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Transcriber's Notes:
  1. This transcription uses _ characters around italic text,
     ^ to indicate superscripted text, and {} around multi-character
     superscripts.

  2. The author's textual notes occur near the end of the book, before
     the Index to First Lines.

     As an aid to the reader this text uses a different style for
     references to those notes than the printed edition used.

     References to the notes are marked within the text as
     "[number:number]" and within the textual notes section as
     "number:number." For example, [2:1] represents the first note in
     the second poem that has notes; [3:2] represents the second note
     in the third poem that has notes.

  3. Additional Transcriber's Notes occur at the end of the book.




LYRICS: THOMAS STANLEY




  Thy numbers carry weight, yet clear and terse,
  And innocent, as becomes the soul of verse.

                    _JAMES SHIRLEY: To his honour'd
                     friend Thomas Stanley, Esquire,
                     upon his Elegant Poems._ [1646.]

[Illustration: _Thomas Stanley (1625-1678)_]




  THOMAS STANLEY:

  HIS ORIGINAL LYRICS, COMPLETE,
  IN THEIR COLLATED READINGS OF
  1647, 1651, 1657.


  WITH AN INTRODUCTION, TEXTUAL NOTES,
  A LIST OF EDITIONS, AN APPENDIX OF
  TRANSLATIONS, AND A PORTRAIT.


  EDITED BY
  L. I. GUINEY



  J. R. TUTIN
  HULL