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Love's Dialect

or; Poeticall Varieties; Digested Into a Miscelanie of various fancies. Composed by Tho. Iordan
Jordan, Thomas (1612?-1685?)
 
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To Mr. Thomas Jordan on his Fancies.
 
To his Friend the Author Mr. Thomas Jordan, on his Varieties.
 
On my Friend and adopted sonne Mr. Thomas Jordan the Infant-Poet of our Age.
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POETICALL VARIETIES.
 
A Gentleman in love with twenty Mistresses.
 
A Gentleman's deploration for his Mistresse, falling from Vertue.
 
To his Mistrisse Philonella, being at her Looking-glasse.
 
To Clora a farewell, once his coy Mistresse.
 
To Leda his coy Bride, on the Bridall Night.
 
A Paradox on his Mistresse, who is cole Blacke, Blinde, Wrinckled, Crooked and Dumbe.
 
A Dialogue betwixt Castadorus and Arabella in bed.
 
To his faithlesse Mistresse Vxoria.
 
To her perjur'd Love Maritus, her dishonorer.
 
A vow to his inestimable Mistresse.
 
A Dialogue betweene Icarus and surprized Phillida.
 
Loves progresse.
 
To his most excellent Mistresse, Avis Booth.
 
Achrostick to his Mistresse.
 
A Gentleman desirous to have his Lady's Picture drawne, describes her thus.
 
Chaste Love sitting under a Grove of yong Bay-trees, is thus solicited by Lust.
 
What a Whore is.
 
An abused Man: Quasi, a Cuccold.
 
Lust loseth all.
 
A Dialogue betwixt Adversus and his Mistresse the Lady Contra.
 
Rara Avis in terr is nigroque Similima Cigno.
 
To his Mistris Elizabeth Brooke.
 
A Dialogue betwixt Fidelius and his Silent Mistris Flora.
 
A Ladies Complaint for the losse of her Love Theodorus.
 
A Morall Eclogue presented by Vertue, Wealth, and Beauty.
 
The complaint of an old Lady for the losse of her beauty.
 
A Gentleman deploring his former follies.
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ELEGIACK POEMS.
 
An Elegie on his Inestimable friend, Mr. Richard Gunnell, Gent.
 
An Epitaph on his kind friend, Mr. Iohn Honiman, Gent.
 
An Elegie on Mr. Iohn Raven, Gent.
 
An Elegie on his beloved friend Mr. Charles Rider, Student in the Art of Limning, or Picture-drawing.
 
An Elegie on the death of a Male-child drown'd in Ice.
 
An Elegie and Epitaph on his Mistresse Fidelia.
 
The Epitaph.
 
An Epicedium on his Mistresse Arbella.

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To his Mistrisse Philonella, being at her Looking-glasse.

My sweetest Philonella, turne away
From that Angelick figure, lest you pay
An adoration to your shade; your eye
May win an Hermit to Idolatrie.
Admit your soule be better guarded, know
I have still cause for doubt, lest some rash vow
(Made in an amrous extasie) should tye
Your selfe to your faire shade eternally,
Which heaven defend, when you bring this to passe.
Be kind you powers, translate me to her glasse,
That when the currall creatures come to give
Their daily tribute to me, I may live
The glory of a lover, and enjoy
More kisses then Adonis (Mirrhas boy)
Oh but some danger will pursue this blisse
Love is a feeding Feaver, and each kisse
Creats another appetite, Alas

I shall become your beauties burning glasse.
Sad lovers will relate, (should you expire)
Narcissus dyed by water, you by fire,
Both for one Amorous folly; yet (as he
Is now a Flower) could you a Phœnix be,
And I the sweete Arabian tree, so blest
With the rich treasure of your spicie nest;
Most willingly I should desire the blisse,
Of so divine a Metamorphosis.
Apollo sure would leave his Daphnean tree,
(With Lyrick Ayres) to keepe us company.
But these are fancies, leave your glasse, I vow,
You are to me a better Phœnix now.
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