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Minor Poets of the Caroline Period, Vol III
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91 Chapters
Chapter 1 C.
Chapter 2 No.2
Chapter 3 This pointed if cynical conclusion was changed in 1657 to the much feebler
Chapter 4 The Double Rock 169
Chapter 5 Breaker 169
Chapter 6 Book presented to a Lady 170
Chapter 7 Burton's Melancholy 170
Chapter 8 The Farewell 170
Chapter 9 Hen. Rainolds 171
Chapter 10 The Boy's Answer to the Blackmoor 171
Chapter 11 To a Friend upon Overbury's Wife given to her 172
Chapter 12 Upon the same 172
Chapter 13 R. upon the same 172
Chapter 14 An Epitaph on Niobe turned to Stone 172
Chapter 15 E. H. 173
Chapter 16 'Tell me no more how fair she is' 173
Chapter 17 'Were thy heart soft as thou art fair' 174
Chapter 18 'Go, thou that vainly' 174
Chapter 19 To Patience 174
Chapter 20 A Sonnet 175
Chapter 21 Love's Harvest 175
Chapter 22 The Forlorn Hope 176
Chapter 23 The Retreat 176
Chapter 24 'Tell me, you stars' 177
Chapter 25 'I prithee turn that face away' 177
Chapter 26 'Dry those fair', &c. 177
Chapter 27 'When I entreat', &c. 178
Chapter 28 To a Lady who sent me a copy of verses at my going to bed 178
Chapter 29 Omitted not King's.]
Chapter 30 179
Chapter 31 The Surrender 180
Chapter 32 The Legacy 181
Chapter 33 The Short Wooing 182
Chapter 34 Valentine's Day 183
Chapter 35 To his unconstant Friend 184
Chapter 36 favour'd Choice 185
Chapter 37 The Defence 187
Chapter 38 To One demanding why Wine sparkles 188
Chapter 39 By occasion of the Young Prince his happy Birth 188
Chapter 40 Upon the King's happy return from Scotland 190
Chapter 41 To the Queen at Oxford 192
Chapter 42 A Salutation of His Majesty's ship the Sovereign 193
Chapter 43 An Epitaph on his most honoured friend, Richard, Earl of Dorset 194
Chapter 44 The Exequy 195
Chapter 45 An Elegy 198
Chapter 46 198
Chapter 47 A Letter 199
Chapter 48 An Acknowledgement 201
Chapter 49 The Acquittance 202
Chapter 50 The Forfeiture 202
Chapter 51 An Elegy 203
Chapter 52 That it is best for a young Maid to marry an Old Man 204
Chapter 53 That Fruition destroys Love 206
Chapter 54 The Change 209
Chapter 55 210
Chapter 56 An Elegy upon the immature loss of the most virtuous Lady Anne Rich 210
Chapter 57 Kirk, unfortunately drowned in Thames 212
Chapter 58 Edward Holt 213
Chapter 59 To my dead friend Ben Jonson 214
Chapter 60 An Elegy upon Prince Henry's death 216
Chapter 61 W. R. 217
Chapter 62 An Elegy upon the Lord Bishop of London, John King 217
Chapter 63 Upon the death of my ever desired friend, Doctor Donne, Dean of Paul's 218
Chapter 64 An Elegy upon the most victorious King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus 220
Chapter 65 To my noble and judicious friend Sir Henry Blount upon his Voyage 223
Chapter 66 George Sandys 226
Chapter 67 The Woes of Esay 230
Chapter 68 An Essay on Death and a Prison 232
Chapter 69 The Labyrinth 234
Chapter 70 Being waked out of my sleep 235
Chapter 71 Sic Vita 236
Chapter 72 My Midnight Meditation 238
Chapter 73 A Penitential Hymn 238
Chapter 74 An Elegy occasioned by Sickness 239
Chapter 75 The Dirge 241
Chapter 76 242
Chapter 77 K. C. 244
Chapter 78 On the Earl of Essex 245
Chapter 79 An Elegy on Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle 246
Chapter 80 An Elegy upon the most incomparable King Charles the First 255
Chapter 81 A Second Elegy on the Countess of Leinster 267
Chapter 82 From Petronius Arbiter, c. 14 267
Chapter 83 From Martial, i. 14 268
Chapter 84 From Petronius Arbiter, c. 83 268
Chapter 85 From Petronius Arbiter 268
Chapter 86 Pro captu, &c. 268
Chapter 87 K., first born of H. K. 269
Chapter 88 The Complaint 269
Chapter 89 On his Shadow 270
Chapter 90 Wishes to my Son, John 272
Chapter 91 A Contemplation upon Flowers 273
Chapter 92 No.92
Chapter 93 No.93
Chapter 94 note. Magis triumphati quam victi. Tacit. de Mor. Ger.
Chapter 95 No.95
Chapter 96 For eggs choose long, the round are out of fashion,
Chapter 97 Choose coleworts planted on a soil that's dry,
Chapter 98 If friend from far shall come to visit, then
Chapter 99 Mushrooms that grow in meadows are the best;
Chapter 100 He that would many happy summers see,
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Chapter 91 A Contemplation upon Flowers 273

The Publishers to the Author.

Sir,

It is the common fashion to make some address to the Readers, but we are bold to direct ours to you, who will look on this publication with anger, which others must welcome into the world with joy.

The Lord Verulam comparing ingenious authors to those who had orchards ill neighboured, advised them to publ

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