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The poems of George Daniel

... From the original mss. in the British Museum: Hitherto unprinted. Edited, with introduction, notes, and illustrations, portrait, &c. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart: In four volumes
Daniel, George (1616-1657)

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VOL. I.
  
Portraits of the Author and his Brother.
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POEMS Written upon Severall Occasions.
  
Coat of Arms and Portrait.
  
An Addresse By the Author:
  
To his honoured friend ye authour vpon his Poems.
  
Vpon a Reviewe of Virgil, translated by Mr. Ogilby.
  
A Vindication of Poesie.
  
To Time and Honour.
  
A Pastorall Ode; The Eglogue is Lost.
  
The Spring.
  
The Difference.
  
Parted, per pale.
  
Woman Charactred.
  
Silvia revolted.
  
Scorne returned.
  
Supplanted.
  
To Nicotiana. A Rapture.
  
The farewell.
  
An Epode.
  
To the Memorie of the most worthy and excellently vertuous Ladie The Ladie Alford.
  
To: D: i
  
To the Memorie of the Best Dramaticke English Poet
  
Vpon Ben Ionson's Booke.
  
To my Muse.
  
Wounded.
  
The Dedication of a Poem, now lost; written in the Royall Expedition against the Scotts.
  
This was placed in the End of the Same Poeme.
  
One desiring me to read, but slept it out; Wakening.
  
One boasting himselfe Iudge of pure Witt.
  
Reversed
  
Ænigma.
  
Fame.
  
Agonie.
  
An Essay;
  
Prevention!
  
The many Scurrile Pamphlets (going vnder the name of Poems,) frequently printed; occasion'd this.
  
Vpon a late printed Booke Entituled:
  
A Strange Maye.
  
When the Cloud of Calamitie, had somewhile overspread vs, and the whole Kingdome plunged in warre
  
After a storme, going a hawking.
  
Freedome.
  
Vanitie.
  
Proportion.
  
The Userper.
  
The Magazine.
  
A Pause.
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Love Platonicke
  
[epigraph]
  
To Cinthia; coying it.
  
To Cinthia Converted.
  
Cinthia confirmed.
  
To the Platonicke pretender.
  
Pure Platonicke.
  
Court-Platonicke.
  
Anti-Platonicke.
  
To the Sweet feminine Platonicks.
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Vervicensis:
  
Vervicensis.
  
To the Memorie of the great Earle of Warwicke
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“The Genius of this Great and glorious Ile.”
  
[subsection]
  
“The Genius of this Great and glorious Ile.”
  
To the Reader of Doctor Brown's booke Entituled Pseudodoxia Epidemica.
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Some Poemes; Written vpon Severall occasions, By the Same Author.
  
To the Tombe of Thomas Earl of Strafford.
  
An Elegie To the Memorie of the trulie Noble and my worthie Freind, Sr William Alforde Knt:
  
To honour the Memorie of Loyaltie & Courage eminentlie glorious in: Sir T: M
  
To the honour of Sr: M: L: Commrd: in Ch': at the Releife of P'.
  
Vpon an excellent Treatise Written by T: B: D: M: called Religio Medici
  
To my honored Cozen P: Cr: Esqr. an Affectionate Invitation
  
To the Memorie of the Excellent Dramatique English Poets; Mr. Fra: Beaumont & Mr. Io: Fletcher;
  
Sent to my dearest Brother Sexto Septembr, 1648: by Rt: Ta
  
An Ode Vpon the incomparable Liricke Poesie Written by Mr. George Herbert;
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VOL. II.
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Scattered Fancies;
  
Carmen Protrepticon; Lectori
 I. 
ODE I
 II. 
ODE II
 III. 
ODE III.
 IV. 
ODE IV.
 V. 
ODE V.
 VI. 
ODE VI.
 VII. 
ODE VII.
 VIII. 
ODE VIII.
 IX. 
ODE IX.
 X. 
ODE X.
 XI. 
ODE XI.
 XII. 
ODE XII.
 XIII. 
ODE XIII.
 XIV. 
ODE XIV.
 XV. 
ODE XV.
 XVI. 
ODE XVI.
 XVII. 
ODE XVII.
 XVIII. 
ODE XVIII.
 XIX. 
ODE XIX.
 XX. 
ODE XX.
 XXI. 
ODE XXI.
 XXII. 
ODE XXII.
 XXIII. 
ODE XXIII.
 XXIV. 
ODE XXIV.
 XXV. 
ODE XXV.
 XXVI. 
ODE XXVI.
 XXVII. 
ODE XXVII.
 XXVIII. 
ODE XXVIII.
 XXIX. 
ODE XXIX.
 XXX. 
ODE XXX.
 XXXI. 
ODE XXXI.
 XXXII. 
ODE XXXII.
 XXXIII. 
ODE XXXIII.
 XXXIV. 
ODE XXXIV.
 XXXV. 
ODE XXXV.
 XXXVI. 
ODE XXXVI.
 XXXVII. 
ODE XXXVII.
 XXXVIII. 
ODE XXXVIII.
 XXXIX. 
ODE XXXIX.
 XL. 
ODE XL.
 XLI. 
ODE XLI.
 XLII. 
ODE XLII.
 XLIII. 
ODE XLIII.
 XLIV. 
ODE XLIV.
 XLV. 
ODE XLV.
 XLVI. 
ODE XLVI.
 XLVII. 
ODE XLVII.
 XLVIII. 
ODE XLVIII.
 XLIX. 
ODE XLIX.
 L. 
ODE L.
 LI. 
ODE LI.
 LII. 
ODE LII.
 LIII. 
ODE LIII.
 LIV. 
ODE LIV.
 LV. 
ODE LV.
 LVI. 
ODE LVI.
 LVII. 
ODE LVII.
 LVIII. 
ODE LVIII.
 LIX. 
ODE LIX.
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FURTHER POEMS.
  
To Mr. Ogilby:
  
The Author;
  
[Portrait of the Author.]
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ΙΙΟΛΥΛΟΓΙΑ;
  
An Ecloge Spoken by Amintas and Strephon.
  
An Ecloge: Spoken by Mælibeus and Dorilus.
  
An Ecloge: Spoken by Halon and Eudœmon
  
An Ecloge: Spoken by Damon and Amintas.
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An Ecloge: Spoken by Hilas and Strephon.
  
THE SONGE.
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Eclesiasticus:
  
The Induction to the worke.
 I. 
Cap. i.
 II. 
Chap. ii.
 III. 
Chap. iii.
 IV. 
Chap. iv.
 V. 
Chap. v.
 VI. 
Chap. vi.
 VII. 
Chap. vii.
 VIII. 
Chap. viii.
 IX. 
Chap. ix.
 X. 
Chap. x.
 XI. 
Chap. xi.
 XII. 
Chap. xii.
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VOL. III. VOL. IV.
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Eclesiasticus.
 XIII. 
Chap. xiii.
 XIV. 
Chap. xiv.
 XV. 
Chap. xv.
 XVI. 
Chap. xvi.
 XVII. 
Chap. xvii.
 XVIII. 
Chap. xviii.
 XIX. 
Chap. xix.
 XX. 
Chap. xx.
 XXI. 
Chap. xxi.
 XXII. 
Chap. xxii.
 XXIII. 
Chap. xxiii.
 XXIV. 
Chap. xxiv.
 XXV. 
Chap. xxv.
 XXVI. 
Chap. xxvi.
 XXVII. 
Chap. xxvii.
 XXVIII. 
Chap. xxviii.
 XXIX. 
Chap. xxix.
 XXX. 
Chap. xxx.
 XXXI. 
Chap. xxxi.
 XXXII. 
Chap. xxxii.
 XXXIII. 
Chap. xxxiii.
 XXXIV. 
Chap. xxxiv.
 XXXV. 
Chap. xxxv.
 XXXVI. 
Chap. xxxvi.
 XXXVII. 
Chap. xxxvii.
 XXXVIII. 
Chap. xxxviii.
 XXXIX. 
Chap. xxxix.
 XL. 
Chap. xl.
 XLI. 
Chap. xli.
 XLII. 
Chap. xlii.
 XLIII. 
Chap. xliii.
 XLIV. 
Chap. xliv.
 XLV. 
Chap. xlv.
 XLVI. 
Chap. xlvi.
 XLVII. 
Chap. xlvii.
 XLVIII. 
Cap. xlviii.
 XLIX. 
Chap. xlix.
 L. 
Chap. l.
 LI. 
Chap. li.
  
[epilogue]
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TRINARCHODIA
  
The Author vpon his Picture before these Poems.
  
Vpon the Frontispice.
  
Vpon the Picture of Richard the Second.
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The severall Raignes of Richard the Second Henrie the Fourth, & Henrie the Fifth
  
The Dedication.
  
To the Reader
  
The Generall Argument of this followinge TRINARCHODIA.
  
The Raigne of Richard the second.
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The Raigne of Henry the Fourth.
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The Raigne of Henrie the Fifth.
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[subsection]
  
Crastini Animarum.
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Idyllia.
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Idyllia: The Distemper.
  
The Illustration.
 1. 
Idyll I.
 2. 
Idyll 2.
 3. 
Idyll iii.
 4. 
Idyll 4.
 5. 
Idyll 5.
  
L' Envoy.
  
The Designe.
  
The Colouringe.
  
The Shadow
  
Proportion.
  
The Landskip.
  
The Ceremonie.
  
Vpon the Reading: a Booke, called the Life of Periskirus.
  
Vpon the Excellent Poems of Mr. George Herbert.
  
An Occasionall reflection
  
[Man yet a Stranger from ye Africke Side]

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XII. Chap. xii.

In Almes respect to whom, that a reward
May waite thy Charity. Be still prepar'd
To Succour the Iust Man; this shall accrue
To treble recompence, & find it's due;
Though not perhaps from him, it shall be giv'n,
(Heaven being engaged) by the hand of Heav'n.
What can of good come to the Waiward Man,
Practis'd in Mischeife? or what evill can
Be absent in Oppression? Let thy hand
Be stretcht to assist vertue; but withstand
The vrgencyes of Sinners. Help the Meeke;
And let the impious want of what they seeke.
Draw back thy willing hand, fraught wth an Almes,
Withold thy Charitie; (lost in the Calmes
Of Secure Innocence, thou safely rideing;
The gust of Sin, may Stir a Surly tiding,
In Seas pacificke) he will lye in waite,
For thy destruction; Quiet thy love with hate.
Give to the Good (such Almes are never vaine)
But let the Wicked aske, & not obtaine.
In the bright day of Plenty, every Man
Will be a freind; 'tis difficult to Scan
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Who truly are soe; but in the darke Cloud,
Of Adverse ffortunes' when as wants doe shrow'd
Men in the Mists of Povertie, 'twill be
Apparent Who's a freind, who Enimie.
For when a Man in Plenty is, then those
Maligne & grudge his fortune who are foes;
And in the Day, the black & Dismall Day,
Of Want and Miserie, hardly freinds will stay.
Be circumspect & Cautele to thy foe;
For like as Iron rusteth, Ev'n soe
His Soule is tainted, though he carry faire
In all deportments; yet (My Son) beware;
Be not too free to him, least he supplant
Thy Iust designes; let not him, Arrogant,
Sit on thy Right Hand, as pre-eminence;
And he, soe bladder'd, doe not spare offence,
To thy preiudice, & vsurpe what's thine;
And thou (too late) recall these words of mine,
Into thy Memory; & thy vext Soule
Find torture in thy rashnes. For what foole
Soe tender pitties, if the Charmer be
Stung by a Serpent? or the temer'tie
Of Such as, willing, will assault the Wild
Of furious Bruits, Although he should be kill'd?
Ev'n such a one is he, who doth attend
The Sinner in his waies; & shall he find
A Pittie more? Sinners south thee in Sin,
But they fall off, if ever thou begin
To shrinke the least. As Honey, or more sweet
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And melting, Are the words of ffraud & Spight,
But inwardly as Gall: his Eyes shall be
Stor'd wth false tears, in remorse of thee;
But if he find (what cannot Malice find!)
His opportunity to goe beyond
Thy honest reach, ought to thy preiudice;
Then, then, he falls, & blood will not Suffice.
Happ'ly in adverse fortunes, he will be
Pretending help, but plotting treacherie;
Then, in derision, will he shake his head,
And Clap his hands, Applauding what he did;
Whisper to thy dishonour, & his face
fforméd to revile thee, in thy owne disgrace.
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