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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. 7 Calliope.

Were it nor that Eliza did reuiue,
My drooping spirits that are like to perish,
If that worlds myrrour onely she aliue,
Did not with bountie still my Poems cherish,
I should goe languish in some obscure caue,
Or with rude Satyres, & wood-nymphs should dwel
Learning should lie in base Obliuions graue,
And flow no more from Aganippe well:
But since this Ladies soule is vanished,
Out of this world (her corps to death enthrald)
She to a starre is metamorphosed
And with the golden Twinns in heauen enstald
Or like the Pleiades enthron'd on high
She may be term'd a Phœnix in the skie.
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