke, which art commaunder of the Seas Pi27

Great Gorge, and art thou gonne Pi23

Great heart, who taught thee so to dye I17

Great potent Duke, whom fortune rais’d soe high Pi20

Great Verulam is very lame, the gout of goe-out feeling Mii3

Greedie, Envious, malitious proud unstable J4

H

Had our great duke bene Joseph then might we Pi19 Back to top^

Hadst thou lik other Sirs and knights of worth H25

He nowe is deade, from whome men fledd D10

He that in Belgia fought for Englandes Queene A12

Heare heddlesse heedlesse matchlesse Rawly lies I6

Heare lyes the Impostar Lambe Oiii9

Heaven blesse King James our joy L10

Hee that can reade a sigh, or spell a teare Piii18

Heer is Francis Verulam Lord Chancelour God save him Mii6

Heer lye’s my Lord’s Grace at six & at seaven B19

Heere lies a gratious graceles Peere Pi18

Heere lies Hobbinoll our Shepheard while ere D1

Heere lieth Robbin Crookt back, unjustly reckond D4

Heere lyes a treasure in this pitte I10

Heere lyes great Salisbury though little of Stature D21

Heere lyes hee that once was poore H6 Back to top^

Heere lyes interred wormes meate D15

Heere lyes one nowe not worth despising F11

Heere lyes Salisbury that little great comaunder D20

Heere lyes the best and worst of Fate Piii2

Heere lyes the breife of badnes vices nurse J3

Heere lyes the man whose death and life I5

Heere lyes thy Urne, O what a little blowe Piii7

Heere lyeth our great Lord Treasorer of late D22

Heere lye’s a Lord that Wenching thought no sinne B15

Heere Robbin rousteth in his last neast D17

Heere sleepes in the Lorde beepepperde with pox D16

Heere uninterr’d suspends (though not to save Pii15

Henrie, raysed Brandon F7

Here Dr Lambe, the conjurer lyes Oiii6

Here lies Leachery, Treachery, Pride Pi13 Back to top^

Here lieth one who if his case be bad B18

Here Lyes Dick of Canterburie, suspected a Papist B17

Here lyes great George the Glory of our state Pi14

Here lyes my Lord of Northampton, his Majestie’s erwigg G5

Here Lyes the bonnes off him that did Pii19

Here lyes the Lady Penelope Rich B14

Here under lyes a Counsellor of State H28

Here uninterd suspends, (doubtles to save Pii16

Hesperides, within whose gardens grow H26

Honor, worth, greatnes, and what part so ere Piii12

Hope flattered thee though lawes did life convince I9

I

I did not flatter thee Alive, and nowe Piii5

I knew thee but by fame and thy brave deeds I24

I mmortal man of glory, whose stout hand Pii9 Back to top^

I neade noe Trophies, to adorne my hearse Q3

I speake to such if any such there bee B8

I that my countrey did betray Pi34

I will not weepe for twere as great a sin I20

I.C.U.R H9

If 88 be past then thrive Ni4

If either lotteryes or lottes E3

If ever woe possest a stubbern heart H15

If good mens graces in heaven with them abide Pi26

If greatnes, wisedome, pollicie of state D24

If heav’n rejoyce, when men leave off to sinne Oiii7

If Saints in heaven cann either see or heare Niv1

If spite be pleasd, when that her object dead I22

Ilium deplores, but still old Priams glad Nv10

Immodest death that wouldst not once conferre B16 Back to top^

Immortall Man of glorie, whose brave hand Pii8

In England there lives a jolly Sire H2

In reading these my Lord youll see I’ve gott Oii4

Io to Buckingham great Admiral L4

Is Felton dead? It’s that hee did desire Pii18

It makes mee to muse to heare of the Newes Oii2

Its true you need noe trophees to your hearse Q7

I’ve read of Ilands flotinge and removed Nv3

J

Justice of late hath lost her witts Oi13

L

Lady changed to Venus Dove F6

Landless Will: of Lambeth strand R8

Letchery did consult with witcherye F2

lett Charles & george doe what they can Pi1 Back to top^

Listen jolly gentlemen L5

Looke, and lament behould a face of Earth H20

Lord, what are wee, that thou shouldst thus respect Pi9

M

Make haste I pray, launch out your shipps with speed Pi29

Me thinks I see a lady sitt and mourne H19

Mee thought I walked in a dreame G2

Might Teares Revive thee I could wish to be Piii16

Mother / My humble dutie done, I crave Pi35

My honour, favour, life, & all Pi33

My life is done my heart prepard for death Q4

My Lord high stewarde his grace Q1

Myene of Gold some say their’s found E4

M alignant characters that did portend Piii1

N Back to top^

Nevil for the protestant, L Thomas for the papist B1

No sooner had the worlds most happy knife Pi30

Noe Poets triviall rage that must aspire Piii22

Nourishd with sighs and frights, and form’d with fears Piii19

Now doe your selves noe more so deck E2

Now let us rejoyce sing Peans all L2

O

O Admirall! Since thou camst back againe Oiii1

O had thy name bene causer of thy death I11

O Joyfull newse for Buckingham is nowe L3

O Ladies, ladies howle & cry D12

O stay your teares yow who complaine Nvi1

Of Brittish Beasts the Buck is King Oiii12

Of Raleighes life and death the sum of all to tell I7

Oh for an Ovid or a Homer now Nv16 Back to top^

Oh honoured England how art thou disgracd Oi2

Oh that such wisdome that could steere a state D25

Once dead and twice a live; death could not frame H24

Once he was Grace it selfe I23

One askte me, why I mournde Oii9

One worthy Chancellour rendred up his place Miii1

Ould Ned Cooke is putt to a new booke Oi14

Ould Sarum now is dead Younge Salisburie lyves D27

Our countrie Merry England (once so styl’d) Piii11

Our digby digd’e but digd’e in vaine Oi3

Our eagle is yett flowne, to a place unknowne Nv11

Our Prince whom we soe dearely lov’d Nv13

Our state’s a Game at Cards the Councell deale Oiii10

Oure crossrow’s turnd, a signe off monstrous luck Oii10

Oyes Mi5 Back to top^

P

Pale death, with Iron hand, hath struck a blowe Pi22

Passer by know heere is interrd D19

Pervertinge of the lawes makes justice blind Mi3

Poor silly wight that carkes in the night Nv12

Poore Pilote thou hast lost thy Pinke H10

Pride lies heere, Revenge and Lust Pi16

Proude and ambitious wretch that feedest on naught but faction A9

R

Raleigh in this thy selfe thy selfe transcends I1

Reader I was borne and cry’d C1b

Reader stand still and read loe heere I am Piii10

Reader when these dumbe stones have told Piii21

Reader, if that desert may make the stay D14