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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(including hitherto unpublished Mss.)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)

I. Yet other Twelve Wonders of the World.

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III.

IV.

VI.

VI. On the Death of Lord Chancellor Ellesemere's Second Wife in 1599.

VII.

VII Tityrus to his Faire Phillis.

VIII.

VIII. A Riddle vpon a Coffin.

Epigrams, with Additions.

Appendix to Epigrams:

Hitherto Unpublished Poems.

Miscellaneous Poems.

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II. TO THE PRINCE.

Sir, whatsoeuer you are pleas'd to doo
It is your special praise that you are bent,
And sadly set your princely mind thereto:
Which makes you in each thing so excellent.

Hence is it that you came so soon to bee
A man-at-armes in euery point aright;
The fairest flowre of noble chiualrie;
And of Saint George, his band, the brauest knight.

And hence it is, that all your youthfull traine
In actiueness and grace, you doe excell,
When you doe courtly dauncings entertaine
Then Dauncing's praise may be presented well

To yov, whose action adds mere praise thereto,
Then all the Muses with their penns can doo.