[1] The tolerably gentle reader will easily understand that, in a book written, and even printed, at considerable intervals of time, Time itself will sometimes have affected statements. There may be a few such cases here. But it seems unnecessary to burden the thing with possible Corrigenda, as to the post-war price of the Cross-bath (p. [360]), &c.

CONTENTS

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[JOHN CLEVELAND][1]
[Introduction][4]
[Contents][14]
[To the Discerning Reader, &c.][15]
[Poems][19]
[THOMAS STANLEY][95]
[Introduction][97]
[Contents][101]
[Poems not printed after 1647][101]
[Poems printed in 1647 and reprinted in 1656 but not in 1651][102]
[1651 Poems][109]
[Poems appearing only in the Edition of 1656][159]
[HENRY KING][161]
[Introduction][163]
[Table of Contents][167]
[The Publishers to the Author][168]
[Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes, and Sonnets][169]
[THOMAS FLATMAN][275]
[Introduction][277]
[Dedication][283]
[To the Reader][284]
[Commendatory Poems][285]
[The Contents][294]
[Poems and Songs][296]
[NATHANIEL WHITING][423]
[Introduction][424]
[Commendatory Poems][428]
[The Pleasing History of Albino and Bellama][439]
[To those worthy Heroes of our Age, whose noble Breasts are wet and water'd with the dew of Helicon][539]
[Il Insonio Insonnadado][540]

POEMS

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