THE KINGS' Lyrical Poems of the Reigns of KING CHARLES I. The presse hath gathered into one, what fancic had scat- ENTERED according to act of Congress, in the year 1899, by Robert Howard Russell, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. This Edition published September, 1906 *********************** The Preface J'ay seulement faict icy un amas de fleurs, n'y ayant fourny du mien que le filet à les lier. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE. Tis singular," writes Mr. Swin I burne, that the first great age of English lyric poetry should have been also the one great age of English dramatic poetry: but it is hardly less singular that the lyric school should have advanced as steadily as the dramatic school declined from the promise of its dawn. Born with Marlowe, it rose at once with Shakespeare to heights inaccessible before and since and for ever, to sink through bright gradations of glorious decline to its final M 9386 |