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Index [19 July, 2004] Jane Francesca Wilde: The Poet's Spell Joseph Swetnam: left-handed fencers Phillis Wheatley: from On Imagination Anon: from The Wandering Whore Writ of Mary, Queen of Scots: 'Johne Faw, lord and erle of Litill Egept' Anon: The Life of Black Tom Anon: from The Triumph of Truth Notitia Dignitatum: the division of Aurelian Moors John Wilson: raven ghosts John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: Verses for which he was banished the court Francis Bacon: atheism preferable to superstition J. C. Hotten: Fiddlers' Green Anon: passage from the Lay of Guingamor J. C. Atkinson: the relief of the poor Plutarch: the ship of Theseus Lewis Carroll: My Fairy Stephen Duck: haymaking Plato: Socrates on dreams, from Theaetetus John Aubrey: a charm against rain M. C. Balfour: Tiddy Mun (beginning) Anon: Robin Goodfellow’s Song William Shakespeare: from Titania’s complaint to Oberon Isaac Rosenberg: Break of Day in the Trenches Andrew Lang: on the ‘Bognor House’ ghost William Shakespeare: ‘Caterickes, & Hircanios’ Sir Francis Galton: on women Dorothy Amaury Talbot: on “Bush Souls” John Aubrey: customs on midsummer eve Aldhelm: Two Riddles John Lydgate: stanzas from As a Mydsomer Rose Henry Fielding: the Maxims of Jonathan Wild An upland meadow, from Morte Arthure William of Newburgh: re-animated corpses Callimachus: a poet's prayer Alchemist's recipe: to make gold out of lead Sabine Baring-Gould: a half-laid ghost Thomas Hobbes: on absurdity John Gay: Macheath on money Thomas Dekker: the Abram man Giraldus Cambrensis: the demon's son George Crabbe: on rural poverty The naked virtues of Bolsover Castle Robert Burton: on music An image from Peredur the Son of Evrawc Nicholls’s Seamanship: running in heavy weather Richard Deering and Orlando Gibbons (collectors): Jacobean street cries Michael Drayton: on Charnwood Forest John Smith: from The Printer’s Grammar Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle: Of many Worlds in this World J. F. Campbell: some Gaelic riddles Thomas Paine: from The Age of Reason Richard Head: female highway robbers, from The English Rogue Martial: Buy my works in codex form, the latest thing! Jonathan Swift, from Directions to Servants Jean Ingelow: the Apple Woman, from Mopsa the Fairy William Morris: the Dry Tree John Stow and Philip Stubbes: on celebrating May Day Ben Jonson: 'Slow, slow, fresh fount' Benjamin Thorpe: an item from Northern Mythology Cassius Dio, on the bandit Bulla Felix A. E. Housman, ‘Loveliest of trees, the cherry now’ Witness deposition, 1663: a cat witch Robert Greene: on blackmailing whores Plutarch: on the Cilician pirates Clausewitz: on insurgency Gervase of Tilbury: on mermaids Roman Law: on snake charmers The Apocalypses of Peter and Paul: usurers in hell George MacDonald: from The Fantastic Imagination Daniel Defoe: from The True-Born Englishman William Langland: the lives of peasant women Travels of Baron Munchausen: from the preface to the third edition William Shakespeare: Volumnia on anger, from Coriolanus Marie Trevelyan: winged serpents in nineteenth-century Wales Anonymous: from Calisto and Melebea Petronius Arbiter on the love of learning Joseph Gutteridge on Spiritualism Transylvanian Gypsy Folk-Tale John Eliot: dialogue between a bookseller and a customer Sir Philip Sidney: ‘O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!’ John Aubrey on Sir Thomas More Grettir’s fight with Glam Sir Thomas Browne on frogs John Clare: The Flood Randle Holme on the inhabitants of Florida Hell and Paradise compared: from Aucassin and Nicolette Rudyard Kipling: Puck's Song John Gregorson Campbell on the mouse satire Sir William Temple on story-telling in seventeenth-century Ireland 'Sir John Mandeville': the Trees of the Sun and Moon Sir Thomas Urquhart on man the microcosm Snow, from Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Francis Fane: speech from The Sacrifice Anecdote from the Gentleman's Magazine, 1751 Richard Jefferies: from After London Andrew Boorde (?): the mad men of Gotham and the cuckoo Tacitus: extracts from Germania Gray goose and gander Thomas of Cantimpré on the different kinds of spirits Gavin Douglas: Winter Weather Charles Lamb on night fears A Dream, from Perlesvaus Two Kissing Girls of Spitalfields Francis Grose: to die game G. K. Chesterton: from ‘A Defence of Penny Dreadfuls’ William Godwin: the primary cause of war is the unequal distribution of property Ballad: ‘One king’s daughter said to anither’ Thomas Traherne: from Centuries of Meditations Rudyard Kipling: Ford o’ Kabul River A. E. Housman: ‘Ho, everyone that thirsteth’ The Last Supper, from the Apocryphal Acts of John Christmas at Arthur's Court, from Gawain and the Green Knight Sophocles: Philoctetes’ farewell to Lemnos Wilfred Owen: Shadwell Stair Robert Louis Stevenson: The Persons of the Tale Francis Grose: eighteenth-century slang Ausonius: reflections in the Moselle George Wilkins: Jacobean pickpockets Gervase of Tilbury: the ocean above the sky Joseph Addison: on the fairy way of writing Richard de Bury: on books Edward Topsell: a Roman Pied Piper The Athenian Mercury: a seventeenth-century lesbian writes for advice Catullus: The Dead Sparrow Renée Vivien: Words to my Love William Lilly: the woman plagued by angels Martin Martin on the poets of traditional Gaelic society Proverb: 'That which is written abides' A Fairy-seer in Elizabethan Dorset Prudentius: from A Hymn to Christmas Day Cicero on torture Lewis Carroll: Humpty Dumpty on words Sappho: "The Muses, scattering violets from their skirts" A woman's song: Levis exsurgit Zephyrus John Tradescant: items from Musaeum Tradescantium Sappho: fragment Sappho: new poem (literal translation) Richard Carew: on interjections William Blake, Orc's prophecy, from America Wordsworth, To Toussaint L'Ouverture Byron, Song for the Luddites Milton: Manoa praises Samson's suicidal act of resistance Cervantes: Don Quixote on left-handedness William Archer: on the essence of drama William Shakespeare: 'Robes and furred gowns hide all' Richard Baxter: on the royalist defeat at Worcester Thomas Fuller: on anger Cock Lorel sets sail Erasmus: from the Praise of Folly St Augustine: Alexander and the pirate Comenius: on schools Paracelsus: on magic and the imagination A sixteenth century riddle Robert Burton: storms are caused by aerial devils Martial, To Bassa the Tribade The Hosts of Faery The Bailey Beareth the Bell Away Villon, Quatrain Gerrard Winstanley: on 'the power of the sword' Ben Jonson: on paintings Thomas Churchyard, 'When virtue laid her down to sleep' Renée Vivien, The Night is for Us John Gay, Highwayman's Song James Elroy Flecker, The Old Ships Arthur Hugh Clough, The Latest Decalogue Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Cuckoo (fragment) John Selden on government John Taylor (?), The Poet Sir John Harington, translation of passage from The Regimen for Health of the School of Salerno D. H. Lawrence, The Argonauts John Gay, from Trivia; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London Ecclesiastes Chapter III verses 21–22 William Falconer, from The Shipwreck: a shipwreck W. E. Henley, Villon's Straight Tip to All Cross Coves Richard Stanyhurst, translation of Virgil's Aeneid: a storm at sea Ptolemy the Astronomer, Epigram on the stars Anne Finch, Friendship between Ephelia and Ardelia post comment

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