Excerpt from Lycidas: A Monograph

In the year I637, Edward King, son of Sir J. King, Secretary to the English Government in Ireland, was Shipwrecked and drowned in crossing from Chester to Dublin. He was a Junior Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, one of a brilliant set of Seventeenth Century Apostles, which included Milton himself, Henry More the Platonist, and the Satirist Cleveland, little known to-day, but highly popular and widely read amongst his contemporaries. His friends agreed to embalm his memory in a volume of short elegies and in 1638 were published Obsequz'er to tire Mammy of Edward King, thirteen in all, none deserving immortality except Milton's Lya'das, which came last. The autograph manuscript is preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge: it has been beautifully reproduced through the camera by Mr Aldis Wright, and is here transcribed (pp. 14-2 2) in type, with its spellings, erasures, interpolations, and additions.

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