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Certain Elegant Poems

Written by Dr Corbet

Corbet, Richard (1582-1635)

R. C.

On Doctor Corbets Father.

On the death of Master Rice Manciple of Christ-Church.

To his sonne Vincent Corbet.

An Elegy on the late Lord William Howard, Baron of Effingham, dead the 10 of December, 1615.

An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls.

Upon Mistris Mallet.

On great Tom of Christ-Church.

On John Dawson Butler of Christ Church, Doctor Corbet.

Doctor Corbet against the Anniversarist.

A Letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailebury, Decem. 9. 1618.

Doctor Corbet to the Lord Mordant.

To the Duke of Buckingham.

Upon the death of the Lady Haddington dying of the Small Pox.

A proper new Ballad, intituled The Fairies farewel, or God a mercy Will, to be sung or whistled, to the tune of the Medow Brow by the learned, by the unlearned to the tune of Fortune.

To the Ghost of Rob. Wisdome.

An Epitaph on Tho. Jonce.

On the Earl of Dorsets Death.

On Henry Bolings.

The Authors Answer.

A Reply.

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R. C.

When too much zeale doth fire devotion,
Love is not love, but superstition:
Even so in civill duties when we come
Too oft, we are not kind, but troublesome,
Yet as the first is not Idolatry,
So is the last, but grieved industry,
And such was mine whose strife to honour you
By overplus, hath robd you of your due.