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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. 8. Vrania.

I sawe no fearefull comet in the Skye,
Nor firie Meteors lately did I viewe,
Whose dread aspect threatens mortalitie,
And losse of some great Princes to insue:
Nor by Astrologie did I deuine,
That death so soone this Paragon should slay,
That she who did in grace and vertue shine,
Aboue her Peeres before them should decay,
I thinke while all the Gods in counsell sate,
To canonize some Saint, that late did die,
Not being mindfull of this Ladies state,
Whose fatall howre did then approach so nigh,
Death stole vppon her with his Eben darte
And vnwares did strike her to the heart.
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