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

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