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The Poems of James VI. of Scotland

Edited by James Craigie
(1566-1625)

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VOL. I. (THE ESSAYES OF A PRENTISE AND POETICALL EXERCISES AT VACANT HOURES)
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VOL. II. (UNPUBLISHED AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS, GLOSSARY, INDEX)
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PSALMES OF HIS MATIE
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All the kings short poesis that ar not printed
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AMATORIA
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MISCELLANEA.
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[13] Ad hoc creaturæ destinatæ sunt, vt in eis glorificetur Creator
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14 A sonnet on Mr Pa. Adamsons paraphrase of Job
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15 A sonnet on Ticho Brahe
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16 A sonnet on Du Bartas
  
SONNET
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17 A Sonnet on Mr W. Fullers translation of Petrarchs triumphe of loue
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18 An Epitaphe on Sr Philip Sidney
  
Sonnet to the authoure.
  
IN PHILIPPI SIDNÆI interitum, Illustrissimi Scotorum Regis Carmen.
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19 An epitaphe on John Shaw
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20 Votum
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21 A Sonnet to Chanceller Maitlane:
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22 An epitaphe on Montgomrie
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23 A Sonnet on the moneth of May
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24 An ænigme of sleepe
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25 A sonnet when the King was surprised by the Earle Bothwell
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26 A Sonnet painting out the perfect Poët:
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27 A Sonnet to the reader prefixed to the treatise of the arte of poesie:
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30 A Sonett: on Sr William Alexanders harshe vearses after the Inglishe fasone
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31 A Sonet against the could that was in January 1616
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33 Vpon occasion of some great disorders in Scotland.
  
[In wandring wealth through bubbling brookes & bewes]
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34 An admonition to the Master poët to be warr of great bragging hereafter, lest he not onlie slander himselfe; bot also the whole professours of the art
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35 Ex Lucano libro quinto
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36 Song. the first verses that euer the King made.
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FRAGMENTA
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UNCOLLECTED POEMS
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DOUBTFUL POEMS

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VIII. THE ARGVMENT (of the booke.)

SONNET.

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JAMES VI, ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΟΝ ΔΩΡΟΝ 1599.

God giues not Kings the style of Gods in vaine,
For on his throne his Scepter do they swey:
And as their subiects ought them to obey,
So Kings should feare and serue their God againe.
If then ye would enioy a happie raigne,
Obserue the Statutes of your Heauenly King;
And from his Lawe, make all your Lawes to spring:
Since his Lieutenant heare ye should remaine,
Reward the iust, be steadfast, true, and plaine:
Represse the proud, maintaining ay the right,
Walke alwaies so, as euer in his sight
Who guardes the godly, plaging the prophane,
And so ye shall in princely vertues shine.
Resembling right your mighty King diuine.
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