260 Lawrence Mason, 



of the dominating personalities of his age. But his associations 

 with greater men, such as Donne, Walton, and Hooker, his relation to 

 "Eikon Basilike" and the preservation of Episcopacy, together with 

 the light which his experiences cast upon the inner history of these 

 stirring times, make him a figure not to be overlooked by any student 

 of the period. His chief interest and importance to-day, however, 

 are undoubtedly due to his literary productions ; he is admirably 

 fitted to stand as the representative of the little known but number- 

 less and characteristic minor writers of the seventeenth century, 

 and it is from this point of view that the accompanying somewhat 

 detailed Bibliography has been prepared and is herewith presented. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY OF HENRY KING'S WRITINGS 

 Part one: MANUSCRIPTS. 



I. COLLECTKD POEMS. 



I. Malone MS. 22, in the Bodleian. This is a well preserved little 

 \olume, in fine clear script. King's poems fill ff. 4— 45V ; on fol. i, 

 in a later hand, are various ascriptions to "Dr: H: King"; ff. 2v 

 and 46 contain nonsense and doggerel fragments, in different hands ; 

 and scattered throughout are curious comments apparently written 

 by the early suffragist who defiantly subscribed her name, "Eliz. 

 Dottin Her Book, " immediately beneath her departed husband's (?) 

 "Henry Dottin His Book," on fol. 3. The doggerel on fol. 2v is 

 violently anti-matrimonial, and those of the comments that are not 

 fatuous banalities have an unctuous feminist tone. The comments 

 are written in French, by one quite ignorant of the language, who 

 seemingly culled the words from a Glossary one by one with total 

 disregard for syntax and inflection. For instance, after the Epigram 

 at the botton of fol. 31 v. ,1 is written this edifying sentiment: "La 

 femme qui voudriez aimez Elle ne scauriez dire que Elle aimez"; 

 while after the next two poems are inscribed these illuminating 

 comments: "Nous [query: sc. "ne . . . pas"?] devez croyez tout 

 qui nous entendre," and, "un Chanson pour un L'amour que peut 

 le trover." — This MS. volume contains fifty-six of the seventy-three 



" I would not in my love too soone prevaile : 



An eas}' Conquest makes the purchase stale." 



— After Petronius' " Satyricon," Cap. 



