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Charles I. (King of England) From the engraving by William Faithorne

THE

KINGS'
Lyrics

Lyrical Poems of the Reigns of
KING JAMES I. and

KING CHARLES I.
Together with the Ballad of Agincourt writ-
ten by Michael Drayton. Selected & arranged
by Fitz Roy Carrington

The presse hath gathered into one, what fancic had scat-
tered into many loose papers. - William Habington.

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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

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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

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