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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 KALA.

The Persian Kings all waters did abiure,
Saue those which flow'd frō faire Choaspes flood:
From age to age this they obseru'd as sure,
As though no Waters els could do them good.
This was a forme, no rather bondage strange,
which by no means these Monarch's braue would change.
I am as constant as a Persian King,
And thou more deare then meat or drinke to meet
For all th' entisments beautie bright can bring,
With lisping toong, and soull entising eye:
In spight of all these all as I began,
I am thy true and neuer-changing man.
Thus will I surfet on thy beautie braue,
And Lyzard-like liue on thy looks diuiue:
In presence absence I am sworne thy slaue,
And still I would (were I a King) be thine:
And for thy sake, till life and breath endure,
All other loue and seruice I abiure.
Tu quoq; iunge fidos fido cum coniuge amores,
Ipse etenim et coniunx ipse et amator ero.
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