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.

by Thomas Stanley

L. I. GUINEY

J. R. TUTIN
HULL
1907
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CONTENTS[!-- [vii] --]

		PAGE
	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]
VI.	Lyrics printed in all Original Editions Of Stanley:
	The Breath	[33]
	The Night: a Dialogue	[34]
	Unalter’d by Sickness	[35]
	To Celia, Excuse for Wishing her less Fair	[36]
	Celia, Sleeping or Singing	[37]
	Palinode	[37]
	The Return	[38]
	Chang’d, yet Constant	[39]
	To Chariessa, Beholding Herself in a Glass	[41]
	Song: ‘When I lie burning in thine eye’	[42]
	Song: ‘Fool! take up thy shaft again’	[43]
	Delay	[43]
	The Repulse	[44]
	Song: ‘Celinda, by what potent art’	[45]
	The Tomb	[46]
	To Celia, Pleading Want of Merit	[48]
	The Kiss	[49]
	The Snowball	[50]
	Speaking and Kissing	[50]
	The Deposition	[51]
	Love’s Heretic	[52]
	La Belle Confidante	[54]
	La Belle Ennemie	[55]
	Love Deposed	[56]
	The Divorce	[57]
	The Bracelet	[58]
	The Farewell	[59]
	The Exchange: Dialogue	[60]
	The Exequies	[61]
	The Silkworm	[62]
	Ambition	[62]
	Song: ‘When, dearest Beauty, thou shalt pay’	[63]
	Song: ‘I will not trust thy tempting graces’	[64]
	Song: ‘No, I will sooner trust the wind’	[65]
	Song: ‘I prithee let my heart alone!’	[65]
	The Loss	[66]
	The Self-Cruel	[67]
	An Answer to a Song, ‘Wert thou much [?] fairer than thou art,’ by Mr. W. M.	[68]
	The Relapse	[69]