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The Poetical Works of William Basse

(1602-1653): Now for the first time collected and edited with introduction and notes by R. Warwick Bond
Basse, William
  
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SWORD AND BVCKLER:
  
To the Honest and Faithful Brotherhood of True-Hearts, all the old and young Seruing-men of England health and happines.
  
TO THE READER.
  
SWORD AND BVCKLER,
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THREE PASTORAL ELEGIES;
  
TO THE HONOURABLE AND VIRTUOUS LADY, THE LADY TASBURGH.
  
TO THE READER.
  
[A Shepheards youth dwelt on the plaines]
 I. 
ELEGIE I.
 II. 
ELEGIE II.
 III. 
ELEGIE III.
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GREAT BRITTAINES SUNNES-SET.
  
GREAT BRITTAINES SUNNES-SET.
  
A MORNING AFTER MOVRNING.
  
COMMENDATORY VERSES TO WILLIAM BROWNE'S “BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS.”
  
VERSES FROM THE “ANNALIA DUBRENSIA.”
  
ELEGY ON SHAKESPEARE
  
ELEGY ON SHAKESPEARE,
  
COMMENDATORY VERSES TO MASSINGER'S PLAY, “THE BONDMAN.”
  
THE ANGLERS SONG
  
THE HUNTERS SONG.
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TOM A BEDLAM.
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[[I.]]
 II. 
II.
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POLYHYMNIA
  
To the Right noble and vertuous Lady, the Lady Bridget, Countess of Lindsey, and Baroness of Eresbie and Ricot.
  
To the Right Hon. Francis Lord Norreys, Earl of Berkshire (In his dayes).
  
To the Right Hon. the Lady Viscountess Falkland, upon her going into Ireland, two Sonnets.
  
THE YOUTH IN THE BOAT.
  
FRAGMENTS
  
L'ENVOY.
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THE PASTORALS AND OTHER WORKES OF WILLIAM BASSE
  
TO MR. WILLIAM BASSE upon the now publishing of his Poems.
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CLIO
  
To the right honorable Sr Richard Wenman, Knt, Baron of Kilmainham, Lord Wis-Count Wenman of Tuham, my much honoured Lord & Master.
  
AN APOLOGIE TO CLIO & HER SISTERS.
  
TO THE READER
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MUNDAY
  
Laurinella (Eglogue I) of true and chast Loue
  
Pœmenarcha (Eglogue 2) of Gratitude
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TUESDAY
  
Euthymia (Eglogue 3) of Contentment
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WEDNESDAY
  
Epitaphium (Eglogue 4) worthy Memory
  
(Eglogue 5) of Temperance
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THURSDAY
  
Clemma (Eglogue 6) of Patience
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FRIDAY
  
(Eglogue 7) of Hospitalitie
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SATTURDAY
  
(Eglogue 8) of Constancy
  
(Eglogue 9) of Humility
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VRANIA THE WOMAN IN THE MOONE
  
To the Honorable, vertuous, and Renowned Lady The Lady Penelope Dynham.
  
To the High and Mighty Prince, Henry, Prince of Wales, &c.
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VRANIA THE WOMAN IN THE MOONE
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THE FIRST CANTO OR NEW MOONE.
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THE SECOND CANTO OR FIRST QUARTER.
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THE THIRD CANTO OR FULL MOONE.
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THE FOURTH CANTO OR LAST QUARTER.
  
THIS STORY MORALLIZED.
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THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE WALLNUT-TREE OF BORESTALL.
  
[prologue]
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CANTO I.
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CANTO II.
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CANTO III.

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ELEGY ON SHAKESPEARE,
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as given in Fennell's “Shakespeare Repository,” 1853, p. 10, from a MS. temp. Charles I.

Mr. Basse On Mr. William Shakespeare.

Renowned Spencer lie a thought more nigh
To learned Beaumont, and rare Beaumont ly
A little nearer Chaucer, to make rome
For Shakespeare in your threfold, fourfold tombe.
To lodge all fouer in one bed make a shifte
Vntil Domes day, for hardly will (a) fifte
Betwixt this day and that by fate bee slaine,
For whom the curtains shal bee drawne, againe.
But if Precedencie in death doe barre
A fourth place in your sacred Sepulcher,
In this uncarved marble of thy owne,
Sleepe, brave Tragedian, Shakespeare, sleepe alone;
Thy unmolested rest, unshared cave,
Possesse as lord, not tenant, to thy grave,
That unto others it may counted bee
Honour hereafter to bee layed by thee.
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