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Celestiall Elegies of the Goddesses and the Muses, deploring the death of the right honourable and vertuous Ladie the Ladie Fravnces Countesse of Hertford

late wife vnto the right honorable Edvvard Seymor Vicount Beauchamp and Earle of Hertford. Wherevnto are annexed some funerall verses touching the death of Mathevv Evvens Esquire, late one of the Barons of her Maiesties Court of Eschequer, vnto whome the author hereof was allyed ... By Thomas Rogers
Rogers, Thomas (1573 or 4-1609 or 10)
  
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Celestiall Eligies for the late death of the right Honourable the Ladie Fraunces. Countesse of Hertforde.
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QVATORZAIN. 1 Berecynthia.
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QVATORZAIN. 2. Iuno.
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QVATORZAIN. 3. Pallas.
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QVATORZAIN. 4 Diana.
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QVATORZAIN. 5. Venus.
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QVATORZAIN. 6. Thetis.
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QVATORZAIN. 7 Ceres.
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QVATORZAIN. 8. Fortuna.
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QVATORZAIN. 9. Nemesis.
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QVATORZAIN. 10. Bellona.
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QVATORZAIN. 11 Flora.
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QVATORZAIN. 12. Proserpina.
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QVATORZAIN. 13. Aurora.
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QVATORZAIN. 14. Nox.
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QVATORZAIN. 15 Gratiæ.
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QVATORZAIN. 17. Horaæ.
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QVATORZAIN. 18. Pandora.
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QVATORZAIN. 18. Pales Dea pastorum.
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QVATORZAIN. 19. Feronia.
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QVATORZAIN. 15. Libitina.
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Celestiall Elegies of the Muses.
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QVATORZIAN. 1 Clio.
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QVATORZIAN. 2 Melpomene.
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QVATORZAIN. 3 Thalia.
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QVATORZAIN. 4 Euterpe.
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QVATORZAIN. 5 Terpsichore.
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QVATORZAIN. 6. Erato.
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QVATORZAIN. 7 Calliope.
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QVATORZAIN. 8. Vrania.
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QVATORZAIN. 9. Polyhymnia.
  
The Authors Conclusion.
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Deuine sonnets dedicated to the said Lady not long before her decease by the said Author.
  
Of Gods holy name, Iehouah, or Tetragrammaton.
  
Of the Starre which the Magi did worship at Christes Natiuitie, and of his death.
  
[Fountaine of grace from whom doth only runne]
  
[Antient of daies, and yet still young in yeares]
  
Of the instabilitie of Fortune and worldlie prosperitie.
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FVNERALL LAMENTACIONS VPON THE DEATH OF his most worthy and reuerend vnckle Maister Mathew Ewens Esquire one of her Maiesties Barons of her Highnes Court of Eschequer.
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[Let Numas death be still deplorde in Rome]
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QVATORZAIN. 11 Flora.

Flora called also Chloris the wife of Zephirus is deemed the goddesse of Flowres:

Crowned with wreathes of Odoriferous flowrs,
Whose sent perfumes the Empire of the Ayre,
Among the rest of the immortall powers,
Vnto the land of Albion I repaire.
Where I with garlands will her Toombe adorne,
And make death proud with ceremonious rites,
That for this Ladies sake I doe not scorne,
To decke her Graue, with th' earths faire flowers delights;
For sith the world was sweetned by her breath,
That breath'd rare vertues forth, as then aliue,
Ile beautifie her Sepulcher, since death
Of her sweete sowle her body did depriue,
For this braue dame was a sweet springing flower,
Bedewde with heauenly grace till her last howre.
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