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The Amorose Songes, Sonets, and Elegies

Of M. Alexander Craige
Craig, Alexander (1567?-1627)

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To the Queene her most excellent Maiestie.
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Amorous Songes and Sonets.
 
TO IDEA.
 
To IDEA.
 
To LITHOCARDIA.
 
To LITHOCARDIA
 
To CYNTHIA.
 
To PANDORA.
 
To ERANTINA.
 
To ERANTINA.
 
To IDEA.
 
To CINTHIA
 
To IDEA.
 
To IDEA.
 
To PANDORA.
 
To PENELOPE.
 
To PENELOPE.
 
To LITHOCARDIA.
 
To LITHOCARDIA.
 
To KALA.
 
To LAIS.
 
To LAIS.
 
To PANDORA.
 
To PANDORA.
 
To PANDORA.
 
To LITHOCARDIA.
 
To ERANTINA.
 
To IDEA.
 
To IDEA.
 
To LITHOCARDIA.
 
To LAIS.
 
To PENELOPE.
 
At IDEAS direction, these two Sonets were made.
 
To IDEA.
 
To CYNTHIA.
 
To ERANTINA.
 
To KALA.
 
To LAIS.
 
To absent ERANTINA.
 
To KALA.
 
To absent IDEA.
 
To ERANTINA.
 
PANDORA refuseth his Letter
 
To KALA.
 
To LITHOCARDIA.
 
To LITHOGARDIA.
 
To inconstant LAIS.
 
To LAIS.
 
To ERANTINA.
 
To PENELOPE.
 
To IDEA.
 
To frowning CINTHIA.
 
To PANDORA.
 
To PANDORA.
 
To LAIS.
 
To PANDORA.
 
To PENELOPE.
 
To CINTHIA.
 
To LITHOCARDIA.
 
To LAIS.
 
To KALA.
 
To KALA.
 
At the newes of IDEAS death, Dialogue twixt the Poets Ghost and Charon.
 
An other Dialogue to the same purpose.
 
IDEA after long sicknes, becommeth weil; and as he wept for her, he wishes compensation of her teares in his distresse.
 
To CYNTHIA.
 
To ERANTINA.
 
To PANDORA.
 
Newyeares gift to PENELOPE.
 
To PENELOPE.
 
To LAIS.
 
To absent PANDORA.
 
To PENELOPE secke.
 
Newyeares gift to IDEA.
 
To CINTHIA.
 
To KALA.
 
To KALA.
 
To KALA.
 
To CYNTHIA.
 
To ERANTINA.
 
To ERANTANA.
 
To ERANTINA.
 
To PANDORA.
 
To PANDORA.
 
To PANDORA.
 
To IDEA.
 
To LITHOCARDIA.
 
To LAIS.
 
To LAIS.
 
To IDEA.
 
To KALA.
 
To PANDORA.
 
To KALA.
 
To his Riuall and LAIS.
 
Farewell to LAIS.
 
A sparing farewell to KALA.
 
A wrathfull farewell to KALA.
 
To PENELOPE.
 
Elegie to KALA.
 
His Resolution of absence and farewell to Lithocardia.
 
His Reconciliation to Lithocardia after absence.
 
To LAIS.
 
His constant Resolution to ERANTINA.
 
Confirmation of his loue to ERANTINA.
 
To LAIS.
 
His vnwilling Farewell to PENELOPE.
 
His louing farewell to PANDORA.
 
To his PANDORA from Englaud.
 
To LAIS.
 
His faythfull seruice to IDEA.
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ALEXIS to LESBIA.
 
LESBIA her answer to ALEXIS.
 
A new perswasion to LESBIA.
 
A Letter to LESBIA, shewing his discontents.
 
Sonet to LESBIA.
 
LESBIA her answer.
 
CODRVS Complaint and Farewell to Ralatibia.
 
CODRVS his reconciliation to his heart, after he hath abiured KALATIBIA.
 
To the Author.

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To IDEA.

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VVith chast desires I serue and honor thee
Great Archi-mistris of my rauisht mind,
Most virtuous, wise, and faire, of all thy kind:
Whose least command I vow to doe or die.
Chast was my Loue, yet is, and ay shall bee,
The praysing Papers which I haue propin'd,
May well beare witnes how I am inclind,
And can (ye know) controull mee when I lie:
Phronesis erring could espie no place,
Meete on this mould, but in thy breast to dwell,
A virtuous mind adorns a beauteous face;
And thou hast both, and in them both excell:
This maks my loue be chast, my passions strange
And I had rather choose to die then change,
Aspice diuinas humano in corpore dotes
Nil mortale tibi fæmina digna polo es.
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