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Argalvs and Parthenia

Written by Fra: Quarles
Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)

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The minde of the Frontspiece.
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ARGALVS AND PARTHENIA.
  
Hos ego versiculos.
  
The Authors Dreame.

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The minde of the Frontspiece.

Reader, behinde this silken Frontspiece lyes
The Argument of our Booke; which, to your eyes
Our Muse (for serious causes, and best knowne
Vnto her selfe) commands should be vnshowne;
And therefore, to that end, she hath thought fit
To draw this Curtaine, t'wixt your eye and it.
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