NEW POEMS
BY
JAMES I OF ENGLAND
FROM A HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT (ADD. 24195)
IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
EDITED
WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
BY
ALLAN F. WESTCOTT, Ph.D.
INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
New York
THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
1911
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1911,
BY THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS.
Printed from type, December, 1911.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
A. H. THORNDIKE,
Secretary.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
page
vii |
xi |
I. | xvii |
II. | xxv |
III. | xxxiv |
IV. | xlv |
V. | lv |
VI. | lxvii |
POEMS
Amatoria
I-XII. | 1 |
XIII. | 7 |
XIV. | 7 |
XV. | 10 |
XVI. | 10 |
XVII. | 12 |
XVIII. | 19 |
XIX. | 22 |
XX. | 24 |
Miscellanea
XXI. | 25 |
XXII. | 25 |
XXIII. | 26 |
XXIV. | 26 |
XXV. | 27 |
XXVI. | 27 |
XXVII. | 28 |
XXVIII. | 28 |
XXIX. | 29 |
XXX. | 29 |
XXXI. | 30 |
XXXII. | 30 |
XXXIII. | 31 |
XXXIV. | 31 |
XXXV. | 32 |
XXXVI. | 32 |
XXXVII. | 33 |
XXXVIII. | 33 |
XXXIX. | 34 |
XL. | 34 |
XLI. | 35 |
XLII. | 35 |
XLIII. | 36 |
XLIV. | 36 |
XLV. | 37 |
XLVI. | 37 |
XLVII. | 38 |
XLVIII. | 39 |
XLIX. | 39 |
L. | 40 |
LI. | 40 |
LII. | 44 |
LIII. | 46 |
LIV. An Epithalamion upon the Marques of Huntlies Manage
(foil. 52-55 b) 47
LV. The beginning of his M ties jurnei to Denmarke ; never
ended (foil. 56-57) . .... 52
LVI. A pairt of du Bartas First Day (foil. 57 b~59 b) . -54
LVII. The beginning of Mr du Bartas Eden (foil. 60-61) . 57
APPENDIX I PROSE PIECES IN THE MUSEUM MANUSCRIPT (foil. 62-81 b) . -59
APPENDIX II
ADDITIONAL POEMS
I. Antithesis 62
II. His Majesties owne Sonnet 63
III. Epitaph on Chancellor Maitland . . . . -63
IV. The Dedication of the Booke . . . . . .64 V. The Argument 65
VI-VII. Two sets of verses made by the Kinge when he was at
Burley House 66
VIII. A Prayer, written on a blank page of a volume of
Montaigne ........ 66
IX. The Lorde Prayer . . 67
NOTES
Notes to the Poems 69
Notes to Appendix I 114
Notes to Appendix II . 115
This work was published before January 1, 1927, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.