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The Life and Poetry of George Chapman
BRIEF INTRODUCTION: GEORGE CHAPMAN
COMPLETE POEMS OF GEORGE CHAPMAN
CONTENTS
THE SHADOW OF NIGHT.
HYMNVS IN NOCTEM.
HYMNVS IN CYNTHIAM.
OVIDS BANQUET OF SENCE.
RICHARD STAPLETON TO THE AUTHOR.
OVIDS BANQUET OF SENCE.
NARRATIO.
A CORONET FOR HIS MISTRESSE
THE AMOROVS ZODIACK.
THE AMOROVS CONTENTION OF PHILLIS
CERTAMEN INTER PHILLIDEM & FLORAM.
HERO AND LEANDER.
TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL, SIR THOMAS WALSINGHAM, KNIGHT
THE ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST SESTYAD
THE ARGUMENT OF THE SECOND SESTYAD
TO MY BEST ESTEEMED AND WORTHELY HONORED LADY, THE LADY WALSINGHAM
THE ARGUMENT OF THE THIRD SESTYAD
THE ARGUMENT OF THE FOURTH SESTYAD
THE ARGUMENT OF THE FIFT SESTYAD.
THE ARGUMENT OF THE SIXT SESTYAD.
EVTHYMIÆ RAPTVS
INDVCTIO
THE TEARES OF PEACE.
CONCLVSIO.
COROLLARIVM AD PRINCIPEM.
PETRARCHS SEVEN PENITENTIALL PSALMS
PSALME I.
PSALME II.
PSALME III.
PSALME IIII.
PSALME V.
PSALME VI.
PSALME VII.
THE I. PSALME
A HYMNE TO OVR
VIRGILS EPIGRAM
VIRGILS EPIGRAM OF PLAY.
VIRGILS EPIGRAM OF WINE AND WOMEN.
VIRGILS EPIGRAM OF THIS LETTER Y.
A FRAGMENT OF THE TEARES OF PEACE.
FRAGMENTS.
AN EPICEDE OR FVNERALL SONG:
TO MY AFFECTIONATE, AND TRVE FRIEND, MR. HENRY JONES.
AN EPICED, OR FUNERALL SONG.
EVGENIA.
TO THE MOST WORTHY, AND RELIGIOVSLY-NOBLE FRANCIS, LORD RUSSELL, BARON OF THORNEHAUGH, &C.
EVGENIA.
VIGILIA PRIMA. INDUCTIO.
VIGILIA PRIMA.
VIGILIAE SECUNDAE. INDUCTIO.
VIRGILIAE SECUNDAE.
VIRGILIAE TERTIÆ INDUCTIO.
VIRGILIAE TERTIÆ.
VIGILIÆ QUARTÆ & VLTIMÆ.
INDUCTIO.
ANDROMEDA LIBERATA.
TO THE PREIVDICATE AND PEREMPTORY READER.
THE ARGUMENT.
TO THE RIGHT WORTHILY HONORED, ROBERT EARLE OF SOMMERSET, &C.
ANDROMEDA LIBERATA.
PARCARVM EPITHALAMION.
APODOSIS.
A FREE AND OFFENCELES IVSTIFICATION OF ANDROMEDA LIBERATA.
OF A LATELY PUBLISHT AND MOST MALICIOUSLY MISINTERPRETED POEME; ENTITULED.
DIALOGUS.
PRO VERE, AVTVMNI LACHRYMAE.
TO THE MOST WORTHILY HONORED AND IUDICIALLY-NOBLE LOUER AND FAUTOR OF ALL GOODNESSE AND VERTUE, ROBERT, EARLE OF SOMERSET, &C.
PRO VERE, AVTVMNI LACHRYMAE.
A IVSTIFICATION OF A STRANGE ACTION OF NERO
TO THE RIGHT VIRTVOVS AND WORTHILY HONOURED GENTLEMAN RICHARD HVBERT, ESQUIRE.
THE FVNERALL ORATION MADE AT THE BURIALL OF ONE OF POPPAEAS HAYRES.
COMMENDATORY AND OCCASIONAL VERSES.
TO THE AUTHOR OF NENNIO.
DE GUIANA, CARMEN EPICUM.
PERISTEROS: OR THE MALE TURTLE.
TO MY LONG LOU’D AND HONOURABLE FRIEND, SIR THOMAS WALSINGHAM KNIGHT.
IN SEIANVM BEN. IONSONI ET MUSIS, ET SIBI IN DELICIJS.
TO HIS DEARE FRIEND, BENIAMIN IONSON HIS VOLPONE.
TO HIS LOUING FRIEND M. JO. FLETCHER CONCERNING HIS PASTORALL, BEING BOTH A POEME AND A PLAY.
TO BYRD, BULL, AND GIBBONS ON PARTHENIA.
TO HIS LOVED SONNE, NAT. FIELD, AND HIS WETHERCOCKE WOMAN.
A HYMNE TO HYMEN FOR THE MOST TIME-FITTED NVPTIALLS
TO CHRISTOPHER BROOKE ON HIS GHOST OF RICHARD THE THIRD.
TO GRIMESTONE ON HIS TRANSLATION OF COEFFETAU’S TABLE OF HUMAINE PASSIONS.
ON THE TRAGIC HISTORY OF HIPOLITO AND ISABELLA.
VERSES FROM ENGLAND’S PARNASSVS AND FROM MANUSCRIPT.
UNTRACED QUOTATIONS IN ENGLAND’S PARNASSVS, 1600.
EPICVRES FRVGALLITIE:
AN JNVECTIVE WRIGHTEN BY MR. GEORGE CHAPMAN AGAINST MR. BEN: JOHNSON.
POEMS PREFATORY AND DEDICATORY TO THE ILIADS, ODYSSEYS, AND HYMNS OF HOMER.
TO M. HARRIOTS, ACCOMPANYING ACHILLES SHIELD.
EPISTLE DEDICATORY: THE ILIADS.
MEMORIAL VERSES TO PRINCE HENRY: WHOLE WORKS OF HOMER.
AN ANAGRAM ON HENRY: THE ILIADS.
TO THE SACRED FOVNTAINE OF PRINCES; SOLE EMPRESSE OF BEAVTIE AND VERTUE; ANNE,
TO THE READER.
TO THE RIGHT GRACIOVS AND WORTHY, THE DUKE OF LENNOX.
TO THE MOST GRAVE AND HONORED TEMPERER OF LAW, AND EQUITIE, THE LORD CHANCELOR, &C.
TO THE MOST WORTHIE EARLE, LORD TREASURER, AND TREASURE OF OUR COUNTREY, THE EARLE OF SALISBVRY, &C.
TO THE MOST HONOR’D RESTORER OF ANCIENT NOHILITIE, BOTH IN BLOOD AND VERTUE, THE EARLE OF SVFFOLKE, &C.
TO THE MOST NOBLE AND LEARNED EARLE, THE EARLE OF NORTHAMTON, &C.
TO THE MOST NOBLE, MY SINGULAR GOOD LORD, THE EARLE OF ARUNDELL.
TO THE LEARNED AND MOST NOBLE PATRONE OF LEARNING THE EARLE OF PEMBROOKE, &C.
TO THE RIGHT GRACIOVS ILLUSTRATOR OF VERTUE, AND WORTHY OF THE FAUOUR ROYALL, THE EARLE OF MONTGOMRIE.
TO THE MOST LEARNED AND NOBLE CONCLUDER OF THE WANES ARTE, AND THE MUSES, THE LORD LISLE, &C.
TO THE GREAT AND VERTUOUS, THE COUNTESSE OF MONTGOMRIE.
TO THE HAPPY STARRE, DISCOUERED IN OUR SYDNEIAN ASTERISME; COMFORT OF LEARNING, SPHERE OF ALL THE VERTUES, THE LADY WROTHE.
TO THE RIGHT NOBLE PATRONESSE AND GRACE OF VERTUE, THE COUNTESSE OF BEDFORD.
TO THE RIGHT VALOROVS AND VIRTUOUS LORD, THE EARLE OF SOVTH-HAMTON &C.
TO MY EXCEEDING GOOD LORD, THE EARLE OF SVSSEX: WITH DUTY ALWAIES REMEMBRED TO HIS HONOR’D COUNTESSE.
TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND HEROICALL, MY SINGULAR GOOD LORD, THE LORD OF WALDEN, &C.
TO THE MOST TRVLY-NOBLE AND VERTUE-GRACING KNIGHT SIR THOMAS HOWARD.
TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND MOST TOWARD LORD IN ALL THE HEROICALL VERTUES, VICOUNT CRANBORNE, &C.
TO THE MOST HONORD, AND JUDICIALL HONORER OF RETIRED VERTUE, VICOUNT ROCHESTER, &C.
TO THE RIGHT GRAVE AND NOBLE PATRONE OF ALL THE VERTUES, SIR EDWARD PHILIPS, MAISTER OF THE ROLES, &C.
TO OUR ENGLISH ATHENIA, CHASTE ARBITRESSE OF VERTUE AND LEARNING, THE LADIE ARBELLA
TO THE RIGHT NOBLE, AND BY THE GREAT ETERNIZER OF VERTUE, SIR P. SYDNEY
TO THE MOST WORTHILY HONORED, MY SINGVLAR GOOD LORD, ROBERT, EARLE OF SOMERSET, LORD CHAMBERLAINE, &C.
CERTAINE ANCIENT GREEKE EPIGRAMMES TRANSLATED.
HYMNS OF HOMER.
TO MY EVER MOST-WORTHIE-TO-BE-MOST HONOR’D LORD, THE EARLE OF SOMERSET, &c.
EPILOGUE TO THE HYMNS.
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Homeric Translations
THE ILIADS
CONTENTS
THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO THE IMMORTAL MEMORY OF THE INCOMPARABLE HEROE, HENRY, PRINCE OF WALES.
TO THE HIGH BORN PRINCE OF MEN, HENRY, THRICE ROYAL INHERITOR TO THE UNITED KINGDOMS OF GREAT BRITAIN, ETC.
TO THE SACRED FOUNTAIN OF PRINCES, SOLE EMPRESS OF BEAUTY AND VIRTUE, ANNE, QUEEN OF ENGLAND, ETC.
TO THE READER
SILIUS ITALICUS, LIB. XIII. 777
ANGELUS POLITIANUS, IN NUTRICIA
THE PREFACE TO THE READER
OF HOMER
THE FIRST BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE SECOND BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE CATALOGUE OF THE GRECIAN SHIPS AND CAPTAINS
THE THIRD BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE FIFTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE SIXTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE EIGHTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE NINTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE TENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE ELEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE TWELFTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE THIRTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE FOURTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE FIFTEENTH OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE SIXTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE EIGHTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE NINETEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE TWENTIETH BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE TWENTY-FIRST BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE TWENTY-SECOND BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE TWENTY-THIRD BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE TWENTY-FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
EPILOGUE TO HOMER’S ILIADS
THE ODYSSEYS
CONTENTS
TO THE MOST WORTHILY HONOURED, MY SINGULAR GOOD LORD, ROBERT, EARL OF SOMERSET, LORD CHAMBERLAIN, ETC.
CERTAIN ANCIENT GREEK EPIGRAMS TRANSLATED
THE FIRST BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE SECOND BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE THIRD BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE FIFTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE SIXTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ARGUMENT
THE SEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ARGUMENT
THE EIGHTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE NINTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE TENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE ELEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE TWELFTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ARGUMENT
FINIS DUODECIMI LIBRI HOM. ODYSS.
THE THIRTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ARGUMENT
THE FOURTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE FIFTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE SIXTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE TWENTIETH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE TWENTY-FIRST BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE TWENTY-SECOND BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE TWENTY-THIRD BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
THE TWENTY-FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ARGUMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
“SO WROUGHT DIVINE ULYSSES”
TO THE RUINS OF TROY AND GREECE
THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE
CONTENTS
THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY
THE OCCASION OF THIS IMPOSED CROWNE
BATRACHOMYOMACHIA
THE HOMERIC HYMNS
CONTENTS
A HYMN TO APOLLO
A HYMN TO HERMES
A HYMN TO VENUS
TO THE SAME
BACCHUS, OR THE PIRATES
TO MARS
TO DIANA
TO VENUS
TO PALLAS
TO JUNO
TO CERES
TO THE MOTHER OF THE GODS
TO LION-HEARTED HERCULES
TO ÆSCULAPIUS
TO CASTOR AND POLLUX
TO MERCURY
TO PAN
TO VULCAN
TO PHŒBUS
TO NEPTUNE
TO JOVE
TO VESTA
TO THE MUSES AND APOLLO
TO BACCHUS
TO DIANA
TO PALLAS
TO VESTA AND MERCURY
TO EARTH, THE MOTHER OF ALL
TO THE SUN
TO THE MOON
TO CASTOR AND POLLUX
TO MEN OF HOSPITALITY
EPIGRAMS
TO CUMA
IN HIS RETURN TO CUMA
UPON THE SEPULCHRE OF MIDUS CUT IN BRASS, IN THE FIGURE OF A VIRGIN
CUMA REFUSING HIS OFFER TO ETERNIZE THEIR STATE, THOUGH BROUGHT THITHER BY THE MUSES
AN ASSAY OF HIS BEGUN ILIADS
INQUISITIVE OF HOMER ABOUT THE CAUSES OF THINGS
TO NEPTUNE
TO THE CITY ERYTHRÆA
TO MARINERS
THE PINE
TO GLAUCUS WHO WAS SO MISERABLY SPARING THAT HE FEARED ALL MEN’S ACCESS TO HIM
AGAINST THE SAMIAN MINISTRESS, OR NUN
WRITTEN ON THE COUNCIL CHAMBER
THE FURNACE CALLED IN TO SING BY POTTERS
EIRESIONE, OR, THE OLIVE BRANCH
TO CERTAIN FISHER BOYS PLEASING HIM WITH INGENIOUS RIDDLES
THE TRANSLATOR’S EPILOGUE
The Comedies
AN HUMOROUS DAY’S MIRTH
CONTENTS
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
Scene 6
Scene 7
Scene 8
Scene 9
Scene 10
Scene 11
Scene 12
Scene 13
Scene 14
EASTWARD HO
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
THE PROLOGUE
ACT I
SCENE I.
SCENE II
ACT II
SCENE I
SCENE II
ACT III
SCENE I
SCENE II
SCENE III
SCENE IV
ACT IV
SCENE I
SCENE II
ACT V
SCENE I
SCENE II
SCENE III
SCENE IV
SCENE V
THE EPILOGUE
MAY DAY
CONTENTS
ACTUS PRIMA.
SCAENA PRIMA.
ACTUS SECUNDI,
SCAENA PRIMA.
ACTUS TERTIUS.
ACTUS QUARTUS.
ACTUS QUINTUS.
The Tragedies
THE TRAGEDY OF BUSSY D’AMBOIS
CONTENTS
PREFATORY NOTE
BIOGRAPHY
INTRODUCTION
THE TEXT
SOURCES
PROLOGUE
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
ACTUS PRIMI.
SCENA PRIMA.
SCENA SECUNDA.
ACTUS SECUND.
SCENA PRIMA.
SCENA SECUNDA.
ACTUS TERTII.
SCENA PRIMA.
SCENA SECUNDA.
ACTUS QUARTI.
SCENA PRIMA.
SCENA SECUNDA.
ACTUS QUINTI.
SCENA PRIMA.
SCENA SECUNDA.
SCENA TERTIA.
SCENA QUARTA.
EPILOGUE
THE REVENGE OF BUSSY D’AMBOIS
CONTENTS
THE TEXT
SOURCES
THE ACTORS NAMES
ACTUS PRIMI.
SCÆNA PRIMA.
SCÆNA SECUNDA.
ACTUS SECUNDI.
SCÆNA PRIMA.
ACTUS TERTII.
SCÆNA PRIMA.
SCÆNA SECUNDA.
SCÆNA TERTIA.
SCÆNA QUARTA.
ACTUS QUARTI.
SCÆNA PRIMA.
SCÆNA SECUNDA.
SCÆNA TERTIA.
SCÆNA QUARTA.
SCÆNA QUINTA.
ACTUS QUINTI.
SCÆNA PRIMA.
SCÆNA SECUNDA.
SCÆNA TERTIA.
SCÆNA QUARTA.
SCÆNA QUINTA.
ROLLO DUKE OF NORMANDY
CONTENTS
Persons Represented in the Play.
Actus Primus. Scena Prima.
Actus Secundus. Scena Prima.
Actus Tertius. Scena Prima.
Actus Quartus. Scena Prima.
Actus Quintus. Scena Prima.
The Biography
GEORGE CHAPMAN by Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Delphi Classics Catalogue
Series Contents
Alphabetical List of Titles
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