The Poems and Sonnets of Henry Constable

TO THE K. OF SCOTS, UPON OCCASION OF A SONNET THE K. WROTE IN COMPLAINT OF A CONTRARIE WIND WHICH HINDRED THE ARRIVALL OF THE QUEENE OUTE OF DENMARK. MDLXXXIX.

TO THE K. OF SCOTS UPON OCCASION OF HIS LONGE STAY IN DENMARKE BY REASON OF THE COLDNESSE OF THE WINTER AND FREEZING OF THE SEA.

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TO THE PRINCESS OF ORANGE.

TO THE COUNTESSE OF SHREWSBURYE.

TO THE COUNTESSES OF CUMBERLAND AND WARWICK, SISTERS.

TO SEVERALL PERSONS UPON SUNDRYE OCCASIONS.

TO THE PRINCESSE OF ORANGE, UPON OCCASION OF THE MURTHER OF HER FATHER AND HUSBAND.

To the COUNTESSE of SHREWSBURYE, UPON OCCASION OF HIS DEARE MISTRESSE, WHO LIV'D UNDER HER GOVERNMENT.

TO THE COUNTESSE OF PEMBROKE.

TO THE COUNTESSE of ESSEX, UPON OCCASION OF THE DEATH OF HER FIRST HUSBAND, SIR PHILIP SYDNEY.

TO THE LADIE CLINTON.

A CALCULATION UPON THE BIRTH OF AN HONOURABLE LADY'S DAUGHTER, BORNE IN THE YEERE MDLXXXVIII, AND ON A FRIDAY.

TO MR. HILLIARD, UPON OCCASION OF A PICTURE HE MADE OF MY LADIE RICH.

COMPLAYNTS OF MISFORTUNES IN LOVE.

[Now, now I love indeed, and suffer more]

[Wonder it is, and pittie is't that shee]

[Pitty refusing my poore Love to feede]

[If that one care had oure two hearts possest]

[Vncivill sickness! hast thou no regard]

[Deare! though from me youre gratiouse lookes depart]

[If ever any justlye might complayne]

OF THE END AND DEATH OF HIS LOVE.

[Much sorrow in it selfe my love doth move]

[Needes must I leave, and yet needes must I love]

[My Reason, absent, did mine eyes require]

[Each day new proofes of newe dispaire I finde]

[Mine eye with all the deadly sinnes is fraught]

[If true love might true love's reward obtaine]

[Somtimes in verse I praisd, somtime I sigh'd]

FOURE SONNETS TO SIR PHILLIP SIDNEY'S SOULE.

[Give pardon (blessed soule) to my bold cryes]

[Sweet soule! which now with heav'nly songs doost tel]

[Even as when great men's heires cannot agree]

[Great Alexander then did well declare]

TO THE DIVINE PROTECTION OF THE LADIE ARBELLA, THE AUTHOR COMMENDETH BOTH HIS GRACE'S HONOURE AND HIS MVSE'S ÆTERNITIE.

OF THE DEATH OF MY LADIE RICH'S DAUGHTER. SHEWING THE REASON OF HER UNTIMELY DEATH HINDRED HER EFFECTING THOSE THINGS WHICH BY THE FORMER CALCULATION OF HER NATIVITYE HE FORETOLD.

SPIRITUALL SONNETTES TO THE HONOUR OF GOD & HYS SAYNTES. BY H. C.

TO GOD THE FATHER.

TO GOD THE SONNE.

TO GOD THE HOLY-GHOST.

TO THE BLESSED SACRAMENT.

TO OUR BLESSED LADY.

To ST. MYCHAELL THE ARCHANGEL.

TO ST. JHON BAPTIST.

TO ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL.

TO ST. MARY MAGDALEN.

TO ST. KATHARYNE.

TO ST. MARGARETT.

TO OUR BLESSED LADY.

TO ST. MARY MAGDALEN.

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TO THE K. OF SCOTS, UPON OCCASION OF A SONNET THE K. WROTE IN COMPLAINT OF A CONTRARIE WIND WHICH HINDRED THE ARRIVALL OF THE QUEENE OUTE OF DENMARK. MDLXXXIX.

If I durst sigh still as I had begun,
Or durst shed teares in such abundant store,
You should have need to blame the sea no more,
Nor call upon the wind as you have done;

For from myne eyes an ocean-sea should run
Which the desired ships should carrie o'r,
And my sighes blowe such winde from northern shore
As soone you should behold youre wished sun.

But with those sighes my deare displeased is,
Which should both hast your joye and slake my payne;
Yet for my good will, O kinge! grant me this:
When to the winds yow sacrifice agayne,
Sith I desir'd my sighes should blow for thee,
Desire thou the winds to sigh for me.

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TO THE K. OF SCOTS, UPON OCCASION OF A SONNET THE K. WROTE IN COMPLAINT OF A CONTRARIE WIND WHICH HINDRED THE ARRIVALL OF THE QUEENE OUTE OF DENMARK. MDLXXXIX.