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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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A Dialogue betwixt Castadorus and Arabella in bed.

Arabella
Deare Castadorus let me rise
Aurora gins to leere me,
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Shee tells me I doe wantonize,

Castadorus.
I prethee sweete lye neere me.
Let red Aurora smile my deere
And Phœbus laughing follow,
Thou onely art Aurora here
Let me be thy Apollo.
It is to envie at our blisse
That they doe rise before us,
Is there such hurt in this, or this;

Arabella.
Nay fye, why Castadorus.

Castadorus.
What, Arabella can one night
Of loving dalliance tyre yee?
I could lye ever (if I might).
One houre let me desire yee.

Arabella.
Fy, fy, you hurt me, let me goe
If you so roughly use me,
What can I say, or thinke of you;
I prethee (Love) excuse me.

Castadorus.
Thy beauty and my love defend
I should ungently move thee,
Tis kisses (sweete) that I intend,
Is it not I that love thee?

Arabella.
I doe confesse it is, but then
Since you doe so importune,
That I should once lye downe agen,
Vouchsafe to draw the Curtaine
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Aurora and Apollo (too)
May visit silent fields,
By my consent they nere shall know
The blisse our pleasure yeelds.

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