268 Lawrence Mason, 



(f) listed above :i "I have liad anor [another] Edit, of this Book, 

 in \vh there are neither Paradoxes or Sonets." While various theories 

 may be advanced to explain away these statements, taken singly, it 

 is here contended that taken together they fairly establish a reason- 

 able possibility that some edition of King's poems has been printed, 

 other than any now generally known to exist .^ 



4. "POEMS and PSALMS by Henry King D D sometime lord 

 bishop of Chichester edited by Rev J Hannah BA fellow of lincoln 

 college MDCCCXLHI Oxford : Francis Macpherson London : William 

 Pickering." iv + cxxx + 223 pp. This is the standard critical 

 edition of King's work, so far as it goes, and will always remain a 

 noble monument to its editor's scholarship and an invaluable assist- 

 ance to the student in its field. Unfortunately, it is not complete ; 

 and Hannah's promise on the first page of his Preface, "the re- 

 mainder of these Poems must be left for a separate volume, which 

 will be published without delay," was never fulfilled.^ It is perhaps 

 worth noting that this was the second time that King had been 

 balked of a promised complete editing, for Park explains ("Cens. 

 Lit.", V, 51) that he refrains from copious quotation "as an entire 

 republication is intended by Mr. Gilchrist." A third such intention, 

 as yet unfulfilled, is Professor Saintsbury's ("Camb. Hist. Eng. Lit.," 

 1911, Vn, 467). Hannah's edition is out of print to-day and is not 

 easily to be obtained.^ 



^ pp. 264 — 5; this MS. scholiast shows himself, in other notes, too well 

 versed in matters bibliographical to be dismissed as a mere irresponsible 

 blunderer. 



2 Wood ("Athen. Oxon.," Ill, 841) makes this further statement about 

 English poetry by King : " Dr. Henry King hath compos'd several anthems, 

 one of which, for the time of Lent, beginning thus, Hearken O God, &c. was 

 composed to music by Dr. John Wilson, gentleman of his majesty's chappel." 

 This "anthem" appears on p. 139 of "Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes, and 

 Sonets." Consequently, the others of these " several anthems " were prob- 

 ably included in the same volume (e. g., at p. 147) ; or else, Wood was re- 

 ferring to the additions to King's psalter (p. 270, inf.) among which 

 this " Hearken O God " first appeared, or to the paraphrases of Psalms CXXIV 

 and CXXX appended to the stricter versions in his psalter. But there is, 

 perhaps, a bare possibility that there really were "several" other "anthems" 

 by Henry King which have disappeared with this mysterious other edition. 



* Grosart (op. cit., p. v) somewhat querulously calls Hannah's work an 

 "erudite but provokingly fragmentary edition of a true poet." 



* Of the present writer's three copies, one, which has been deposited in 

 the Library of Yale University, bears this autograph presentation inscrip- 

 tion: "Rev. M. Pattison with the editors' thanks." 



