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.

CONTENTS

		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

APPENDIX:

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	A Sheaf of Translations:
	The Revenge [Ronsard]	71
	Claim to Love [Guarini]	72
	The Sick Lover [Guarini]	72
	Time Recover’d [Casone]	73
	Song: ‘I languish in a silent flame’ [De Voiture]	73
	Apollo and Daphne [Marino]	74
	Song: Torment of absence and delay [Montalvan]	75
	A Lady Weeping [Montalvan]	75
	To his Mistress in Absence [Tasso]	76
	The Hasty Kiss [Secundus]	76
	Song: ‘When thou thy pliant arms’ [Secundus]	77
	Song: ‘’Tis no kiss’ [Secundus]	77
	Translations from Anacreon:
	I. The Chase: ‘With a Whip of lilies, Love’	78
	II. ‘Vex no more thyself and me’	78
	III. The Spring: ‘See, the Spring herself discloses’	79
	IV. The Combat: ‘Now will I a lover be’	79
	V. ‘On this verdant lotus laid’	80
	E Catalectis Vet[erum] Poet[arum]	81
	Seven Epigrams [Plato]:
	I. Upon one named Aster	81
	II. Upon Aster’s Death	81
	III. On Dion, engraved on his Tomb at Syracuse	82
	IV. On Alexis	82
	V. On Archaeanassa	82
	VI. Love Sleeping	82
	VII. On a Seal	83
	Textual Notes	85
	A List of Editions of Thomas Stanley’s Poems and Translations	101
	Index to First Lines	107

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