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Streams from Helicon

Or, Poems On Various Subjects. In Three Parts. By Alexander Pennecuik ... The Second Edition. Enter'd in Stationer's Hall

Pennecuik, Alexander

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BEAUTY IN DISTRESS.

On a fair Lady,

ON THE RUINS OF Wallace's Tree In the TORWOOD.

To the Nine Muses,

To Sir Richard Steele,

An amorous Epistle from the Abbot Bothwell,

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The Spider and the Gout.

A DIALOGUE BETWIXT A Sea-Man and a Taylor.

Duke of Buckinghan's Jest on Dr. Barrow,

Mr. HERRON'S Memorable Saying when Dying.

Chancellor Hyde's Jest, ON Dr. Bull the famous Jester:

TO My honour'd Friend Dr. P---k,

A Farewell to CELIA going to the North.

A MARRIAGE BETWIXT

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MERRY TALES FOR THE Lang Nights of Winter,

Jotham's Parable:

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[Let me behold thy reconciled Face]

[O Glory to the King, who's Favour I have sought]

Unto the learn'd and pious Paraphraser of the Canticles, AND Author of the following sacred Composures.

CHORUS FIDELIUM.

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DIALOGUE I. PROLOGUE.

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A Sabbath-Days Thoughts UPON THE Love of Jesus.

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MEDITATIONS In Sickness, Upon several Texts of Scripture relating to the Resurrection.

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MEDITATION III.

A DISCRIPTION OF THE Person of Jesus Christ,

On Devout Dorinda,

On a fair Lady,

THE Fair MAID OF DUMBLAIN.

A SONG To the Tune of Morning O Geberland.

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A Morning Walk TO ARTHUR's SEAT, On the First Day of May.

THE AMOURS OF Polyndus and Ardella.

THE Mourning Muse,

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CHORUS FIDELIUM.

Not such a Song as charms the Ear alone,
And Joy is vanish'd when the Musick's gone:
Not such as heightens Pleasure at the Wine,
And Heaven born Souls to low Delights incline,
This is a Song of Love, a Song divine.