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The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden

With "A Cypresse Grove": Edited by L. E. Kastner
Drummond, William (1585-1649)

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Volume the First
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Volume the Second
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FLOWRES OF SION:
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A CYPRESSE GROVE:
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The Entertainment of King Charles.
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TO THE EXEQUIES OF THE HONOVRABLE, Sr. Antonye Alexander, KNIGHT, &c.
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Madrigals, etc.
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Commendatory Verses.
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Posthumous Poems. I.
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iv. A Replye.
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v. Beauties Frailtye.
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vi. To a swallow, building neare the statue of Medea.
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vii. Venus armed.
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viii. The Boares head.
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ix. To an Owle.
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x. Daphnè.
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xi. The Beare of loue.
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xii. Galateas Sonnets.
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xiii. On the Death of a Margarite.
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xv. Epitaph.
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xvi. The oister.
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xvii. All Changeth.
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xviii. Silenus to King Midas.
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xix. To his amorous Thoughts.
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xx. Verses of the late Earl of Pembroke
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xxi. A Replye.
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xxii. A Translation.
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xxiii. To the Memory of [John, Earl of Lauderdale.]
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xxiv. To the Memorie of the excellent ladye Isabell, Countesse of Lawderdale.
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xxvii. Madrigal.
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xxviii. On the death of a nobleman in Scotland, buried at Aithen.
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xxix. Epitaph.
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xxxv. Rose.
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Posthumous Poems. II.
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Posthumous Poems. III.
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Posthumous Poems. IV.
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Poems of Doubtful Authenticity.

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[iv] [The World a Game.]

This world a Hunting is,
The Pray poore Man, the Nimrod fierce is Death,
His speedie Grei-hounds are,
Lust, sicknesse, Enuie, Care,
Strife that neere falles amisse,
With all those ills which haunt vs while wee breath.
Now, if (by chance) wee flie
Of these the eager Chase,
Old Age with stealing Pace,
Castes vp his Nets, and there wee panting die.
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