Renaissance Women Poets: Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney and Aemilia Lanyer Book

	Acknowledgements	viii
	Introduction	x
	Further Reading	xli
	Table of Dates	xliv
	A Note on the Texts	xlvi
	Isabella Whitney	1
	from A Sweet Nosgay	3
	To the worshipfull and right vertuous young Gentylman, George Mainwaring Esquier...	3
	The Author to the Reader	4
	Certain familier Epistles and friendly Letters by the Auctor: with Replies	8
	To her Brother. G.W.	8
	To her Brother. B.W.	9
	A modest meane for Maides...to two of her younger Sisters servinge in London	10
	To her Sister Misteris. A.B.	12
	To her Cosen. F.W.	13
	A carefull complaynt by the unfortunate Auctor	13
	IS. W. to C.B. in bewaylynge her mishappes	15
	To my Friend Master T.L. whose good nature I see abusde	16
	IS. W. beyng wery of writyng, sendeth this for Answere	17
	The Aucthour (though loth to leave the Citie) upon her Friendes procurement, is constrained to departe...and maketh her Wyll and Testament...	18
	A comunication which the Auctor had to London, before she made her Wyll	18
	The maner of her Wyll, and what she left to London: and all those in it: at her departing	19
	The Copy of a Letter, lately written in meeter, by a young Gentilwoman: to her unconstant Lover...	29
	I.W. To her unconstant Lover	29
	The admonition by the Auctor, to all young Gentilwomen: And to al other Maids being in Love	34
	The lamentacion of a Gentilwoman upon the death of her late deceased frend William Gruffith Gent	38
	Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke	45
	The Sidney Psalter	47
	'Even now that Care'	47
	To the Angell spirit of the most excellent Sir Phillip Sidney	50
	The Psalmes of Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke	53
	A Dialogue betweene two shepheards, Thenot, and Piers, in praise of Astrea...	190
	The Triumph of Death Translated Out of Italian by the Countesse of Pembrooke	192
	The first chapter	192
	The second chapter	197
	Aemilia Lanyer	203
	Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum	205
	To the Queenes most Excellent Majestie	205
	To all vertuous Ladies in generall	210
	The Authors Dreame to the Ladie Marie, the Countesse Dowager of Pembrooke	213
	To the Ladie Lucie, Countesse of Bedford	221
	To the Ladie Margaret, Countesse Dowager of Cumberland	222
	To the Ladie Anne, Countesse of Dorcet	223
	To the Vertuous Reader	228
	Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum	229
	The Description of Cooke-ham	274
	Abbreviations and Short Titles Used in the Notes and Textual Apparatus	281
	Notes	283
	Textual Apparatus	393