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. A Salutation Of His Majesties Ship The Soveraign
7. Epigram (To what serve Lawes, where only Money reignes?)
8. To His Shaddow
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. A Renunciation
14. Exequy On His Wife
15. Silence
16. The Surrender
17. The Dirge
18. The Farewell
19. The Change
20. Loves Harvest
21. The Legacy
22. To His Unconstant Friend
23. An Elegy Upon The Most Victorious King Of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus
24. By Occasion Of The Young Prince His Happy Birth
25. Upon a Braid of Hair in a Heart sent by Mrs. E. H.
26. To a Lady Who Sent me a Copy of Verses at my Going to Bed
27. On the Earl of Essex
28. Sonnet. VVere thy heart soft as thou art faire
29. The Pink
30. Sonnet. I Prethee Turn That Face Away
31. On Two Children Dying Of One Disease, And Buried In One Grave
32. Upon A Table-Book Presented To A Lady
33. Psalm I
34. To the Queen at Oxford
35. The Short Wooing
36. The Acquittance
37. The Labyrinth
38. Sonnet. Tell me you stars that our affections move
39. The Boyes Answer To The Blackmoor
40. To My Dead Friend Ben Johnson
41. An Elegy Upon The Death Of Mr. Edward Holt
42. Tell Me No More How Fair She Is
43. The Retreat
44. Sonnet. Go thou that vainly do'st mine eyes invite
45. An Acknowledgment
46. Another Of The Same, Paraphrased For An Antheme
47. The Forfeiture
48. Sonnet. Dry those fair, those chrystal eyes
49. Madam Gabrina, Or The Ill-Favourd Choice
50. The Vow-Breaker
51. To His Friends of Christ-Church upon the Mislike of the Marriage of the Arts Acted at Woodstock
52. To My Sister Anne King, Who Chid Me In Verse For Being Angry

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