Poetry Codex

Tudor & Elizabethan

Bartholomew Yong

fl. 1598

Bartholomew Yong (or Young) translated Jorge de Montemayor's Spanish pastoral romance Diana into English. A. H. Bullen records that the manuscript was finished on 1 May 1583 and that the translation was published in 1598.

England's Helicon (1600) prints some two dozen of the verse passages from his Diana over the signature "Bar. Yong"; Bullen's notes say they are taken from that translation. The poems here are all from that anthology, as printed in Bullen's 1887 edition, and are Yong's English versions of Montemayor's Spanish verse.

Poems (25)

  1. Syrenus' Song to Eugerius
  2. The Shepherd Arsilius' Reply to Syrenus' Song
  3. The Shepherd Carillo his Song
  4. The Shepherd Faustus his Song
  5. Another of the same, by Firmius the Shepherd
  6. The Shepherd Firmius his Song
  7. The Nymph Diana's Song
  8. Alanius the Shepherd his doleful Song, complaining of Ismenia's Cruelty
  9. The Shepherd Sylvanus his Song
  10. Selvagia and Silvanus, their Songs to Diana
  11. A Song between Syrenus and Sylvanus
  12. The Shepherd Delicius his Ditty
  13. Faustus and Firmius sing to their Nymph by turns
  14. A Song between Taurisius and Diana, answering verse for verse
  15. Arsileus his Carol, for joy of the new marriage, between Syrenus and Diana
  16. A Dialogue Song between Sylvanus and Arsilius
  17. The Nymph Selvagia her Song
  18. Cynthia the Nymph's Song to fair Polydora
  19. The Shepherd Arsilius his Song to his Rebeck
  20. Syrenus his Song to Diana's Flocks
  21. Cardenia the Nymph to her false Shepherd Faustus
  22. Melisea's Song in scorn of her Shepherd Narcissus
  23. His Answer to the Nymph's Song
  24. Her present Answer again to him
  25. His last Reply

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