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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. 4.

[Let not the world thinke I doe partialize]

Let not the world thinke I doe partialize,
In that I doe extoll my vncles fame,
And striue his glorie to immortalize
By these sad accents which my muse doth frame,
But let men know that he deserues more praise,
Then my poore muse is able to bestow,
Though she doth crown his death with glorious baies
And through the world the breath of fame doth blow
Which breath by multiplying the sweete ayre
May mount the sacred Throne of heauenly powers,
And cause the winged Cherubins repayre,
To mourne his death from their celestiall bowres,
His vertues merit Homers golden pen
To print his praise with teares of Gods and men.
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