Rosemary Williams

Stoughton MS

• CwT 1145 p. 21

  Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman like his Mistresse.

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

  Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse ('Fayre copie of my Celia's face')
• CwT 817 p. 22

  Copy, headed On a faire Gentlewoman that sung excellently.

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

  Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
• CwT 409 p. 23

  Copy, headed On his Mistresse Lippes and Eyes.

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

  Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes ('In Celia's face a question did arise')
• CwT 497 p. 24

  Copy.

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

  Thomas Carew, On his Mistres lookeinge in a glasse ('This flatteringe glasse whose smooth face weares')
• CwT 168 p. 25

  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).

  Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned ('Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke')
• CwT 342 p. 26

  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.

  Thomas Carew, Griefe ingrost ('Wherefore doe thy sad numbers flow')
• CwT 36 p. 27

  Copy, headed Sonnet.

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

  Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon ('Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood')
• CwT 891 p. 28

  Copy, headed Sonnet.

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

  Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face')
• CwT 1061 p. 29

  Copy.

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

  Thomas Carew, To his jealous Mistris ('Admit (thou darling of mine eyes)')
• CwT 662 p. 30

  Copy, headed Sonnet.

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

  Thomas Carew, Red, and white Roses ('Reade in these Roses, the sad story')
• CwT 259 p. 31

  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).

  Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
• StW 831 p. 34

  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).

  William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
• CwT 736 p. 35

  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.

  Thomas Carew, A Song ('Aske me no more whether doth stray')
• CwT 65 pp. 36-7

  Copy, headed To his Mistresse.

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

  Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold')
• CwT 519 p. 38

  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.

  Thomas Carew, On sight of a Gentlewomans face in the water ('Stand still you floods, doe not deface')
• StW 1083 p. 39

  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.

  William Strode, To a frinde ('Like as the hande which hath bin usd to play')
• JnB 728 p. 44

  Copy, headed Of Loue and Death.

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

  Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song ('Though I am young, and cannot tell')
• CwT 544.6 p. 45

  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.

  Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')
• HeR 303 p. 47

  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.

  Robert Herrick, Advice to a Maid ('Love in thy youth fayre Mayde bee wise')
• CwT 534 p. 48

  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).

  Thomas Carew, Parting, Celia weepes ('Weepe not (my deare) for I shall goe')
• B&F 71 p. 50

  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).

  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Love's Cure, III, ii, 118-225. Song ('Turn, turn thy beauteous face away')
• StW 1336 p. 51

  Copy, headed To his Mistresse.

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

  William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress ('Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde')
• B&F 198 p. 53

  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).

  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Women Pleased, III, iv. Song ('Oh, fair sweet face! oh, eyes celestial bright')
• CwT 1172.8 p. 54

  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.

  Thomas Carew, The tooth-ach cured by a kisse ('Fate's now growne mercifull to men')
• CwT 325 p. 55

  Copy.

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

  Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid ('When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see')
• CwT 940 p. 56

  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).

  Thomas Carew, Song. To my inconstant Mistris ('When thou, poore excommunicate')
• HeR 102 p. 57

  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).

  Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')
• HeR 399 p. 57

  Copy, headed Vpon his periur'd Mistresse.

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

  Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris ('Whither are all her false oathes blowne')
• CwT 381 p. 63

  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).

  Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned ('Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)')
• KiH 30 p. 71

  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).

  Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
• PeW 293 p. 72

  Copy, headed On Loue and subscribed M^r. 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.

  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Sonnet ('So glides a long the wanton Brook')
• MoG 49 pp. 87-8

  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.

  George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
• DaW 59 pp. 91-2

  Copy, headed To M^r Endymion Porter.

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

  Sir William Davenant, To a Gentleman at his uprising ('Soe phoebus rose, as if he had last night')
• DaW 28 pp. 92-3

  Copy, headed For M^ris Porter on New yeares day.

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

  Sir William Davenant, For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day ('Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present')
• CwT 21 p. 94

  Copy, untitled.

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

  Thomas Carew, Boldnesse in love ('Marke how the bashfull morne, in vaine')
• HrE 44 pp. 95-6

  Copy.

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

  Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, 'Tears, flow no more, or if you needs must flow'
• JnB 468 p. 100

  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.

  Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia ('Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes')
• JnB 340 pp. 101-2

  Copy, headed Sonnet.

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

  Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue ('Come, with our Voyces, let us warre')
• EaJ 34 pp. 103-10

  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).

  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')
• EaJ 58 pp. 111-14

  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).

  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Earle of Pembroke's Death ('Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse')
• KiH 796 pp. 123-30

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, The Woes of Esay ('Woe to the worldly men, whose covetous')
• KiH 100 pp. 131-4

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, By Occasion of the young Prince his happy Birth. May 29. 1630 ('At this glad Triumph, when most Poëts use')
• KiH 314 pp. 135-40

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, An Essay on Death and a Prison ('A Prison is in all things like a Grave')
• KiH 711 pp. 141-5

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, To his unconstant Freind ('But say, thou very Woman, why to mee')
• KiH 173 pp. 147-8

  Copy, headed Vpon Prince Henryes Death.

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

  Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death ('Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure')
• KiH 307 p. 148

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, An Epitaph On Niobe turn'd to Stone ('This Pile thou see'st, built out of Flesh not Stone')
• KiH 278 pp. 149-50

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')
• KiH 324 pp. 151-6

  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.

  Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')
• KiH 15 pp. 157-8

  Copy, headed An Elegy.

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

  Henry King, The Anniverse. An Elegy ('So soone grow'n old? Hast thou bin six yeares dead?')
• KiH 469 p. 159

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, On two Children dying of one Disease, and buryed in one Grave ('Brought forth in Sorrow, and bred up in Care')
• KiH 668 pp. 160-1

  Copy, headed An Elegy.

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

  Henry King, The Surrender ('My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more')
• KiH 190 pp. 162-3

  Copy, headed An Elegy.

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

  Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. ('I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne')
• KiH 414 pp. 164-6

  Copy, untitled.

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

  Henry King, Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice ('I have oft wondred, why thou didst elect')
• KiH 109 pp. 166-7

  Copy, untitled.

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

  Henry King, The Defence ('Why slightest thou what I approve?')
• KiH 703 pp. 168-9

  Copy.

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

  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')
• KiH 692 p. 170

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

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

  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')
• KiH 357 pp. 171-2

  Copy untitled.

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

  Henry King, The Farwell ('Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp')
• KiH 425 p. 173

  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.

  Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')
• KiH 519 p. 174

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, Sic Vita ('Like to the Falling of a Starr')
• KiH 542 p. 175

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, Sonnet ('Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes')
• KiH 573 p. 176

  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).

  Henry King, Sonnet ('I prethee turne that face away')
• KiH 633 p. 177

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, Sonnet ('When I entreat, either thou wilt not heare')
• KiH 590 p. 178

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee no more how faire shee is')
• KiH 398 pp. 179-82

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, A Letter ('I ne're was drest in Formes. nor can I bend')
• KiH 8 pp. 183-5

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, An Acknowledgment ('My best of Friends! what needes a Chaine to ty')
• KiH 140 pp. 186-88

  Copy, headed An Elegy.

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

  Henry King, The Departure. An Elegy ('Were I to leave no more than a Good Freind')
• KiH 775 pp. 189-90

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, Upon the King's happy Returne from Scotland ('So breakes the Day, when the Returning Sun')
• KiH 661 p. 191

  Copy, headed To Patience.

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

  Henry King, Sonnet. To Patience ('Downe stormy Passions, downe: no more')
• KiH 606 p. 192

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move')
• KiH 563 p. 193

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, Sonnet ('Go Thou, that vainly dost mine eyes invite')
• KiH 492 p. 194

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, The Pink ('Faire one, you did on mee bestow')
• KiH 647 p. 195

  Copy, headed The Double Rock.

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

  Henry King, Sonnet. The Double Rock ('Since Thou hast view'd some Gorgon, and art grow'n')
• KiH 501 p. 196

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, The Retreit ('Pursue no more (My Thoughts!) that False Unkind')
• KiH 406 p. 197

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, Love's Harvest ('Fond Lunatick forbeare. WHy dost thou sue')
• KiH 374 p. 198

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, The Forlorne Hope ('How long (vaine Hope!) dost thou my joyes suspend?')
• KiH 531 pp. 199-200

  Copy, headed Sonnet.

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

  Henry King, Silence. A Sonnet ('Peace my Hearte's blabb, be ever dumbe')
• KiH 760 p. 200

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, Upon a Table-book presented to a Lady ('When your faire hand receaves this Little Book')
• KiH 745 p. 201

  Copy, headed To the same vpon….

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

  Henry King, To the same Lady Upon Mr. Burton's Melancholy ('If in this Glasse of Humours you doe find')
• KiH 266 p. 202

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, Epigram ('To what serve Lawes where only mony reignes?')
• KiH 272 p. 202

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, Epigram ('When Arria to her Paetus had bequeath'd')
• KiH 250 p. 203

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, Epigram ('He whose advent'rous keele ploughes the rough Seas')
• KiH 256 p. 203

  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.

  Henry King, Epigram ('I would not in my Love too soone prevaile')
• KiH 732 p. 204

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, To my Sister Anne King who chid mee in verse for being angry ('Deare Nan! I would not have thy Counsaile lost')
• KiH 23 p. 205

  Copy.

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

  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!')
• KiH 767 pp. 206-8

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, Upon the Death of my ever Desired Freind D^r. Donne Dean of Paules ('To have liv'd Eminent, in a degree')
• KiH 483 pp. 209-10

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, A Penitentiall Hymne ('Hearken, O God! unto a wretche's cryes')
• KiH 228 pp. 211-15

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus ('Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death')
• KiH 474 pp. 217-22

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, Paradox. That Fruition destroyes Love ('Love is our Reason's Paradox, which still')
• KiH 211 pp. 223-4

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, An Elegy Upon the Bishopp of London John King ('Sad Relick of a Blessed Soule! whose trust')
• KiH 381 pp. 225-7

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, The Labyrinth ('Life is a crooked Labyrinth, and wee')
• KiH 152 pp. 228-34

  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.

  Henry King, An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse ('Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?')
• KiH 387 pp. 235-8

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, The Legacy ('My dearest Love! When Thou and I must part')
• KiH 145 pp. 238-40

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, The Dirge ('What is th' Existence of Man's Life?')
• KiH 220 pp. 241-5

  Copy.

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

  Henry King, An Elegy Upon the immature losse of the most vertuous Lady Anne Riche ('I envy not thy mortall triumphes, Death!')
• KiH 163 pp. 246-7

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

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

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