| I. King James I. | Sonett from “Poetical Exercises” |
| Stanzas from “Choros Angelorvm” |
| Chorus Venetvs |
| Psalm XXIX |
| Stanzas from the Lepanto |
| II. John Donne | Holy Sonnets |
| A Hymne to God the Father |
| Hymne to Christ at the Author’s Last Going into Germany |
| Nativitie |
| Resvrrection |
| Ascention |
| The Soule |
| Psalme CXXXVII |
| The Annuntiation and Passion |
| Good Friday |
| Elegy |
| III. Anonymous | Hymne |
| Lines from “Diuers deuout and zealous Meditations” |
| IV. Simion Grahame | Stanzas |
| V. W. A. | Hymne |
| VI. B. N. | I Would and Would Not |
| VII. Giles Fletcher | A Description of Justice |
| A Description of Mercy |
| Our Saviour’s Temptation |
| The Traitor Judas |
| The Joys of the Redeemed |
| VIII. Henry Ainsworth | Psalm XXIII |
| Psalm CVII |
| Psalm CXXXVII |
| IX. Sir Edwin Sandys | Psalm CXXVIII |
| X. Arthur Warren | Selfishness of the World |
| The Patience of Poverty |
| XI. Henry Farley | Lines Presented to James the First |
| XII. George Herbert | Psalm V |
| XIII. Anonymous | The Convert Soule |
| Show Me More Love |
| A Constant Minde |
| Lord of My Glory |
| A Hymn |
| Stanzas |
| “There Was a King” |
| “How Good Art Thou” |
| Victorious Jesus |
| XIV. Robert Pricket | Faith without Practice |
| XV. Anonymous | Stanzas |
| Verses on the Death of R. W. |
| XVI. Henry Petowe | Stanzas from “Eliza’s Funeral” |
| XVII. Anonymous | Sonnet |
| The Pilgrim’s Song |
| God Hears and Answers Prayer |
| XVIII. Earl of Cumberland | Psalm XXXVIII |
| XIX. Michael Drayton | The Triumph of David |
| Noah Thretning God’s Vengeance vpon the World |
| XX. John Vicars | Psalm CV |
| XXI. Francis Quarles | Lines from “The History of Samson” |
| Lines from “A Feast for Wormes” |
| Lines from “Job Militant” |
| Sonnets from “Pentelogia” |
| Sion’s Sonnets |
| Funerall Elegies |
| XXII. Sir John Beaumont | Of the Epiphany |
| Of the Transfiguration of Our Lord |
| An Ode of the Blessed Trinitie |
| On Ascension Day |
| An Act of Contrition |
| An Act of Hope |
| A Dialogue betweene the World, a Pilgrim, and Vertue |
| Of Teares |
| Of Sinne |
| In Spiritual Comfort |
| Against Inordinate Loue of Creatures |
| Of the Miserable State of Man |
| XXIII. Edmund Dee | Extract from “Verses against Popery” |
| XXIV. Benjamin Jonson | To the World |
| On the Nativitie of My Saviour |
| Eupheme’s Mind |
| XXV. Christopher Lever | Stanzas from “Queene Elizabeth’s Teares” |
| XXVI. Thomas Dekker | Christ’s Coming to Judgement |
| XXVII. Anonymous | Stanzas from “The Passion of a Discontented Mind” |
| Confession and Contrition |
| XXVIII. Thomas Peyton | Paradise |
| The Translation of Enoch |
| XXIX. John Davies | Stanzas from “The Triumph of Death” |
| Stanzas from “The Holy Roode” |
| XXX. Phineas Fletcher | The Purple Island |
| XXXI. William Hall | Man’s Great Enemy |
| XXXII. Rachel Speght | The Frailty of Life |
| XXXIII. Simon Wastill | Colossians |
| XXXIV. Robert Aylett | Stanzas from “Peace with her Faire Gardens” |
| XXXV. Augustine Taylor | Christ’s Mercy |
| XXXVI. Anonymous | Stanzas from “Machiauel’s Dogge” |
| XXXVII. W. Parkes | Lines from “The Curtain-drawer of the World” |
| XXXVIII. George Wither | The Lamentation of David over Saul and Jonathan His Son |
| The Conversion of St. Paul |
| St. Peter’s Day |
| The Prayer of Habakuk |
| For Seasonable Weather |
| Sonnet |
| Lines from “The Motto” |
| Psalm LVII |
| XXXIX. Joseph Hall | Psalm I |
| Psalm VII |
| Extract from “Lachrymæ Lachrymarum” |
| XL. William Willymat | Stanzas from “A Prince’s Looking-glasse” |
| XLI. Anonymous | To the Most Rare Vertue of True Humlilitie. Vpon the Crowne of Thornes |
| XLII. Æmelia Lanyer | The Teares of the Daughter of Jerusalem |
| XLIII. Sir John Stradling | Stanzas from “Beati Pacifici” |
| XLIV. Nathanael Baxter | The Deity |
| Man Created |
| XLV. Nicholas Breton | Invective: The Hate of Treason |
| A Prayer |
| XLVI. George Raleigh | Stanzas from “Christ on his Crosse” |
| XLVII. RO. VN. | A Similitude |
| XLVIII. —— Jerom | Stanzas from “Origen’s Repentance” |
| XLIX. Sir Henry Wotton | Psalm CIV |
| A Hymn |
| L. Sir Walter Raleigh | The Crosse of Christ |
| LI. George Chapman | An Address to Death |
| A Description of Fever |
| The End of Learning |
| LII. Edward Hake | No Gold, No Goodnesse |
| Complaining of His Want of Friends |
| LIII. Richard Corbet | An Elegie on Dr. Ravis, Bishop of London |
| LIV. William Alexander, Earl of Stirling | An Invocation |
| God Visible in His Works |
| LV. Henry Arthington | The Goodness of God towards All Mankind Manifold Wayes |
| LVI. Sir William Leighton | To the True Devoted Reader |
| LVII. Richard Brathwaite | The Author to His Disconsolate Brother |
| A Description of Death |
| LVIII. Henry Peacham | Psalmi Davidici |
| Penitentia |
| Vita Tota Dies Vnut |
| LIX. Samuel Daniel | Lines from “The Tragedie of Philotas” |
| LX. Thomas Scot | Aquignispicium |
| LXI. Thomas Randolph | An Eclogue |
| LXII. Edmond Graile | Jacob Going down into Egypt |
| LXIII. William Drummond | An Hymn of True Happiness |
| Human Frailty |
| For the Prodigal |
| The Blessedness of Faithful Souls by Death |
| Providence |
| LXIV. John Bulloker | The Anointing of Our Saviour |
| LXV. Francis Beaumont | A Funeral Elogie on the Death of the Lady Penelope Clifton |
| LXVI. William Warner | How Our Religion Is Authenticall |
| LXVII. Lord Bacon | Psalm XC |
| LXVIII. John Taylor | Lines from “The Severall Seiges, Assaults, Sackings, and Finall Destruction of the Famous, Ancient, and memoriable Citty of Jerusalem” |
| LXIX. Henry Anderson | Bidding the World Farewell |
| The Law of Christ Contrasted with the Law of the World |
| The Blessedness of Serving God |
| LXX. John Norden | Custome |
| LXXI. Thomas Tvke | To the Men of Rome, As Well Laiques As Cleriques |
| LXXII. Elizabeth Melvill | Ladie Culros’ Dream |
| LXXIII. S. A. Gorges | To the Kinge’s Maiestie |
| LXXIV. Roger Tisdale | The Lawyer’s Philosophy |
| LXXV. J. W. | Epitaph on Archbishop Whitgift |
| LXXVI. Joshua Sylvester | Lachrimæ Lachrimarvm |
| LXXVII. Richard Zouche | The Dove |
| The World |
| LXXVIII. Raphe Crane | The Works of Mercy, Both Corporall and Spirituall |
| LXXIX. Thomas Gokins | Hallowed Be Thy Name |
| LXXX. Doctor Brooke | O’ Tears |
| LXXXI. Thomas Heywood | Stanzas from “Troia Brittanica, or Great Britaine’s Troy” |
| LXXXII. Peter Small | Lines from “Man’s May” |
| LXXXIII. Sands Penuen | Ixyon |
| LXXXIV. J. F. | Lines from “Christ’s Bloody Sweat” |
| LXXXV. William Lithgow | Lines from “The Pilgrim’s Farewell” |
| LXXXVI. John Weever | Stanzas from “An Agnus Dei” |
| LXXXVII. Charles Fitzgeffrey | The Blessed Birth-day, Celebrated in Some Sanctified Meditations on the Angels’ Anthem |
| LXXXVIII. Walter Quin | Youth Addressed by Vice and Virtue |
| LXXXIX. Samuel Rowlands | A Moral |
| XC. Anonymous | An Excellent Song, wherein You Shall Finde Great Consolation for a Troubled Minde |
| XCI. John Hagthorpe | God’s Bounty Enlarged |
| God’s Beneficence |
| To Earth |
| XCII. Patrick Hanay | Sonnet |
| XCIII. Richard Milton | Lines from “London’s Miserie, etc.” |
| XCIV. Anonymous | Lines from “Catascopos” |
| XCV. John Abbott | The Force of Contrition |
| XCVI. John Rhodes | A Song of Praise and Thankesgiving to God for the King’s Majesty Raigne |
| XCVII. Anonymous | The Miracles of Our Saviour |
| XCVIII. Thomas Collins | Mercy |
| XCIX. Tristram White | Sapphicks |
| C. Henry Raymonde | An Ode |
