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The Elizabethan Homilies 1623, ed. Ian Lancashire (1994) [http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/ret/elizhom.html] (May 2002)
Elisabethan Sonneteers [http://members.aol.com/ericblomqu/eliz.htm] (last visit: 22/02/00)

Elyot, Sir Thomas, The Boke named The Governour [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/gov/gov1.htm] or here: [http://www.stoics.com/elyots_governour.html]

Erasmus:
Erasmus Text Project [http://smith2.sewanee.edu/Erasmus/ ]
Erasmus, The Praise of Folly (Moriae Encomium), transl. John Wilson, [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1509erasmus-folly.html]
Erasmus, Moriae encomium (in Latin) [http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/eras.moriae.html]
Erasmus, Colloquia (in Latin) [http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/erasmus.coll.html]
Erasmus, Colloquia transl. by N. Bailey [http://smith2.sewanee.edu/Erasmus/colloquia/colloquia.html]
Erasmus, Christian Prince [http://www.stoics.com/books.html]

Everyman [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/everyman.html]

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Fletcher / Shakespeare The Two Noble Kinsmen [http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1542]
Florio: Montaigne: Essays , transl. by Florio [http://www.stoics.com/books.html] or here [http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/montaigne/1lv.htm]
John Florio biography and translation of the Decamerone
Fraunce, Abraham, The Arcadian Rhetorike, 1588 [http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/fraunce.htm] (This link seems dead, try: [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/fraunce.htm] May 2002)
Froissart, The Chronicles of Froissart, trans. Lord Berners, 1523-5 [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/froissart-full.html] also here (ed. Macauly) Froissart, Jean; The Chronicles of Froissart 1523-1525. translated by John Bourchier, Lord Berners [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/FroChro.html]
Fox's Book of Martyrs, ed. William Byron Forbush, [http://www.ccel.org/f/foxe/martyrs/]

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Gascoigne, George, biography [http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/gascbio.htm]
Gascoigne, George. The Steele Glas; The Complainte of Phylomene. [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/steel/steel.html]
Gascoigne, George. Ariost's Supposes. (1566) [http://leehrsn.stormloader.com/gg/supposes.html] (Dec. 2001) if this does not work, try: [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://leehrsn.stormloader.com/gg/supposes.html] (May 2002)
Greene, Robert, Robert Greene page [http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/greene.htm]
Greene's Groatsworth of Wit, bought with a million of Repentaunce (1592, original spelling), Marlowian page. [http://www2.prestel.co.uk/rey/groats.htm] (Sept. 2002)
book review by John Jowett [http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/text/vol10/groat.html]
Griffin, Bartholomew. Sonnets to Fidessa (1596) [http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/Fidessa.htm]
Guarini, Pastor Fido (in Italian) [http://digilander.libero.it/bepi/biblio2/pastor/index.htm] (Sept. 2002)
Guevara, Antonio de Guevara (1480-1545) (span.) [http://www.filosofia.org/guevara.htm]
epistolas familiares (en preparacion, 22/07/00) [http://www.filosofia.org/cla/gue/gueef.htm]

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Hall, Edward, 1548, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and Yorke,[http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/index.cfm]
Hall, Joseph, Characters of Virtues and Vices (1608) [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/hallch.htm] or here [http://www.stoics.com/books.html]
Heywood, Thomas, A Funerall Elegie... (1613) [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/heywood1.html]
Thomas Heywood page [http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/heywood.htm]
Holinshed's Chronicles facsimile excerpts. [http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/furness/holinshed/scotlandindex.html] (last visit: 17/04/00)
Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland [http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/] (Dec. 2009)
The Elizabethan Homilies 1623, ed. Ian Lancashire (1994) [http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/ret/elizhom.html] (May 2002)
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James I, Basilikon Doron [http://www.stoics.com/books.html]
Jonson, Ben:
Jonson, Ben. Ben Jonson [http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/index.html] (22/05/00)
Jonson, Ben. The works of Ben Jonson [http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/benbib.htm]
Jonson, Ben. online works. [http://digital.library.upenn.edu] (May 2002)
Jonson, Ben. Volpone [http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/p/pd-modeng/pd-modeng-idx?type=header&id=JonsoVolpo] (Sept. 2002)
Jonson, Ben. Volpone (for school) [http://athena.english.vt.edu/~jmooney/renmats/volpone.htm]
Jonson, Ben. Hymenaei, A Masque, 1606, facsimile [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jonson/facsimile/1616/120/]

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Kemp, William. Nine Daies Wonder. [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/kemp.html]
Kyd, Thomas, Spanish Tragedy [http://www.linkstoliterature.com/kyd.htm] full text, (Sept. 2002)

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Langland, William Piers Plowman
Lavater, Lewes, Of Ghosts and Spirits (1572) [http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~iandel/ghosts.html]
Le Sylvain, Alexander (ca. 1535-ca. 1585). The Orator, London 1596. (selections)
Lodge, Thomas: Thomas Lodge page [http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/lodge.htm]
Lodge, Thomas. Sonnets to Phyllis [http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/Lodge.htm]
Lodge, Thomas. Rosalynde Renascence Editions [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/lodge/lodge1.html]
Lyly, John works at [http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/lylybib.htm]
John Lyly page [http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/lyly.htm]

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Macchiavelli, Nicolo, The Prince (transl. W.K. Marriott) full text in HTML [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/machiavelli-prince.html]
Macchiavelli, Il Principe (Italian) [http://digilander.libero.it/bepi/biblio4/principe.html] (Sept. 2002)
Macropedius Hecastus Translation (C) C. C. Love, Toronto 1992 [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/rnlp/hecastus.html] (l. v. September 2001)
Macropedius Andrisca Translation (C) C. C. Love, Toronto 1992 [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/rnlp/andrisca.html] (l. v. September 2001)
Malory, Sir Thomas. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1 1903 (1470) [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Mal1Mor.html], vol. II [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Mal2Mor.html]
Marlowe, Christopher: The complete works of Christopher Marlowe [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/Marlowe.html] (last visit: 22/05/00)
Marwell, Andrew: The Second Chorus from Seneca's Thyestes [http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/seneca.htm]
Massinger, Philip. article, links. [http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc89.html]; article [http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/massinger001.html]
Andrew Marwell page [http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/marvbib.htm]
Meres, Francis. Comments on Shakespeare in Palladis Tamia [http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/meres.htm]
Middleton, Thomas. The plays of Thomas Middleton [http://www.tech.org/~cleary/middhome.html] (22/05/00)
Middleton, Thomas. A Yorkshire Tragedy, [http://www.tech.org/~cleary/yorksh.html]
A Mirrovr for Magistrates (1610) on-line facsimile edition. [http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/furness/lear/mirror/] (23.11.99)
Monmouth, Geoffrey. History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth, trans. by Aaron Thompson and J. A. Giles (PDF at InParentheses); pdf-file [http://www.InPar.dhs.org/count/inpar/files/geoffrey_thompson.pdf]
Montaigne: Essays , transl. by Florio, Renascence Editions [http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/montaigne/]
Malaspina links to Montaigne. [http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/montaigne/] (Sept. 2002)
Montaigne Studies (journal) [http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/montaigne/]
More, Thomas. Sir Thomas More's "The History of Richard III" http://www.r3.org/bookcase/more/index.html (last visit 02/09/99)
Sir Thomas More, Utopia [http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2130]
Mosse, Miles (1580-1614): The arraignment and conuiction of vsurie. London, 1595. Furness Library Facsimile [http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/index.cfm?TextID=mosse&PagePosition=1]

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.	16th and 17th Century Texts: Authors A-Z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
...	E The Elizabethan Homilies 1623, ed. Ian Lancashire (1994) [http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/ret/elizhom.html] (May 2002) Elisabethan Sonneteers [http://members.aol.com/ericblomqu/eliz.htm] (last visit: 22/02/00) Elyot, Sir Thomas, The Boke named The Governour [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/gov/gov1.htm] or here: [http://www.stoics.com/elyots_governour.html] Erasmus: Erasmus Text Project [http://smith2.sewanee.edu/Erasmus/ ] Erasmus, The Praise of Folly (Moriae Encomium), transl. John Wilson, [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1509erasmus-folly.html] Erasmus, Moriae encomium (in Latin) [http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/eras.moriae.html] Erasmus, Colloquia (in Latin) [http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/erasmus.coll.html] Erasmus, Colloquia transl. by N. Bailey [http://smith2.sewanee.edu/Erasmus/colloquia/colloquia.html] Erasmus, Christian Prince [http://www.stoics.com/books.html] *Everyman* [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/everyman.html] top F Fletcher / Shakespeare The Two Noble Kinsmen [http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1542] Florio: Montaigne: Essays , transl. by Florio [http://www.stoics.com/books.html] or here [http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/montaigne/1lv.htm] John Florio biography and translation of the Decamerone Fraunce, Abraham, The Arcadian Rhetorike, 1588 [http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/fraunce.htm] (This link seems dead, try: [http://web.archive.org/web//http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/fraunce.htm] May 2002) Froissart, The Chronicles of Froissart, trans. Lord Berners, 1523-5 [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/froissart-full.html] also here (ed. Macauly) Froissart, Jean; The Chronicles of Froissart* 1523-1525. translated by John Bourchier, Lord Berners [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/FroChro.html] Fox's Book of Martyrs, ed. William Byron Forbush, [http://www.ccel.org/f/foxe/martyrs/] top G Gascoigne, George, biography [http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/gascbio.htm] Gascoigne, George. The Steele Glas; The Complainte of Phylomene. [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/steel/steel.html] Gascoigne, George. Ariost's Supposes. (1566) [http://leehrsn.stormloader.com/gg/supposes.html] (Dec. 2001) if this does not work, try: [http://web.archive.org/web//http://leehrsn.stormloader.com/gg/supposes.html] (May 2002) Greene, Robert,* Robert Greene page [http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/greene.htm] Greene's Groatsworth of Wit, bought with a million of Repentaunce (1592, original spelling), Marlowian page. [http://www2.prestel.co.uk/rey/groats.htm] (Sept. 2002) book review by John Jowett [http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/text/vol10/groat.html] Griffin, Bartholomew. Sonnets to Fidessa (1596) [http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/Fidessa.htm] Guarini, Pastor Fido (in Italian) [http://digilander.libero.it/bepi/biblio2/pastor/index.htm] (Sept. 2002) Guevara, Antonio de Guevara (1480-1545) (span.) [http://www.filosofia.org/guevara.htm] epistolas familiares (en preparacion, 22/07/00) [http://www.filosofia.org/cla/gue/gueef.htm] top H Hall, Edward, 1548, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and Yorke,[http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/index.cfm] Hall, Joseph, Characters of Virtues and Vices (1608) [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/hallch.htm] or here [http://www.stoics.com/books.html] Heywood, Thomas, A Funerall Elegie... (1613) [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/heywood1.html] Thomas Heywood page [http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/heywood.htm] Holinshed's Chronicles facsimile excerpts. [http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/furness/holinshed/scotlandindex.html] (last visit: 17/04/00) Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland [http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/] (Dec. 2009) The Elizabethan Homilies 1623, ed. Ian Lancashire (1994) [http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/ret/elizhom.html] (May 2002) top I/J James I, Basilikon Doron [http://www.stoics.com/books.html] Jonson, Ben: Jonson, Ben. Ben Jonson [http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/index.html] (22/05/00) Jonson, Ben. The works of Ben Jonson [http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/benbib.htm] Jonson, Ben. online works. [http://digital.library.upenn.edu] (May 2002) Jonson, Ben. Volpone [http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/p/pd-modeng/pd-modeng-idx?type=header&id=JonsoVolpo] (Sept. 2002) Jonson, Ben. Volpone (for school) [http://athena.english.vt.edu/~jmooney/renmats/volpone.htm] Jonson, Ben. Hymenaei, A Masque, 1606, facsimile [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jonson/facsimile/1616/120/] top K Kemp, William. Nine Daies Wonder. [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/kemp.html] Kyd, Thomas, Spanish Tragedy [http://www.linkstoliterature.com/kyd.htm] full text, (Sept. 2002) top L Langland, William Piers Plowman Lavater, Lewes, Of Ghosts and Spirits (1572) [http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~iandel/ghosts.html] Le Sylvain, Alexander (ca. 1535-ca. 1585). The Orator, London 1596. (selections) Lodge, Thomas: Thomas Lodge page [http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/lodge.htm] Lodge, Thomas. Sonnets to Phyllis [http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/Lodge.htm] Lodge, Thomas. Rosalynde Renascence Editions [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/lodge/lodge1.html] Lyly, John works at [http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/lylybib.htm] John Lyly page [http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/lyly.htm] top M Macchiavelli, Nicolo, The Prince (transl. W.K. Marriott) full text in HTML [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/machiavelli-prince.html] Macchiavelli, Il Principe (Italian) [http://digilander.libero.it/bepi/biblio4/principe.html] (Sept. 2002) Macropedius Hecastus Translation (C) C. C. Love, Toronto 1992 [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/rnlp/hecastus.html] (l. v. September 2001) Macropedius Andrisca Translation (C) C. C. Love, Toronto 1992 [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/rnlp/andrisca.html] (l. v. September 2001) Malory, Sir Thomas. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1 1903 (1470) [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Mal1Mor.html], vol. II [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Mal2Mor.html] Marlowe, Christopher: The complete works of Christopher Marlowe [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/Marlowe.html] (last visit: 22/05/00) Marwell, Andrew: The Second Chorus from Seneca's Thyestes [http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/seneca.htm] Massinger, Philip. article, links. [http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc89.html]; article [http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/massinger001.html] Andrew Marwell page [http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/marvbib.htm] Meres, Francis. Comments on Shakespeare in Palladis Tamia [http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/meres.htm] Middleton, Thomas. The plays of Thomas Middleton [http://www.tech.org/~cleary/middhome.html] (22/05/00) Middleton, Thomas. A Yorkshire Tragedy, [http://www.tech.org/~cleary/yorksh.html] A *Mirrovr* for Magistrates (1610) on-line facsimile edition. [http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/furness/lear/mirror/] (23.11.99) Monmouth, Geoffrey. History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth, trans. by Aaron Thompson and J. A. Giles (PDF at InParentheses); pdf-file [http://www.InPar.dhs.org/count/inpar/files/geoffrey_thompson.pdf] Montaigne: Essays , transl. by Florio, Renascence Editions [http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/montaigne/] Malaspina links to Montaigne. [http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/montaigne/] (Sept. 2002) Montaigne Studies (journal) [http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/montaigne/] More, Thomas. Sir Thomas More's "The History of Richard III" http://www.r3.org/bookcase/more/index.html (last visit 02/09/99) Sir Thomas More, Utopia [http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2130] Mosse, Miles (1580-1614): The arraignment and conuiction of vsurie. London, 1595. Furness Library Facsimile [http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/index.cfm?TextID=mosse&PagePosition=1] authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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