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The Works in Verse and Prose

(including hitherto unpublished Mss.) of Sir John Davies: for the first time collected and edited: With memorial-introductions and notes: By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. In three volumes
Davies, John (1569-1626)

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VOL. I: VERSE.
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Nosce Teipsum.
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Orchestra.
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Hymnes of Astrœa.
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Minor Poems.
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I. Yet other Twelve Wonders of the World.
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II. A Contention
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III. A Lottery.
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IV. Canzonet.
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V. Reason's Moane.
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VI. On the Death of Lord Chancellor Ellesemere's Second Wife in 1599.
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VII Tityrus to his Faire Phillis.
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VIII. A Riddle vpon a Coffin.
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Epigrams, with Additions.
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Appendix to Epigrams:
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Hitherto Unpublished Poems.
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Miscellaneous Poems.

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I. TO HIS VERY FRIEND, MA. RICH. MARTIN.

To whom shall I this dauncing Poem send,
This suddaine, rash, half-capreol of my wit?
To you, first mouer and sole cause of it,
Mine-owne-selues better halfe, my deerest frend.
O, would you yet my Muse some Honny lend
From vour melllifluous tongue, whereon doth sit
Suada in Maiestie, that I may fit
These harsh beginnings with a sweeter end.
You know the modest Sunne full fifteene times
Blushing did rise, and blushing did descend,
While I in making of these ill made rimes,
My golden howers unthriftily did spend:
Yet, if in friendship you these numbers prayse,
I will mispend another fifteene dayes.
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