| 1 | 0–70 | 554 | unassigned | | O Faithful servant of mine ancient sire, Though unto thee, sufficiently be known The whole discourse of my rec… |
| 2 | 71–142 | 545 | T34 Thebes and royal catastrophe: siege, sla | 0.73 | Not far fro thence, the mighty Polybus, Of Corinth King, did keep his princely court, Unto whose woeful wife (… |
| 3 | 143–213 | 537 | T34 Thebes and royal catastrophe: siege, sla | 0.87 | Now to the end this blind outrageous sire. Should reap no joy of his unnatural fruit, His wretched sons, prick… |
| 4 | 214–282 | 523 | unassigned | | (O noble Queen) sith unto such affairs My speedy diligence is requisite, I will apply effectually to do What s… |
| 5 | 283–348 | 495 | unassigned | | The love I bear to my sweet Polynices, My dear brother, is only cause hereof. Why daughter, know'st thou any r… |
| 6 | 349–416 | 506 | T34 Thebes and royal catastrophe: siege, sla | 0.81 | As both my brethren be, so both I bear As much good will as any sister may, But yet the wrong that unto Polyni… |
| 7 | 417–481 | 506 | unassigned | | Hard by the King I spied Polynices, In golden glistering arms most richly clad, Whose person many a stately pr… |
| 8 | 482–547 | 514 | unassigned | | Those elder heads may well be thought to err, The which for easy life and quiet days, The vulgar sort would se… |
| 9 | 548–607 | 496 | unassigned | | O worthy imp sprung out of worthy race, renowned Prince, whom we have looked for long, And now in happy hour a… |
| 10 | 608–673 | 510 | unassigned | | There is no love may be compared to that, The tender mother bears unto her child: For even somuch the more it … |
| 11 | 674–736 | 484 | T34 Thebes and royal catastrophe: siege, sla | 0.81 | And seemed this so grievous unto thee? What grief can greater be, than so constrained Slave-like to serve 'gai… |
| 12 | 737–801 | 505 | T34 Thebes and royal catastrophe: siege, sla | 0.79 | Adrastus swore, that he would soon restore Unto our right both Tydeus, and me: And first for me, that had the … |
| 13 | 802–865 | 512 | unassigned | | Who seeks to end their discord and debate: They only aught consider well the cause For which they come, and ca… |
| 14 | 866–929 | 512 | unassigned | | If what to some seems honest good and just, Can seem even so in every doubtful mind, Not dark debate nor quarr… |
| 15 | 930–994 | 509 | unassigned | | This monstrous mate, in stead whereof embrace Equality, which stately states defends And binds the mind with t… |
| 16 | 995–1052 | 486 | T34 Thebes and royal catastrophe: siege, sla | 0.82 | Yea dear, too dear when it shall come too late. And now to thee my Polynices dear, I say that silly was Adrast… |
| 17 | 1053–1115 | 488 | T34 Thebes and royal catastrophe: siege, sla | 0.85 | This truce assureth thee Polynices, And makes thee bold to give such boasting words: So be thou sure, that had… |
| 18 | 1116–1176 | 481 | T34 Thebes and royal catastrophe: siege, sla | 0.89 | And that right soon the proof shall plainly show. O say not so, yet say not so dear sons. O royal race of Theb… |
| 19 | 1177–1237 | 499 | unassigned | | I understand, the army that he brings Against these walls, is such, that I me doubt Our city's force may scarc… |
| 20 | 1238–1300 | 505 | T34 Thebes and royal catastrophe: siege, sla | 0.84 | And how shall I the City then defend? Well-with the rest,, for one man sees not all. And shall I choose the bo… |
| 21 | 1301–1360 | 475 | unassigned | | Father of war and death, that dost remove With wrathful wreck from woeful mother's breast, The trusty pledges … |
| 22 | 1361–1425 | 518 | T34 Thebes and royal catastrophe: siege, sla | 0.85 | What I would have of thee Tiresias Is not a thing so soon for to be said. But rest a while thy weak and weary … |
| 23 | 1426–1492 | 485 | T34 Thebes and royal catastrophe: siege, sla | 0.80 | This due is done. With knife then stick the kid, Thou daughter of divine Tiresias, With those unspotted virgin… |
| 24 | 1493–1554 | 484 | T34 Thebes and royal catastrophe: siege, sla | 0.78 | Yet tell me what behoves the city do? Thou Creon seemest now desirous still It to preserve: but if as well as … |
| 25 | 1555–1612 | 482 | unassigned | | Shall I be then the murderer of mine own? Ne blame not me, but blame the stars for this. Can heavens condemn b… |
| 26 | 1613–1666 | 460 | unassigned | | I can not choose, dear son, but disallow This thy too hasty, hot desire of death: For if thy life thou settest… |
| 27 | 1667–1722 | 450 | unassigned | | You may of me, as of yourself dispose, And since my life doth seem so dear to you, I will preserve the same to… |
| 28 | 1723–1787 | 497 | T50 Fleets, armies and generals: war by sea | 0.77 | The Mariner amid the swelling seas Who seeth his bark with many a billow beaten, Now here, now there, as wind … |
| 29 | 1788–1853 | 498 | T7 The Trojan war: conflict and its afterma | 0.73 | Not sooner had your worthy valiant son, Severde the Dukes into seven several parts, And set them to defence of… |
| 30 | 1854–1913 | 469 | T34 Thebes and royal catastrophe: siege, sla | 0.82 | This good success was lucky sure, and such, As for my part I little looked for: To save the town and eke to ha… |
| 31 | 1914–1972 | 471 | T34 Thebes and royal catastrophe: siege, sla | 0.78 | Our noble King no sooner heard this vaunt, But forth as fast he priest his princely steps, With eager mind, as… |
| 32 | 1973–2032 | 471 | unassigned | | Our woeful words, our prayers & our plaints, Poured out with streams of overflowing tears, (Where Nature rules… |
| 33 | 2033–2093 | 481 | unassigned | | If so the mind may dread his own mishap, Then dread I much, this man that seeks me thus, Hath brought the deat… |
| 34 | 2094–2156 | 494 | unassigned | | O Blissful concord, bred in sacred breast Of him that guides the restless rolling sky, That to the earth for m… |
| 35 | 2157–2218 | 481 | unassigned | | O sacred God, give ear unto thy thrall, That humbly here upon thy name doth call, O let not now, our faultless… |
| 36 | 2219–2287 | 516 | T34 Thebes and royal catastrophe: siege, sla | 0.81 | O Iocasta, miserable mother, What hapless end thy life alas hath hent? Percase the heavens purveyed had the sa… |
| 37 | 2288–2352 | 512 | unassigned | | But straight again they held their peace, for why? Eteocles 'gan thrust his wicked sword In the left arm of un… |
| 38 | 2353–2418 | 513 | unassigned | | Left thus in everlasting woe and grief: So am I sorry for Eteocles, Who though he were my cruel enemy, He was … |
| 39 | 2419–2480 | 488 | unassigned | | What stony heart could leave for to lament? O Polynices, now hast thou with thy blood Bought all too dear the … |
| 40 | 2481–2546 | 517 | unassigned | | When as my mother saw her dear sons dead, As pensive pangs had priest her tender heart, With bloodless cheeks … |
| 41 | 2547–2609 | 499 | unassigned | | So hast thou reason Oedipus, to say, And for my part I would thee counsel eke, Still to maintain the high and … |
| 42 | 2610–2670 | 482 | unassigned | | O simple wench, O fond and foolish girl, Beware, beware, thy tears do not foretell Some sign of hard mishap un… |
| 43 | 2671–2732 | 481 | T24 Apollo, Phoebus and the Muses | 0.80 | Now comes Apollo's oracle to pass, That I in Athens town should end my days: And since thou dost, O daughter m… |
| 44 | 2733–2796 | 494 | T25 Kings, power and law: political sententi | 0.85 | Dear citizens, behold your Lord and King That Thebes set in quiet government, Now as you see, neglected of you… |
| 45 | 2797–2856 | 491 | unassigned | | THe hateful man that heapeth in his mind, Cruel revenge of wrongs forepast and done, May not (with ease) the p… |
| 46 | 2857–2912 | 481 | unassigned | | THe feeble thread which Lachesis hath spun, To draw my days in short abode with thee, Hath wrought a web which… |
| 47 | 2913–2972 | 488 | unassigned | | NOt stately Troy though Priam yet did live, Can now compare fountain bel'eaü to pass: Nor Syrian towers, whose… |
| 48 | 2973–3032 | 507 | unassigned | | My lot is like (dear Dame) believe me well, The quiet life which I full closely kept. Was not content in happy… |
| 49 | 3033–3084 | 523 | T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint | 0.80 | This said: she cast a glance and spied my face, By sight whereof, Lord how she changed hue? So that for shame,… |
| 50 | 3085–3140 | 477 | unassigned | | And when I call the mighty Gods in aid To further forth some fine invention: My bashful spirits be full ill af… |
| 51 | 3141–3196 | 477 | T21 Cupid, Venus and the nymphs | 0.83 | In prime of youth when Cupid kindled fire, And warmed my will with flames of fervent love: To further forth th… |
| 52 | 3197–3254 | 504 | unassigned | | A Lady once did ask of me, This pretty thing in privity: Good sir (quoth she) feign would I crave, One thing w… |
| 53 | 3255–3298 | 494 | unassigned | | Give gave is a good man, what need we lash it out, The world is wondrous fearful now, for danger bids men doub… |
| 54 | 3299–3342 | 498 | unassigned | | And at the porters lodge, where lubbers wont to feed, The porter learns to answer now, hence hence the Lord ha… |
| 55 | 3343–3389 | 490 | unassigned | | TO bind a bush of thorns amongst sweet smelling flowers, May make the posy seem the worse, and yet the fault i… |
| 56 | 3390–3437 | 497 | unassigned | | The falcon fly, and yet forewarn, she row not past her reach. Thus can I weed the worm, which seeketh to devou… |
| 57 | 3438–3496 | 493 | unassigned | | This bone at first amid my doggerel rhyme. But shall I say, to give thee grave advise? (Which in my head is (G… |
| 58 | 3497–3556 | 494 | T62 The courtier as a type: fashion, affecta | 0.69 | It may fall out that thou shalt be entiste To sup sometimes with a Magnifico, And have a Fico foisted in thy d… |
| 59 | 3557–3613 | 492 | unassigned | | Although (by sweat) they learn to live and last When they have danced after Guydoes' pipe: Therefore I thought… |
| 60 | 3614–3677 | 494 | unassigned | | And thought even there to wield the world at will, But out alas he much mistook the place, And shot awry at ev… |
| 61 | 3678–3737 | 496 | unassigned | | That vain presumption makes my heart to swell, For thus I think, not all the world (I guess,) Shoots (a) bet t… |
| 62 | 3738–3797 | 497 | unassigned | | And as you see the flowers most fresh of hue, That they prove not always the holesomest, So fairest men are no… |
| 63 | 3798–3858 | 515 | unassigned | | A Strange conceit, a vain of new delight, Twixt weal and woe, twixte joy and bitter grief, Hath pricked forth … |
| 64 | 3859–3917 | 513 | unassigned | | Aloof, aloof, then cried the Master out, The Stearesmate strives to send us from the shore, And trusts the str… |
| 65 | 3918–3977 | 517 | T50 Fleets, armies and generals: war by sea | 0.61 | Why stay I long to end a woeful tale? We trust his Duchess, and up the foresail goes, We fall on knees amid th… |
| 66 | 3978–4035 | 514 | unassigned | | All hast post haste, was made to have it done: And up it comes in haste much more than speed. There did I see … |
| 67 | 4036–4094 | 520 | T50 Fleets, armies and generals: war by sea | 0.66 | This tale is true (for now to lie were sin) It left us there in dread and dangers dark. It left us so, and tha… |
| 68 | 4095–4157 | 517 | unassigned | | Where inwardly they be but hollow gear, As weak as wind, which with one puff up goeth: And yet they brag, and … |