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

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