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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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THE ESSAYES OF A PRENTISE, IN THE DIVINE ART OF POESIE.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
ANE QVADRAIN OF ALEXANDRIN VERSE.
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SONNET. 1.
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SONNET. 2.
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SONNET. 3.
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SONNET. 4.
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SONNET. 5.
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SONNET. 6.
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SONNET. 7.
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SONNET. 8.
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SONNET. 9.
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SONNET. 10.
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SONNET. 11.
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SONNET. 12.
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THE VRANIE translated
  
THE VRANIE, OR HEAVENLY MVSE.
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ANE METAPHORICALL INVENTION OF A TRAGEDIE CALLED PHŒNIX.
  
A Colomne of 18 lynes seruing for a Preface to the Tragedie ensuying.
  
PHOENIX.
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A PARAPHRASTICALL TRANSLATION OVT OF THE POETE LVCANE.
  
LVCANVS LIB. QVINTO.
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ANE SCHORT TREATISE, CONTEINING SOME REVLIS and cautelis to be obseruit and eschewit in Scottis Poesie.
  
A QVADRAIN OF ALEXANDRIN VERSE, DECLARING TO QVHOME THE Authour hes directit his labour.
  
SONNET OF THE AVTHOVR TO THE READER.
  
SONNET DECIFRING THE PERFYTE POETE.
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THE CIIII. PSALME, TRANSLATED OVT OF TREMELLIVS.
  
ANE SCHORT POEME OF TYME.
  
Sonnet of the Authour.
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HIS MAIESTIES POETICALL EXERCISES at vacant houres
  
TO THE KING OF SCOTLAND.
  
SONET TO THE ONELY ROYAL POET.
  
TO THE KINGS MAIESTIE OF SCOTLAND.
  
THE EXORD, OR PREFACE OF THE SECOND VVEEK OF DV BARTAS.
  
THE TRANSLATORS INVOCATION.
  
A Preface to the furies
  
THE FVRIES.
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THE LEPANTO OF IAMES the sixt, King of Scotland.
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THE LEPANTO OF IAMES THE SIXT, King of Scotland.
  
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CHORVS VENETVS.
  
CHORVS ANGELORVM.
  
SONET.
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VOL. II. (UNPUBLISHED AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS, GLOSSARY, INDEX)
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PSALMES OF HIS MATIE
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Psal. 1
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Psal. 2.
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Psal. 3.
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Psal. 4.us
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Psal. v
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Psal. vi.
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Psal. vii.
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Psal. 9.
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Psal. x.
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Psal. xi.
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The tuelft psalme.
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Psal. xiii.
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Psal. xiiii.
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Psal. xv.
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Psal. xvi.
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Psal. xvii.
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[Psal.] xviii
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Psal. xix.
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Psal. xx.
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Psal. xxi.
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Psal. xxix.
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Psalme 47
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[Psal. 100.]
 104. 
[Psal. civ]
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Psal. cxxv.
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Psal. 128.
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Psal. cxxxi.
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Psal. 133.
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[Psalm] 148.
 150. 
[Psal. 150.]
  
Ecclesiastis Cap. xij.
  
The lordis prayer.
  
[Canticum Mosis]
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All the kings short poesis that ar not printed
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AMATORIA
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1 A complaint against the contrary Wyndes that hindered the Queene to com to Scotland from Denmarke
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2 To the Queene
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3 To the Queene, Anonimos
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4 Two Sonnets to her M:tie to show the difference of Stiles
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6 Constant Loue in all Conditions
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7 A Dier at her M:ties desyer
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8 A complaint of his mistressis absence from Court
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9 A dreame on his Mistris my Ladie Glammis
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10 A Satire against Woemen
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11 Song 1
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12 Song 2
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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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Another on the same
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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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32
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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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37 An epithalamion vpon the Marques of Huntlies mariage
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38 The beginning of his Mties jurnei to Denmarke; neuer ended.
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39 A pairt of du Bartas first day
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40 The beginning of Mr du Bartas Eden
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UNCOLLECTED POEMS
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II.
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III. The CI psal.
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IV. His Maiesties Avvin Sonnet
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V. King James his Verse in his Voyage to Denmarke.
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VIa.
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VIIa Sonett
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VIII. THE ARGVMENT (of the booke.)
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IX 1604. Sonnet of his Majesty.
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Xa King James on the blazeing starr: Octo: 28: 1618
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XIa On the death of Queene Anne
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XII To the Duke of Buckingham
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XIII Verses made by the Kinge, when hee was entertaynd at Burly in Rutland-shire, by my L. Marquesse of Buckingham.
  
Votum
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XIVa Made by K: James. 1622
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XVa King Iames his verses made vpon à Libell lett fall in Court and entituled The wiper of the Peoples teares The dryer vpp of doubts & feares.
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XVI Off Jacke, and, Tom
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DOUBTFUL POEMS
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I. The kinges verses when he was fyfteene yeere old
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ANE SCHORT POEME OF TYME.

As I was pansing in a morning, aire,
And could not sleip, nor nawayis take me rest,
Furth for to walk, the morning was sa faire,
Athort the feilds, it semed to me the best.
The East was cleare, whereby belyue I gest
That fyrie Titan cumming was in sight,
Obscuring chast Diana by his light.
Who by his rysing in the Azure skyes,
Did dewlie helse all thame on earth do dwell.
The balmie dew through birning drouth he dryis,
VVhich made the soile to sauour sweit and smell,
By dewe that on the night before downe fell,
VVhich then was soukit vp by the Delphienns heit
Vp in the aire: it was so light and weit.
Whose hie ascending in his purpour Sphere
Prouoked all from Morpheus to flee;
As beasts to feid, and birds to sing with beir,
Men to their labour, bissie as the Bee:
Yet ydle men deuysing did I see,
How for to dryue the tyme that did them irk,
By sindrie pastymes, quhill that it grew mirk.
Then woundred I to see them seik a wyle,
So willinglie the precious tyme to tyne:
And how they did them selfis so farr begyle,
To fashe of tyme, which of it selfe is fyne.
Fra tyme be past, to call it bakwart syne
Is bot in vaine: therefore men sould be warr,
To sleuth the tyme that flees fra them so farr.
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For what hath man bot tyme into this lyfe,
Which giues him dayis his God aright to knaw:
Wherefore then sould we be at sic a stryfe,
So spedelie our selfis for to withdraw
Euin from the tyme, which is on nowayes slaw
To flie from vs, suppose we fled it noght?
More wyse we were, if we the tyme had soght.
Bot sen that tyme is sic a precious thing,
I wald we sould bestow it into that
Which were most pleasour to our heauenly King.
Flee ydilteth, which is the greatest lat.
Bot sen that death to all is destinat,
Let vs imploy that tyme that God hath send vs,
In doing weill, that good men may commend vs.
Haec quoq; perficiat, quod perficit omnia, Tempus.
FINIS.
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