different collections: but none of my readers, I will undertake to
say, have seen more than a half-dozen or so.

With these few words I beg to introduce Volume One of the "Collectanea
Adamantaea."

EDMUND GOLDSMID.

Edinburgh, _March 6th_, 1884.




CONTENTS.



I. BEAUTIES FORT

II. MY BONNY LASS, THINE EYE

III. ANTHONY MUNDAY'S POEM ON THE CAPTIVITY OF JOHN FOX

IV. CARE FOR THY SOUL

V. MEGLIORA SPERO

VI. A LETTER FROM THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH TO THE KING

VII. THE KING'S ANSWER