"MINOR POETS OF THE CAROLINE PERIOD", VOL. III CONTAINING JOHN CLEVELAND · THOMAS STANLEY · HENRY KING · THOMAS FLATMAN · NATHANIEL WHITING, EDITED BY GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A

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Minor Poets of the Caroline Period, Vol. III

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Contents

1. 1.Transcriber's Note — MINOR POETS OF THE CAROLINE PERIOD
2. 2.PREFATORY NOTE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.POEMS
5. 5.J. Cleaveland Revived:
6. 6.Clievelandi Vindiciæ;
7. 7.INTRODUCTION TO JOHN CLEVELAND.
8. 8.CONTENTS
9. 9.Preface of Cleaveland Revived To the Discerning Reader.
10. 10.The Stationer to the Reader.
11. 11.⟨Prefixed to Clievelandi Vindiciae , 1677 1 ⟩ To the Right Worshipful and Reverend Francis Turner, D.D., Master of St. John's College in Cambridge, and to the Worthy Fellows of the same College.
12. 12.POEMS. — To the State of Love. Or the Senses' Festival. — The Hecatomb to his Mistress. — Upon Sir Thomas Martin, — On the memory of Mr. Edward King, drowned in the Irish Seas. — Upon an Hermaphrodite. — The Author's Hermaphrodite. — * To the Hectors, upon the unfortunate death of H. Compton. — Square-Cap. — Upon Phillis walking in a morning before sun-rising. — Upon a Miser that made a great feast, and the next day died for grief. — A Young Man to an Old Woman courting him. — To Mrs. K. T. — A Fair Nymph scorning a Black Boy courting her. — A Dialogue between two Zealots upon the &c. in the Oath. — Smectymnuus, or the Club-Divines. — The Mixed Assembly. — The King's Disguise. — The Rebel Scot. — The Scots' Apostasy. — Rupertismus. — Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford. — An Elegy upon the Archbishop of Canterbury. — *On I. W. A. B. of York. — Mark Antony. — The Author's Mock Song to Mark Antony. — How the Commencement grows new. — The Hue and Cry after Sir John Presbyter. — The Antiplatonic. — Fuscara, or the Bee Errant. — *An Elegy upon Doctor Chad[d]erton, the first Master of Emanuel College in Cambridge, being above an hundred years old when he died. — *Mary's Spikenard. — To Julia to expedite her Promise.
13. 13.Poems in 1677 but not in 1653. — Upon Princess Elizabeth, born the night before New Year's Day. — The General Eclipse. — Upon the King's Return from Scotland.
14. 14.Poems certainly or almost certainly Cleveland's but not included in 1653 or 1677.
15. 15.Poems certainly or almost certainly Cleveland's but not included in 1653 or 1677. — An Elegy on Ben Jonson. — News from Newcastle: — Upon the Coal-pits about Newcastle-upon-Tyne. — An Elegy upon King Charles the First, murdered publicly by his Subjects.
16. 16.POEMS
17. 17.POEMS,
18. 18.INTRODUCTION TO THOMAS STANLEY
19. 19.CONTENTS
20. 20.POEMS NOT PRINTED AFTER 1647 — Despair. — The Picture. — Opinion.
21. 21.POEMS PRINTED IN 1647 AND REPRINTED IN 1656 BUT NOT IN 1651 — The Dream. — To Chariessa, beholding herself in a Glass. — The Blush. — The Cold Kiss. — The Idolater. — The Magnet. — On a Violet in her Breast. — Song. — The Parting. — Counsel. — Expostulation with Love in Despair. — Song. — Expectation.
22. 22.1651 POEMS — THE DEDICATION
23. 23.POEMS — The Glow-worm. — The Breath. — Desiring her to burn his Verses. — The Night. — A DIALOGUE. — Excuse for wishing her less Fair. — Chang'd, yet Constant. — The Self-deceiver. — MONTALVAN. — The Cure. — Celia Singing. — A la Mesme. — The Return. — Song. — The Sick Lover. — GUARINI. — Song. — Song. — Delay. — Commanded by his Mistress to woo for her. — MARINO. — The Repulse. — The Tomb. — The Enjoyment. — ST.-AMANT. — To Celia Pleading Want of Merit. — Love's Innocence. — The Bracelet. — TRISTAN. — The Kiss. — Apollo and Daphne. — GARCILASSO MARINO. — Speaking and Kissing. — The Snow-ball. — The Deposition. — To his Mistress in Absence. — TASSO. — Love's Heretic. — La Belle Confidente. — La Belle Ennemie. — The Dream. — LOPE DE VEGA. — To the Lady D. — Love Deposed. — The Divorce. — Time Recovered. — CASONE. — The Bracelet. — The Farewell. — Claim to Love. — GUARINI. — To his Mistress, who dreamed he was wounded. — GUARINI. — The Exchange. — DIALOGUE. — Unaltered by Sickness. — On his Mistress's Death. — PETRARCH. — The Exequies. — The Silkworm. — A Lady Weeping. — MONTALVAN. — Ambition. — Song. — The Revenge. — RONSARD. — Song. — Song. — To a Blind Man in Love. — MARINO. — Answer. — Song. — The Loss. — The Self-Cruel. — Song. — BY M. W. M. — Answer. — The Relapse. — To the Countess of S. with the Holy Court. — Song. — DE VOITURE. — Drawn for Valentine by the L. D. S. — The Modest Wish. — BARCLAY. — E Catalectis Vet[erum] Poet[arum] — On the Edition of Mr. Fletcher's Works. — To Mr. W. Hammond. — On Mr. Shirley's Poems. — On Mr. Sherburn's Translation of Seneca's Medea, and Vindication of the Author. — On Mr. Hall's Essays. — On S[ir] J[ohn] S[uckling], his Picture and Poems. — The Union. — Μία ψυχὴ δύο σώματα. BY MR. WILLIAM FAIRFAX. — Answer. — Pythagoras, his Moral Rules. — FINIS.
24. 24.POEMS APPEARING ONLY IN THE EDITION OF 1656
25. 25.POEMS,
26. 26.INTRODUCTION TO HENRY KING.
27. 27.Table of Contents.
28. 28.The Publishers to the Author.
29. 29.POEMS — Sonnet. The Double Rock. — The Vow-Breaker. — Upon a Table-Book presented to a Lady. — To the same Lady upon Mr. Burton's Melancholy. — The Farewell. — Splendidis longùm valedico nugis. — A Blackmoor Maid wooing a fair Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds. — The Boy's Answer to the Blackmoor. — To a Friend upon Overbury's Wife given to her. — Upon the same. — To A. R. upon the same. — An Epitaph on Niobe turned to Stone. — Upon a Braid of Hair in a Heart sent by Mrs. E. H. — Sonnet. — Sonnet. — Sonnet. — Sonnet. To Patience. — Silence. A Sonnet. — Love's Harvest. — The Forlorn Hope. — The Retreat. — Sonnet. — Sonnet. — Sonnet. — Sonnet. — To a Lady who sent me a copy of verses at my going to bed. — To his Friends of Christ Church upon the mislike of the Marriage of the Arts acted at Woodstock. — The Surrender. — The Legacy. — The Short Wooing. — St. Valentine's Day — To his unconstant Friend. — Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favour'd Choice. — The Defence. — To One demanding why Wine sparkles. — By occasion of the Young Prince his happy Birth. — Upon the King's happy return from Scotland. — To the Queen at Oxford. — A Salutation of His Majesty's ship The Sovereign. — An Epitaph on his most honoured friend, Richard, Earl of Dorset. — The Exequy. — The Anniverse. An Elegy. — On Two Children, dying of one disease, and buried in one grave. — A Letter. — An Acknowledgement. — The Acquittance. — The Forfeiture. — The Departure. An Elegy. — Paradox. — That it is best for a Young Maid to marry an Old Man. — Paradox. — That Fruition destroys Love. — The Change. — El sabio muda conscio: El loco persevera. — To my Sister Anne King, who chid me in verse for being angry. — An Elegy upon the immature loss of the most vertuous Lady Anne Rich. — An Elegy upon Mrs. Kirk, unfortunately drowned in Thames. — An Elegy upon the death of Mr. Edward Holt . — To my dead friend Ben. Jonson. — An Elegy upon Prince Henry's death — An Elegy upon S. W. R. — An Elegy upon the L. Bishop of London, John King. — Upon the death of my ever desired friend, Doctor Donne, Dean of Paul's. — An Elegy upon the most victorious King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus. — To my Noble and Judicious Friend Sir Henry Blount upon his Voyage. — To my honoured Friend Mr. George Sandys. — The Woes of Esay. — An Essay on Death and a Prison. — The Labyrinth. — Being waked out of my sleep by a snuff of candle which offended me, I thus thought. — Sic Vita. — King and Beaumont. — Wastell. — Quarles . — Browne . — Strode. — My Midnight Meditation. — A Penitential Hymn. — An Elegy occasioned by Sickness. — The Dirge. — An Elegy, occasioned by the loss of the most incomparable Lady Stanhope, daughter to the Earl of Northumberland.
30. 30.Poems not included in the Edition of 1657 but added in reissue of 1664
31. 31.Poems not included in the Edition of 1657 but added in reissue of 1664 — An Elegy upon my best friend, L. K. C. — On the Earl of Essex. — An Elegy on Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle. — An Elegy upon the most Incomparable King Charles the First.
32. 32.Poems in Manuscript. — A Second Elegy on the Countess of Leinster. — Epigrams. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — Upon the Untimely Death of J. K., first born of HK . — The Complaint. — On his Shadow — Wishes to my Son, John, — A Contemplation upon Flowers.
33. 33.POEMS
34. 34.INTRODUCTION TO THOMAS FLATMAN.
35. 35.TO HIS
36. 36.To the Reader. — On the Excellent Poems of my most Worthy Friend, Mr. Thomas Flatman. — To my Friend Mr Thomas Flatman, upon the Publication of his Poems. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — To my Friend Mr. Thomas Flatman, on the Publishing of these his Poems. — To his esteemed Friend Mr. Thomas Flatman, Upon the Publishing of his Poems. — To my Worthy Friend Mr. Thomas Flatman, Upon the Publishing of his Poems. — To the Author on his excellent Poems. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — To my dear Friend Mr. Thomas Flatman, Upon the Publication of his Poems. — Pindaric Ode . — I. — II. — III. — IV.
37. 37.Commendatory Poems
38. 38.Advertisement to the Reader. — To his Worthy Friend Mr. Thomas Flatman on the publishing of his Poems. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI.
39. 39.The Contents.
40. 40.POEMS. — On the Death of the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Ossory. — Stanza I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — To the Memory of the Incomparable Orinda. — Stanza I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — The Review. — Stanza I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — To my Reverend Friend, Dr. Sam. Woodford, On his Excellent Version of the Psalms. — Stanza I. — II. — III. — On the Death of the truly valiant George Duke of Albemarle. — Stanza I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — The Retirement. — Stanza I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — Translated out of a Part of Petronius Arbiter's Satyricon. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — XI. — XII. — A Thought of Death. — Psalm xxxix. Vers. 4, 5. — Verse IV. — Verse V. — Hymn for the Morning. — Anthem for the Evening. — Death. — The Happy Man. — On Mr. Johnson's Several Shipwrecks. — An Explanation of an Emblem Engraven by V. H. — For Thoughts. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — Against Thoughts. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — A Dooms-Day Thought. — Virtus sola manet, caetera mortis erunt. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — Translated. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — Psalm xv. Paraphrased. — Verse I. — Verse II. — Verse III. — Verse IV. — Verse V. — Job. — Nudus Redibo. — An Elegy on the Earl of Sandwich. — An Epitaph on the Earl of Sandwich. — Pastoral. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — On the Death of Mr. Pelham Humfries. — The Mistake. — The Incredulous. — Weeping at Parting. — I. — II. — The Desperate Lover. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — The Fatigue. — The Resolve. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — Love's Bravo. — The Expectation. — I. — II. — Coridon Converted. — I. — II. — The Humourist. — I. — II. — Fading Beauty. — I. — II. — III. — A Dialogue. — A Dialogue. — The Bachelor's Song. — The Second Part. — An Appeal to Cats in the business of Love. — Advice to an Old Man of sixty-three, about to Marry a Girl of sixteen. — I. — II. — The Slight. — I. — II. — The Penitent. — I. — II. — The Defiance. — I. — II. — III. — The Surrender. — The Whim. — I. — II. — The Renegado. — I. — II. — Phyllis withdrawn. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — The Malecontent. — The Indifferent. — The Harbour. — The Unconcerned. — The Immovable. — I. — II. — III. — The Wish. — I. — II. — The Cordial. In the year 1657. — I. — II. — Celadon on Delia singing. — The Advice. — I. — II. — III. — To Mr. Sam. Austin of Wadham Coll. Oxon, On his most unintelligible Poems. — To my ingenious Friend Mr. William Faithorne on his Book of Drawing, Etching, and Graving. — On the Commentaries of Messire Blaize de Montluc. — A Character of a Belly-God. — The Disappointed. — Stanza I. — II. — On Mrs. E. Montague's Blushing in the Cross-Bath. — I. — II. — Il Infido. — I. — II. — III. — Il Immaturo. — On Mrs. Dove, Wife to the Reverend Dr. Henry Dove. — Lucretius. — Paraphrased. — On the Eminent Dr. Edward Browne's Travels. — On Poverty. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — Urania to her Friend Parthenissa. — On the Death of the Earl of Rochester. — I. — II. — III. — In obitum illustrissimi ingeniosissimique Joannis, Comitis Roffensis, — I. — II. — III. — On Dr. Woodford's Paraphrase on the Canticles. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — XI. — XII. — Laodamia to Protesilaus. — To the Excellent Master of Music, Signior Pietro Reggio, on His Book of Songs. — Epitaph on the Incomparable Sir John King in the Temple-Church. — On the Death of my dear Brother Mr. Richard Flatman. — Stanza I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — Coridon on the death of his dear Alexis, ob. Jan. 28, 168 ⅔ . — A Song on New-Year's-day before the King, Car. 2. — On the King's return to White-hall, after his Summer's Progress, 1684. — Chorus. — To Mr. Isaac Walton, on his Publication of Thealma — Pastoral Dialogue. — Parthenia. — Castara. — Parthenia. — Castara. — Parthenia. — Castara. — Chorus amb. — Castabella Going to Sea. — I. — II. — III. — On the Death of my worthy friend Mr. John Oldham. — Stanza I. — II. — III. — On Sir John Micklethwaite's Monument — M. S. Heic juxta jacet THOMAS ROCK Armg. Salopiensis , Vitâ functus Januarii 3. Aetat. 62. 1678 — On the Death of the Illustrious Prince Rupert. — Stanza I. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — Poema in Obitum Illustrissimi Principis Ruperti — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — On the much lamented Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles II. of Blessed Memory. — Stanza I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — To His Sacred Majesty King James II.
41. 41.ODES OF HORACE — PARAPHRASED BY THOMAS FLATMAN. — Book II. Ode XIX. — Book III. Ode VIII. To Maecenas. — Book III. Ode IX. Horace and Lydia. — Book III. Ode XII. — Book III. Ode XVII. To Aelius Lamia. — Book III. Ode XIX. To Telephus. — I. — II. — III. — Book III. Ode XX. To Pyrrhus. — Book III. Ode XXI. To his Wine-Vessels. — Book III. Ode XXII. Upon Diana. — Book III. Ode III. To Venus. — Book IV. Ode I. To Venus. — Book IV. Ode X. To Ligurinus, a beauteous Youth. — Book IV. Ode XI. To Phyllis. — Epode III. To Maecenas. — Epode VI. — Epode X. Against Maevius, a Poet. — Epode XI. To Pettius his Chamber-fellow. — Epode XV. To his Sweetheart Neaera. — Epode XVII. To Canidia. — Canidia's Answer.
42. 42.POEMS NOT INCLUDED IN THE EDITIONS OF 1682 AND 1686. — Upon a Chine of Beef. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — On the Death of the Eminently Ennobled Charles Capell, Esq.; — On the Picture of the Author, Mr. Sanderson. — On the noble Art of Painting. — On Mistress S. W., who cured my hand by a plaster applied to the knife which hurt me. — Song. — I. — II. — Epitaph on his eldest Son, Thomas, 1682. — Lines to John Northleigh. — Lines to Archbishop Sancroft. — On the Death of His Grace, James, Duke of Ormond: A Pindaric Ode. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — Job, Chapter xxvii. Paraphrased. — Verse 8. — Verse 9. — Verse 10. — Verse 11. — Verse 12. — Verse 13. — Verse 14. — Verse 15. — Verse 16. — Verse 17. — Verse 18. — Verse 19. — Verses 20, 21. — Verse 22. — Verse 23.
43. 43.Le hore di recreatione:
44. 44.INTRODUCTION TO NATHANIEL WHITING.
45. 45.CONTENTS — To the right honourable, right worthy, and truly ennobled hero, John, Lord Lovelace, Baron of Hurley, N.W. S.P.O. — To the Reader. — To the right virtuous and equally beautiful, S ra Inconstanza Bellarizza. — The Author's Apology. — The Author to his Book. — Mart. ad lib. suum. Epig. 4 — Mart. lib. 4. — To his loving friend the Author. — To the Reader. — To his loving kinsman the Author. — Amico suo carissimo N. W. huius Poematis authori Collegii Reg[i]nalis Canta. in artibus magistro. — In Authorem, amicissimum suum, Encomiasticon. — To his Friend, a Panegyric upon his lovers, Albino and Bellama.
46. 46.THE PLEASING HISTORY OF ALBINO AND BELLAMA — To his companion in praise of Bellama. — Upon Bellama's walking in the garden, and with him. — Upon his Bellama using and forsaking the Walk. — To mee's faire Metres, Vandebrad Isile of te fine towne of Vaschester. — Upon the Ring sent to his Bellama. — Upon the Posy I live in hope. — An invective against Cupid. — To his Bellama slighting him. — Canzone. — Notes: The Pleasing History of Albino and Bellama — TO THOSE WORTHY HEROES OF OUR Age, whose noble Breasts are wet and wat'red with the dew of Helicon, N.W. wisheth ever- flourishing Laurels. — Il Insonio Insonnadado. — FINIS. — ERRATA. VOL. II — VOL. III — Transcriber's Note: — Errata (only obvious Printers' Errors have been corrected):

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