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Du Bartas

His Divine Weekes And Workes with A Compleate Collectio[n] of all the other most delight-full Workes: Translated and written by yt famous Philomusus: Iosvah Sylvester
Sylvester, Josuah (1563-1618)

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Anagammata Regia: Regi.
Iacobvs Stvart: Iusta Scrutabo.
  
CORONA DEDICATORIA.
  
[These laureat Temples which the Laurel grace]
  
HIS LIFE, &c.
  
Lectoribus
  
INDIGNIS.
  
OPTIMIS.
  
EPIGRAM. To M. Iosuah Sylvester.
  
In praise of the Translator.
  
To M. Iosvah Sylvester, of his Bartas Metaphrased.
  
To my good friend, M. Sylvester, in honour of this sacred Work.
  
To M. Iosvah Sylvester. A SONNET.
  
Flexanimo Salustij du Bartus interpreti, Ios. Sylvesteri, carmen Encomiasticon.
  
In Commendation of du Bartas, and his Translator, M. Iosvah Sylvester. A Sonnet.
  
In Commendation of this worthie Worke.
  
An Acrostick Sonnet, to his friend M. Iosva Sylvester.
  
To the Same.
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Du BARTAS His FIRST WEEK, OR BIRTH OF THE WORLD:
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Du BARTAS HIS SECOND WEEKE, DISPOSED (After the proportion of his First) Into Seaven Dayes: (viz.)
  
TO MY EVER-MOST HONOVRED MISTRESS, Mris Essex, wife to the right worthy, William Essex of Lamborn, Esquier; and eldest Daughter of the right valiant, and Nobly-descended, Sir Walter Harecourt of Stanton-Hare-court, Knight Baron of Ellen-Hall.
  
TO VERTVES PATTERNE, AND BEAVTIES Paragon, Mris Ione Essex: now wife to the right worthy, William Anderson Esquier (second Son of the late Lord Anderson) and only Sister of the Honorably-descended William Essex of Lamborn, Esquire.
  
VRANIA. OR The Heauenly Muse.
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THE TRIVMPH OF FAITH
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TETRASTICHA. OR THE QVADRAINS OF GVY DE FAVR, Lord of Pibrac.
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SONNETS Vpon THE LATE MIRACVLOVS PEACE IN FRANCE.
  
A DIALOGVE VPON THE TROVBLES PAST:
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AN ODE OF THE LOVE AND BEAVTIES OF ASTRÆA.
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EPIGRAMS & EPITAPHES vpon Warre and Peace.
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THE PROFIT OF IMPRISONMENT.
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LITTLE BARTAS:
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Micro-cosmo-graphia: THE LITTLE-WORLDES DESCRIPTION; OR THE MAP OF MAN
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CERTAIN EPIGRAMS of the same Mr. H. S.
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THE MAIDENS BLVSH:
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THE PARLIAMENT OF VERTVES ROYALL:
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A DIVINE & TRVE TRAGI-COMEDY; IOB TRIVMPHANT in his Triall:
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BETHVLIANS RESCVE.
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A HYMN OF ALMS: OR THE BEGGERS BELL; heard, from beyond THE CHARTER-HOVSE,
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MEMORIALS OF MORTALITIE.
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MEMORIALS OF MORTALITIE.
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St. LEWIS; THE KING:
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HENRIE THE GREAT (The Fourth of that Name) LATE King of France and Navarr: HIS Tropheis and Tragedie. Written in French By Piere Mathiev.
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THE BATTAIL OF YVRY:
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SIMILE NON EST IDEM: Seeming is not the Same.
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A GLIMSE OF HEAVENLY IOYES:
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AVTO-MACHIA: OR The Self-Conflict of a Christian.
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TOBACCO BATTERED;
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LACRYMÆ LACRYMARVM:
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AN ELEGIAC-EPISTLE Consolatorie.
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HONOR'S FARVVEL To Her Honorable Friends: Or The Ladie Hay's Last Will
  
A FVNERAL ELEGIE
  
To Gods Glory. IN PIOVS MEMORY OF the nobly vertuous and religious Matrone, Margarite, Wife of Robert Hill, Dr. of Divinity, and Pastor of this Parish.
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Vxor Felix. Loquitur post funera virtus.
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A Brief Catechism.
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SPECTACLES
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1 Sol, Annus, Stellæ.
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2 Orbis Cœli & Terræ.
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3 Quatuor Elementa.
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4 Mare.
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5 Fontes et Flumina.
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6 Dies.
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7 Nox.
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8 Ver.
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9 Æstas.
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10 Autumnus.
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11 Hyems.
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12 Quinque Sensus.
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13 Vita & Mors.
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14 Eccho.
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15 Incarceratus & Mendicus.
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16 Fumus & Aura, convivium.
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17 Cupido & Timor, constitutum.
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18 Ambitio, Luxus, Avaritia.
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19 Avis & Navis.
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20 Fratres in Malo.
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21 Væ vobis.
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22 Punctus non dividendus.
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23 Onus cuique suum.
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24 Dulce venenum, vel sibi lædens.
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25 Aquæ, Sagittæ, Venti.
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27 Mundus qualis.
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28 Aura, Flos, Vnda.
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29 Quam malë conveniunt!
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30 Emblema.
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31 Glacies.
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32 Rome (Conquerer) conquered.
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33 Arbor.
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34 Hortus.
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35 Avaritia, Invidia.
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36 Scientia & Ignorantia.
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37 Bona cur Mala.
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38 Quatuor Monarchiæ.
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39 Glacies.
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40 Diruit Edificans.
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41 Bellum cum vitijs.
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42 Naufragium.
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43 Mors in Olla.
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44 Somnium.
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45 Quasi non vtens.
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46 Monstrum horrendum.
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47 Sordescit & Surdescit.
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48 Sufficit Vnum.
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49 Variabile.
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MOTTOES.
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THE WOOD-MANS BEAR.
  
EPITHALAMION.
  
A HOLY PREPARATION to a ioifull Resurrection.
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THE MYSTERIE OF MYSTERIES.

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Flexanimo Salustij du Bartus interpreti, Ios. Sylvesteri, carmen Encomiasticon.

Oft haue I seen sweet fancie-pleasing faces
Consort themselves with swart mishapen features,
To grace the more their soule-subduing graces,
By the defect of such deformed creatures;
As Painters garnish with their shadowes sable
The brighter colours in a curious Table:
So, English Bartas, though thy beauties, heer
Excell so farre the glory of the rest,
That France and England both must hold thee deer;
Sith both their glories thou hast heer exprest
(Shewing the French tongues plenty to be such.
And yet that ours can vtter full as much)
Let not thy fairest Heav'n-aspiring Muse
Disdaine these humble notes of my affection:
My faulty lines let faithfull love excuse,
Sith my defects shall adde to thy perfection:
For, these rude rimes, thus ragged, base, and poore,
Shall (by their want) exalt thy worth the more.
E. G.
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