One word on the subject of the former editions; which bear dates 1647, 1648, and 1672. The first and last impressions correspond in their contents, and the publisher of the latter has also copied, for the most part, the errors of his predecessor, which are so numerous as to render the poems not unfrequently unintelligible. I must observe, however, from the information of Mr. Park, that many copies of the first edition conclude at page 53. The additions extend the volume to 85 pages. The only impression with any pretension to accuracy is that of 1648, which, from its internal evidence, I suspect was published under the eye of the Bishop’s family; I have therefore retained the Preface. It contains only twenty-four poems. An edition bearing the date of 1663 is cited in Willis’s Cathedrals; but, it is believed, through mistake. CONTENTS. [_Additions to the former Impressions of Corbet’s Poems are distinguished by an Asterisk, thus_: *] Page * Life of the Author v Preface to the Edition of 1648 lxiii * Commendatory Poems lxv An Elegie on Dr. Ravis 3 * Thomæ Coriato de Odcombe 9 To Thomas Coryate 11 A certaine Poem, &c. to the tune of “Bonny Nell” 13 * An Answer to the former Song, &c. 22 * Responsio, &c. 25 * Additamenta superiori Cantico 42 On the Lady Arabella Stuart 43 Upon Mistriss Mallet; an unhandsome gentlewoman who made love unto him 47 In quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem 52 An Answer to the same, by Dr. Price 54 In Poetam exauctoratum et emeritum 56 * On Francis Beaumont, then newly dead 58 An Elegie on the late Lord William Howard of Effingham 59 To the Lord Mordaunt, upon his returne from the North 66 * To the Prince 82 A Newe-Years Gift to my Lorde Duke of Buckingham 83 A Letter to Sir Thomas Aylesbury 65 Dr. Corbet’s Journey into France 94 An Exhortation to Mr. John Hamon 103 An Elegie upon the Death of Queen Anne 112 An Elegie upon the Death of his owne Father 118