'One o' th' sweets which crown this Fair.'
But 1657:
'On those sweets which crown her fair.'
28:3. P. 35, line 9. 'Blushing' in the earlier versions.
28:4. P. " line 10. 'Drooping' in the earlier versions.
28:5. P. " line 16. 'But' in 1657, to the confusion of the sense.
29:1. _To Celia: Excuse for Wishing her less Fair_ (p. 36).
'To Celia' is omitted in 1651.
29:2. P. 36, lines 9-10. 1647:
'Men might languish, and not die
At thy then less scorching fire.'
29:3. P. " line 23. 'Than': 1657.
30:1. _Celia, Sleeping or Singing_ (p. 37).
'Celia Singing' is the title except in 1647, and the whole is there
printed as one stanza.
30:2. P. 37, line 10. By a wickedly diverting mishap, 'more' reads
'less' in 1651 and 1657!
30:3. P. 37, line 12. 'Flame,' by error, in 1651 and 1657.
30:4. P. " line 13. 'His': 1647.
30:5. P. " line 18. 'Cherubins' in all three texts.
30:6. P. " line 19. 'Power': 1647.
31:1. _Palinode_ (p. 37).
Not in the edition of 1651. The poem is printed in this section on
account of its relation to 'The Return,' which follows. 'The Return'
is possibly but another version of 'Palinode.'
31:2. P. 38, line 5. The Editor has ventured to print 'That would,'
though against all three texts, which give 'That wouldst.' The
meaning seems to be that the 'proud empire' of Beauty is rebellions
to Reason or Philosophy, the restraints of which, ('chains') 'would
within tyrannic laws confine,' etc.
31:3. P. 38, line 7. 'Powerful': 1657.
31:4. P. " line 12. 'In': 1657.
_The Return_ (p. 38).
32:1. P. 38, line 2. 'Unite,' by a misprint: 1651.
32:2. P. " line 3. 'Bounds': 1651, 1657.
32:3. P. " line 5. 'That': 1647.
32:4. P. " line 7. 'Sacred': 1647, 1651.
32:5. P. " line 10. 'Which': 1657.
32:6. P. 39, line 11. 'Midst': 1647, 1651.
32:7. P. " line 13. 'Th'' dropped out in 1651.
_Chang'd, yet Constant_ (p. 39).
33:1. P. 40, line 25. Eros.
33:2. P. 41, line 56. May the Editor be forgiven for altering, with no
explicit help from printed texts, one word of this splendid lyric,
in the very best impudent spirit of the time? The second 'hearts' in
the closing line reads 'they' in all editions of Stanley. It is
possible that this word 'they' has been caught from the line just
before, after a fashion only too familiar to copyists and printers.
Even so, it would mean not 'lovers' but 'hearts.' The word 'hearts,'
one is tempted to think, may be the right word.
34:1. _To Chariessa: Beholding herself, etc._ (p. 41).
The edition of 1651 omits 'To Chariessa.' The Editor regrets having
included it, by an oversight, in this section.
34:2. P. 41, line 8. 'One': 1657.
34:3. P. " line 12. The reading of 1657. 'In': 1647.
_Song: 'When I lie burning'_ (p. 42).
35:1. P. 42, lines 13-16. This stanza, probably by inadvertence, is not
included in the edition of 1651. 'Eye,' line 14, is 'eyes' in 1657;
and 'than,' line 16, is misprinted 'them' in 1647.
35:2. P. 42. line 17. 'No': 1651 and 1657.
_Delay_ (p. 43).
36:1. P. 44, line 18. 'Be': 1657.
_The Repulse_ (p. 44).
37:1. P. 44, line 3. The reading of 1657. 'Tyrannic': 1647, 1651.
37:2. P. 45, line 21. 'The': 1651, 1657.
_Song: 'Celinda, by what potent art?'_ (p. 45).
38:1. P. 45, line 9. 'Friend': 1647, 1651.
_The Tomb_ (p. 46).
39:1. P. 47. lines 19-20. In the version of 1647, these lines read:
'And (thou in this flame sacrific'd to me),
We might each other's mutual martyr be.'
The whole third stanza is reproduced from 1647; it figures neither
in 1651 nor in 1657.
39:2. P. 47, line 30. 'Love': 1647; a manifest befogging duplication of
the 'love' in the preceding line. 'Kill' seems to be called for, or
perhaps 'slay,' a word less in favour with Stanley.
40:1. _To Celia, pleading want of merit_ (p. 48).
1647: 'To One that pleaded her own Want of Merit.'
40:2. P. 48, line 12. 'My': 1647.
40:3. P. " line 19. The name in 1651, 1657; but 'Dearest' in 1647.
41:1. _The Kiss_. (p. 49).
1647: 'The Killing Kiss.'
41:2. P. 49, line 4. 'Forms' may be a misprint of 1651, 1657. This line
in 1647 reads:
'They both unite and join.'
41:3. P. 49, line 6. 'And': 1651; 'by' (which carries out the context)
in the others.
41:4. P. 49, line 12. 1647:
'Our lips, our tongues, each other's thoughts betray.'
41:5. P. 49, line 17. 1647: 'Doris.'
_The Snowball_ (p. 50).
42:1. P. 50, line 10. 'Whiter' in all; but 'winter' must be the word.
43:1. _The Deposition_ (p. 50).
1647: 'A Deposition from Beauty.'
43:2. P. 51, line 1. 'Were': 1651.
43:3. P. " line 3. 'Do': 1647; somewhat clearer than 'all,' in the texts
of 1651, 1657.
43:4. P. 51, line 9. 'Glories': 1651.
43:5. P. " line 16. 'Which': 1647.
_Love's Heretic_ (p. 52).
44:1. P. 53, line 34. 'That': 1647.
44:2. P. " line 38. 'Pleasures': 1651, 1657.
_La Belle Confidante_ (p. 54).
45:1. P. 55, line 16. 'Can nor decay nor die': 1651.
45:2. P. 55, line 17. 'And': 1647.
45:3. P. " lines 18, 20. 1647:
'Even in divorce delighted,
. . . . .
Still in the grave united.'
_The Divorce_ (p. 57).
46:1. P. 57, line 4. 1657: 'cannot.'
46:2. P. " line 12. 1647:
'That taught me such idolatry.'
The line as printed in this book follows 1657.
46:3. P. 57, line 14. 'Cold': 1647.
46:4. P. " lines 15-16. 1647:
'I by thy hate might be releas'd,
Who now am prisoner to thy love.'
46:5. P. 58. lines 21-22. 1647:
'Thus whilst so many suppliants do
Implore thy pity they may prove.'
_The Bracelet_ (p. 58).
47:1. P. 58, line 12. 1651 and 1657 have the line revised to its
detriment:
'A heart that many storms withstood, have sold.'
47:2. P. 58, line 15. 1647: 'souls that do our life inspire.' 'Human' in
1651, but 'humane,' in the commoner spelling of the time, in 1657.
47:3. P. 59, line 22. Thus in 1651, 1657. 1647 has:
'Guards and defends my heart.'
_The Farewell_ (p. 59).
48:1. P. 59, lines 13-14. The text as given is 1657 only. 1647 has:
'And may, in spite of Fate, thus blest,
Be, by this death, of heaven possess'd.'
And 1651:
'And be, in spite of Fate, thus blest,
By this sad death, of heaven possess'd.'
49:1. _The Exchange: Dialogue_ (p. 60).
'Exchange of Souls': 1647.
49:2. P. 60, lines 5-6. This refrain is omitted after the speeches in
1651, but figures in other editions, earlier and later.
_The Exequies_ (p. 61).
50:1. P. 61, lines 7-8. Text as given in 1651, 1657. 1647 has:
'Whose cold embraces do a victim hide
That, paid to Beauty, on Love's altar died.'
_The Silkworm_ (p. 62).
51:1. P. 62, line 1. 'This': 1651, 1657.
51:2. P. " line 6. All editions read:
'To make thy ornament her spoil.'
Facts, and the context, force one to reverse the possessive
pronouns.
51:3. P. 62, line 7. 1651: 'pain.'
51:4. P. " line 10. 1647:
'That her rich work and labours, thou
Wilt,' etc.
_Ambition_ (p. 62).
52:1. P. 63, line 10. Misspelt 'assent' in 1657.
52:2. P. " line 16. 'Honour,' in all texts, obviously wrong.
_Song: 'When, dearest Beauty'_ (p. 63).
53:1. P. 63, line 5. 'Left': 1651; 'least': 1657.
_Song: 'I will not trust'_ (p. 64).
54:1. P. 64, line 15. 'Captive': 1657; the older form in 1647, 1651.
_Song: 'I prithee'_ (p. 65).
55:1. P. 66, line 7. 'That,' 1647, 1651.
_The Loss_ (p. 66).
56:1. P. 67, line 20. This word reads 'thy' in all editions of Stanley.
The right reading is almost certainly 'their.'
57:1. _The Self-Cruel_ (p. 67).
Entitled 'Song': 1647.
57:2. P. 68, line 17. 'That' in all texts: but presumably a misprint.
58:1. _An Answer to a Song: 'Wert thou much [?] Fairer'_ (p. 68).
Stanley gives the title inaccurately.
Mr. W. M.'s Wither-like song (the author of which the Editor has not
identified), appears only in the edition of 1651:--
Wert thou yet fairer than thou art,
(Which lies not in the power of art,)
Or hadst thou in thine eyes more darts
Than ever Cupid shot at hearts;
Yet if they were not thrown at me, 5
I would not cast a thought on thee.
I'd rather marry a disease,
Than court the thing I cannot please:
She that will cherish my desires
Must meet my flames with equal fires. 10
What pleasure is there in a kiss,
To him that doubts the heart's not his?
I love thee not because thou'rt fair,
Softer than down, smoother than air;
Nor for the Cupids that do lie 15
In either corner of thine eye.
Wouldst thou then know what it might be?
'Tis I love you, 'cause you love me.
58:2. P. 68, line 8. 'So': 1647, 1651.
59:1. _The Relapse_ (p. 69).
Entitled simply 'Song' in 1647.
59:2. P. 69, line 5. 'Blind and impious': 1647.
59:3. P. 69, line 7. 'Fall': 1657; in the earlier versions 'name,'
caught up by the compositor, in error, from the succeeding line. But
the 1647 copy of Stanley in the Bodleian Library, which belonged to
William Fairfax, has 'name' erased, and 'fall' written, in a
seventeenth-century hand, above it.
TRANSLATIONS.
_Claim to Love._ Guarini. [1651, 1657] (p. 72).
60:1. P. 72, line 5. 'To': 1651.
60:2. P. " line 7. 'Thy': 1651.
_The Sick Lover._ Guarini. [1647, 1651, 1657] (p. 72).
61:1. P. 72, line 6. 'It' in all texts, possibly a misprint for 'is.'
_Apollo and Daphne._ Marino. [1651] (p. 74).
62:1. P. 74, line 6. 'Tears,' manifestly wrong, in the text; 'these' as
relating to 'leaves,' is inserted at a venture, and may or may not
be the right word.
_A Lady Weeping._ Montalvan. [1651, 1657] (p. 75).
63:1. P. 76, line 10. 'Stars' in both texts; but this may be in error
for 'tears.'
_The Hasty Kiss._ Secundus. [1647, 1651, 1657] (p. 76).
64:1. P. 76, line 1. 1647: 'she did.'
64:2. P. " line 2. 1647: 'her.'
64:3. P. 76, line 3. 1651: 'snatch.'
64:4. P. " line 4. 1651: 'mock.'
64:5. P. " line 5. 1647: 'my Chariessa!'
64:6. P. " line 6. 1651: 'gavest.'
_Translations from Anacreon._ [1651, 1657.]
65:1. No. II. P. 79, line 7. 'Love,' in both originals, is
self-contradictory.
66:1. No. V. P. 80, line 5. 'To' omitted in 1657.
66:2. No. V. P. 81, line 13. So 1657. 'My fair one' elsewhere.
67:1. _Seven Epigrams: Plato._ From Laertius and the Anthology. (p.
81.)
A LIST OF EDITIONS OF THOMAS STANLEY'S POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS
[NOTE.--The present 'List' may be looked upon as an _apology_ for a
Stanley Bibliography, which, on the present occasion, is an
impossibility to the compiler, who has, to some extent, had to satisfy
himself with the sparse details of the ordinary bibliographical works;
in addition, he has been aided by the Editor of the present edition of
Stanley's Poems.--J. R. TUTIN.]
1. [Anonymous lines[A] to Sir John Suckling occurring beneath Marshall's
portrait of him in edd. 1646-1696 of Suckling's Works.
[Footnote A: Commencing: 'Suckling, whose numbers could invite.']]
2. Poems and Translation. By Thomas Stanley, Esquire. Quae mea culpa
tamen, nisi si lusisse vocari Culpa potest: nisi culpa potest &
amasse, vocari? Tout vient a poinct qui peut attendre. Printed for
the Author, and his friends, 1647. Collation--[13 pp.] 49 pp. [+8
pp.]
In a copy of this edition in the Bodleian Library, Oxford [Mason cc.
297], is the following Note:--
'Privately printed for presents only; afterwards reprinted in 1649
and 1650 for sale. The only other copy of this first edition I can
trace was in Isaac Reed's Sale.'
This 1647 edition has half-titles for Europa, Cupid Crucified, and
Venus Vigils; but for Oronta and for Aurora, etc., a title: Oronta,
The Cyprian Virgin, by Sig^r Girolamo Preti. London. Printed by F.
B. for Humphrey Moseley at the Signe of the Princes Armes in St.
Pauls Churchyard, 1637.
Aurora, Ismenia. By Don Juan Perez de Montalvan, 1648.
3. Europa, Cupid Crucified, Venus Vigils. With Annotations by Tho:
Stanley, Esq. Printed by W. W. for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be
sold at his shop at the Signe of the Princes Armes in St. Pauls
Churchyard. 1649 [2], 61 pp.
4. Aurora, Ismenia, and the Prince, by Don Juan Perez de Montalvan.
Oronta the Cyprian Virgin, by Sign^r Girolamo Preti. Tout vient a
poinet qui peut attendre. Translated by Thomas Stanley, Esq.; The
Second Edition, with additions. London. Printed by W. Wilson for
Humphrey Moseley at the Signe of Princes Armes in St. Pauls
Churchyard. 1650 [8 pp.], 87 p.
Considered by bibliographers part of succeeding (_i.e._ Poems of
1651), though the pagination begins anew and the date is 1650.
5. Poems, By Thomas Stanley, Esquire. Quae mea culpa tamen, nisi si
lusisse vocari Culpa potest: nisi culpa potest & amasse, vocari?
Printed in the Year 1651. 86 pp.
6. Anacreon, Bion, Moschus: Kisses by Secundus: Cupid Crucified by
Ausonius: Venus Vigils. Incerto authore. [Translated by Thomas
Stanley.] Printed in the year 1651. 164 pp.
7. Sylvias Park by Theophile, Acanthus Complaint by Tristran, Oronto by
Preti, Echo by Marino, Loves Embassy by Boscan, The Solitude by
Gongora. [Translated by Thomas Stanley.] Printed in the year 1651.
Pp. 167-212. (Paged continuously with Anacreon, Bion, etc.)
8. A Platonick Discourse upon Love. Written in Italian by John Picus
Mirandula, in Explication of Sonnet by Hieronimo Benvieni.
[Translated by Thomas Stanley.] Printed in the year 1651. Pp.
215-260. (Paged continuously with Sylvias Park, etc.)
9. Poems by Thomas Stanley, Esquire. Quae mea culpa tamen, nisi si
lusisse vocari Culpa potest: nisi culpa potest et amasse, vocari.
London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his Shop
at the Signe of the Princes Armes in S. Pauls Church Yard, 1652.
10. Ayres and Dialogues (To be Sung to the Theorbo-Lute or Bass-Violl).
By John Gamble. Horat. Od. 2. 10.--Quondam cithara tacentem Suscitat
Musam, neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo. London. Printed by William
Godbid for the Author. 1656. [10 pp.] 83 pp. Fo.
Containing a full-page portrait of Gamble engraved by T. Cross. The
Prefaces precede the complimentary Poems.
11. Ayres and Dialogues (To be Sung to the Theorbo-Lute or Bass-Violl).
By John Gamble. Horat. Ode II., 10.--Quondam cithara tacentem
Suscitat Musam, neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo. London: Printed by
W. Godbid for Humphry Moseley at the Princes-Arms in St. Pauls
Church-yard, 1657. [10 pp.] 78 pp. [+ 1]. F^o.
Followed by twenty very complimentary lines by Alexander Broome
[Brome] addressed 'To His Friend Thomas Stanley, Esq., On his Odes
set and Published by Mr. John Gamble'; by twenty-two lines 'On my
Friend Mr. John Gamble his Excellent Composition of the Songs and
Dialogues of Thomas Stanley, Esq.,' signed Jo: Tatham; and a Preface
of Gamble's own, reproduced herewith. Then another Preface, To the
Noble Few Lovers of Musick (Gamble's); and poems, in order, by
Richard Lovelace, Jo: Redmayne, Dudley Lovelace, and Eldred Revet.
[Gamble's Preface, 1657.]
To the Worthy of all Honour, Thomas Stanley, Esq.
SIR,--You have been a merciful Creditor in the trust of these
inestimable Poems so long with me, a person inconsiderable. But, I
beseech you, think I have been sensible of the great obligation, and
alwayes thought it a lesse trespass to break with all the world,
then, by the least forgetfulness, make an unhappy forfeit of myself
to your displeasure. Sir, I have brought home your Principal; and
though it be a thing beneath your generous expectation to look at
profit, yet I thought it became my justice to tender you a small
interest, the endevours of my poor Art, to wait upon it: I
acknowledge it a bold Undertaking to compose your Words, (which are
so pure Harmonie in themselves,) into any other Musick. But it was
not in my ambition or hope to mend the least Accent or Emphasis
w^{ch} they received from your own numerous Soul, but to essay how
neer a whole life spent in the study of Musical Compositions could
imitate the flowing and naturall Graces which you have created by
your Fancie. I have onely to say, if my zeal have not stained what
you have excellently made, I will not despair of your pardon; and if
any thing herein, (the wel-meant tender of my service,) may obtain
your smile and permission, I shalbe confirmed in my thoughts that I
may stil write myself,--Sir, The most humble and faithful of your
Servants,
JOHN GAMBLE.
In this collection of Stanley's verse, 1656, 1657, the lyrics have
no titles of any sort, but are numbered.
12. Psalterium Carolinum: the Devotions of His Sacred Majestie in his
Solitudes and Sufferings rendred in Verse [from the Eikon Basilike
by T. Stanley]. Set to Musick for 3 Voices and an Organ or Theorbo
by John Wilson, Dr. and Music Professor of Oxford, London. Printed
for John Martin and James Allestrey, and are to be sold at the Bell
in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1657. Folio.
13. Psalterium Carolinum: the Devotions of His Sacred Majesty Charles
the First in his Solitudes and Sufferings. Rendred in Verse. London.
Printed for John Martin, James Allestry, and Thomas Dicas, and are
to be sold at the Bell in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1660.
The Dedication, to King Charles the Second, is signed Tho: Stanley.
The twenty-seven paraphrases here are without the music. F^o.
14. Poems, by Thomas Stanley, Esq. Quae mea culpa tamen, nisi si lucisse
[sic] vocari Culpa potest: nisi culpa potest et amasse, vocans
[sic]. Reprinted from the Edition of 1651. London: From the Private
Press of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. Printed by T.
Davison, Whitefriars. 1814. Pp. xxiv, 107. crown 8vo.
Edited, with Preface, etc., by Sir Egerton Brydges.
The edition contained about 100 copies.
15. Anacreon, Bion, and Moschus, with Other Translations. By Thomas
Stanley, Esq. First Printed 1651. A New Edition, with a Preface,
Critical and Biographical. London: From the Private Press of
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. Printed by T. Davison,
Whitefriars. 1815. Pp. xxvii. 276. crown 8vo.
Edited by Sir Egerton Brydges; about 100 copies only.
Pp. 133-276 comprise a large number of "excitations," by Stanley,
upon the authors dealt with in these translations.
16. The Elegies of Propertius, &c. London: H. G. Bohn. 1854. cr. 8vo
[Bohn's Classical Library].
Contains The Kisses of Secundus, translated into English verse by T.
Stanley.
17. The Poems of Catullus, &c. London: H. G. Bohn. 1854. cr. 8vo [Bohn's
Classical Library].
Contains The Vigil of Venus, translated into English Verse by T.
Stanley.
18. Anacreon: with Thomas Stanley's Translation. Edited by A. H. Bullen.
Illustrated by J. R. Weguelin. London: Lawrence & Bullen, 16
Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. MDCCCXCIII. 4to. Collation: Pp.
xxix. 224. Contains twelve photogravures. 1000 copies only were
printed for England and America.
[It may be here noted that many of Stanley's Verse-Translations
appeared in his _History of Philosophy_, of which there are many
editions, dating from 1655 to 1743, the best edition of which is
said to be the latter.]
19. Anacreon, Translated by Thomas Stanley. With a Preface and Notes by
A. H. Bullen, and Illustrations by J. R. Weguelin. London: A. H.
Bullen, 47, Great Russell Street, W.C. 1906. Pp. xxiv+92.
20. Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, in their Collated
Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. With an Introduction, Textual Notes, A
List of Editions, An Appendix of Translations, and a Portrait.
Edited by L. I. Guiney, J. R. Tutin, Hull, 1907.
_Collation._ Titles, Dedication, Contents, and Prefatory Note, pp.
i-xxi; Original Lyrics, pp. 1-69; Appendix of Translations, pp.
71-83; Textual Notes, pp. 85-100; List of Editions, pp. 101-105;
Index to First Lines, pp. 107-110.
The present edition.
INDEX TO FIRST LINES
PAGE
A kiss I begg'd, and thou didst join [Secundus] 76
A Phosphor 'mongst the living late wert thou [Plato] 81
A small well-gotten stock, and country seat [E. Cat[alectis]
Vet[erum] Poet[arum.]] 81
Alas! alas! thou turn'st in vain [Guarini] 72
As in the crystal-centre of the sight [Fairfax] 89
As when some brook flies from itself away [Montalvan] 75
Ask the empress of the night 26
Beauty, thy harsh imperious chains 37
Beauty, whose soft magnetic chains 38
Cast, Chariessa, cast that glass away 41
Cast off, for shame, ungentle maid 67
Celinda, by what potent art 45
Chide, chide no more away 32
Come, my Dear, whilst youth conspires [Casone] 73
Dear, back my wounded heart restore 57
Dear, fold me once more in thine arms 10
Dear, urge no more the killing cause 48
Delay! Alas, there cannot be 43
Doris, I that could repel 50
Draw near 61
'Fair is Alexis,' I no sooner said [Plato] 82
Fair rebel to thyself and Time [Ronsard] 71
Faith, 'tis not worth thy pains and care 31
Far from thy dearest self, the scope [Tasso] 76
Favonius, the milder breath o' th' Spring 33
Five oxen, grazing in a flowery mead [Plato] 83
Fletcher, whose fame no age can ever waste 15
Fool! take up thy shaft again 43
Foolish Lover, go and seek 28
He whose active thoughts disdain 52
I go, dear Saint, away 29
I languish in a silent flame [De Voiture] 73
I must no longer now admire 62
I prithee let my heart alone 65
I will not trust thy tempting graces 64
I yield, dear enemy, nor know 55
If we are one, dear Friend! why shouldst thou be 22
Love! what tyrannic laws must they obey 30
Madam! the blushes I betray 16
My sickly breath [Guarini] 72
No, I will sooner trust the wind 65
No, no, poor blasted Hope! 1
Not that by this disdain 44
Now will I a lover be [Anacreon] 79
O turn away those cruel eyes 69
Old Hecuba, the Trojan matron's, years [Plato] 82
On this swelling bank, once proud 9
On this verdant lotus laid [Anacreon] 80
Pale envious Sickness, hence! no more 35
Rebellious fools that scorn to bow 58
Roses, in breathing forth their scent 37
See how this ivy strives to twine 12
See how this violet, which before 27
See, the Spring herself discloses [Anacreon] 79
Since every place you bless, the name 6
Since Fate commands me hence, and I 59
So fair Aurora doth herself discover 24
Stay, fairest Chariessa, stay and mark 13
Such icy kisses, anchorites that live 25
Suckling, whose numbers could invite 22
That I might ever dream thus! that some power 1
That kiss which last thou gav'st me, stole 60
That wise philosopher who had design'd 20
The air which thy smooth voice doth break 50
The lazy hours move slow 10
The silkworm, to long sleep retir'd 62
The stars, my Star! thou view'st: heaven I would be [Plato] 81
These papers, Chariessa, let thy breath 14
Think not, pale lover, he who dies 25
Thou best of Friendship, Knowledge and of Art! 17
Thou that both feel'st and dost admire 2
Thou whose sole name all passions doth comprise 13
Though 'gainst me Love and Destiny conspire 7
Though when I lov'd thee thou wert fair 51
'Tis no kiss my Fair bestows [Secundus] 77
To Archaeanassa, on whose furrow'd brow [Plato] 82
Torment of absence and delay [Montalvan] 75
Vex no more thyself and me [Anacreon] 78
Wert thou by all affections sought 68
Wert thou yet fairer than thou art ['Mr. W. M.'] 98
What busy cares too timely born 4
What if Night 34
When, cruel fair one, I am slain 46
When, dearest Beauty, thou shalt pay 63
When, dearest Friend, thy verse doth re-inspire 18
When deceitful lovers lay 29
When I lie burning in thine eye 42
When on thy lip my soul I breathe 49
When Phoebus saw a rugged bark beguile [Marino] 74
When thou thy pliant arms dost wreathe [Secundus] 77
Whence took the diamond worth? the borrow'd rays 2
Why thy passion should it move 36
With a whip of lilies, Love [Anacreon] 78
Within the covert of a shady grove [Plato] 82
Wits that matur'd by time have courted praise 21
Wrong me no more 39
Yet ere I go 66
You earthly souls that court a wanton flame 54
You that unto your mistress' eyes 56
_Printed by_ MORRISON & GIBB LIMITED, _Edinburgh_
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Transcriber's Notes:
1. Obvious punctuation errors in the preface and textual notes have
been fixed without further note, but punctuation within poems
remains as printed in the original book.
2. Line numbers in the poems are as printed in the original book,
even in cases where they may seem inconsistent.
3. Page xiii: In the quote by Hammond, "you too" has been corrected
to "you two".
4. Page 36: The reference to note 2 was missing and has been added.
5. Page 79: In IV. The Combat, the line numbering should probably
restart at 1, rather than continuing from III. The printed
numbering has been retained.
6. Page 81: The text note reference on line 13 of V was missing and
has been added.
7. Page 100: The reference in text note 66:1 to line 5 of No. IV has
been corrected to refer to No. V instead.
8. Page 100: The note numbers in the notes for 'Translations from
Anacreon' were inconsistent with the numbers actually used in the
poems, and have been corrected.