Lije and Works of Henry King. 279 



King are referred to,^ but no record of the publication of any other 

 has been found by the present investigator. 



IV. LATIN AND GREEK VERSE. 



Wood mentions no examples of this class, while Hannah ^ lists the 

 following : Latin verses in the [Oxford] collections on Prince Henry's 

 death [1612] (Sig. G2) ; on Bodley's death [1613] (pp. 65—70) ; on 

 the Marriage of the Princess Elizabeth [1613] (Sig. K3) ; in lacohi Ara 

 [1617] (Sig. E) ; in Annae Funehria Sacra [1619] (6 pages, ending on 

 Sig. R) ; and in Parentalia Iacoh[(\,^ 1625 (Sig. I4) ; together with 

 Greek verses in the Collection on the Marriage of the Princess Elizabeth 

 (Sig. P3). To these items a few others can now be added: "In 



place, our Hand swam from us and made an Inroad upon the Continent, 

 where awhile it stucke. Yea, our Hearts travelled from us, bound on a 

 voyage in which all our Hopes were adventured." In the margin beside 

 the text is this note in the First Edition, "The Prince his returne from 

 Spaine," and this in the Second, "Prince Charles his returne from Spaine. 

 Oct. 6. 1623." The reference is, of course, to the curious expedition of 

 Charles and Buckingham to Madrid, in furtherance of the projected Spanish 

 marriage (cf. Gardiner, ch. xliii — xlv), and consequently this date fixes the 

 period of King's delivery of the first part of his " Exposition." The evidence 

 of the interruption occurs on pp. 242—3, ist ed., and 247, 2d ed., in this 

 statement— which also shows that this series was deUvered at intervals and 

 not on consecutive Sundays— : "I must confesse my selfe indebted for the 

 handling of this Text, betwixt the first part whereof & this hath passed so 

 large a time, that it is now become a stale Arrerage. And though the Con- 

 tagion which lately dispersed us, hath diminished many of those hearers 

 imto whom I was a Debtor, I am ready to discharge it to you, being desirous 

 to pursue my first intent (though some times by other service interrupted) 

 of going thorow the severall Petitions of this Prayer." The reference here 

 is obviously to the London plague of 1625 ; that King avoided the pestilence 

 is shown by his proceeding B. D. and D. D. at Oxford on the 19th of May, 

 1625 ("Fasti Oxon.," II, 423), and by the dates and places of delivery of 

 Sermons 2 and 3. 



1 Cf. p. 250 sup. ; also Letter 4, p. 289, Appendix B ; and Pepys' " Diary," 

 ed. Wheatley, under July 8, 1660 : "The Bishop of Chichester preached be- 

 fore the King, and made a great flattering sermon, which I did not like that 

 Clergy should meddle with matters of state"; and under Mar. 8, 1662; "I 

 walked thither (i. e., to Whitehall) and heard Dr. King, Bishop of Chichester, 

 make a good and eloquent sermon upon these words, ' T'hey that sow in tears 

 shall reap in joy.'" 



^ cxxiii ; his list has been slightly emended in the present work. 



^ Hannah prints lacoho; and omits the bracketed dates, throughout. 



