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The Poetical Recreations of Mr Alexander Craig

of Rose-Craig

Craig, Alexander (1567?-1627)

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THE MISERIE OF MAN.

The Shortnes of Lyfe.

Contempt of Fortune.

POLEMOES REFORMATION.

POMPEYS MERCIE.

Difference betwixt a King, and a Tyrant.

The temperance of Epaminondas, King of Thebes.

LIBERALITIE OF PHOCION.

OF THEMISTOCLES.

Nocumenta, Documenta.

To the ignorant Iudge.

To a discredited Courteour.

HERODIAS AND SALOME.

Tigellini Epitaphium, Qui sero & inhonesto exitu mortem sibi conscivit.

TO PHILOCOSMVS.

PHILOCOSMVS EPITAPH.

To a rude and barbarous Boore, vvho vvronged the Author.

The Authors Consolation.

Apologie for Poets, against

Amicus magis necessarius quam Aqua & Ignis.

A Counsell to his married Friend.

To a libidinous Levi.

To the Frontispice of Abakuk Bissets Booke, Of the Olde Monuments of Scotland.

TO THE COVRT OF PARLIAMENT 1621, In Favours of the Subsidie desired by His Majestie.

To the Causidickes, who were made tributarie in the said Court.

To His Majesties Questors, for his Pension.

Reply to a Dilatorie Answere, sent by Sir Gedeon, &c. to the Author.

Mamertes Answere to a Parasite.

Of Timæa, Queene of Sparta.

To the Cowsner.

To the Swearer.

To the Envyous.

To the most Noble, and Vertuous Lord, SIR GEORGE HAY OF KILFAWNES, Great Chancellar of Scotland.

SATYRVLA IN PLEBEM.

The Authors Resolution.

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Difference betwixt a King, and a Tyrant.

Wyse ADRIAN was oft-tymes wont to say,
Mercie with Men is deem'd a thing divine:
But chiefelie Kings, who beare chiefe rule and sway,
To Clemencie and Mercie should incline.
A King will say, I may: and will not doe.
A Tyrant sayes, I dare: and then goes too.