Henry King, Bishop of Chichester (1592-1669)

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1. My Midnight Meditation
2. Paradox. That It Is Best For A Young Maid To Marry An Old Man
3. Sic Vita
4. A Contemplation upon Flowers
5. A Penitential Hymne
6. To His Shaddow
7. A Salutation Of His Majesties Ship The Soveraign
8. Epigram (To what serve Lawes, where only Money reignes?)
9. To One That Demaunded Why The Wine Sparkles
10. Epigram (I would not in my love top soone prevaile)
11. Epigram (He whose advent’rous keele ploughes the rough Seas)
12. Being Waked Out Of My Sleep By A Snuff Of Candle Which Offended Me, I Thus Thought:
13. Silence
14. A Renunciation
15. The Surrender
16. The Farewell
17. Exequy On His Wife
18. The Dirge
19. The Legacy
20. The Change
21. By Occasion Of The Young Prince His Happy Birth
22. An Elegy Upon The Most Victorious King Of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus
23. To My Dead Friend Ben Johnson
24. To a Lady Who Sent me a Copy of Verses at my Going to Bed
25. Sonnet. VVere thy heart soft as thou art faire
26. Madam Gabrina, Or The Ill-Favourd Choice
27. To His Friends of Christ-Church upon the Mislike of the Marriage of the Arts Acted at Woodstock
28. Loves Harvest
29. To the Queen at Oxford
30. The Forfeiture
31. An Elegy Upon The Death Of Mr. Edward Holt
32. The Retreat
33. Sonnet. Go thou that vainly do'st mine eyes invite
34. Psalm I
35. An Acknowledgment
36. To His Unconstant Friend
37. The Short Wooing
38. Sonnet. I Prethee Turn That Face Away
39. On Two Children Dying Of One Disease, And Buried In One Grave
40. The Labyrinth
41. Sonnet. Tell me you stars that our affections move
42. Sonnet. Dry those fair, those chrystal eyes
43. The Acquittance
44. The Pink
45. Tell Me No More How Fair She Is
46. Upon a Braid of Hair in a Heart sent by Mrs. E. H.
47. On the Earl of Essex
48. The Boyes Answer To The Blackmoor
49. The Vow-Breaker
50. Upon A Table-Book Presented To A Lady
51. Another Of The Same, Paraphrased For An Antheme
52. To My Sister Anne King, Who Chid Me In Verse For Being Angry

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