The most elegant, and elabourate Poems Of that Great Court-wit, M^r
William Drummond. Whose Labours, both in Verse and Prose, being
heretofore so precious to Prince Henry, and to K. Charles, Shall live
and flourish in all Ages whiles there are men to read them, or Art &
Judgment to approve them.
Horat. Carm. Lib. 1.
--Multaq; pars mei
Vitabit Libitinam--
_London, Printed for William Rands Bookseller, at his House over against
the Beare Taverne in Fleetstreet,_ 1659.
8^o. (6-3/8 × 4-1/8). X. 3.
Collation: A-O^4, paged. Engraved portrait by R. Gaywood. The
titlepage is a cancel pasted over the original one printed by W. H.
for the Company of Stationers in 1656. Address to the reader signed
E. P. Commendatory verses signed: Edw: Phillips, D. F. (Lat.), (one
copy in Lat. unsigned), Iohn Spotswood, Mary Oxlie of Morpet.
'Tears on the Death of Moeliades', 'The Wandering Muses' and
'Speeches to the high and excellent Prince, Charles, ... Delivered
from the Pageants the 15^th of June, 1633', have each a separate
titlepage with the imprint 'London, Printed in the Yeare, 1656.'
The 'Poems' were first published in 1616 and the present edition
appears to be the third; both the former ones however had several
issues.