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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 (UNPUBLISHED AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS, GLOSSARY, INDEX)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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69

SONNET OF THE AVTHOVR TO THE READER.

Sen for zour saik I vvryte vpon zour airt,
Apollo, Pan, and ze ô Musis nyne,
And thou, ô Mercure, for to help thy pairt,
I do implore, sen thou be thy ingyne,
Nixt efter Pan had found the quhissil, syne
Thou did perfyte, that quhilk he bot espyit:
And efter that made Argus for to tyne
(quha kepit Io) all his vvindois by it.
Concurre ze Gods, it can not be denyit:
Sen in zour airt of Poësie I vvryte.
Auld birds to learne by teiching it is tryit:
Sic docens discam gif ze help to dyte.
Then Reidar sie of nature thou haue pairt,
Syne laikis thou nocht, bot heir to reid the airt.
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