Works
The extant works of Churchyard, exclusive of commendatory and occasional verses, include:
- A lamentable and pitifull Description of the wofull warres in Flanders (1578)
- A general rehearsall of warres, called Churchyard's Choise (1579), really a completion of the Chippes, and containing, like it, a number of detached pieces
- A light Bondel of livelie Discourses, called Churchyardes Charge (1580)
- A Warning to the Wyse, an immediate account of England's 1580 earthquake (1580)
- The Worthines of Wales (1587), a valuable antiquarian work in prose and verse, anticipating Michael Drayton
- Churchyard's Challenge (1593)
- A Musicall Consort of Heavenly harmonic, called Churchyards Charitie (1595)
- A True Discourse Historicall, of the succeeding Governors in the Netherlands (1602)
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