Dear Mr. Simpson, This book owes so much to your zealous and disinterested services in the collection and revision of its materials that I should be ungrateful indeed if I did not dedicate it to you, in default of any better method of expressing my thanks. Yours faithfuliy, BERTRAM DOBELL CONTENTS In the following list those poems which have never before been printed so far as the editor has been able to ascertain are distinguished by a l Dedication . . . . . . . . . . . Contents . . . . . . . . . . . Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . Lyrics Song When Orpheus sweetly did complayne . ., ., . In commendation of Musick . . . . . .. a Keepe on your maske . . . . . . Another version . . . . . . . ., 0 when will Cupid shew such arte . . ., , 0 tell mee, tell, thou god of wynde . . ., , On the Baths . . . . . . . ., , AS I out of a casement sent . . . . ., , On a Friends Absence . . . . . ., , Melancholly . . . . . . . ., , Opposite to Melancholly . . . . . . A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada . . . Miscellaneous Poems On Westwell Downes . . . . . . . . I On a great hollow Tree . . . . . . . . r On Fayrford Windowes . . . . . . . . OnaGentlewomansblistredlipp. . . . . . l PAGE v vii xiii 20 2 I 25 28 vii PAGE To a Gentlewoman for a Friend ., . . . 29 For a Gentleman, who, kissing his Friend at his departure, left a sign of blood on her . . . . . 32 On a Dissembler . . . . . 3 3 On Gray Eyes . . . - 35 On a Gentlewomans Watch that wanted a key . . . 36 A Watch sent home to Mrs. Eliz. King . . 38 On a watch made by a Blacksmith ., . . . 38 On a Gentlewoman that sung and playd upon a Lute . 39 Upon the blush of a faire Ladie . . . - 3 9 On a Gentlewoman walking in the Snowe . - 41On Chloris standing by the Fire . . . . 42 To a Valentine. . . . . 4 2 A Superscription on Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia . 43 Posies, . . . . . . . . 43 On the Picture of two Dolphins in a Fountayne . . . 46 Sonnet My love and I for kisses playd 47 To his Mistress In your sterne beauty I can see . . 47 A Lover to his Mistress . . . . . . . . 48 A Riddle on a Kiss . . . . . . . . 48 On a Gentlewoman that had had the small poxe . . 49 OnJealousy . . . . . . 4 9 Religious Poems Of Death Resurrection . . . . . . 50 On the Bible . . . . . . 51 On a Register for the Bible . . . 52 Another . . . . . 53 Anthem for Good Fryday . . - 53 An Antheme . . . . - 5 4 Justification . . . . . . 55 On the Life of Man. . . . . . . - 55 Elegies On the death of of Mrs. Mary Neudham . . . . 57 viii On the Death of Mistress Mary Prideaux . On the same M. M. P. . Consolatorium, Ad Parentes . Her Epitaph On the Death of Sir Tho. Peltham . On the Death of a Twin. On the yong Baronett Portman . On the Death of Dr. Lancton On Dr. Lanctons death On the Death of Sir Thomas Lea . An Epitaph on Sr. John Walter . Remernbrances af the renowned Knighr, Sir Rowland Cotton . On the death of Sir Rowland Cotton, seconding that of Sir Robert . To the Right Honourable the Lady Penelope, Dowager of the late Viscount Bayning . On the death of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Bayning . On the Death of the Laciie Cesar . An Epitaph on Mr. Fishborne. . On the Death of Mr. James Van Otton . On Sir Thomas Savill dying of the small pox . Epitaph on Mr. Bridgrnan . PAGE 58 59 6 1 62 64 66 66 68 70 7 1 73 Epistles To his Sister . 88 To Sir Jo. Ferrars . 88 To the same . 90 To the same . 92 To Sir Edm. Ling . . 93 To the Lady Knighton. . 94 To Mr...