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. To His Unconstant Friend
24. Upon a Braid of Hair in a Heart sent by Mrs. E. H.
25. An Elegy Upon The Most Victorious King Of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus
26. By Occasion Of The Young Prince His Happy Birth
27. Sonnet. I Prethee Turn That Face Away
28. On the Earl of Essex
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. An Elegy Upon The Death Of Mr. Edward Holt
32. The Labyrinth
33. The Pink
34. Tell Me No More How Fair She Is
35. Psalm I
36. Upon A Table-Book Presented To A Lady
37. An Acknowledgment
38. The Short Wooing
39. The Acquittance
40. The Vow-Breaker
41. Another Of The Same, Paraphrased For An Antheme
42. The Retreat
43. The Forfeiture
44. Sonnet. Dry those fair, those chrystal eyes
45. To My Dead Friend Ben Johnson
46. To the Queen at Oxford
47. Sonnet. Tell me you stars that our affections move
48. Madam Gabrina, Or The Ill-Favourd Choice
49. To His Friends of Christ-Church upon the Mislike of the Marriage of the Arts Acted at Woodstock
50. To My Sister Anne King, Who Chid Me In Verse For Being Angry
51. Sonnet. Go thou that vainly do'st mine eyes invite
52. The Boyes Answer To The Blackmoor

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