248 Laurence Mason, 



verse, a doubt may sometimes arise what belongs to each of them ; 

 as for instance, which of them wrote the Verses in Jonsonus ^'irbius."l 

 In view of Bishop Henry King's connection with Oxford, the Court,^ 

 and Duppa;3 Jonson's connection with Oxford* and the Court; 

 and Duppa's connection witli "Jonsonus Virbius,"^ it seems only 

 reasonable to ignore Hunter's doubt and to assign these "Verses" 

 to the Bishop. In the case of the other lines, the facts and prob- 

 abilities are these : in the Bodleian cop}' of the exceedingl}' rare 

 little memorial pamphlet,^ the poem signed "Hen. King" stands first, 

 as if the writer were chief mourner, and contains these lines : 



. . . "though we 

 Small sprigs or branches of the self-same tree 

 Suffer the worst, since He the fairest arm 

 Is torn away by an unluckie storm." (lines 79—82) 



Now Bishop Henry King could not have been chief mourner, even 

 if he knew P2dward King at all — which there is no reason for be- 

 lieving ; nor are the lines quoted applicable to him in any way ; nor 

 was there anything in his situation at this date to lead to his being 

 associated with a Cambridge memorial volume. There seems to be 

 no reasonable ground, then, for including this effusion even among the 

 "Doubtful Poems" of Bishop Henry King, nor can the slightest 

 association with "Lycidas" be claimed for him. 



IV. PUBLIC CAREER, SERMONS, AND RELIGIOUS OPLXIONS. 

 So many details in the Hfe of Henry King have been given above 

 that his various honors and offices may now be summarized in briefest 

 outline. As his Academic degrees have already been mentioned,^ 



1 Hunter's invaluable MS. "Chorus Vatum" in the British Museum, vol. 

 Ill, fol, 280; cf. also vol. II, fol. I. - Cf. p. 249, inf. 



3 Cf. p. 243, sup. •* "Fasti Oxon.," I, 392. 



^ He was, of course, responsible for its publication. Cf. Howell's "Fa- 

 miliar Letters," ed. Jacobs, I, 332. 



^ "Obsequies to the memorie of Mr. Edward King, Anno Dom. 163S 

 (Device) printed by Th. Buck, and R. Daniel, printers to the Universitie 

 of Cambridge, 1638." The contribution under discussion has the general 

 title for its caption and contains 122 lines, beginning on page i, sig. F2, and 

 occupying 3-/3 pages, being exceeded in length, in fact, onlj'^ by "Lycidas," 

 which fills the last six pages. In the accompanying volume of Latin and 

 Greek elegies there are some Latin lines by Henry King, the responsibility 

 for which must be fi.xed upon the author of the Enghsh elegy under dis- 

 cussion. 



' p. 232, sup. 



