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The Grecian Story

Being an Historical Poem, in Five Books. To which is Annex'd The Grove: Consisting of Divers Shorter Poems upon several Subjects. By J. H. [i.e. John Harington]

(1627?-1700)

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THE GROVE:

ORNANDE'S Lute.

Ornande's close Retirement.

Letter sent to Ornande.

The Good-morrow,

Lovers mix'd Weather.

ORNANDE

Ornande's Evening Walk, and Voice

Ornande and the Nightingale.

The Face and Glass.

Ornande's Morning Walk.

Ornande's Presence.

The Farewel.

One to his Fair, coy Mistress.

The Earnest doubting Lover.

The violent Despairing Lover.

Song, on Hero and Leander drown'd.

Scorn'd Scornfulness.

Beauty and Frailty.

The fair, young Shepherdess; her Funeral also.

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Mundi Schema & Effigies Historia; Triste cum Jucundo; Dulce cum Amaro: Bonum, malumque Humanum Genus; multum fragile Animo, ut Corpore: summa per Observationem Prudentia; Plena varietatis Natura, & Fortuna etiam; Utraque admiranda.