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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: jonson, ben Matches Found: 413 Jonson, Ben Poet's Biography 413 poems available by this author (A POEM SENT ME BY SIR WILLIAM BURLASE) Poem Text First Line: To paint thy worth, if rightly I did know it Last Line: To all posterity; I will write burlase. A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 1. HIS EXCUSE FOR LOVING Poem Text First Line: Let it not your wonder move Last Line: All the world for love may die. Subject(s): Love A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 10. ANOTHER LADY'S EXCEPTION Poem Text First Line: For his mind, I do not care Last Line: Tis one good part I'd lie withal. A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 2. HOW HE SAW HER Poem Text First Line: I beheld her on a day / when her look out-flourished may Last Line: In a hercules-his shape. A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 3. WHAT HE SUFFERED Poem Text First Line: After many scorns like these Last Line: Hear and make example too. A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 4. HER TRIUMPH Poem Text First Line: See the chariot at hand here of love Last Line: Oh, so white! Oh, so soft! Oh, so sweet is she. Variant Title(s): The Triumph Of Charis;love's Chariot, Fr. The Devil Is An Ass Subject(s): Admiration A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 5. HIS DISCOURSE WITH CUPID Poem Text First Line: Noblest charis, you that are Last Line: And minerva, when she talkes. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 6. CLAIMING A SECOND KISS BY DESERT Poem Text First Line: Charis, guess, and do not miss Last Line: May not claim another kiss. Subject(s): Kisses A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 8. URGING HER OF A PROMISE Poem Text First Line: Charis one day in discourse Last Line: (and that quickly) speak your man. A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 9. HER MAN DESCRIBED ... DICTAMEN Poem Text First Line: Of your trouble, ben, to ease me Last Line: I can rest me where I am. Variant Title(s): A Proper Man A FIT OF RHYME AGAINST RHYME [OR, RIME] Poem Text First Line: Rhyme, the rack of finest wits Last Line: Was the founder! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme A HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER Poem Text First Line: Hear me, o god! Last Line: Under his cross. Variant Title(s): Underwoods: Hymn A LITTLE SHRUB GROWING BY Poem Text First Line: Ask not to know this man. If fame should speak Last Line: And so I leave to stir him, lest he stink. Subject(s): Hate A NEW YEAR'S GIFT SUNG TO KING CHARLES Poem Text First Line: Today old janus opens the new year Last Line: Tis he, 'tis he, etc. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NYMPH'S PASSION Poem Text First Line: I love, and he loves me again Last Line: If love, or fear, would let me tell his name. Subject(s): Country Life A PANEGYRE, ON HAPPY ENTRANCE OF JAMES, OUR SOVEREIGN TO PARLIAMENT Poem Text First Line: Heaven now not strives, alone, our breasts to fill Last Line: Still to have such a king, and this king long.' Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625) A PINDARIC ODE Poem Text First Line: Brave infant of saguntum clear Last Line: Had sowed these fruits, and got the harvest in. Variant Title(s): To The Immortal Memory ... Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary And Sir Henry Morrison;the Ode On Cary And Morison Subject(s): Cary, Lucius. 2d Viscount Falkland; Courage; Death; Life; Morison, Sir Henry (1608-1629); Valor; Bravery; Dead, The A SATIRICAL SHRUB Poem Text First Line: A woman's friendship! God whom I trust in Last Line: The devil; and be the damning of us all. A SONG Poem Text First Line: Come, let us here enjoy the shade Last Line: The eldest god, yet still a child. A SONG OF THE MOON Poem Text First Line: To the wonders of the peak Last Line: She will not seize it. Subject(s): Moon A SONG OF WELCOME TO KING CHARLES Poem Text First Line: Fresh as the day, and new as are the hours Last Line: And you, with them, as father of our spring. A SONNET, TO THE NOBLE LADY, THE LADY MARY WROTH Poem Text First Line: I that have been a lover, and could show it Last Line: For venus' ceston, every line you make. Variant Title(s): A Sonnet To The Noble Lady, The Lady Mary Wroth Subject(s): Love A SPEECH ACCORDING TO HORACE Poem Text First Line: Why yet, my noble hearts, they cannot say Last Line: Her broken arms up, to their empty moulds. A SPEECH OUT OF LUCAN Poem Text First Line: Just and fit actions, ptolemey (he saith) Last Line: Shall never dare do anything but fear. A SPEECH PRESENTED UNTO KING JAMES AT A TILTING Poem Text First Line: Two noble knights, whom true desire and zeal Last Line: If from a little spark he rise not fire. Subject(s): Rich, Henry. 1st Earl Of Holland; Rich, Robert, 2d Earl Of Warwick ADVICE TO A RECKLESS YOUTH First Line: What would I have you do? I'll tell you, kinsman ALCHEMIST, SELS. ALL YOUR FORTUNES WE CAN TELL YE AN ELEGY (1) Poem Text First Line: Though beauty be the mark of praise Last Line: What I in her am grieved to want! Subject(s): Virtue AN ELEGY (2) Poem Text First Line: Let me be what I am, as virgil cold Last Line: More then of eithers manners, wit, or face! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AN ELEGY (3) Poem Text First Line: That love's a bitter sweet, I ne'er conceive Last Line: If I had writ no word, but 'dear', farewell. AN ELEGY (4) Poem Text First Line: Since you must go, and I must bid farewell Last Line: Till I may see both it and you again. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AN ELEGY (5) Poem Text First Line: Can beauty that did prompt me first to write Last Line: Love to my heart, and fortune to my lines. AN ELEGY (6) Poem Text First Line: By those bright eyes, at whose immortal fires Last Line: Is constant to be extraordinary. AN ELEGY (7) Poem Text First Line: Tis true, I'm broke! Vows, oaths, and all I had Last Line: Rather than want your light, I wish a grave. AN ELEGY ON THE LADY JANE PAWLET, MARCHIONESS OF WINTON Poem Text First Line: What gentle ghost, besprent with april dew Last Line: And, sure of heaven, rides triumphing in. Subject(s): Death; Pawlett, Lady Jane (d. 1631); Dead, The AN EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: That you have seen the pride, beheld the sport Last Line: He is the man, and favourite of god. AN EPIGRAM ON SIR EDWARD COKE WHEN HE WAS LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Poem Text First Line: He that should search all glories of the gown Last Line: Needs lend an aid, to thine she had her eyes. AN EPIGRAM ON THE COURT PUCELL Poem Text First Line: Does the court pucell then so censure me Last Line: Will call it a bastard, when a prophet's born. AN EPIGRAM ON THE PRINCE'S BIRTH Poem Text First Line: And art thou born, brave babe? Blessed be thy birth! Last Line: Festinat caesar qui placuisse tibi. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) AN EPIGRAM ON WILLIAM, LORD BURLEIGH, LORD HIGH TREASURER Poem Text First Line: If thou wouldst know the virtues of mankind Last Line: Of divine blessing, would not serve a state? AN EPIGRAM TO KING CHARLES Poem Text First Line: Great charles, among the holy gifts of grace Last Line: But, that he cure the people's evil too? Variant Title(s): An Epigram. To King Charles For A Hundred Pounds He Sent Me Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Piety AN EPIGRAM TO MY JOVIAL GOOD FRIEND MR ROBERT DOVER Poem Text First Line: I cannot bring my muse to drop her vies Last Line: Of subjects; let such envy, till they burst. Subject(s): Dover, Robert (1575-1652); Hunting; Hunters AN EPIGRAM TO MY MUSE, THE LADY DIGBY, ON HER HUSBAND Poem Text First Line: Though, happy muse, thou know my digby well Last Line: Being sent to one, they will be read of all. Subject(s): Digby, Lady Venetia; Digby, Sir Kenelm (1603-1665) AN EPIGRAM TO THE COUNCILLOR THAT PLEADED AND CARRIED THE CAUSE Poem Text First Line: That I, hereafter, do not think the bar Last Line: Alone, but all thy rank a reverend name. AN EPIGRAM TO THE QUEEN, THEN LYING IN Poem Text First Line: Hail mary, full of grace, it once was said Last Line: Of so much safety to the realm, and king. Subject(s): Henrietta Maria, Queen Of England; Pregnancy AN EPIGRAM. TO OUR GREAT AND GOOD KING CHARLES ON HIS ANNIVERSARY DAY Poem Text First Line: How happy were the subject if he knew Last Line: How much to heaven for thee, great charles, they owe! Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) AN EPIGRAM. TO THE HONOURED --, COUNTESS OF -- Poem Text First Line: The wisdom, madam, of your private life Last Line: It will be shame for them, if they have none. AN EPIGRAM. TO THE HOUSEHOLD Poem Text First Line: What can the cause be, when the king hath given Last Line: The king's fame lives. Go now, deny his tierce. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) AN EPIGRAM. TO THE SMALL-POX Poem Text First Line: Envious and foul disease, could there not be Last Line: And scorned, thou hast shown thy malice, but hast failed. AN EPIGRAM. TO THOMAS LORD ELLESMERE, LAST TERM HE SAT CHANCELLOR Poem Text First Line: So justest lord, may all your judgements be Last Line: You favour truth, and me, in this man's cause. AN EPIGRAM. TO WILLIAM, EARL OF NEWCASTLE (1) Poem Text First Line: They talk of fencing, and the use of arms Last Line: And valiant were, with, or without their hands. AN EPIGRAM. TO WILLIAM, EARL OF NEWCASTLE (2) Poem Text First Line: When first, my lord, I saw you back your horse Last Line: At these immortal mangers virgil fed. AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND (1) Poem Text First Line: Censure not sharply then, but me advise Last Line: Her fury, though no friendship he betray. AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND (2) Poem Text First Line: Sir, I am thankful, first, to heaven, for you Last Line: Her fury, yet no friendship to betray. AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND, TO PERSUADE HIM TO THE WARS Poem Text First Line: Wake, friend, from forth thy lethargy: the drum Last Line: Who falls for love of god, shall rise a star. Subject(s): War AN EPISTLE TO MASTER ARTHUR SQUIB Poem Text First Line: What I am not, and what I fain would be Last Line: It is a richer purchase than of land. AN EPISTLE TO MASTER JOHN SELDEN Poem Text First Line: I know to whom I write. Here, I am sure Last Line: You both are modest. So am I. Farewell. Subject(s): Selden, John (1584-1654) AN EPISTLE TO SIR EDWARD SACKVILLE, NOW EARL OF DORSET Poem Text First Line: If sackville, all that have the power to do Last Line: Find you to reckon nothing, me owe all. Subject(s): Sackville, Edward. 4th Earl Of Dorset AN EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: What beauty would have lovely styled Last Line: To fetch the flesh, we keep the roll. AN EPITAPH ON MASTER VINCENT CORBET Poem Text First Line: I have my piety too, which could Last Line: Who makes the one, so it be first, makes both. Subject(s): Epitaphs AN EPITAPH, ON HENRY LORD LAWARE. TO THE PASSERBY Poem Text First Line: If, passenger, thou canst but read Last Line: Because it durst have noblier died. AN EXECRATION UPON VULCAN Poem Text First Line: And why to me this, thou lame lord of fire Last Line: Thy wife's pox on thee, and bess braughton's too. Subject(s): Fire AN EXPOSTULATION WITH INIGO JONES Poem Text First Line: Master surveyor, you that first began Last Line: With all remonstrance make an honest man. Subject(s): Jones, Inigo (1573-1652) AN ODE Poem Text First Line: Helen, did homer never see Last Line: So much my subject drowns the rest. Subject(s): Beauty AN ODE TO HIMSELF Poem Text First Line: Where dost thou careless lie Last Line: Safe from the wolf's black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof. Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Liberty AN ODE TO JAMES, EARL OF DESMOND Poem Text First Line: Where art thou, genius? I should use Last Line: As far from all revolt, as you are now from fortune. AND MUST I SING? WHAT SUBJECT SHALL I CHOOSE? ANOTHER TO THOMAS LORD ELLESMERE Poem Text First Line: The judge his favour timely then extends Last Line: He does you wrong, that craves you to do right. ANOTHER. IN DEFENCE OF THEIR INCONSTANCY. A SONG Poem Text First Line: Hang up those dull, and envious fools Last Line: To love one man, he'd leave her first. Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy ANSWER TO MASTER WITHER'S SONG, 'SHALL I, WASTING IN DESPAIR?' Poem Text First Line: Shall I mine affections slack Last Line: What care I, what others be? Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Wither, George (1588-1667) AUTHOR AD LIBRUM Poem Text First Line: Go little book, go little fable Last Line: Of her white hand; or she can spare it. Variant Title(s): To Lucy, Countess Of Bedford, In A ... Cynthia's Revels Subject(s): Bedford, Lucy, Countess Of (1581-1627); Russell, Lucy, Countess Of Bedford BANQUET OF SENSE First Line: Then in a free and lofty strain BARTHOLOMEW FAIR: EPILOGUE Poem Text First Line: Your majesty hath seen the play Last Line: If it so happy be, t' have pleased the king. BARTHOLOMEW FAIR: NIGHTINGALE'S SONG Poem Text First Line: My masters and friends, and good people draw near Last Line: Than live to be hanged for cutting a purse. BARTHOLOMEW FAIR: PROLOGUE TO THE KING'S MAJESTY Poem Text First Line: Your majesty is welcome to a fair Last Line: To give you for a fairing true delight. Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants BEGGING EPISTLE TO THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER First Line: My woeful cry %to sir robert pye BEN JONSON'S GRACE BEFORE KING JAMES Poem Text First Line: Our royal king and queen, god bless Last Line: And god bless me, and god bless rafe. Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625) BY HIM First Line: What comfort by him do we win Last Line: Can man forget this story? Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion CAILINE: CATILINE HIS CONSPIRACY First Line: Heare me, %you over act when you should underdoe Last Line: Both eyes, and beake seal'd up, for sixe sesterces CASE IS ALTERED, SELS. First Line: Tis not to be told %what servile villainies men will do for gold Subject(s): Love CATCH First Line: Buzz! Quoth the blue fly Variant Title(s): Buzz And Hum; Satyres Catc Subject(s): Animals CATILINE (AFTER SENECA) First Line: Is there a heaven? And gods? And can it be Last Line: And neither thine, nor their owne states doe keepe CATILINE TO HIS ARMY, NEAR FAESULAE First Line: I never yet knew, soldiers that in fight CATILINE: ACT 1 (AFTER SENECA) First Line: Do'st thou not feele me, rome? Not yet? Is night Last Line: Or make them grieue, and wish your mischiefe theirs CATILINE: CHORUS (AFTER PETRONIUS) First Line: Can nothing great, and at the height Last Line: Thus, by thy vices, ruin'd thee CHARLES CAVENDISH TO HIS POSTERITY Poem Text First Line: Sons, seek not me among these polished stones Last Line: Not when I died, but how I lived. Farewell. CHIVALRY First Line: The house of chivalry decayed CHLORIDIA: SONG OF ZEPHYRUS AND SPRING Poem Text First Line: Come forth, come forth, the gentle spring Last Line: Of quickening anything. CHORUS IN A MASQUE First Line: Spring all the graces of the age Variant Title(s): Song Before The Entry Of The Masquer CHRISTMAS HIS MASQUE, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: Nor do you think that their legs is all Last Line: And his couple of daughters dear. CORVINO OFFERS HIS WIFE, CELIA, TO VOLPONE AS A MISTRESS COURAGE First Line: A valiant man %ought not to undergo or tempt a danger Subject(s): Courage CUPID Poem Text First Line: Beauties, have ye seen this toy Last Line: And that he's venus' runaway. Variant Title(s): Venus' Runaway Subject(s): Cupid; Eros CYNTHIA'S REVELS, SELECTION Poem Text Variant Title(s): Echo's Dirge For Narcissus Subject(s): Nature CYNTHIA'S REVELS, SELS. Variant Title(s): Echo's Dirge For Narcissu Subject(s): Nature ELEGY ON THE LADY VENETIA DIGBY, SELS. Subject(s): Digby, Lady Venetia EPICOENE; OR, THE SILENT WOMAN: FREEDOM IN DRESS Poem Text First Line: Still to be neat, still to be drest Last Line: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. Variant Title(s): Clerimont's Song;sweet Neglect;simplex Munditiis Subject(s): Art & Artists; Clothing & Dress; Cosmetics; Simplicity EPICOENE; OR, THE SILENT WOMAN: SONG Poem Text First Line: Modest, and fair, for fair and good are near Last Line: I know to speak, and she to hold her peace. EPIGRAM ON COURT-WORM Poem Text First Line: All men are worms, but this no man. In silk Last Line: Which was a caterpillar. So 'twill die. Variant Title(s): On Court-worm EPIGRAM TO MY BOOKSELLER Poem Text First Line: Thou, friend, wilt hear all censures; unto thee Last Line: Their perfumed judgements, let them kiss thy wife. EPIGRAM. TO A FRIEND AND SON Poem Text First Line: Son, and my friend, I had not called you so Last Line: Rather to boast rich hangings, than rare friends. EPIGRAM: 118. ON GUT Poem Text First Line: Gut eats all day and lechers all the night Last Line: Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in. Subject(s): Gluttony EPIGRAM: 14. TO WILLIAM CAMDEN Poem Text First Line: Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe Last Line: But for their powers, accept my piety. Subject(s): Camden, William (1551-1623); Schools; Students EPIGRAM: 45. ON MY FIRST SON Poem Text First Line: Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy Last Line: As what he loves may never like too much. Variant Title(s): On His First Sonne;on My First Sonne;epitaph: On My Son Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers; Grief; Men; Mourning; Parents; Prayer; Sons; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Parenthood EPIGRAM: 59. ON SPIES Poem Text First Line: Spies, you are lights in state, but of base stuff Last Line: Stink and are thrown away. End fair enough. Subject(s): Spies EPIGRAM: OF DEATH Poem Text First Line: He that fears death, or mourns it in the just Last Line: Shows of the resurrection little trust. Variant Title(s): Of Death Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EPIGRAM: ON BANK THE USURER Poem Text First Line: Bank feels no lameness of his knotty gout Last Line: He toils to be at hell, as soon as they. Subject(s): Usury EPIGRAM: ON BAWDS AND USERERS Poem Text First Line: If, as their ends, their fruits were so the same Last Line: Bawdry, and usury were one kind of game. Variant Title(s): On Bawds And Usurers Subject(s): Usury EPIGRAM: ON CAPTAIN HAZARD THE CHEATER Poem Text First Line: Touched with the sin of false play in his punk Last Line: Since when he's sober again, and all play's made. EPIGRAM: ON CASHIERED CAPTAIN SURLY Poem Text First Line: Surly's old whore in her new silks doth swim Last Line: He cast, yet keeps her well! No, she keeps him. EPIGRAM: ON CHEVERIL Poem Text First Line: Cheveril cries out, my verses libels are Last Line: That quitt'st the cause so oft, and rail'st at men? Variant Title(s): On Cheveril EPIGRAM: ON CHUFF, BANK'S THE USURER'S KINSMAN Poem Text First Line: Chuff, lately rich in name, in chattels, goods Last Line: When he made him executor, might be heir. Variant Title(s): On Chuff, Banks The Usurer's Kinsman EPIGRAM: ON COURT - PARROT Poem Text First Line: To pluck down mine, poll sets up new wits still Last Line: Still, 'tis his luck to praise me 'gainst his will. Subject(s): Parrot, Henry EPIGRAM: ON GYPSY Poem Text First Line: Gypsy, new bawd, is turned physician Last Line: For what she gave, a whore; a bawd, she cures. Variant Title(s): On Gypsy EPIGRAM: ON LIPPE, THE TEACHER Poem Text First Line: I cannot think there's that antipathy Last Line: T'inveigh 'gainst players: what did he then but play? EPIGRAM: ON MILL, MY LADY'S WOMAN Poem Text First Line: When mill first came to court, the unprofiting fool Last Line: First bearing him a calf, bear him a bull. Subject(s): Athletes EPIGRAM: ON MONGREL ESQUIRE Poem Text First Line: His bought arms mong not liked; for his first day Last Line: And hath no honour lost, our duellists say. Variant Title(s): On Mongrel Esquire EPIGRAM: ON OLD COLT Poem Text First Line: For all night-sins with others' wives, unknown Last Line: Colt, now, doth daily penance in his own. Variant Title(s): On Old Colt EPIGRAM: ON POET-APE Poem Text First Line: Poor poet-ape, that would be thought our chief Last Line: From locks of wool, or shreds from the whole piece! Variant Title(s): On Poet-ape Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPIGRAM: ON SIR JOHN ROE (1) Poem Text First Line: In place of scutcheons that should deck thy hearse Last Line: We, sad for him, may glory, and not sin. Variant Title(s): On Sir John Roe Subject(s): Roe, Sir John (1581-1606) EPIGRAM: ON SIR JOHN ROE (2) Poem Text First Line: What two brave perils of the private sword Last Line: Seas, serenes, swords, shot, sickness, all are there. Variant Title(s): On Sir John Roe Subject(s): Roe, Sir John (1581-1606) EPIGRAM: ON SIR JOHN ROE (3) Poem Text First Line: I'll not offend thee with a vain tear more Last Line: Who wets my grave, can be no friend of mine. Variant Title(s): To The Same Subject(s): Roe, Sir John (1581-1606) EPIGRAM: ON SIR VOLUPTUOUS BEAST Poem Text First Line: While beast instructs his fair and innocent wife Last Line: Just wife, and, to change me, make woman's haste. EPIGRAM: ON THE SAME (VOLUPTUOUS) BEAST Poem Text First Line: Than his chaste wife though beast now know no more Last Line: He adulters still: his thoughts lie with a whore. Variant Title(s): On The Same Beast EPIGRAM: TO A FRIEND Poem Text First Line: To put out the word 'whore' thou dost me woo Last Line: Throughout my book. 'troth put out woman too. EPIGRAM: TO CENSORIOUS COURTLING Poem Text First Line: Courtling, I rather thou shouldst utterly Last Line: Would both thy folly, and thy spite betray. Variant Title(s): To Censorious Courtling EPIGRAM: TO COURTLING Poem Text First Line: I grieve not, courtling, thou art started up Last Line: Thy person only, courtling, is the vice. EPIGRAM: TO FOOL, OR KNAVE Poem Text First Line: Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike Last Line: One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike. Subject(s): Indifference EPIGRAM: TO GROOM IDIOT Poem Text First Line: Idiot, last night I prayed thee but forbear Last Line: And, hood-winked, for a man, embrace a post. EPIGRAM: TO HORNET Poem Text First Line: Hornet, thou hast thy wife dressed for the stall Last Line: To draw thee custom: but herself gets all. Subject(s): Cuckolds EPIGRAM: TO KNG JAMES Poem Text First Line: Who would not be thy subject, james, to obey Last Line: And since, the whole land was preserved for thee. Variant Title(s): To King James Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625) EPIGRAM: TO MY MUSE Poem Text First Line: Away, and leave me, thou thing most abhorred Last Line: For worth he has not, he is taxed, not praised. EPIGRAM: TO OLD-END GATHERER Poem Text First Line: Long-gathering old end, I did fear thee wise Last Line: Could save that line to dedicate to thee? Variant Title(s): To Old-end Gatherer Subject(s): Plagiarism EPIGRAM: TO ONE THAT DESIRED ME NOT TO NAME HIM Poem Text First Line: Be safe, nor fear thyself so good a fame Last Line: I'm more ashamed to have thee thought my foe. EPIGRAM: TO PERSON GUILTY Poem Text First Line: Guilty, because I bad you late be wise Last Line: I'll lose my modesty, and tell your name. Variant Title(s): To Person Guilty EPIGRAM: TO PERSON GUILTY Poem Text First Line: Guilty, be wise; and though thou know'st the crimes Last Line: And person to the world; ere I thy name. Variant Title(s): To Person Guilty EPIGRAM: TO PERTINAX COB Poem Text First Line: Cob, thou nor soldier, thief, nor fencer art Last Line: Yet by thy weapon liv'st! Th' hast one good part. EPIGRAM: TO PLAYWRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Playwright me reads, and still my verses damns Last Line: In my chaste book: profess them in thine own. Variant Title(s): To Playwright EPIGRAM: TO PROWL THE PLAGIARY Poem Text First Line: Forbear to tempt me, prowl, I will not show Last Line: I must a libel make, and cozen both. Subject(s): Plagiarism EPIGRAM: TO ROBERT, EARL OF SALISBURY (1) Poem Text First Line: What need hast thou of me, or of my muse Last Line: As thou stand'st clear of the necessity. Variant Title(s): To Robert, Earl Of Salisbury Subject(s): Cecil, Robert (1563-1612); Salisbury, 1st Earl Of; Cranborne, 1st Viscount EPIGRAM: TO ROBERT, EARL OF SALISBURY (2) Poem Text First Line: Who can consider thy right courses run Last Line: To so true worth, though thou thyself forbid. Subject(s): Cecil, Robert (1563-1612); Salisbury, 1st Earl Of; Cranborne, 1st Viscount EPIGRAM: TO ROBERT, EARL OF SALISBURY, UPON ACESSION TO TREASURESHIP Poem Text First Line: Not glad, like those that have new hopes or suits Last Line: I have sung the greater fortunes of our state. Variant Title(s): To The Same Subject(s): Cecil, Robert (1563-1612); Salisbury, 1st Earl Of; Cranborne, 1st Viscount EPIGRAM: TO SIR ANNUAL TILTER (SAMUEL FULLER) Poem Text First Line: Tilter, the most may admire thee, though not I Last Line: But that's put in, thou'lt say. Why, so is thine. Variant Title(s): To Sir Annual Tilter EPIGRAM: TO SIR COD Poem Text First Line: Leave, cod, tobacco-like, burnt gums to take Last Line: Arsenic would thee fit for society make. EPIGRAM: TO SIR LUCKLESS WOO-ALL Poem Text First Line: Is this the sir, who, some waste wife to win Last Line: Yes, now he wears his knighthood every day. Variant Title(s): To Sir Luckless Woo-all EPIGRAM: TO SIR SIR HENRY GOODYERE Poem Text First Line: Goodyere, I am glad and grateful to report Last Line: What would his serious actions me have learned? Subject(s): Goodyer, Sir Henry (1571-1627); Goodyere, Sir Henry (1571-1627) EPIGRAM: TO THE PARLIAMENT Poem Text First Line: There's reason good that you good laws should make Last Line: Men's manners ne'er were viler, for your sake. Variant Title(s): To The Parliament EPIGRAM: TO THE SAME (SIR LUCKLESS WOO-ALL) Poem Text First Line: Sir luckless, troth, for luck's sake pass by one Last Line: He that woos every widow, will get none. Variant Title(s): To The Same EPIGRAM: TO THOMAS, EARL OF SUFFOLK Poem Text First Line: Since men have left to do praiseworthy things Last Line: Proves, that is god's, which was the people's voice. Subject(s): Howard, Thomas. Earl Of Suffolk; Howard, Thomas (1585-1646) EPIGRAM: TO THOMAS, LORD CHNACELLOR (EGERTON) Poem Text First Line: Whilst thy weighed judgments, egerton, I hear Last Line: T'our times returned, hath made her heaven in thee. Subject(s): Egerton, Thomas. Baron Ellesmere EPIGRAM: TO WILLIAM ROE Poem Text First Line: When nature bids us leave to live, 'tis late Last Line: Though life be short, let us not make it so. Subject(s): Roe, William (b. 1585) EPIGRAM: TO WILLIAM, LORD MONTEAGLE Poem Text First Line: Lo, what my country should have done (have raised Last Line: But saver of my country thee alone. Subject(s): Gunpowder Plot; Parker, William. 4th Baron Monteagle; Guy Fawkes EPIGRAMS, SELS. EPISTLE ANSWERING TO ONE THAT ASKED TO BE SEALED OF THE TRIBE OF BEN Poem Text First Line: Men that are safe, and sure, in all they do Last Line: Sir, you are sealed of the tribe of ben. Variant Title(s): An Epistle Answering To One That Asked To Be Sealed Of Ben EPISTLE TO A FRIEND Poem Text First Line: They are not, sir, worst owers, that do pay Last Line: And I will bring a crop, if not the best. EPISTLE TO A FRIEND TO PERSUADE HIM TO THE WARS First Line: Take along with thee EPISTLE TO ELIZABETH, COUNTESS RUTLAND Poem Text First Line: Madam, / whilst that for which all virtue now is sold Last Line: My best of wishes, may you bear a son. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Sidney, Elizabeth. Countess Of Rutland EPISTLE TO KATHERINE, LADY AUBIGNY Poem Text First Line: Tis grown almost a danger to speak true Last Line: Because nor it can change, nor such a mind. EPISTLE TO LADY RUTLAND; AFTER HORACE, SELS. First Line: Beautie, I know, is good, and bloud is more Last Line: And such, or my hopes faile, shall make you shine EPISTLE TO MR ARTHUR SQUIB Poem Text First Line: I am to dine, friend, where I must be weighed Last Line: For your security. I can no better. EPISTLE. TO MY LADY COVELL Poem Text First Line: You won not verses, madam, you won me Last Line: And should grow rich, had I much more to pay. EPITAPH ON ELIZABETH, L.H. Poem Text First Line: Wouldst thou hear what man can say Last Line: Than that it lived at all. Farewell. Subject(s): Coke, Sir Edward (1552-1634); Death; Hatton, Lady Elizabeth (mrs Edward Coke); Dead, The EPITAPH ON KATHERINE, LADY OGLE Poem Text First Line: Tis a record in heaven. You, that were Last Line: And this a copy is of the record. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON MASTER PHILIP GRAY Poem Text First Line: Reader, stay / and if I had no more to say Last Line: What surety of life have thou, and I? EPITAPH ON S.P., A CHILD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S CHAPEL Poem Text First Line: Weep with me, all you that read Last Line: Heaven vows to keep him. Variant Title(s): Epitaph For Salomon Pavey, Child Actor In Queen's Revels Co.;epitaph On Salathiel Pavy, A Child Of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel;epitaph: On Solomon Pavy, Child Of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death - Children; London; Actresses; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON THE COUNTESS [DOWAGER] OF PEMBROKE First Line: Underneath this sable [or marble] hearse Last Line: Learn'd, and fair, and good as she, %time shall throw a dart at thee Subject(s): Herbert, Mary Sidney (1561-1621); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) EPITHALAMION: OR, A SONG CELEBRATING NUPTIALS OF HIEROME WESTON Poem Text First Line: Though thou hast passed thy summer standing, stay Last Line: The longing couple, all that elder lovers know. Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium EPODE Poem Text First Line: Not to know vice at all, and keep true state Last Line: Man may securely sinne, but safely never. Variant Title(s): The Forrest: 11. Epode Subject(s): Desire; Virtue EUPHEME, OR THE FAIR FAME OF LADY VENETIA DIGBY Poem Text First Line: Fair fame, who art ordained to crown Last Line: The tenth, being her inscription, or crown, is lost Subject(s): Digby, Lady Venetia EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR, SELS. First Line: Cousin stephen! %what news with you that you are here so early FAME First Line: Her house is all of echo made FOR LOVE'S SAKE, KISS ME ONCE AGAIN! Poem Text Last Line: Let who will think us dead, or wish our death. Variant Title(s): He Teaches Her To Kiss;of Kissing Subject(s): Innocence; Kisses; Love FOR WHAT IS LIFE? Subject(s): Courage FRAGMENT First Line: Boast not these titles of your ancestors GOOD AND FAIR First Line: How near to good is what is fair! Last Line: We are not grieved to serve GOOD WIFE'S ALE First Line: When shall we meet again, and have a taste HAPPINESS First Line: True happiness consists not in the multidude HERE FOLLOW CERTAIN OTHER VERSES, AS CHARMS, TO UNLOCK .. CRUDITIES Poem Text First Line: Here, like arion, our coriat doth draw Last Line: Being in fear to be robbed, he most learnedly begs. HYMENAEI: TRUTH First Line: Upon her head she wears a crown of stars Variant Title(s): The Angel Describes Trut Subject(s): Truth IN AUTHOREM Poem Text First Line: Thou, that wouldst find the habit of true passion Last Line: His proof their praise will meet, as in this line. IN THE PERSON OF WOMANKIND (IN DEFENSE OF THEIR INCONSTANCY) Poem Text First Line: Men, if you love us, play no more Last Line: To make a new, and hang that by. Subject(s): Women IRISH MASQUE, SELS. JEALOUSY Poem Text First Line: Wretched and foolish jealousy Last Line: I ne'er will owe my health to a disease. Variant Title(s): Against Jealousy KAROL'S KISS First Line: O karol, karol! Call him back again Subject(s): Country Life KEY KEEPER, SELS. First Line: If to your ear it wonder bring Last Line: And his best queen in my last note and die LIFE AND DEATH Poem Text First Line: The ports of death are sins; of life, good deeds Last Line: For good men but see death, the wicked taste it. Variant Title(s): Of Life And Death Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LILY OF A DAY Last Line: It was the plant and flower of light Subject(s): Life Change Events LINCOLNSHIRE: FROM THE WOLDS TO THE FENS First Line: Know ye the witch's dell LINES First Line: It is, methinks, a morning full of fate LORD BACON'S BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: Hail, happy genius of this ancient pile Last Line: In raising him the wisdom of my king. LOVE First Line: There is no life on earth but being in love! LOVE FREED FROM IGNORANCE AND FOLLY, SELS. LOVE RESTORED, SELS. LOVE'S TRIUMPH THROUGH CALLIPOLIS: EUCLIA'S HYMN Poem Text First Line: So love, emergent out of chaos, brought Last Line: By virtue of divine intelligence! MAB THE MISTRESS-FAIRY First Line: This is mab the mistress-fairy Last Line: Some of husbands, some of lovers, %which an empty dream discovers MASQUE OF BEAUTY, SELS. MASQUE OF BLACKNESS, SELS. MASQUE OF HYMEN, SELS. MASQUE OF QUEENS, SELS. MAY First Line: Whence is it that the air so sudden MERCURY VINDICATED: NATURE Poem Text First Line: How young and fresh am I tonight Last Line: For nature bids the best, and never bade in vain. MERCURY VINICATED, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: Soft, subtle fire, thou soul of art Last Line: As if by art alone it could be righted. MOSCA PERSUADES CORBACCIO TO DISINHERIT ... First Line: Keep you still, sir MOTHER MAUDLIN THE WITCH First Line: Within a gloomy dimble she doth dwell MY PICTURE LEFT IN SCOTLAND Poem Text First Line: I now think, love is rather deaf than blind Last Line: And all these through her eyes, have stopped her ears. Variant Title(s): The Poet-wooer;middle-age Overtakes Him Subject(s): Love NATURE'S ACCORD First Line: How is't each bough a several music yields? Subject(s): Birds NEPTUNE'S TRIUMPH FOR THE RETURN OF ALBION, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: Come, noble nymphs, and do not hide Last Line: Do promise you will do it. NEW INN: SONG First Line: What else %is love, but the most noble, pure affection Subject(s): Love NEW YEARS, EXPECT NEW GIFTS: SISTER, YOUR HARP NEWS FROM THE NEW WORLD, SELS. NOW, BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM, HELP TO SING Last Line: That they may both ere day %rise perfect every way Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage O, DO NOT WANTON WITH THOSE EYES Poem Text O, DO NOT WANTON WITH THOSE EYES OBERON, SELS. OBERON, THE FAIRY PRINCE; A MASQUE OF PRINCE HENRY'S First Line: Chromis! Mnasil! None appear? Last Line: Lest, taken with the brightness of this night, %the world should wish it last, and never miss his li ODE Poem Text First Line: If men and times were now Last Line: Who worthy win, who not, to be wise pallas' guests. ODE ALLEGORIC Poem Text First Line: Who saith our times nor have, nor can Last Line: Set out a like, or second to our swan. ODE ENTHUSIASTIC Poem Text First Line: Splendour! O more than mortal Last Line: Nor takes she pride to know them. ODE TO HIMSELF Poem Text First Line: Come, leave the loathed stage Last Line: And see his chariot triumph 'bove his wain. Variant Title(s): On The New Inn. Ode. To Himself Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Pericles (490-429 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life ODE TO SIR LUCIUS CARY AND SIR H. MORRISON, SELS. ODE TO SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY, ON HIS BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: Now that the hearth is crowned with smiling fire Last Line: The birthday shines, when logs not burn, but men. Subject(s): Birthdays; Sidney, Sir William (1590-1612) ODE, OR SONG, BY ALL THE MUSES, CELEBRATION OF HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: Up public joy, remember Last Line: And charles a caroline! Subject(s): Henrietta Maria, Queen Of England ON A ROBBERY Poem Text First Line: Ridway robbed duncote of three hundred pound Last Line: The courtier is become the greater thief. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals ON A TRENCHER SENT TO WILLIAM NOYE OF MAWGAN IN CORNWALL First Line: When the world was drowned Last Line: To quicken the witt %which comes from noye's arke Subject(s): Deer ON CHEVERIL THE LAWYER Poem Text First Line: No cause, nor client fat, will cheveril leese Last Line: For this: that wins, for whom he holds his peace. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Attorneys ON DON SURLY Poem Text First Line: Don surly to aspire the glorious name Last Line: Style thee a most great fool, but no great man. ON ENGLISH MONSIEUR Poem Text First Line: Would you believe, when you this monsieur see Last Line: Daily to turn in paul's, and help the trade. Subject(s): France ON GILES AND JOAN Poem Text First Line: Who says that giles and joan at discord be? Last Line: I know no couple better can agree! ON GROIN Poem Text First Line: Groin, come of age, his state sold out of hand Last Line: For his whore: groin doth still occupy his land. ON HONOURED POEMS OF HIS HONOURED FRIEND SIR JOHN BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: This book will live; it hath a genius: this Last Line: Of ethnicism, makes his muse a saint. Subject(s): Beaumont, Sir John (1583-1627) ON LIEUTENANT SHIFT Poem Text First Line: Shift, here in town not meanest among squires Last Line: Lent him a pocky whore. She hath paid him. ON LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD Poem Text First Line: This morning, timely rapt with holy fire Last Line: My muse bad, bedford write, and that was she. Subject(s): Bedford, Lucy, Countess Of (1581-1627); Russell, Lucy, Countess Of Bedford ON MARGARET RATCLIFFE Poem Text First Line: Marble, weep! For thou dost cover Last Line: E arth, thou hast not such another. Subject(s): Consolation ON MY FIRST DAUGHTER Poem Text First Line: Here lies to each her parents' ruth Last Line: Which cover lightly, gentle earth! Variant Title(s): Epitaph On My First Daughter Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Parents; Death - Babies; Parenthood ON PLAYWRIGHT (1) Poem Text First Line: Playwright, convict of public wrongs to men Last Line: Active in 's brain, and passive in his bones. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists ON PLAYWRIGHT (2) Poem Text First Line: Playwright, by chance, hearing some toys I'd writ Last Line: The liberty, that we'll enjoy tonight. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists ON REFORMED GAMESTER Poem Text First Line: Lord, how is gamester changed! His hair close cut Last Line: The body's stripes, I see, the soul may save. ON SIR COD THE PERFUMED Poem Text First Line: That cod can get no widow, yet a knight Last Line: I scent the cause: he woos with an ill sprite. Subject(s): Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances ON SOMETHING THAT WALKS SOMEWHERE Poem Text First Line: At court I met it, in clothes brave enough Last Line: "for I will dare none."" good lord, walk dead still." Subject(s): Facades; Appearances ON THE AUTHOR, WORK, AND TRANSLATOR Poem Text First Line: Who tracks this author's, or translator's pen Last Line: That would have done that which you only can. Subject(s): Mabbes, Thomas (1572-1642); Translating & Interpreting ON THE FAMOUS VOYAGE Poem Text First Line: No more let greece her bolder fables tell Last Line: My muse had ploughed with his, that sung a-jax. ON THE KING'S BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: Rouse up thyself, my gentle muse Last Line: That best of crowns is such a love. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) ON THE MAGNETIC LADY Poem Text First Line: But to advise thee, ben, in this strict age Last Line: Cropped, branded, slit, neck-stocked; go, you are stripped. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism ON THE NEW HOT-HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Where lately harboured many a famous whore Last Line: And still be a whore house. They are synonima. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels ON THE NEW MOTION Poem Text First Line: See you yond' motion? Not the old fading Last Line: Only his clothes have over-leavened him. ON THE PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE Poem Text First Line: This figure, that thou here seest put Last Line: Not at his picture, but his book. Variant Title(s): To The Reader Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Droeshout, Martin; Engraving & Engravers; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Reading; Dramatists ON THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND VIRTUOUS LORD WESTON, HIGH TREASURER Poem Text First Line: Look up, thou seed of envy, and still bring Last Line: To effect it; feel, thou hast made thine own heart ache. Subject(s): Weston, Richard. 1st Earl Of Portland ON THE TOWN'S HONEST MAN Poem Text First Line: You wonder, who this is! And why I name Last Line: Then, the town's honest man's her errant'st knave. Subject(s): Jones, Inigo (1573-1652) ON THE TWENTY-SECOND OF JUNE ON THE UNION Poem Text First Line: When was there contract better driven by fate? Last Line: The spoused pair two realms, the sea the ring. ONE WOMAN READS ANOTHER'S CHARACTER PAN'S ANNIVERSARY, SELS. Subject(s): Country Life; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology) PHOSPHORUS, THE MORNING STAR First Line: To rest! To rest! The herald of the day PICTURE OF THE MIND First Line: A mind so pure, so perfect fine PLAYS AND MASQUES, SELS. PLEASURE RECONCILED TO VIRTUE, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: An eye of looking back were well Last Line: Though place here make you known. PLEASURE RECONCILED TO VIRTUE, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: It follows now you are to prove Last Line: But ever overcome it. PLEASURE RECONCILED TO VIRTUE, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: Come on, come on, and where you go Last Line: As he hath power to rise to it. PLEASURE RECONCILED TO VIRTUE: HYMN TO COMUS Poem Text First Line: Room, room, make room for the bouncing belly Last Line: Thou break'st all thy girdles, and break'st forth a god. Variant Title(s): Hymn To The Belly;comus's Song Subject(s): Bellies; Gluttony PLEASURES OF HEAVEN First Line: There all the happy souls that ever were POETASTER, SELS. First Line: O sacred poesie, thou spirit of arts Last Line: Of their strong spirits: others fight below %with gnats, andshadows, others nothing know POETASTER: SONG (1) Poem Text First Line: Wake! Our mirth begins to die Last Line: Which doth all the rest excel. POETASTER: SONG (2) Poem Text First Line: Blush, folly, blush: here's none that fears Last Line: And apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet. POETASTER: SONG (3) Poem Text First Line: Love is blind, and a wanton Last Line: Or she will undo him. POETASTER: SONG (4) Poem Text First Line: If I freely may discover Last Line: Neither her peevishness annoy me. Subject(s): Martial (40-104) POWER OF POETS First Line: How many equal with the argive queen PROLUDIUM Poem Text First Line: An elegy? No, muse, it asks a strain Last Line: And now an epode, to deep ears, we sing. RETURN OF ASTRAEA First Line: Look, look! Rejoice and wonder Last Line: And not what earth deserveth ROBIN GOODFELLOW SAD SHEPHERD, SELS. Subject(s): Country Life SEJANUS HIS FALL: THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE (AFTER CLAUDIAN) First Line: Old men not staid with age, virgins with shame Last Line: So lies he no where, and yet often buried Subject(s): Sejanus, Lucius Aelius (d. 31 A.d.) SEJANUS, HIS FALL Poem Text First Line: Hail, caius silius Last Line: Thus low and little, 'fore the even doth lie. Subject(s): Sejanus, Lucius Aelius (d. 31 A.d.) SEJANUS, HIS FALL, SELS. First Line: Men are redecieved, who think there can be thrall Last Line: The place, the power, to make all men offenders Subject(s): Sejanus, Lucius Aelius (d. 31 A.d.) SILENT WOMAN, SELS. Subject(s): Love STAPLE OF NEWS First Line: Who can endure to see Last Line: While it did boast it selfe it was then perishing STAY, VIEW THIS STONE: AND, IF THOU BEEST NOT SUCH STRAY THOUGHTS, SELS. SWELL ME A BOWL WITH LUSTY WINE THE DEDICATION OF HE KING'S NEW CELLAR. TO BACCHUS Poem Text First Line: Since, bacchus, thou art father Last Line: And charles brings home the lady. THE DREAM Poem Text First Line: Or scorn, or pity on me take Last Line: As since he dares not come within my sight. Subject(s): Sleep THE GHYRLOND OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARIE Poem Text First Line: Here, are five letters in this blessed name Last Line: As if they adored the head, whereon they're fixed. Variant Title(s): The Garland Of The Blessed Virgin Mary Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE GYPSIES METAMORPHOSED: GIPSY SONG (1) Poem Text First Line: The fairy beam upon you Last Line: And the luckier lot betide you. Variant Title(s): Patrico's Song;a Wish THE GYPSIES METAMORPHOSED: GIPSY SONG (2) Poem Text First Line: To the old, long life and treasure Last Line: To the jealous, his own false terrors. THE GYPSIES METAMORPHOSED: JACKMAN'S SONG (1) Poem Text First Line: From the famous peak of derby Last Line: We'd be loth to make a hurly. THE GYPSIES METAMORPHOSED: JACKMAN'S SONG (2) Poem Text First Line: Cocklorrel woulds needs have the devil his guest Last Line: From whence it was called the devil's arse. THE HADDINGTON MASQUE: EPITHALAMION Poem Text First Line: Up, youths and virgins, up, and praise Last Line: Shine, hesperus, shine forth, thou wished star! Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium THE HOUR-GLASS Poem Text First Line: Do but consider this small dust, here running in the glass Last Line: Even ashes of lovers find no rest. Variant Title(s): On A Lover's Dust, Made Sand For An Hour-glass Subject(s): Hourglasses; Love; Time THE HUMBLE PETITION OF POOR BEN TO .. KING CHARLES Poem Text First Line: Doth most humbly show it Last Line: You'ld read a snake, in his next song. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) THE LADY VENETIA DIGBY; HER RELATION TO THE SAINTS Poem Text First Line: Twere time that I died too, now she is dead Last Line: The vision of our saviour, face to face. . . . Subject(s): Digby, Lady Venetia THE MASQUE OF AUGURS: APOLLO'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Which way, and whence the lightning flew Last Line: In this night's art. THE MASQUE OF AUGURS: BALLAD Poem Text First Line: Though it may seem rude Last Line: And the beggars shall give ye room. THE MASQUE OF CHRISTMAS Poem Text First Line: Now god preserve, as you well do deserve Last Line: O, but log was too heavy to dance it. Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The THE MIND OF THE FRONTISPIECE TO A BOOK Poem Text First Line: From death and dark oblivion (near the same) Last Line: The light of truth, and life of memory. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Engraving & Engravers; Reading THE MUSICAL STRIFE; IN A PASTORAL DIALOGUE Poem Text First Line: Come, with our voices, let us war Last Line: May wish us of their choir. THE NATIVITY Poem Text First Line: I sing the birth was born tonight Last Line: Can man forget this story? Variant Title(s): A Hymn On The Nativity Of My Saviour;a Hymn For The The Nativity Of My Savior Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THE NEW CRY Poem Text First Line: Ere cherries ripe, and strawberries be gone Last Line: That know not so much state, wrong, as they do. THE NEW INN: A VISION OF BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: It was a beauty that I saw Last Line: All beauty! -- and without a spot. Variant Title(s): "perfect Beauty;""it Was A Beauty That I Saw"" (from The New Inn); Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty THE PHOENIX ANALYSED Poem Text First Line: Now, after all, let no man Last Line: But a bare type and figure. Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird) THE REVERSE ON THE BACK SIDE Poem Text First Line: These mysteries do point to three more great Last Line: Of being daughter, mother, spouse of god. THE SINNER'S SACRIFICE (TO THE HOLY TRINITY) Poem Text First Line: O holy, blessed, glorious trinity Last Line: Shall I there rest! THE TOUCHSTONE OF TRUTH Poem Text First Line: Truth is the trial of itself Last Line: Of the most worthy love. Variant Title(s): Truth;on Truth;to James Warre Subject(s): Truth TO A WEAK GAMESTER IN POETRY Poem Text First Line: With thy small stock, why are thou venturing still Last Line: There's no vexation, that can make thee prime. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO ALCHEMISTS Poem Text First Line: If all you boast of your great art be true Last Line: Sure, willing poverty lives most in you. Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists TO ALL TO WHOM I WRITE Poem Text First Line: May none whose scattered names honour my book Last Line: And, I a poet here, no herald am. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO ALPHONSO [ALFONSO] FERRABOSCO, ON HIS BOOK Poem Text First Line: To urge, my loved alphonso, that bold fame Last Line: Shed in thy songs; 'tis true: but short of thee. Subject(s): Ferrabosco, Alphonso (1575-1628); Music & Musicians TO BENJAMIN RUDYERD Poem Text First Line: Rudyerd, as lesser dames, to great ones use Last Line: That strives, his manners should precede his wit. Subject(s): Rudyerd, Sir Benjamin (1572-1658) TO BRAIN-HARDY Poem Text First Line: Hardy, thy brain is valiant, 'tis confest Last Line: He that dares damn himself, dares more than fight. TO CAPTAIN HUNGRY Poem Text First Line: Do what you come for, captain, with your news Last Line: Do what you come for, captain, there's your meat. Subject(s): Gainford, Captain Thomas TO CELIA Poem Text First Line: Kiss me, sweet; the wary lover Last Line: What their number is, be pined. Subject(s): Innocence; Love TO CLEMENT EDMONDS, ON HIS CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES OBSERVED (2) Poem Text First Line: Who edmonds, reads thy book and doth not see Last Line: They murder him again, that envy thee. Subject(s): Edmondes, Clement (1564-1622); History; Rome, Italy; Historians TO CLEMENT EDWARDS, ON HIS CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES OBSERVED (1) Poem Text First Line: Not caesar's deeds, nor all his honours won Last Line: His life, but makes, that he can die no more. Subject(s): Edmondes, Clement (1564-1622); History; Rome, Italy; Historians TO DOCTOR EMPIRIC Poem Text First Line: When men a dangerous disease did 'scape Last Line: From my disease's danger, and from thee. Variant Title(s): To Doctor Empirick Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors TO EDWARD ALLEN (ALLEYNE) Poem Text First Line: If rome so great, and in her wisest age Last Line: So many poets life, by one should live. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Alleyn, Edward (1566-1625); Actresses; Allen, Edward (1566-1625); Alleyne, Edward (1566-1625) TO ELIZABETH, COUNTESS OF RUTLAND Poem Text First Line: That poets are far rarer births than kings Last Line: As he would burn or better far his book. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sidney, Elizabeth. Countess Of Rutland; Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) TO ESME, LORD AUBIGNY Poem Text First Line: Is there a hope, that man would thankful be Last Line: To thank thy benefits: which is, to pay. Subject(s): Stuart, Esme, Lord Aubigny (1574-1624) TO FINE GRAND Poem Text First Line: What is't, fine grand, makes thee my friendship fly Last Line: For which, or pay me quickly, or I'll pay you. TO FINE LADY WOULD-BE Poem Text First Line: Fine madam would-be, wherefore should you fear Last Line: Of the not born, yet buried, here's the tomb. Subject(s): Duplicity; Infertility; Pregnancy; Deceit TO FRANCIS BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: How I do love thee, beaumont, and thy muse Last Line: For writing better, I must envy thee. Subject(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists TO HE LONDON READER, ON ODCOMBIAN WRITER, POLYTOPIAN THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Whoever he be, would write a story at Last Line: The height, let him learn of mr tom coriat. Subject(s): Coriat, Thomas (1577-1617); Coriate, Thomas TO HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: Good and great god! Can I not think of thee Last Line: For weariness of life, not love of thee. Subject(s): Bible; Heaven; Religion; Paradise; Theology TO HIS FRIEND THE AUTHOR UPON HIS RICHARD Poem Text First Line: When these, and such, their voices have employed Last Line: Thy richard, raised in song, past pulling down. Subject(s): Brooke, Christopher (1570-1628) TO HIS LADY, THEN MISTRESS CARY Poem Text First Line: Retired, with purpose your fair worth to praise Last Line: Cary my love is, daphne but my tree.' Subject(s): Cary, Anne; Uvedale, Sir William (d. 1652) TO HIS MUCH AND WORTHILY ESTEEMED FRIEND THE AUTHOR Poem Text First Line: Who takes thy volume to his virtuous hand Last Line: To understand, he may at length admire. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship TO INIGO, MARQUESS WOULD BE, A COROLLARY Poem Text First Line: But cause thou hear'st the mighty king of spain Last Line: We'll have thee styled the marquess of newditch. Subject(s): Jones, Inigo (1573-1652) TO JOHN DONNE (1) Poem Text First Line: Who shall doubt, donne, where I a poet be Last Line: A man should seek great glory, and not broad. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets TO JOHN DONNE (2) Poem Text First Line: Donne, the delight of phoebus and each muse Last Line: But leave, because I cannot as I should! Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets TO KING CHARLES AND QUEEN MARY FOR LOSS OF THEIR FIRST-BORN Poem Text First Line: Who dares deny, that all first fruits are due Last Line: Cannot but heap that grace, he will require. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO KING JAMES Poem Text First Line: How, best of kings, dost thou a sceptre bear! Last Line: Of kings for grace; of poets for my test? Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625) TO KING JAMES; UPON THE HAPPY FALSE RUMOUR OF HIS DEATH Poem Text First Line: That we the loss might know, and thou our love Last Line: Look not upon thy dangers, but our fears. Variant Title(s): To King James Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625) TO LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD Poem Text First Line: Madam, I told you late how I repented Last Line: Make it your gift. See whither that will bear me. Subject(s): Bedford, Lucy, Countess Of (1581-1627); Russell, Lucy, Countess Of Bedford TO LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD, WITH MR. DONNE'S SATIRES Poem Text First Line: Lucy, you brightness of our sphere, who are Last Line: The muses evening, as their morning-starre. Subject(s): Bedford, Lucy, Countess Of (1581-1627); Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets; Russell, Lucy, Countess Of Bedford TO MARY, LADY WROTH (1) Poem Text First Line: Madam, had all antiquity been lost Last Line: In yourself, all treasure lost of th' age before. Subject(s): Wroth, Mary Sidney (1586-1652) TO MARY, LADY WROTH (2) Poem Text First Line: How well, fair crown of your fair sex, might he Last Line: Becomes none more than you, who need it least. Subject(s): Wroth, Mary Sidney (1586-1652) TO MASTER JOHN BURGES Poem Text First Line: Father john burges Last Line: If the 'chequer be empty, so will be his head. Subject(s): Money TO MIME Poem Text First Line: That, not a pair of friends each other see Last Line: Men love thee not for this: they laugh at thee. Subject(s): Jones, Inigo (1573-1652) TO MISTRESS PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text First Line: I must believe some miracles still be Last Line: But, in your love, made all his servants wise. Subject(s): Blindness; Sidney, Mistress Philip (1594-1620); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586); Visually Handicapped TO MOST NOBLE, AND ABOVE HIS TITLES, ROBERT, EARL SOMERSET Poem Text First Line: They are not those, are present with their face Last Line: Sure, this glad pair were married, but this day. Subject(s): Carr, Robert. Earl Of Somerset; Rochester, Viscount (159-1645) TO MR BEN JONSON IN HIS JOURNEY, BY MR CRAVEN Poem Text First Line: When wit, and learning are so hardly set Last Line: Although the gait were hard, the gain is sweet. TO MR JOHN BURGES Poem Text First Line: Would god, my burges, I could think Last Line: But scarlet-like outlasts the cloth. TO MR JONSON UPON THESE VERSES Poem Text First Line: Your verses were commended, as 'tis true Last Line: Thy dirty brains, men smell thy want of worth. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism TO MR. JOSHUA SYLVESTER Poem Text First Line: If to admire were to commend, my praise Last Line: No more, those maiden glories she hath lost. Subject(s): Sylvester, Joshua (1563-1618); Translating & Interpreting TO MRS ALICE SUTCLIFFE, ON HER DIVINE MEDITATIONS Poem Text First Line: When I had read your holy meditations Last Line: Must celia be, the anagram of alice. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship TO MY BOOK Poem Text First Line: It will be looked for, book, when some but see Last Line: For vulgar praise, doth it too dearly buy. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO MY BOOKSELLER Poem Text First Line: Thou that mak'st gain thy end, and wisely well Last Line: Send it to bucklersbury, there 'twill, well. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO MY CHOSEN FRIEND, LEARNED TRANSLATOR OF LUCAN, THOMAS MAY Poem Text First Line: When, rome, I read thee in thy mighty pair Last Line: The sun translated, or the son of may. Subject(s): May, Thomas (1595-1650); Translating & Interpreting TO MY DEAR SON, RIGHT-LEARNED FRIEND, MASTER JOSEPH RUTTER Poem Text First Line: You look, my joseph, I should something say Last Line: Concluded from a carract to a dram. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship TO MY LORD IGNORANT Poem Text First Line: Thou call'st me poet, as a term of shame Last Line: But I have my revenge made, in thy name. TO MY LORD THE KING, ON THE CHRISTENING HIS SECOND SON JAMES Poem Text First Line: That thou art loved of god, this work is done Last Line: Oceano secura meo, securior umbris. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); James Ii, King Of England (1633-1701) TO MY MERE ENGLISH CENSURER Poem Text First Line: To thee my way in epigrams seems new Last Line: Thy faith is all the knowledge that thou hast. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism TO MY OLD FAITHFUL SERVANT, AND MY LOVING FRIEND RICHARD BROME Poem Text First Line: I had you for a servant, once, dick brome Last Line: He'll be a pilot, scarce can guide a plough. Subject(s): Brome, Richard (d. 1652) TO MY TRULY-BELOVED FRIEND, MR. BROWNE: ON HIS PASTORALS Poem Text First Line: Some men of books or friends not speaking right Last Line: With the 'how much' they set forth, but the 'how well'. Subject(s): Browne, William (1591-1645) TO MY WORTHY AND HONOURED FRIEND, MR. GEORGE CHAPMAN Poem Text First Line: Whose work could this be, chapman, to refine Last Line: And who make thither else, rob, or invade. Subject(s): Chapman, George (1559-1634); Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting TO MY WORTHY FRIEND, EDWARD FILMER, ON HIS WORK PUBLISHED Poem Text First Line: What charming peals are these Last Line: To make the language sweet upon her tongue. Subject(s): Filmer, Edward (d. 1669) TO PENSHURST Poem Text First Line: Thou art not, penshurst, built to envious show Last Line: May say their lords have built, but thy lord dwells. Subject(s): Animals; Buildings & Builders; Houses; Penshurst, England; Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) TO SICKNESS Poem Text First Line: Why, disease, dost thou molest Last Line: None but them, and leave the rest. Subject(s): Sickness; Small Pox; Illness TO SIR EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text First Line: If men get name, for some one virtue: then Last Line: And yet, they, altogether, less than thee. Subject(s): Herbert, Edward (1583-1648); Herbert Of Cherbury, 1st Baron TO SIR HENRY CARY Poem Text First Line: That neither fame nor love might wanting be Last Line: That virtuous is, when the reward's away. Subject(s): Cary, Sir Henry. 1st Viscount Falkland TO SIR HENRY GOODYERE Poem Text First Line: When I would know thee, goodyere, my thought looks Last Line: It was a knowledge, that begat that love. Variant Title(s): To The Same Subject(s): Books; Goodyer, Sir Henry (1571-1627); Reading; Goodyere, Sir Henry (1571-1627) TO SIR HENRY NEVIL Poem Text First Line: Who now calls on thee, nevil, is a muse Last Line: Whilst others toil for titles to their tombs. Subject(s): Neville, Sir Henry (1564-1615) TO SIR HENRY SAVILE [UPON HIS TRANSLATION OF TACITUS] Poem Text First Line: If, my religion safe, I durst embrace Last Line: That dares nor write things false, nor hide things true. Subject(s): Savile, Sir Henry (1549-1622); Translating & Interpreting TO SIR HORACE VERE Poem Text First Line: Which of thy names I take, not only bears Last Line: Who more should seek men's reverence, than fear. Subject(s): Vere, Sir Horace (1565-1635) TO SIR JOHN RADCLIFFE Poem Text First Line: How like a column, radcliffe, left alone Last Line: Wherewith, against thy blood, they offenders be. Subject(s): Radcliffe, Sir John (1580-1627) TO SIR RALPH SHELTON Poem Text First Line: Not he that flies the court for want of clothes Last Line: Makes the whole longer, than 'twas given him, much. TO SIR ROBERT WROTH Poem Text First Line: How blest art thou, canst love the country, wroth Last Line: Though mayst think life, a thing but lent. Subject(s): Life; Wroth, Sir Robert (1576-1614) TO SIR THOMAS OVERBURY Poem Text First Line: So phoebus makes me worthy of his bays Last Line: Who in such ambition can but follow thee. Subject(s): Overbury, Sir Thomas (1581-1613) TO SIR THOMAS ROE (1) Poem Text First Line: Thou hast begun well, roe, which stand well too Last Line: And ever is ill got without the first. Subject(s): Roe, Sir Thomas (1581-1644) TO SIR THOMAS ROE (2) Poem Text First Line: That thou hast kept thy love, increased thy will Last Line: Thy fact is more: let truth encourage thee. Subject(s): Roe, Sir Thomas (1581-1644) TO SIR WILLIAM JEPHSON Poem Text First Line: Jephson, thou man of men, to whose loved name Last Line: A desperate solecism in truth and wit. Subject(s): Jephson, Sir William (d. 1611) TO SIR WILLIAM UVEDALE Poem Text First Line: Uvedale, thou piece of the first times, a man Last Line: I could adore, almost the idolatry. Subject(s): Uvedale, Sir William (d. 1652) TO SUSAN, COUNTESS OF MONTGOMERY Poem Text First Line: Were they that named you, prophets? Did they see Last Line: If not, 'tis fit for you, some should envy. TO THE AUTHOR Poem Text First Line: In picture, they which truly understand Last Line: Being told there, reason cannot, sense may err. TO THE COUNTESS OF RUTLAND First Line: There, like a rich and golden pyramid TO THE GHOST OF MARTIAL Poem Text First Line: Martial, thou gav'st far nobler epigrams Last Line: Thou flattered'st thine, mine cannot flattered be. Subject(s): Martial (40-104) TO THE KING ON IS BIRTHDAY. AN EPIGRAM. NOVEMBER 19, 1632 Poem Text First Line: This is king charles his day. Speak it, thou tower Last Line: What prayers (people) can you think too much? Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) TO THE LEARNED CRITIC Poem Text First Line: May others fear, fly, and traduce thy name Last Line: Shall outlive garlands, stol'n from the chaste tree. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text First Line: To draw no envy, shakespeare, on thy name Last Line: And despairs day, but for thy volume's light! Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Reading; Dramatists TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE First Line: I, therefore, will begin. Soul of the age Last Line: And such wert thou TO THE MEMORY OF THAT MOST HONOURED LADY JANE, COUNTESS OF SHREWSBURY Poem Text First Line: I could begin with that grave form, 'here lies' Last Line: This second marriage, will eternal make. TO THE READER Poem Text First Line: Pray thee, take care, tak'st my book in hand Last Line: To read it well: that is, to understand. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO THE RIGHT HON. HIEROME, LORD WESTON; RETURN FROM HIS EMBASSY Poem Text First Line: Such pleasure as the teeming earth Last Line: And both a strength, and beauty to his land! TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, THE LORD HIGH TREASURER OF ENGLAND Poem Text First Line: My lord / poor wretched states, pressed by extremities Last Line: A bedrid wit, than a besieged town. Subject(s): Weston, Richard. 1st Earl Of Portland TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, THE LORD TREASURER OF ENGLAND Poem Text First Line: If to my mind, great lord, I had a state Last Line: Aloud; and (haply) it may last as long. TO THE RIGHT NOBLE TOM, TELL-TROTH OF HIS TRAVELS, CORIAT Poem Text First Line: Try and trust roger, was the word, but now Last Line: Ever his thighs male then, and his brains she. Subject(s): Coriat, Thomas (1577-1617); Coriate, Thomas TO THE SAME Poem Text First Line: When we do give, alphonso, to the light Last Line: For fame, with breath soon kindled, soon blown out. Subject(s): Ferrabosco, Alphonso (1575-1628); Music & Musicians TO THE SAME SIR COD Poem Text First Line: The expense in odours is a most vain sin Last Line: Except thou could'st, sir cod, wear them within. Subject(s): Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances TO THE SAME [BENJAMIN RUDYERD] (2) Poem Text First Line: If I would wish, for truth, and not for show Last Line: Who prov'st, all these were, and again may be. Subject(s): Rudyerd, Sir Benjamin (1572-1658) TO THE SAME [BENJAMIN RUDYERD] (3) Poem Text First Line: Writing thyself, or judging others' writ Last Line: Of the best writer, and judge, should emulate. Subject(s): Rudyerd, Sir Benjamin (1572-1658) TO THE WORLD Poem Text First Line: False world, goodnight: since thou hast brought / that hour upon my morn of age Last Line: Here in my bosom, and at home. Subject(s): Earth; World TO THE WORTHY AUTHOR MR JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text First Line: The wise, and many-headed bench, that sits Last Line: Or moths shall eat, what all these fools admire. Subject(s): Fletcher, John (1579-1625) TO THE WORTHY AUTHOR ON THE HUSBAND Poem Text First Line: It fits not only him that makes a book Last Line: She need not blush upon the marriage day. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship TO THOMAS PALMER ON HIS BOOK 'THE SPRITE OF TREES AND HERBS' Poem Text First Line: When late, grave palmer, these thy grafts and flowers Last Line: And thou in them shalt live as long as fame. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO TRUE SOLDIERS Poem Text First Line: Strength of my country, whilst I bring to view Last Line: But's angry for the captain, still: is such. Subject(s): Soldiers TO WILLIAM ROE Poem Text First Line: Roe (and my joy to name) thou art now, to go Last Line: Came back untouched. This man hath travelled well. Subject(s): Roe, William (b. 1585) TO WILLIAM STANLEY, ON HIS BIRTHDAY First Line: Give me my cup, but from the thespian well TO WILLIAM, EARL OF PEMBROKE Poem Text First Line: I do but name thee, pembroke, and I find Last Line: The commonwealth still safe, must study thee. Subject(s): Herbert, William, 3d Earl Of Pembroke TRUE BALM Poem Text First Line: High-spirited friend / I send nor balms nor corsives to your wound Last Line: Even in youth. Variant Title(s): An Ode;the Noble Balm Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery VERSES AT THE DEVIL TAVERN Poem Text First Line: Welcome all that lead or follow Last Line: To the oracle of apollo. Variant Title(s): Inscription Over The Door At The Entrance Into The Apollo;over The Door At The Entrance Into The Apollo Subject(s): London VISION OF BEN JONSON, ON MUSES OF HIS FRIEND M. DRAYTON Poem Text First Line: It hath been questioned, michael, if I be Last Line: If I can be a friend, and friend to thee. Subject(s): Drayton, Michael (1563-1631) VISION OF DELIGHT PRESENTED AT COURT IN CHRISTMAS, SELS. VOLPONE, SELS. First Line: If thou hast wisdom, hear me, celia Last Line: Out at our lips, and score up sums of pleasure VOLPONE: ACT 1, LINES 1-29 First Line: Volpone: good morning to the day; and, next, my gold Last Line: A greater good, than wisedome is in nature VOLPONE: ACT 3. THE PARASITE First Line: I fear, I shall begin to grow in love Last Line: Are the true parasites, others but their zanies VOLPONE: FOOLS Poem Text First Line: Fools, they are the only nation Last Line: He, he, he? Variant Title(s): Nano's Song VOLPONE: SONG Poem Text First Line: You that would last long, list to my song Last Line: Here's medicine, for the nones. VOLPONE: SONG Poem Text First Line: Had old hippocrates, or galen Last Line: Or paracelsus, with his long-sword. WHY I WRITE NOT OF LOVE Poem Text First Line: Some act of love's bound to rehearse Last Line: When love is fled, and I grow old. Subject(s): Love; Writing & Writers WITCHES' CHARM (1) First Line: Dame, dame! The watch is set Variant Title(s): The Witches' Sabbat Subject(s): Supernatural WITCHES' CHARM (2) First Line: The weather if fair, the wind is good WITCHES' CHARM (3) Poem Text First Line: The owl is abroad, the bat, and the toad Last Line: Let all be dumb. Variant Title(s): Witches' Chasm;charm Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches WITCHES' CHARMS First Line: Sisters, stay; we want our dame WITCHES' SONG First Line: I have been all day looking after WOMEN MEN'S SHADOWS Poem Text First Line: Follow a shadow, it still flies you Last Line: Styled but the shadows of us men! Variant Title(s): Song: That Women Are But Men's Shadows;the Shadow Subject(s): Courtship; Shadows; Women |
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