Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber's Notes:
1. This transcription uses _ characters around italic text,
^ to indicate superscripted text, and {} around multi-character
superscripts.

2. The author's textual notes occur near the end of the book, before
the Index to First Lines.

As an aid to the reader this text uses a different style for
references to those notes than the printed edition used.

References to the notes are marked within the text as
"[number:number]" and within the textual notes section as
"number:number." For example, [2:1] represents the first note in
the second poem that has notes; [3:2] represents the second note
in the third poem that has notes.

3. Additional Transcriber's Notes occur at the end of the book.

LYRICS: THOMAS STANLEY

Thy numbers carry weight, yet clear and terse,
And innocent, as becomes the soul of verse.

_JAMES SHIRLEY: To his honour'd
friend Thomas Stanley, Esquire,
upon his Elegant Poems._ [1646.]

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

TO
C. N. G.
IN MEMORY OF AN OXFORD WINTER

CONTENTS

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PREFATORY NOTE xi

I. LYRICS PRINTED ONLY IN THE EDITION OF 1647:
The Dream 1
Despair 1
The Picture 2
Opinion 2

II. LYRICS PRINTED ONLY IN THE EDITION OF 1651:
The Cure 4
To the Countess of S[underland?] with _The Holy
Court_ 6
Drawn for Valentine by the L[ady] D[orothy]
S[pencer?] 7

III. LYRICS PRINTED ONLY IN EDITION OF 1657 [JOHN
GAMBLE'S _Ayres and Dialogues_] HAVING NO TITLES:

'On this swelling bank' 9
'Dear, fold me once more' 10
'The lazy hours' 10

IV. LYRICS PRINTED ONLY IN EDITIONS OF 1647 AND 1651:
Love's Innocence 12
The Dedication to Love 13
The Glow-Worm 13
To Chariessa, desiring her to Burn his Verses 14
On Mr. Fletcher's Works 15
To the Lady D[ormer] 16
To Mr. W[illiam] Hammond 17
On Mr. Shirley's Poems 18
On Mr. Sherburne's Translation of Seneca's Medea,
and Vindication of the Author 20
On Mr. Hall's Essays 21
On Sir J[ohn] S[uckling] his Picture and Poems 22
Answer [to 'The Union'] 22

V. LYRICS PRINTED ONLY IN EDITIONS OF 1647 AND 1657
[GAMBLE]:
The Blush 24
The Cold Kiss 25
The Idolater 25
The Magnet 26
On a Violet in her Breast 27
Song: 'Foolish Lover, go and seek' 28
The Parting 29
Counsel 29
Expostulation with Love, in Despair 30
Song: 'Faith, 'tis not worth thy pains and care' 31
Expectation 32