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The poems of John Marston

Edited by Arnold Davenport
Marston, John (1575?-1634)

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THE METAMORPHOSIS of Pigmalions Image.
  
TO THE WORLDS MIGHTIE MONARCH, GOOD OPINION
  
To his Mistres.
  
PIGMALION
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SATYRES.
  
The Authour in prayse of his precedent Poem.
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CERTAINE SATYRES
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SATYRE. 1. Quedam videntur, et non sunt.
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SATYRE. 2. Quedam sunt, et non videntur.
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SATYRE. 3. Quedam et sunt, et videntur.
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[SATYRE 4] REACTIO.
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SATYRE [5] Parua magna, magna nulla.
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THE SCOVRGE OF Villanie.
  
[dedication]
  
To Detraction I present my Poesie.
  
In Lectores prorsus indignos.
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[SATY: Liber primus.]
  
PROEMIVM IN librum primum.
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SATYRE. I. Fronti nulla fides.
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SATYRE. II. Difficile est Satyram non scribere. Iuve.
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SATYRE. III. Redde, age, quæ deinceps risisti.
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SATYRE. IIII. CRAS.
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SATY: Liber secundus.
  
Proemium in librum secundum.
  
Ad Rithmum.
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SATYRE. V. Totum in toto.
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SATYRE. VI. Hem nosti'n.
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SATYRE. VII. A Cynicke Satyre.
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SATY: Liber Tertius.
  
Proemium in librum tertium.
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SATYRE. VIII. Inamorato Curio.
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SATYRE. IX. Here's a toy to mocke an Ape indeede.
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[SATIRE X] SATYRA NOVA. Stultorum plena sunt omnia.
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[SATIRE XI] Humours.
  
To euerlasting Obliuion.
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POEMS FROM LOVE'S MARTYR
  
A narration and description of a most exact wondrous creature, arising out of the Phœnix and Turtle Doues ashes.
  
The description of this Perfection.
  
To Perfection.
  
Perfectioni Hymnus.
  
On Jonson's Sejanus, 1605
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THE ENTERTAINMENT OF The Dowager-Countess of Darby
  
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Madam,

See what a change the spiritt of your Eyes,
hath wroughte in vs, Hence dullr Saturne flies,
& wee that were the ghost of woe & Earth,
are all transform'd vnto the soule of Mirth,
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O wee are full of Joye no breaste more light,
But those who owe yow theirs by Natures right
From whome vouchsafe this present. Tis a woorke
wherein strange miracles & wonders lurke
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