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The poems of George Daniel

... From the original mss. in the British Museum: Hitherto unprinted. Edited, with introduction, notes, and illustrations, portrait, &c. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart: In four volumes
Daniel, George (1616-1657)

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VOL. I.
  
Portraits of the Author and his Brother.
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POEMS Written upon Severall Occasions.
  
Coat of Arms and Portrait.
  
An Addresse By the Author:
  
To his honoured friend ye authour vpon his Poems.
  
Vpon a Reviewe of Virgil, translated by Mr. Ogilby.
  
A Vindication of Poesie.
  
To Time and Honour.
  
A Pastorall Ode; The Eglogue is Lost.
  
The Spring.
  
The Difference.
  
Parted, per pale.
  
Woman Charactred.
  
Silvia revolted.
  
Scorne returned.
  
Supplanted.
  
To Nicotiana. A Rapture.
  
The farewell.
  
An Epode.
  
To the Memorie of the most worthy and excellently vertuous Ladie The Ladie Alford.
  
To: D: i
  
To the Memorie of the Best Dramaticke English Poet
  
Vpon Ben Ionson's Booke.
  
To my Muse.
  
Wounded.
  
The Dedication of a Poem, now lost; written in the Royall Expedition against the Scotts.
  
This was placed in the End of the Same Poeme.
  
One desiring me to read, but slept it out; Wakening.
  
One boasting himselfe Iudge of pure Witt.
  
Reversed
  
Ænigma.
  
Fame.
  
Agonie.
  
An Essay;
  
Prevention!
  
The many Scurrile Pamphlets (going vnder the name of Poems,) frequently printed; occasion'd this.
  
Vpon a late printed Booke Entituled:
  
A Strange Maye.
  
When the Cloud of Calamitie, had somewhile overspread vs, and the whole Kingdome plunged in warre
  
After a storme, going a hawking.
  
Freedome.
  
Vanitie.
  
Proportion.
  
The Userper.
  
The Magazine.
  
A Pause.
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Love Platonicke
  
[epigraph]
  
To Cinthia; coying it.
  
To Cinthia Converted.
  
Cinthia confirmed.
  
To the Platonicke pretender.
  
Pure Platonicke.
  
Court-Platonicke.
  
Anti-Platonicke.
  
To the Sweet feminine Platonicks.
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Vervicensis:
  
Vervicensis.
  
To the Memorie of the great Earle of Warwicke
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“The Genius of this Great and glorious Ile.”
  
[subsection]
  
“The Genius of this Great and glorious Ile.”
  
To the Reader of Doctor Brown's booke Entituled Pseudodoxia Epidemica.
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Some Poemes; Written vpon Severall occasions, By the Same Author.
  
To the Tombe of Thomas Earl of Strafford.
  
An Elegie To the Memorie of the trulie Noble and my worthie Freind, Sr William Alforde Knt:
  
To honour the Memorie of Loyaltie & Courage eminentlie glorious in: Sir T: M
  
To the honour of Sr: M: L: Commrd: in Ch': at the Releife of P'.
  
Vpon an excellent Treatise Written by T: B: D: M: called Religio Medici
  
To my honored Cozen P: Cr: Esqr. an Affectionate Invitation
  
To the Memorie of the Excellent Dramatique English Poets; Mr. Fra: Beaumont & Mr. Io: Fletcher;
  
Sent to my dearest Brother Sexto Septembr, 1648: by Rt: Ta
  
An Ode Vpon the incomparable Liricke Poesie Written by Mr. George Herbert;
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VOL. II.
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Scattered Fancies;
  
Carmen Protrepticon; Lectori
 I. 
ODE I
 II. 
ODE II
 III. 
ODE III.
 IV. 
ODE IV.
 V. 
ODE V.
 VI. 
ODE VI.
 VII. 
ODE VII.
 VIII. 
ODE VIII.
 IX. 
ODE IX.
 X. 
ODE X.
 XI. 
ODE XI.
 XII. 
ODE XII.
 XIII. 
ODE XIII.
 XIV. 
ODE XIV.
 XV. 
ODE XV.
 XVI. 
ODE XVI.
 XVII. 
ODE XVII.
 XVIII. 
ODE XVIII.
 XIX. 
ODE XIX.
 XX. 
ODE XX.
 XXI. 
ODE XXI.
 XXII. 
ODE XXII.
 XXIII. 
ODE XXIII.
 XXIV. 
ODE XXIV.
 XXV. 
ODE XXV.
 XXVI. 
ODE XXVI.
 XXVII. 
ODE XXVII.
 XXVIII. 
ODE XXVIII.
 XXIX. 
ODE XXIX.
 XXX. 
ODE XXX.
 XXXI. 
ODE XXXI.
 XXXII. 
ODE XXXII.
 XXXIII. 
ODE XXXIII.
 XXXIV. 
ODE XXXIV.
 XXXV. 
ODE XXXV.
 XXXVI. 
ODE XXXVI.
 XXXVII. 
ODE XXXVII.
 XXXVIII. 
ODE XXXVIII.
 XXXIX. 
ODE XXXIX.
 XL. 
ODE XL.
 XLI. 
ODE XLI.
 XLII. 
ODE XLII.
 XLIII. 
ODE XLIII.
 XLIV. 
ODE XLIV.
 XLV. 
ODE XLV.
 XLVI. 
ODE XLVI.
 XLVII. 
ODE XLVII.
 XLVIII. 
ODE XLVIII.
 XLIX. 
ODE XLIX.
 L. 
ODE L.
 LI. 
ODE LI.
 LII. 
ODE LII.
 LIII. 
ODE LIII.
 LIV. 
ODE LIV.
 LV. 
ODE LV.
 LVI. 
ODE LVI.
 LVII. 
ODE LVII.
 LVIII. 
ODE LVIII.
 LIX. 
ODE LIX.
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FURTHER POEMS.
  
To Mr. Ogilby:
  
The Author;
  
[Portrait of the Author.]
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ΙΙΟΛΥΛΟΓΙΑ;
  
An Ecloge Spoken by Amintas and Strephon.
  
An Ecloge: Spoken by Mælibeus and Dorilus.
  
An Ecloge: Spoken by Halon and Eudœmon
  
An Ecloge: Spoken by Damon and Amintas.
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An Ecloge: Spoken by Hilas and Strephon.
  
THE SONGE.
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Eclesiasticus:
  
The Induction to the worke.
 I. 
Cap. i.
 II. 
Chap. ii.
 III. 
Chap. iii.
 IV. 
Chap. iv.
 V. 
Chap. v.
 VI. 
Chap. vi.
 VII. 
Chap. vii.
 VIII. 
Chap. viii.
 IX. 
Chap. ix.
 X. 
Chap. x.
 XI. 
Chap. xi.
 XII. 
Chap. xii.
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VOL. III. VOL. IV.
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Eclesiasticus.
 XIII. 
Chap. xiii.
 XIV. 
Chap. xiv.
 XV. 
Chap. xv.
 XVI. 
Chap. xvi.
 XVII. 
Chap. xvii.
 XVIII. 
Chap. xviii.
 XIX. 
Chap. xix.
 XX. 
Chap. xx.
 XXI. 
Chap. xxi.
 XXII. 
Chap. xxii.
 XXIII. 
Chap. xxiii.
 XXIV. 
Chap. xxiv.
 XXV. 
Chap. xxv.
 XXVI. 
Chap. xxvi.
 XXVII. 
Chap. xxvii.
 XXVIII. 
Chap. xxviii.
 XXIX. 
Chap. xxix.
 XXX. 
Chap. xxx.
 XXXI. 
Chap. xxxi.
 XXXII. 
Chap. xxxii.
 XXXIII. 
Chap. xxxiii.
 XXXIV. 
Chap. xxxiv.
 XXXV. 
Chap. xxxv.
 XXXVI. 
Chap. xxxvi.
 XXXVII. 
Chap. xxxvii.
 XXXVIII. 
Chap. xxxviii.
 XXXIX. 
Chap. xxxix.
 XL. 
Chap. xl.
 XLI. 
Chap. xli.
 XLII. 
Chap. xlii.
 XLIII. 
Chap. xliii.
 XLIV. 
Chap. xliv.
 XLV. 
Chap. xlv.
 XLVI. 
Chap. xlvi.
 XLVII. 
Chap. xlvii.
 XLVIII. 
Cap. xlviii.
 XLIX. 
Chap. xlix.
 L. 
Chap. l.
 LI. 
Chap. li.
  
[epilogue]
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TRINARCHODIA
  
The Author vpon his Picture before these Poems.
  
Vpon the Frontispice.
  
Vpon the Picture of Richard the Second.
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The severall Raignes of Richard the Second Henrie the Fourth, & Henrie the Fifth
  
The Dedication.
  
To the Reader
  
The Generall Argument of this followinge TRINARCHODIA.
  
The Raigne of Richard the second.
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The Raigne of Henry the Fourth.
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The Raigne of Henrie the Fifth.
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[subsection]
  
Crastini Animarum.
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Idyllia.
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Idyllia: The Distemper.
  
The Illustration.
 1. 
Idyll I.
 2. 
Idyll 2.
 3. 
Idyll iii.
 4. 
Idyll 4.
 5. 
Idyll 5.
  
L' Envoy.
  
The Designe.
  
The Colouringe.
  
The Shadow
  
Proportion.
  
The Landskip.
  
The Ceremonie.
  
Vpon the Reading: a Booke, called the Life of Periskirus.
  
Vpon the Excellent Poems of Mr. George Herbert.
  
An Occasionall reflection
  
[Man yet a Stranger from ye Africke Side]

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Vpon an excellent Treatise Written by T: B: D: M: called Religio Medici

I have not seen, (let me speake modestlie,)
A finer Peice of Ingenuitie,
Then in these Leaves laide out. When I survay
This Bodie, I am rapt, and loose my way
With wonder and Delight; soe caught, soe tyed
I have noe Power to Change, to looke aside.
For who can fixe vpon a vulgar Face
To such a beautie? whose abundant Grace
Strikes each Beholder. In such Similies
Wee humor Sence, and raise but Fantasies.
I now decline 'em here, and would not fill
This Page with varnish of a trifling Qvill;
But give a cleare round Sence; for 'twer in Mee
An Error sure (almost Impietye)
To be reserved; and that I may not blanch
My owne Conceptions (though with Ignorance
Perhaps Enough) take it in Short: I find
The livelie Image of a free-borne mind
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Speake, in a Stile soe Cleare, a Sence soe full,
I hardlie know an Equall; nothing Dull,
But with a Spirrit, the same still; though in All
I cannot ioyne; but to the rationall
Exception, as each Genius intends
A severall way, and vnto severall Ends;
Let me but varie, to my owne, as hee
To his owne Reason bends, (and certainlie
Hee limitts noe man) and I cannot fall
For Distances in Some, to leave in All
This Authour; whom I honour much, and prise
His generous Attempt; who would make wise
Deluded Men, and from Infirmitie,
Erect a Structure of Abilitie.
Who sees his wants is wise; Hee more, who can
Supplye his owne, and bring a Stocke to man;
Man-generall; from whence in full repaires
A Strong-built Edifice, Each man appears.
These are the Fruits of his industrious Pen;
T' vnvaile himselfe and informe other men;
Soe naturallie plaine, so simply cleare,
I know him by his Booke, as were Hee here;
For it must bee Himselfe; and 'tis Enough
Reading this Booke, the Man himselfe to know;
To which great Character, what Man dares thinke
(Fondlie Audacious) to adde with Inke?
Hee is above the vanitie of Praise;
And what wee adde, below him manie waies.
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I know he has a Mind soe free, soe full,
Hee onlie writes Himselfe, and would not pull
Any of Force to follow in the Tracke
Hee paceth out; nor keeps Hee any backe;
But Each may move within his proper Sphere,
And bee with Him as free as Hee is here
With all the World. Then with enlargéd Minds,
Receive a worthie Gvest; but my Sence binds
Onlie my Selfe; and I should preiudice
You, (Equall Readers); all Capacities
May (to their Strengths) Iudge others witt; and none
Is limited by my Opinion,
Or by the Square I move by: I am free
To Truth, to Honour, and to Industrie;
And what I raise, is not to bring my owne
Name, as a Second or Intruder, on
Fame's Theatre; and more securelie sitt
Vnder the Pent-house of another's witt.
I have noe End, noe Ayme, beyond the free
Acknowledgment, how it hath taken Mee.
And all I thinke on, is but what to Say
To such a Freind as I can never pay.
It is beyond my Stocke, and all I can
Alledge Excuse, is, I'me but a poor Man.
Is is Enough, I know, for that hee'le spare me;
I have it vnder's Hand within to cleare me.
'Tis time I make an End; Each, as he list
Pursue his Thoughts, and wander, in the mist
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Of his Affections; I am pleased to looke
At men, in the cleare Mirror of this Booke.
Augusti 1o Die: 1646.
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