The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. Volume 2 of 2.

Contents.

Those marked with [*] are either printed for the first time, or for the first time published among Davies' Poems.

Epigrammes:
Note	3
Ad Musam	7
Of a Gull	8
In Ruffum	10
In Quintum	10
In Plurimos	11
In Titam	12
In Faustum	12
In Katum	13
In Librum	14
In Medontem	14
In Gellam	15
In Quintum	15
In Severum	15
In Leucam	16
In Macrum	17
In Fastum	17
In Cosmum	18
In Flaccum	18
In Cineam	19
In Gerontem	20
In Marcum	21
In Ciprum	21
In Cineam	22
In Decium	24
In Gellam	26
In Syllam	27
In Haywodum	29
In Dacum	30
In Priscum	31
In Brunum	31
In Francum	31
In Castorem	32
In Septimium	32
Of Tobacco	32
In Crassum	35
In Philonem	36
In Fuscum	37
In Afram	38
In Paulum	39
In Licum	40
In Publium	40
In Sillam	41
In Dacum	42
In Marcum	43
Meditations of a Gull	43
Ad Musam	44
*Appendix to Epigrams	47
*In Superbiam	47
*Epi. 5	48
*Epi. 6	48
*In Amorosum	48
*Epi. 9	49
*Epi. 10	49
*Epitaph and Epigram	50
V. Gullinge Sonnets
Note	53
Dedicatory Sonnet—To His Good Friends Sr Anth. Cooke.	55
*Gullinge Sonnets	57
Minor Poems:
*I. Yet Other Twelve Wonders of the World—
*The Courtier	65
*The Divine	66
*The Souldier	67
*The Lawyer	67
*The Physitian	68
*The Merchant	68
*The Country Gentleman	69
*The Country Gentleman	69
*The Bacheler	69
*The Married Man	69
*The Wife	70
*The Widdow	70
*The Maid	71
*II. A Contention betwixt a Wife, a Widdow, and a Maide	72
*III. A Lottery. Presented before the late Queenes Maiesty at the Lord Chancelors House, 1601	87
*The Lots	89
*IV. Canzonet. A Hymne in Praise of Musicke	96
*V. Ten Sonets to Philomel:
*Vpon Loues entring by the Ears	99
*Of his owne, and his Mistresse sicknesse at one time	100
*Another of her sicknesse and recovery	101
*Allusion to Theseus voyage to Crete, against the Minotaure	102
*Vpon her looking secretly out at a window as he passed by	102
*To the Sunne of his Mistresse beauty eclipsed with frownes	104
*Vpon sending her a gold ring with this Posie	104
*The hearts captivitie	105
*VI. To George Chapman on his Ovid	107
*VII. Reason's Moane	108
*VIII. On the Death of Lord Chancellor Ellesmere's Second Wife in 1599	112
*IX. Tityrus to his faire Phillis	114
*Upon a Coffin by S. J. D.	115
*X. Epitaph and Epigram	116
*Hitherto Unpublished Poems:
Note	119
*Metaphrase of some of the Psalms	127
Miscellaneous Poems. Hitherto Unpublished.
*Of Faith the first Theologicall Vertue	211
*A Songe of Contention betweene Fowre Maids concerninge that which addeth most perfection to that sexe	212
*A Maid's Hymne in Praise of Virginity	213
*Part of an Elegie in Praise of Marriage	215
*A Fragment of a Love Elegie	217
*To the Q:[Queene]	222
*To Faire Ladyes	223
*Upon a Paire of Garters	224
*To his Lady-love	225
*Tobacco	226
*Elegies of Loue	227
*The Kinges Welcome	229
*To the Kinge upon his Ma'ties first comming into England	233
*To the Queene at the same time	236
*Mira loquor sol occubuit nox nulla secuta est	237
*Charles his Waine	237
*Of the name of Charolus, being the diminutive of Charus	238
*Verses sent to the Kinge with Figges: by Sr John Davis	234
*Love Lines	239
*Love Flight	240
*An Elegiecall Epistle on Sir John Davis death	241
*Entertainment of Queen Elizabeth at Harefield by the Countesse of Derby	243
Note	244
*The Complaint of the V Satyres against the Nymphs	256
Errata	x

ERRATA.

A very few 'slips' have met my eyes on a final reading. They are—as says an ancient Divine—"as easily corrected as espied." Nevertheless they are here recorded that the Reader of his charity may put them right, and any others that may have escaped Editor and Printer. In Nosce Teipsum, the heading and head-line (Vol. I., pp. 25, 26 onward) has 'Immortalitie' misprinted 'Immortalite'—a common contemporary spelling—but it is 'tie' in the title-page (p. 5): ib. p. 80, l. 15, read 'be best.' In Hymnes to AstrÆa, ib. p. 147, l. 3, remove period (.) after 'rayes.' In Orchestra, ib. p. 181, st. 53, l. 7, read 'perfect-cunning': p. 185, foot-note 7, put G. at end: p. 192, st. 81, l. 7, 'Ply' = entwine (omitted): p. 194, foot-note 7, is 'coach,' not 'couch': p. 202, l. 10, 'shoe' was the contemporary spelling: p. 204, st. 113, l. 6, insert 'it' before 'shine.'—G.

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