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Poems Divine, and Humane

By Thomas Beedome

Beedome, Thomas

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On the deceased Authour, Master Thomas Beedom, and his Poems.

On the death and Poems, of his most deare friend, Master Thomas Beedome.

On his deserving Friend, Master Thomas Beedom, and his Poems.

To his Friend the Author, Master Thomas Beedom before his death, on these his Poems.

To the Memory of his Ingenious friend, Master Thomas Beedom, and on these his Poems.

To the Memorie of his friend, Master Thomas Beedom. And upon his Poems.

On the Poems of his worthy friend, Master Thomas Beedom, the lately deceased Author.

On the Memory of his most Ingenious friend, Master Thomas Beedome, and his Poems.

Elegie, on his Ingenious friend, the deserving Author, Master Thomas Beedome.

Elegie on the death of his ingenious friend, the deserving Author, Master Thomas Beedome.

On the Poems of the Author, his deare Brother, Master Thomas Beedom deceased.

THE Author, To the READER.

THE JEALOVS LOUER, OR, THE CONSTANT MAID.

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To his Mistresse, when shee was going into the Country.

To his Mistresse on her scorne.

The Question and Answer.

The new Petition.

Fooles Paradise, or Reason Bewitcht.

Loves Apostacy to his friend Mr. E. D.

The broken heart song.

Women are mens shadowes.

Women are not mens shadowes.

To his worthy friend Mistresse.

On a Lillie now withered in her bosome.

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Epigram 1. To my deare friend William Harrington.

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Epigram 2. Of one Mary Fraile, who lay with Mr Reason.

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Epigram 3. On the same Mary a great lover of Mary-bones.

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Epigram 4. To the excellent Poets Mr George Wither

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Epigram 5. By way of consolation to his deare friend William Scot, on the death of his brother Gilman Scot.

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Epigram 6. To his friend Mr Thomas Beedom, of single life.

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Epigram 7. E contra, of Marriage.

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Epigram 8. Of good women.

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Epigram 9. E Contrario.

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Epigram 10. Being a Translation of this Latin verse, composed by Dr Hensloe

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Epigram 11. To the worthy honoured, Sir Henry Wootten Knight.

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Epigram 12. To the same Knight being President of Eaton Colledge.

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Epigram 13. Of a fresh water Souldier.

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Epigram 14. Being a meditation to my selfe.

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Epigram 15. To himselfe of his Mistresse.

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Epigram 16. To his Superlative Mistris.

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Epigram 17. To his intimate friend William Pearle.

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Epigram 18. To the Heroicall Captaine Thomas James, of his discovery made by the Northwest passage towards the South Sea. 1631.

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Epigram 19. A Complaint of his separation from his Mistris, caused by his friends injunction.

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Epigram 20. To the memory of his honoured friend Master John Donne, an Eversary.

An Elegie on the death of his loving friend. J: C

My sonne give mee thy heart.

[VVhen first of sinne I tooke survey]

The Inquisition.

The Resurrection.

The Mercy Seate.

Ad punctum mortis.

On the death of Mris. M. T.

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Epigram 16. To his Superlative Mistris.

Compare the Bramble to the stately Pine;
The fruitlesse Thistle, to the vertuous Vine.
Compare the Charcole to the Snow-white Downe,
The wreath of Rushes to th' Imperiall Crowne,
Compare the Raven to the Turtle Dove;
The Moores of India to the Queene of Love.
Compare the Candle to the splendent Moone
The fogges of night, to Phœbus eye at noone.
Compare the Kite to sweete breath'd Philomell,
The Lerman Lake to th' Helliconian Well.

If these admit comparison, then shee
That can admit of no equalyty,
May find a paralell: but let some men
Racke their dull braines to praise their Mistresse, when
The utmost of their language they have spent,
Let them sit downe, and sigh, and be content:
Their Idols eyes to Sunbeames to compare
Or by the rose her blased lips declare
My Mistresse must beyond their Saints survive
In that unequall'd height, superlative.