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Times Cvrtaine Drawne

or The Anatomie of Vanitie. With other choice poems, Entituled; Health from Helicon. By Richard Brathwayte

Brathwait, Richard (1588?-1673)

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TO THE FAMOVS SEMINARY OF ALL ACCOMPLISH'D KNOWLEDGE, his deare foster-Mother, the Vniversitie of Oxford; the happie supplie of iudicious witts, with the encrease of all succeeding HONOVR.

A GRIEFE: PERSONATED IN THE AVTHOR, AND Dedicated to Time, of whom hee Borrowes the Subiect of his Passion.

TIMES ANATOMIE, DISPLAYED Jn six distinct Subiects.

TO HIM VVHOM TRVE MERIT HATH ENNOBLED;

THE AVTHOR CONTINVES HIS FORMER DISCOVRSE, Anatomizing Man more fully in these foure Subiects.

A SHORT EMBLEME DESCANTING ON THE Worlds pleasure, entituled by the AVTHOR PLACENTIA.

A CONCLVSIVE EPIGRAM, ENTITVLED The Great-mans Alphabet.

TO THE HIGH AND ILLVSTRIOVS MONARCH, CHRISTIAN KING of Denmarke a Panegyricke

AN EMBLEME VPON THE ROYALL MASQVE PRESENTED in the King of Denmarkes last being here. Personated regally, shadowed really, and alluded rarely.

TO THE IVDICIOVS And generall approued, Hvmfrey Davmport, Esquire: Practitioner in the Common Lawes;

A PRAYER TO THE HIGH COVRT OF HEAVEN, FOR the high Court of Parliament now assembled:

1.

PANEDONE: OR HEALTH FROM HELICON:

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2.

The second part.

EBRIVS EXPERIENS;

The Old-mans Hearse;

The Signe in Cancer.

Hymens Eglogue betwixt Admetus and Menalchas.

Loues Description.

AN HYMNE THALASSICALL, OR NVPTIALL;

An Elegiack Sonnet.

THE VVIDDOVV BRIDE.

TO HIS MVCHE-STEEMED FRIEND Sr G. D. Knight;

Vpon his name, to whom his Encomiastick vpon the Common Law was Dedicated.

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The Signe in Cancer.

A crabbed Shrow through sicknes weakly brought,
Wish't by all meanes a Doctor might be sought,
Who by his Art that hee her griefe might know,
Felt both her pulse, and cast her water too;
Which done, He to her Husband turn'd againe,
And wish'd him be content, all was in vaine:
For when the Signe's in Cancer shee should die;
To whom her Husband answer'd presently;
“If that my learned Doctor had beene so,
She had beene dead beleeue it long agoe:
For these ten yeares and odd she ha's beene mine,
And I ne're knew yet out of that Signe.

FINIS.