THE
POEMS
OF
RICHARD CORBET,
LATE BISHOP OF OXFORD AND OF NORWICH.
THE FOURTH EDITION,
With considerable Additions.
TO WHICH ARE NOW ADDED,
“ORATIO IN FUNUS HENRICI PRINCIPIS,”
FROM ASHMOLE’S MUSEUM,
Biographical Notes, and a Life of the Author,
BY
OCTAVIUS GILCHRIST, F.S.A.
London:
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1807.
R. Taylor, and Co. Shoe Lane.
TO
MY FRIEND
THOMAS BLORE, Esq.
THIS VOLUME,
UNDERTAKEN AT HIS SUGGESTION, AND PROMOTED BY HIS ASSISTANCE,
IS INSCRIBED BY
THE EDITOR.
The public interest has been of late yearsso strongly manifested in favour of the poetsof the seventeenth century, that little apologyappears necessary for the republication of thefollowing Poems. It would, however, beequally vain and foolish in the editor to claimfor the author a place among the higher classof poets, or to exalt his due praise by depreciatingthe merits of his contemporaries.—Claimingonly for Cæsar what to Cæsar is due,it may without arrogance be presumed thatthese pages will not be found inferior to thepoems of others which have been fortunately[vi]republished, or familiarised to the generalityof readers through the popular medium ofselections.
The author of the following poems (anaccount of whose life m