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The History of Polindor and Flostella

With Other Poems. By I. H. [i.e. John Harington] The third Edition, Revised and much Enlarged

(1627?-1700)

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POLINDOR, AND FLOSTELLA.

II.

III.

THE AUTHORS First DREAM of FLOSTELLA,

On FLOSTELLAS' Close Nun-like Retirement.

FLOSTELLAS Nunlike Coynesse

The Author's second Dreame of FLOSTELLAS Morning-Walk.

FLOSTELLAS Lute.

FLOSTELLAS Hand and Glove.

The Authors third Dream of FLOSTELLAS Evening Walk, and Voyce.

FLOSTELLA and the Nightingale.

CRESSAS Funerall, the Love of DIFLORIS.

SONG. A French Villanell Englished. Il y a dans ce Village, &c.

EPITAPH On a young Lady.

SONG. Hero and Leander: Fram'd after that of Dido was a Carthage Queen, &c.

English'd out of Montemayor in Spanish. On Leander Leandro Amoroso Fuego ardia, &c.

Another English'd out of Montemayor, in Spanish: On a coy Mistress. Los Oios no peccaron en Miraros, &c.

Happiness.

English'd out of Petrark, in Italian. On his first view of LAURA. Era'l giorno, ch' al Sol si scoloraro, &c.

Another English'd out of Petrarch in Italian: On LAURA veyl'd. Lassare il Velo Oper Sole, O per Ombra, &c.

The doubting Lover.

The Despairing Lover.

English'd out of Montemayor, in Spanish. On a Pastorall Lover. Estava Lusitano repastando.

The Offering.

The Complaint.

Mutual Love, Conjugall.

Constancy.

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1

Gem of Honour, Worth, farewell
From thy Cell;
Chang'd these snowy bleating Flocks,
Ecchoing Rocks,
For those Climes where wonders dwell:

Chorus.
Mildest Zephirs fan thee o're,
Chief Wonder, to what ever Shore.

2

Thou, that was't our lovelyer Pan,
Star oth' Plain,
Whose rare Influence rude frize
Did Civillize;
And sublim'd the Rustick brain:

Chorus.
Nor did'st more enoble, then
Improve this Desert, Herd of men.

3

Rarest young Compound for sweet
Virtue, Wit;
Heighten'd through forms excellence,
More by Sence;
Sin, these Shades should cloud thee yet:

Chorus
Though the Plains, Fame shall record,
Held once Polindor, vy'd a Lord.