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Tables of Contents for The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse & Prose
The Death of Queen Elizabeth (1603)1
1
The Marriage of Princess Elizabeth (1613)2
3
A Sermon Preached Before the King's Majesty at Whitehall (1609)
5
10
The Good and the Bad (excerpts) (1616)
15
3
An Atheist or Most Bad Man15
1
A Wanton Woman16
1
A Quiet Woman16
1
An Unworthy Lawyer16
2
Of Truth19
1
Of Simulation and Dissimulation20
2
Of Marriage and Single Life22
1
Of Love22
2
Of Seditions and Troubles24
3
Of Travel27
2
Of Empire29
3
Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates32
5
Of Plantations37
1
Of Masques and Triumphs38
1
Of Studies39
1
Of Studies40
1
The Idols43
2
Idols of the Tribe45
1
Idols of the Cave46
1
Idols of the Market-place47
1
Idols of the Theatre48
3
Application of the Method51
6
A Speech to the Lords and Commons (1610)
57
3
To the Virtuous Reader
60
2
The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby 1599-1605 (excerpts)
62
5
Devotions: Upon Emergent Occasions (excerpts)
68
4
Expostulation68
1
Meditation69
1
Meditation70
1
Meditation71
1
The second of my Prebend Sermons (January 29, 1626)
72
13
Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln
104
5
The Countess of Lincoln's Nursery (excerpts)
104
5
The Anatomy of Melancholy (excerpts)
109
30
Democritus Junior To the Reader109
13
Love of Learning, or Overmuch Study122
17
The Overburian Character
139
4
A Fair and Happy Milkmaid
140
1
Leviathan, or The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth (excerpts)
143
33
The Introduction143
1
Chapter XIII144
3
Chapter XVII147
3
Chapter XVIII150
4
Chapter XIX154
6
Chapter XX160
2
Chapter XXI162
3
Chapter XLVII165
6
A Review, and Conclusion171
5
The Lady Eleanor Her Appeal (excerpts) (1646)
176
6
Patriarcha (excerpts)
182
7
Directions for Obedience to Government in Dangerous or Doubtful Times
189
4
History of Plymouth Plantation (excerpts)
193
7
Book I, Chapter 9193
3
Book II, Chapter 19196
4
The Knole Diary (1603--1619) (excerpts)
201
11
1603201
5
1616206
3
1617209
3
The Study of Quiet, in Two Sermons
212
19
A Sermon Preached Before His Majesty at Whitehall, March 12, 1665212
11
A Sermon Preached before the King At Whitehall, March 18, 1666223
8
William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle
231
5
Advice to Charles II (excerpts)
231
5
For Trade232
1
For Ceremony and Order232
1
The Errors of State and Their Remedies233
1
The Recreations for Your Majesty's People234
2
Good News from New England (excerpts)
236
6
The Religion and Customs of the Indians Near New Plymouth236
6
A Muzzle for Melastomus
242
4
To Joseph Swetnam242
1
Of Woman's Excellency243
3
Gangraena (1646) (excerpts)
246
13
The Catalogue of Errors246
13
A Proclamation and Declaration to Inform Our Loving Subjects of Our Kingdom of England of the Seditious Practices of Some in Scotland (1639)
259
4
An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen (excerpts)
264
9
To her Highness the Lady Mary264
1
Care ought to be taken by us to Educate Women in Learning265
7
Postscript272
1
The Bloody Project (1649)
273
9
Microcosmography
To the Reader282
1
A Child282
1
A Surgeon283
1
Paul's Walk284
1
Of Puritans285
2
Of Poverty287
2
Of Woman289
1
Of Poets and Poetry290
3
A Rule in Reading Authors293
1
To the Reader294
1
The First Part (excerpts)295
17
The Second Part (excerpts)312
6
Hydriotaphia, Urne-Burial
318
9
Chapter 1 (excerpts)319
1
Chapter 2 (excerpts)319
3
Chapter 5322
5
from the Reason of Church Government (1641)
328
6
Of True Religion, Heresy, Schism, and Toleration (1673)
362
7
Queen Henrietta Maria
369
3
The Queen's Letter Sent to the King's most excellent Majesty from Holland
370
2
Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
372
23
The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon and The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (excerpts)
372
23
The Character of William Laud372
9
The Temper and Spirit of the Nation after 1660381
4
The Plague and the Fire of London, 1665-6385
10
A Declaration from the Poor Oppressed People of England (1649)
395
5
A Funeral Sermon, Preached at the Obsequies of the Right Honourable and Most Virtuous Lady The Lady Frances, Countess of Carbery
406
12
The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living (excerpts)
418
2
Consideration of the general instruments, and means serving to a holy life: by way of introduction418
2
The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying (excerpt)
420
5
Three precepts preparatory to a holy death to be practised in our whole life420
3
Of daily examination of our actions, in the whole course of our health, preparatory to our death-bed423
1
Reasons for a daily examination423
2
Women's Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the Scriptures
428
8
Lawrence Clarkson (Claxton)
436
20
The Lost Sheep Found (1660)
436
20
The Proceedings of the Council of State Against Richard Overton, now Prisoner in the Tower of London, 1649
457
14
Considerations and Proposals in Order to the Regulation of the Press (1663)
471
9
Extracts from the Preface to the Poems of 1656
481
1
A Fiery Flying Roll and A Second Fiery Flying Roll (excerpts)
491
5
The Diary of John Evelyn (extracts)
496
7
The Restoration496
1
The Fire of London497
6
The Life of Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson Written by Herself, A Fragment
503
10
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (excerpts)
513
11
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
524
11
The Philosophical and Physical Opinions
525
1
To the Two Universities525
1
Nature's Pictures Drawn by Fancy's Pencil to the Life
526
1
The Loving Cuckold526
1
Orations of Diverse Sorts, Accommodated to Diverse Places
527
1
An Oration for Liberty of Conscience527
1
An Oration against Liberty of Conscience528
1
An Oration proposing a Mean betwixt the two former Opinions528
1
CCXI Sociable Letters (excerpts)
528
5
Philosophical Letters: or, Modest Reflections (excerpts)
533
2
A Remarkable Letter of Mary Howgill to Oliver Cromwell, Called Protector
535
4
The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett (excerpts)
539
10
Katharine Evans and Sarah Chevers
549
8
This is a Short Relation of Some of the Cruel Sufferings (For the Truth's Sake) of Katharine Evans and Sarah Chevers, in the Inquisition in the Isle of Malta (excerpts)
549
8
Brief Lives (excerpts)
557
14
Lancelot Andrewes (1555--1626)557
1
Sir Francis Bacon (1561--1626)558
2
Venetia Digby (1600--33)560
2
Thomas Fairfax (1612--71)562
1
Thomas Hobbes (1588--1679)562
3
Robert Hooke (1635--1703)565
1
Andrew Marvell (1621--78)566
1
Sir Robert Moray (d. 1673)567
1
John Milton (1608--74)567
4
The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652--54
571
16
Saturday, January 8, 1653571
2
Thursday-Saturday, June 2--4, 1653573
2
October 1653575
2
October 1653577
3
Saturday, February 4, 1654580
2
Saturday, February 11, 1654582
3
March 18, 1654585
2
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (excerpt)
587
6
The Pilgrim's Progress (excerpt)
593
6
Christian and Faithful visit Vanity Fair593
6
The Declaration of Breda (1660)
599
2
The Life and Times of Anthony a Wood (extracts)
601
4
Notes on Oxford during the Interregnum601
2
The Restoration603
2
Athenae Oxoniensis (excerpts)
605
4
Robert Burton605
1
Jeremy Taylor606
3
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (excerpts)
609
7
Of Enthusiasm609
7
George Savile, Marquis Of Halifax
616
11
A Character of King Charles II (excerpts)
616
11
Of his Religion616
2
His Amours, Mistresses, &c.618
2
His Conduct to his Ministers620
1
Of his Wit and Conversation621
1
His Talents, Temper, Habits, &c.622
2
Conclusion624
3
The Diary of Samuel Pepys (excerpt)
627
9
The Fire of London627
9
Ecclesiastical Policy the Best Policy: or Religion the Best Reason of State
636
12
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God Together, with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed; Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (excerpts)
648
12
The First Remove650
1
The Second Remove651
1
The Third Remove651
3
The Fourth Remove654
1
The Eighth Remove655
1
The Twentieth Remove656
4
The History of The Royal Society of London (excerpts)
660
3
A Proposal for Erecting an English Academy660
1
Their Manner of Discourse661
2
The Third Century (excerpts)
663
4
Love Letters by Mrs. A. Behn
667
6
The Dumb Virgin: Or, The Force of Imagination
673
13
Pierre-Esprit Radisson
686
19
Travel Journal: Lake Superior, 1659--60 (excerpts)
686
19
Bishop Gilbert Burnet
705
6
History of My Own Time
705
6
The Restoration705
4
Reign of King Charles II709
2
Mrs. James's Vindication of the Church of England, in an answer to a pamphlet entitled a New Test of the Church of England's Loyalty (excerpts)
711
6
Diary of Cotton Mather (excerpts)
717
8
Preface to the Reader, Poems on Several Occasions. Written by Philomela
725
4
Oliver Cromwell to Colonel Valentine Walton
729
1
Charles I to Prince Rupert
730
1
Eleanor Gwynne to Laurence Hyde
730
1
John Evelyn to Sir Christopher Wren
731
2
Information from the Scottish Nation
733
2
to all the True English, Concerning the Present Expedition (1640)
733
2
The Putney Debates: The Debate on the Franchise
736
23
The Trial of King Charles I
759
15
The King's Reasons for Declining the Jurisdiction of the High Court of Justice
759
2
The Sentence of the High Court of Justice Upon the King
761
3
of the Inhumane and Unparallel'd Actions and Barbarous Murders of Negroes or Moors: Committed on three English-men in Old Calabar in Guinny (1672)
764
10
The Gentlewoman's Companion (1673)
774
8
What Qualifications Best Become and are Most Suitable to a Gentlewoman775
1
Of the Government of the Eye776
1
Of Speech and Complement777
1
Of Wanton Songs, and Idle Ballads778
1
What Recreations and Pleasures are Most Fitting and Proper for Young Gentlewomen779
3
The Judgment And Decree Of The University Of Oxford
782
5
Passed in Their Convocation, July 21, 1683, against Certain Pernicious Books and Damnable Doctrines, Destructive to the Sacred Persons of Princes, Their State and Government, and of All Humane Society.(1683)
782
5
Index of Authors and Titles
787
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