The raptures of thy voice, and miracles of thy hand?

To Signior Pietro Reggio.] First printed in Songs of Signior Pietro Reggio, folio undated (but issued in 1680); Shadwell and Ayres also contributed to it. It had an engraved title-page of Arion on a Dolphin (cf. l. 5), and was dedicated to the king (cf. l. 18).

8 Levoltoes 1682: levaltoes 1686—both variants of the form 'lavolta'.


Epitaph on the Incomparable Sir John King in the Temple-Church.

Heic juxta jacet

Johannes King Miles,

Serenissimo Carolo Secundo

In Legibus Angliae Consultus,

Illustrissimo Jacobo Duci Eboracensi