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The Complete Works of George Gascoigne

In Two Volumes
Gascoigne, George (1542?-1577)

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VOLUME I
  
[dedication]
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COMMENDATORY VERSES
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FLOWERS.
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HEARBES.
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WEEDES.
  
The fruite of Fetters: with the complaint of the greene Knight, and his Farewell to Fansie.
  
The complaint of the greene Knight.
  
The continuance of the Author, upon the fruite of Fetters.
  
The greene Knights farewell to Fansie.
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The pleasant Fable of Ferdinando Jeron[i]mi and Leonora de Valasco, translated out of the Italian riding tales of Bartello.
  
[Faire Bersabe the bright once bathing in a Well]
  
[Of thee deare Dame, three lessons would I learne]
  
[Love, hope, and death, do stirre in me such strife]
  
[In prime of lustie yeares, when Cupid caught mee in]
  
[A cloud of care hath covred all my coste]
  
[Dame Cinthia her selfe (that shines so bright]
  
[That selfe same day, and of that day that hower]
  
[Beautie shut up thy shop, and trusse up all thy trash]
  
[The stately Dames of Rome, their Pearles did weare]
  
[What state to man, so sweete and pleasaunt weare]
  
[I could not though I would: good Ladie saie not so]
  
[With hir in armes that had my hart in holde]
  
[And if I did what then?]
  
In praise of a gentlewoman who though she were not verye fayre, yet was she as harde favoured as might be.
  
Allegoria.
  
The praise of Phillip Sparrowe.
  
[Thy byrth, thy beautie, nor thy brave attyre]
  
The doale of disdaine written by a lover disdainfully rejected contrary to former promise.
  
Mars in despite of Vulcane written for an absent lover (parted from his Lady by Sea.)
  
Patience perforce, wherein an absent lover doth thus encourage his Lady to continew constant.
  
A letter devised for a yong lover.
  
Davids salutacions to Berzabe wherein are three sonets in sequence, written uppon this occation.
  
Soone acquainted, soone forgotten, As appeareth here by an uncourteous farewell to an inconstant Dame.
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[VOLUME II]

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[Faire Bersabe the bright once bathing in a Well]

Faire Bersabe the bright once bathing in a Well,
With dewe bedimmd King Davids eies that ruled Israell.
And Salomon him selfe, the source of sapience,
Against the force of such assaultes could make but small defence:
To it the stoutest yeeld, and strongest feele like wo,
Bold Hercules and Sampson both, did prove it to be so.
What wonder seemeth then? when starres stand thicke in skies,
If such a blasing starre have power to dim my dazled eyes?

Lenvoie.

To you these fewe suffise, your wittes be quicke and good,
You can conject by chaunge of hew, what humors feede my blood.
F. J.
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