New Poems by James I
NEW POEMS
BY
JAMES I OF ENGLAND
FROM A HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT (ADD. 24195)
IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
EDITED
WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
BY
ALLAN F. WESTCOTT, Ph.D.
INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
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New York
THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
1911
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1911,
BY THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS.
Printed from type, December, 1911.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
A. H. THORNDIKE,
Secretary.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
page
| vii |
| xi |
| I. | xvii |
| II. | xxv |
| III. | xxxiv |
| IV. | xlv |
| V. | lv |
| VI. | lxvii |
POEMS
Amatoria
| I-XII. | Sonnets (foil. 4-9 b) |
1 |
| XIII. | Constant Love in All Conditions (foll. 10-10 b) |
7 |
| XIV. | A Dier at her Mties desyer (foll. 10 b-13 b) |
7 |
| XV. | 'My muse hath made a willfull lye' (fol. 13) |
10 |
| XVI. | A complaint of his mistressis absence from Court (foil. 14-16) |
10 |
| XVII. | A dreame on his Mistris my Ladie Glammes (foll. 16 b-24 b) |
12 |
| XVIII. | A Satire against Woemen (foil. 25-27) |
19 |
| XIX. | Song 1. (foll. 27 b-29) |
22 |
| XX. | Song 2. (foll. 29-30) |
24 |
Miscellanea
| XXI. | 'The azured vault, the cristall circles bright' (fol. 31) |
25 |
| XXII. | A sonnet on Mr Pa. Adamsons paraphrase of Job (fol. 31 b) |
25 |
| XXIII. | A Sonnet on Ticho Brahe (fol. 32) |
26 |
| XXIV. | Another on the same (fol. 32 b) |
26 |
| XXV. | Another on the same (fol. 33) |
27 |
| XXVI. | A sonnet on Du Bartas (fol. 33 b) |
27 |
| XXVII. | 'What heaven doth furnish thee such learned skill' (fol. 34) |
28 |
| XXVIII. | 'O divin du Bartas, disciple d'Uranie' (fol. 34 b) |
28 |
| XXIX. | A Sonnet on Mr W. Fullers translation of Petrarchs triumphe of Love (fol. 35) |
29 |
| XXX. | An Epitaphe on Sr Philip Sidney (fol. 35 b) |
29 |
| XXXI. | An Epitaphe on John Shaw (fol. 36) |
30 |
| XXXII. | Votum (fol. 36 b) |
30 |
| XXXIII. | A Sonnet to Chanceller Maitlane (fol. 37) |
31 |
| XXXIV. | An Epitaphe on Montgomrie (fol. 37 b) |
31 |
| XXXV. | A Sonnet on the moneth of May (fol. 38) |
32 |
| XXXVI. | An ænigme of sleepe (fol. 38 b) |
32 |
| XXXVII. | A Sonnet when the King was surprised by the Earle Bothwell (fol. 39) |
33 |
| XXXVIII. | Another on the same (fol. 39 b) |
33 |
| XXXIX. | 'All kinde of wronge allace it now aboundes (fol. 40) |
34 |
| XL. | A Sonnet painting out the perfect Poet (fol. 40 b) |
34 |
| XLI. | A Sonnet to the reader prefixed to the treatise of the art of poesie (fol. 41) |
35 |
| XLII. | 'O mightie Gods' (fol. 41 b) |
35 |
| XLIII. | 'First Jove as greatest God above the rest' (fol. 41 b) |
36 |
| XLIV. | 'Apollo nixt assist me to a part' (fol. 42) |
36 |
| XLV. | 'A mightie sonne of Semele the faire' (fol. 42 b) |
37 |
| XLVI. | A Sonnet on Sr William Alexander's harshe verses after the Ingliche fasone (fol. 43) |
37 |
| XLVII. | A Sonet against the could that was in January 1616 (fol. 43 b) |
38 |
| XLVIII. | 'Not orientall Indus cristall streames' (fol. 44) |
39 |
| XLIX. | 'Faire famous Isle, where Agathocles rang' (fol. 44 b) |
39 |
| L. | Upon occasion of some great disorders in Scotland (fol. 45) |
40 |
| LI. | An admonition to the Master poet, etc. (foll. 46-49 b) |
40 |
| LII. | Ex Lucano libro quinto (foll. 49 b-50 b) |
44 |
| LIII. | Song. The first verses that ever the King made (foll. 51-51 b) |
46 |
LIV. An Epithalamion upon the Marques of Huntlies Manage
(foil. 52-55 b) 47
LV. The beginning of his M ties jurnei to Denmarke ; never
ended (foil. 56-57) . .... 52
LVI. A pairt of du Bartas First Day (foil. 57 b~59 b) . -54
LVII. The beginning of Mr du Bartas Eden (foil. 60-61) . 57
APPENDIX I PROSE PIECES IN THE MUSEUM MANUSCRIPT (foil. 62-81 b) . -59
APPENDIX II
ADDITIONAL POEMS
I. Antithesis 62
II. His Majesties owne Sonnet 63
III. Epitaph on Chancellor Maitland . . . . -63
IV. The Dedication of the Booke . . . . . .64 V. The Argument 65
VI-VII. Two sets of verses made by the Kinge when he was at
Burley House 66
VIII. A Prayer, written on a blank page of a volume of
Montaigne ........ 66
IX. The Lorde Prayer . . 67
NOTES
Notes to the Poems 69
Notes to Appendix I 114
Notes to Appendix II . 115
This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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