Rosemary Williams

Stoughton MS

A folio miscellany of some 133 poems, including 55 poems by Henry King and nineteen by Thomas Carew, 247 pages.

In the hands of two amanuenses associated with King: i.e. Scribe A (c.1636), pp. 1-214, that of Thomas Manne's imitator using two styles (a: pp. 1-62, 64-6, 133-4, 147-215; and b, the earlier: pp. 63, 67-132, 135-45); and Scribe B (c.1641): pp. 217-47, that of the scribe responsible for the Phillipps MS (Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8471).

c.1636-41.

The flyleaf inscribed Ex dono Eugenii Stoughton Die Octobrii 23 Anno-1738-Domini: i.e. owned before 1738 by the Stoughton family, of St John's House, Warwick.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Stoughton MS: CwT Δ 36 and KiH Δ 6. A complete photocopy deposited by Mary Hobbs in the Bodleian (MS Facs. d. 157). Edited in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (An Early Seventeenth-Century Poetry Collection in Private Hands connected with Henry King and Oxford) seen in relation to other contemporary Poetry and Song Collections (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973). Also discussed in Mary Hobbs, The Poems of Henry King: Another Authoritative Manuscript, The Library, 5th Ser. 31 (1976), 127-35. Recorded in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King, D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96. A complete facsimile edition in The Stoughton Manuscript, ed. Mary Hobbs (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1990).

p. 21
CwT 1145: Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse ('Fayre copie of my Celia's face')

Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman like his Mistresse.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.

p. 22
CwT 817: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')

Copy, headed On a faire Gentlewoman that sung excellently.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.

p. 23
CwT 409: Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes ('In Celia's face a question did arise')

Copy, headed On his Mistresse Lippes and Eyes.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.

p. 24
CwT 497: Thomas Carew, On his Mistres lookeinge in a glasse ('This flatteringe glasse whose smooth face weares')

Copy.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 23-4. Dunlap. p. 132.

p. 25
CwT 168: Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned ('Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke')

Copy, headed To his inconstant Mistresse.

First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

p. 26
CwT 342: Thomas Carew, Griefe ingrost ('Wherefore doe thy sad numbers flow')

Copy, headed To his scornefull Mistress.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 44-5. The eight-lline version first published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 7, and reprinted in Dunlap. p. 234.

p. 27
CwT 36: Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon ('Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood')

Copy, headed Sonnet.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 26.

p. 28
CwT 891: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face')

Copy, headed Sonnet.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

p. 29
CwT 1061: Thomas Carew, To his jealous Mistris ('Admit (thou darling of mine eyes)')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 110.

p. 30
CwT 662: Thomas Carew, Red, and white Roses ('Reade in these Roses, the sad story')

Copy, headed Sonnet.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 46-7.

p. 31
CwT 259: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')

Copy, headed Sonnet.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

p. 34
StW 831: William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')

Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman walking in the Snow.

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).

p. 35
CwT 736: Thomas Carew, A Song ('Aske me no more whether doth stray')

Copy, headed To his Mistresse.

First published in a five-stanza version beginning Aske me no more where Iove bestowes in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. Aske me no more whether doth stray).

For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, Manuscript Evidence and the Author of Aske me no more: William Strode, not Thomas Carew, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, Aske me no more and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.

pp. 36-7
CwT 65: Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold')

Copy, headed To his Mistresse.

First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.

p. 38
CwT 519: Thomas Carew, On sight of a Gentlewomans face in the water ('Stand still you floods, doe not deface')

Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman viewing her face in a River and here ascribed to G: H..

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.

p. 39
StW 1083: William Strode, To a frinde ('Like as the hande which hath bin usd to play')

Copy, headed To his Mistresse.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 99-100. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), p. 130. Forey, p. 31.

p. 44
JnB 728: Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song ('Though I am young, and cannot tell')

Copy, headed Of Loue and Death.

First published in Workes (London, 1641). Herford & Simpson, VII, 1-49.

p. 45
CwT 544.6: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')

Copy of an eighteen-line version, headed On a Sigh, here beginning Come thou gentle westerne wind, and subscribed J: G:.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

p. 47
HeR 303: Robert Herrick, Advice to a Maid ('Love in thy youth fayre Mayde bee wise')

Copy, headed Sonnet.

First published, in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Airs (London, 1632). Martin, p. 443 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.

p. 48
CwT 534: Thomas Carew, Parting, Celia weepes ('Weepe not (my deare) for I shall goe')

Copy, headed Sonnet.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 48-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

p. 50
B&F 71: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Love's Cure, III, ii, 118-225. Song ('Turn, turn thy beauteous face away')

Copy, headed Sonnet.

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, IX, 105-95 (p. 149). Bowers, III, 12-93, ed. George Walton Williams (p. 48). This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

p. 51
StW 1336: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress ('Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde')

Copy, headed To his Mistresse.

First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

p. 53
B&F 198: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Women Pleased, III, iv. Song ('Oh, fair sweet face! oh, eyes celestial bright')

Copy, headed In praise of a Mistresse.

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, VII, 1-94 (p. 50). Bowers, V, 448-529, ed. Hans W. Gabler (p. 489).

p. 54
CwT 1172.8: Thomas Carew, The tooth-ach cured by a kisse ('Fate's now growne mercifull to men')

Copy, headed On the recovery from the tooth-ach by a Kisse from a faire Lady, here ascribed to Rob: Ellice.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 109-10.

p. 55
CwT 325: Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid ('When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 25.

p. 56
CwT 940: Thomas Carew, Song. To my inconstant Mistris ('When thou, poore excommunicate')

Copy, headed To her inconstant Servant.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 15-16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

p. 57
HeR 102: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')

Copy, headed A Reply to the same.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

p. 57
HeR 399: Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris ('Whither are all her false oathes blowne')

Copy, headed Vpon his periur'd Mistresse.

First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.

p. 63
CwT 381: Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned ('Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)')

Copy, headed Vpon Caelia growne proud.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

p. 71
KiH 30: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')

Copy, headed The Answer.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

p. 72
PeW 293: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Sonnet ('So glides a long the wanton Brook')

Copy, headed On Loue and subscribed Mr. Reynalds [i.e. Henry Reynolds (c.1564-1635), schoolmaster and poet].

Poems (1660), p. 75, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by Henry Reynolds.

pp. 87-8
MoG 49: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')

Copy.

A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

pp. 91-2
DaW 59: Sir William Davenant, To a Gentleman at his uprising ('Soe phoebus rose, as if he had last night')

Copy, headed To Mr Endymion Porter.

First published in Herbert Berry, Three New Poems by Davenant, PQ, 31 (1952), 70-4. Gibbs, pp. 317-21.

pp. 92-3
DaW 28: Sir William Davenant, For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day ('Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present')

Copy, headed For Mris Porter on New yeares day.

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.

p. 94
CwT 21: Thomas Carew, Boldnesse in love ('Marke how the bashfull morne, in vaine')

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 42.

pp. 95-6
HrE 44: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Tears, flow no more, or if you needs must flow

Copy.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 26.

p. 100
JnB 468: Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia ('Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes')

Copy, headed To his Mistresse and here beginning Drink to mee Caelia with thine Eye.

First published in The Forrest (ix) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 106.

pp. 101-2
JnB 340: Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue ('Come, with our Voyces, let us warre')

Copy, headed Sonnet.

First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.

pp. 103-10
EaJ 34: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree ('Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear')

Copy, ascribed to John Earles.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).

pp. 111-14
EaJ 58: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Earle of Pembroke's Death ('Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse')

Copy, here ascribed to Jasper Mayne.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 40-2. Extract in Bliss, pp. 227-8. Possibly written by Jasper Mayne (1604-72).

pp. 123-30
KiH 796: Henry King, The Woes of Esay ('Woe to the worldly men, whose covetous')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 136-9.

pp. 131-4
KiH 100: Henry King, By Occasion of the young Prince his happy Birth. May 29. 1630 ('At this glad Triumph, when most Poëts use')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 73-5.

pp. 135-40
KiH 314: Henry King, An Essay on Death and a Prison ('A Prison is in all things like a Grave')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 139-42.

pp. 141-5
KiH 711: Henry King, To his unconstant Freind ('But say, thou very Woman, why to mee')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 142-4.

pp. 147-8
KiH 173: Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death ('Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure')

Copy, headed Vpon Prince Henryes Death.

c.1636.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.

p. 148
KiH 307: Henry King, An Epitaph On Niobe turn'd to Stone ('This Pile thou see'st, built out of Flesh not Stone')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 156.

pp. 149-50
KiH 278: Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')

Copy.

First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.

pp. 151-6
KiH 324: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')

Copy, headed An Exequy.

Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), pp. 186-7.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

pp. 157-8
KiH 15: Henry King, The Anniverse. An Elegy ('So soone grow'n old? Hast thou bin six yeares dead?')

Copy, headed An Elegy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 72-3.

p. 159
KiH 469: Henry King, On two Children dying of one Disease, and buryed in one Grave ('Brought forth in Sorrow, and bred up in Care')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 72.

pp. 160-1
KiH 668: Henry King, The Surrender ('My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more')

Copy, headed An Elegy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.

pp. 162-3
KiH 190: Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. ('I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne')

Copy, headed An Elegy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.

pp. 164-6
KiH 414: Henry King, Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice ('I have oft wondred, why thou didst elect')

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 144-5.

pp. 166-7
KiH 109: Henry King, The Defence ('Why slightest thou what I approve?')

Copy, untitled.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.

pp. 168-9
KiH 703: Henry King, To his Freinds of Christchurch upon the mislike of the Marriage of the Artes, acted at Woodstock ('But is it true, the Court mislik't the Play')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 67.

p. 170
KiH 692: Henry King, To a Lady who sent me a copy of verses at my going to bed ('Lady, your art, or wit could nere devise')

Copy of an early version, beginning Doubtlesse the Thespian Spring doth overflow.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 178-9, 240.

pp. 171-2
KiH 357: Henry King, The Farwell ('Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp')

Copy untitled.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.

p. 173
KiH 425: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')

Copy.

First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.

p. 174
KiH 519: Henry King, Sic Vita ('Like to the Falling of a Starr')

Copy.

First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 148-9.

p. 175
KiH 542: Henry King, Sonnet ('Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 147-8.

p. 176
KiH 573: Henry King, Sonnet ('I prethee turne that face away')

Copy.

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).

p. 177
KiH 633: Henry King, Sonnet ('When I entreat, either thou wilt not heare')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 148.

p. 178
KiH 590: Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee no more how faire shee is')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 158.

pp. 179-82
KiH 398: Henry King, A Letter ('I ne're was drest in Formes. nor can I bend')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 152-4.

pp. 183-5
KiH 8: Henry King, An Acknowledgment ('My best of Friends! what needes a Chaine to ty')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 164-6.

pp. 186-88
KiH 140: Henry King, The Departure. An Elegy ('Were I to leave no more than a Good Freind')

Copy, headed An Elegy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 163-4.

pp. 189-90
KiH 775: Henry King, Upon the King's happy Returne from Scotland ('So breakes the Day, when the Returning Sun')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 81-2.

p. 191
KiH 661: Henry King, Sonnet. To Patience ('Downe stormy Passions, downe: no more')

Copy, headed To Patience.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 160.

p. 192
KiH 606: Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move')

Copy.

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

p. 193
KiH 563: Henry King, Sonnet ('Go Thou, that vainly dost mine eyes invite')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 162.

p. 194
KiH 492: Henry King, The Pink ('Faire one, you did on mee bestow')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 167.

p. 195
KiH 647: Henry King, Sonnet. The Double Rock ('Since Thou hast view'd some Gorgon, and art grow'n')

Copy, headed The Double Rock.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 167-8.

p. 196
KiH 501: Henry King, The Retreit ('Pursue no more (My Thoughts!) that False Unkind')

Copy.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 168.

p. 197
KiH 406: Henry King, Love's Harvest ('Fond Lunatick forbeare. WHy dost thou sue')

Copy.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 169.

p. 198
KiH 374: Henry King, The Forlorne Hope ('How long (vaine Hope!) dost thou my joyes suspend?')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 168-9.

pp. 199-200
KiH 531: Henry King, Silence. A Sonnet ('Peace my Hearte's blabb, be ever dumbe')

Copy, headed Sonnet.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 159.

p. 200
KiH 760: Henry King, Upon a Table-book presented to a Lady ('When your faire hand receaves this Little Book')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 154.

p. 201
KiH 745: Henry King, To the same Lady Upon Mr. Burton's Melancholy ('If in this Glasse of Humours you doe find')

Copy, headed To the same vpon….

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 154.

p. 202
KiH 266: Henry King, Epigram ('To what serve Lawes where only mony reignes?')

Copy.

First published in Hannah (1843), p. 127. Crum, p. 156.

p. 202
KiH 272: Henry King, Epigram ('When Arria to her Paetus had bequeath'd')

Copy.

First published in Hannah (1843), p. 128. Crum, p. 156.

p. 203
KiH 250: Henry King, Epigram ('He whose advent'rous keele ploughes the rough Seas')

Copy.

First published in Hannah (1843), p. 129. Crum, p. 157.

p. 203
KiH 256: Henry King, Epigram ('I would not in my Love too soone prevaile')

Copy.

First published in The Gentleman's Magazine, 5 (July 1735), 380. The English Poems of Henry King, ed. Lawrence Mason (New Haven, 1914), p. 174. Crum, p. 157.

p. 204
KiH 732: Henry King, To my Sister Anne King who chid mee in verse for being angry ('Deare Nan! I would not have thy Counsaile lost')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 166.

p. 205
KiH 23: Henry King, Being waked out of my Sleep by a Snuff of Candle which offended mee, I thus thought ('Perhapps 'twas but Conceit. Erroneous Sense!')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 169-70.

pp. 206-8
KiH 767: Henry King, Upon the Death of my ever Desired Freind Dr. Donne Dean of Paules ('To have liv'd Eminent, in a degree')

Copy.

First published in John Donne, Deaths Duell (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 76-7.

pp. 209-10
KiH 483: Henry King, A Penitentiall Hymne ('Hearken, O God! unto a wretche's cryes')

Copy.

First published in The Psalmes of David, 2nd edition (London, 1654). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 161-2.

pp. 211-15
KiH 228: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus ('Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death')

Copy.

First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.

pp. 217-22
KiH 474: Henry King, Paradox. That Fruition destroyes Love ('Love is our Reason's Paradox, which still')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 182-5.

pp. 223-4
KiH 211: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the Bishopp of London John King ('Sad Relick of a Blessed Soule! whose trust')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 172-3.

pp. 225-7
KiH 381: Henry King, The Labyrinth ('Life is a crooked Labyrinth, and wee')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 173-4.

pp. 228-34
KiH 152: Henry King, An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse ('Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?')

Copy.

First published in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 12-15]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 174-7.

pp. 235-8
KiH 387: Henry King, The Legacy ('My dearest Love! When Thou and I must part')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 170-2.

pp. 238-40
KiH 145: Henry King, The Dirge ('What is th' Existence of Man's Life?')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 177-8.

pp. 241-5
KiH 220: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the immature losse of the most vertuous Lady Anne Riche ('I envy not thy mortall triumphes, Death!')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 93-5.

pp. 246-7
KiH 163: Henry King, An Elegy Upon Mrs. Kirk unfortunately drowned in Thames ('For all the Ship-wracks, and the liquid graves')

Copy, headed An Elegy Vpon a Lady vnfortunately drowned in Thames.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 96-7.