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EEBO-TCP · Phase 1

The Shepherds Hunting

by George Wither · 1588–1667

Published: 1615
Length: 13,935 words
Reading: ~an hour
Divisions: 14

From the title page

The shepherds hunting being, certaine eglogs written during the time of the authors imprisonment in the Marshalsey. By George VVither, gentleman.

London Printed by Thomas Snodham for George Norton, and are to be sold at the signe of the red-Bull, neere Temple-barre 1615.

Original spelling, as transcribed by the Text Creation Partnership.

Contents

Front matter
Title page
DedicationTO THOSE HONOVRED, NOBLE, AND RIGHT Vertuous Friends, my Visitants in the Marshalsey: AND, TO ALL OTHER, MY…
Text
Eclogue 1The first Eglogue.
Floating text
1 sonnet
Eclogue 2The second Eglogue.
Floating text
1 song
Eclogue 3The third Eglogue.

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Eclogue 4To his truely beloued louing Friend, Mr. VVILLIAM BROWNE, of the Inner Temple.
Eclogue 5To Master W. F. of the Middle Temple.
Back matter
PostscriptA Postscript To the READERS.

14 divisions in the TEI outline

Details

Author: George Wither (1588–1667)
Imprint: London Printed by Thomas Snodham for George Norton, and are to be sold at the signe of the red-Bull, neere Temple-barre 1615.
Extent: [124] p.
Language: English
Catalogue: STC 25920 · ESTC S103319
Source: TCP A15656
Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Text Creation Partnership)

Prince Henrys Obsequies

1612

Abuses Stripped and Whipped

1613

A Satire

1614

Fidelia Newly Corrected and Augmented

1619

Exercises Upon the First Psalm in Prose and Verse

1620

The Songs of the Old Testament Translated into English Measures

1621

Withers Motto

1621

Collection of Poems

1622

Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete

1622

The Hymns and Songs of the Church

1623

The Scholars Purgatory Discovered

1624

Britains Remembrancer

1628

An Excellent Sonnet

1633

Emblems Ancient and Modern

1635

A Prophecy Written for the Year 1641

1641

A Country Messenger

1643

A Shield and a Shaft

1643

Prophecy of our Present Calamity 2

1643

The Knave of Clubs

1643

Campo-musæ, or The field-musings of Captain George VVither touching his…

1643

VVithers remembrancer

1643

Letters of Advice

1644

The Speech Without Door

1644

Two Incomparable Generalissimos

1644

A Voice Tending to the Pacification of Gods Wrath

1645

The Great Assizes

1645

An English Balm Lately Pressed out of a Shrub

1646

Declaration and Petition

1646

The Justice Justified

1646

What Peace to the Wicked

1646

A Timely Expostulation

1647

Almonds for Parrots

1647

Disclaimer

1647

Britains Genius

1648

Of Rhyme and Reason

1648

The Tired Petitioner

1648

A Private Thank-Oblation

1649

An Alarm from Heaven

1649

The British Appeals with Gods Merciful Replies

1651

Three Grains of Spiritual Frankincense

1651

A Timely Caution

1652

Funeral Poem to Thomas Westrow

1653

The Dark Lantern

1653

The Modern Statesman

1653

Friendship

1654

Humble Petition

1655

Rapture Occasioned by the Miraculous Deliverance of His Highness

1655

The Protector

1655

A Good Omen

1656

A Sudden Flash

1657

A Cordial Confection to Strengthen the Heart

1659

An Epistle at Random in Prose and Meter

1659

Salt Upon Salt

1659

The Petition and Narrative

1659

A Considering Glass

1660

A Plea for the Public-Faith

1660

A Poetic Frenzy

1660

A Triple Paradox

1661

Discourse Between Two Dead Giants

1661

Improvement of Imprisonment

1661

The Prisoners Plea

1661

A Proclamation in the Name of the King of Kings

1662

Declaration as Prisoner in the Tower of London

1662

Epistle to the Three Nations of England Scotland and Ireland

1662

Verses to the Kings Majesty

1662

Seasonable Precautions

1664

A Memorandum to London

1665

Meditations Upon the Lords Prayer

1665

Three Private Meditations

1665

Echos from the Sixth Trumpet

1666

Sigh for the Pitchers Breathed Out

1666

The True Englishmans Complaints

1668

Prophecy of our Present Calamity

1683

Divine Poems

1688

The Grateful Acknowledgment of a Late Trimming Regulator

1688

Predictions of the Overthrow of Popery

1689