Additional Readings
The following readings were cut from the bound anthology and are now available here in electronic form. Suggestions for further reading are also provided.
Simon Fish
A Supplication for the Beggars
John Bale
The Laborious Journey and Search of John Leland, for England’s Antiquities
Certain Sermons or Homilies
An Exhortation Concerning Good Order and Obedience to Rulers and Magistrates
William Baldwin
from A Mirror for Magistrates
The Second Part of The Mirror for Magistrates
Arthur Golding
from Ovid’s Metamorphisis
John Dee
from The Mathematical Preface to Euclid’s Elements of Geometry
Popular Literature in Sixteenth-Century England
Pamphlets of Murder and Mayhem
Sundry Strange and Inhuman Murders, Lately Committed
Broadsides and Ballads
George Gascoigne
from The Posies of George Gascoigne
Edmund Spenser
from The Faerie Queene
from A View of the Present State of Ireland
Thomas Lodge
from Scylla’s Metamorphisis Interlaced with the Unfortunate Love of Glaucus
Sir Walter Ralegh
The Last Fight of the Revenge
Sir John Davies
from Orchestra or, A Poem of Dancing
George Chapman
from Ovid’s Banquet of Sense
A Coronet for His Mistress Philosophy
Thomas Deloney
from Jack of Newbury
John Florio and Michel de Montaigne
Montaigne’s Essays
Appendix: Florio’s Contribution to English Vocabulary
Suggestions for Further Reading