INTRODUCTION

The Author's Preface: "Of that sort of Dramatic Poem called

Tragedy"

The Argument, and the Persons

TEXT OF THE POEM

MINOR POEMS :-

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GENERAL INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTIONS TO THE POEMS SEVERALLY :—

Introductions to the English Poems

Part I.

Part II.-Introductions to the Latin Poems

Moseley's Preface to the Edition of 1645 .

TEXT OF THE POEMS.

Part I.-The English Poems :-

Paraphrases on Psalms CXIV and CXXXVI

On the Death of a Fair Infant dying of a Cough

At a Vacation Exercise in the College

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

Upon the Circumcision.

The Passion

On Time

-At a Solemn Music

Song on May Morning.

On Shakespeare

On the University Carrier

Another on the Same

An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester

L'Allegro

Il Penseroso

Ellegy

Arcades

Comus ; a Masque presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634 :.

Lawes's Dedication of the Edition of 1637.

Sir Henry Wotton's Commendatory Letter of 1638.

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MINOR POEMS Continued-

The Persons

Text of the Masque

tycidas.

Sonnets and Kindred Pieces :-

Sonnet I. To the Nightingale

Sonnet II. On his having arrived at the Age of Twenty-three

Sonnet III. Donna leggiadra, &c.

Sonnet IV. Qual in colle aspro, &c..

Canzone.

Diodati (e t'l diro, &c.)

Sonnet V.

Sonnet VI. Per certo, &c.

Sonnet VII.

Giovane, piano, &c.

Sonnet VIII. When the Assault was intended to the City

Sonnet XII. On the Same.

On the New Forcers of Conscience

Sonnet XIII. To Mr. H. Lawes on His Airs

Sonnet XIV.

Thomson

Sonnet XV. On the Lord General Fairfax

Sonnet XVI. To the Lord General Cromwell

Sonnet XVII. To Sir Henry Vane the Younger

Sonnet XVIII. On the late Massacre in Piedmont .

Sonnet XIX. On His Blindness.

Sonnet XX. To Mr. Lawrence

Sonnet XXI. To Cyriack Skinner.

Sonnet XXII. To the Same .

Sonnet XXIII. To the Memory of his Second Wife

Translations.

Sonnet IX. To a Lady

Sonnet X. To the Lady Margaret Ley

Sonnet XI.

On the Detraction which followed upon my writing

certain Treatises

The Fifth Ode of Horace, Lib. I.

Nine of the Psalms done into Metre, 1648

Psalm LXXX. .

On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine

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MINOR POEMS continued-

Psalm LXXXI.

Psalm LXXXII.

Psalm LXXXIII. .

Psalm LXXXIV.

Psalm LXXXV.

Psalm LXXXVI.

Psalm LXXXVII. .

Psalm LXXXVIII.

Eight of the Psalms done into Verse, 1653.

Psalm I.

Psalm II.

Psalm III.

Psalm IV.

Psalm V..

Psalm VI.

Psalm VII.

Psalm VIII.

Scraps from the Prose Writings.

Part II. The Latin Poems :-

De Auctore Testimonia.

Elegiarum Liber.

Elegia I. Ad Carolum Diodatum

Elegia II. In obitum Præconis Academici Cantabrigiensis

Elegia III. In obitum Præsulis Wintoniensis.

Elegia IV. Ad Thomam Junium, Præceptorum suum

Elegia V. In Adventum Veris

Elegia VI. Ad Carolum Diodatum, ruri commorantem

Elegia VII. Anno ætatis undevigesimo Earliest

In Proditionem Bombardicam.

In Eandem

In Eandem

In Eandem .

In Inventorem Bombardæ

Ad Leonoram Romæ Canentem

Philosophus ad Regem quendam

In Effigiei ejus Sculptorem

Ad Salsillum, Poetam Romanum, ægrotantem

Mansus

Epitaphium Damonis

Ad Joannem Rousium, Oxoniensis Academiæ Bibliothecarium.

In Salmasii Hundredam .

In Salmasium