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Sixteenth Century

1. "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," Christopher Marlowe, 1599-1600.
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   Credit: Read by James Knapp.
   Cf. NAEL 1.989-90; MA 457-58.
2. "They flee from me," Thomas Wyatt, date unknown.
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   Credit: Read by James Knapp.
   Cf. NAEL 1.529-30; MA 341.
3. "When I Was Fair and Young," Queen Elizabeth I, ca. 1585.
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   Credit: Read by Mary Jo Salter.
4. Sonnet 75 ("One day I wrote her name upon the strand"), Edmund Spenser, 1595.
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   Cf. NAEL 1.867-88; MA 431-32.
5. Sonnet 146 ("Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth"), William Shakespeare, 1609.
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   Cf. NAEL 1.1042; MA 506.
6. Shakespeare's Songbook