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Lucasta
Posthume Poems of Richard Lovelace
Lovelace, Richard (1618-1658)
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THE DEDICATION. To the Right Honorable John Lovelace Esquire.
POEMS.
To LUCASTA
In allusion to the French-Song. N'entendez vous pas ce language.
Night.
Love Inthron'd.
Her Muffe.
A Black patch on Lucasta's Face.
Another.
To Lucasta.
To Lucasta.
Lucasta at the Bath.
The Ant.
The Snayl.
Another.
Courante Monsieur.
A loose Saraband.
The Falcon.
Love made in the first Age:
To a Lady withchild that ask'd an Old Shirt.
SONG.
Another.
ODE.
The Duell.
Cupid far gone.
A Mock-Song.
A Fly caught in a Cobweb.
A Fly about a Glasse of Burnt Claret.
Female Glory.
Lute and Voice.
A Mock Charon.
The Toad and Spyder.
The Triumphs OF PHILAMORE and AMORET.
Advice to my best Brother. Coll: Francis Lovelace.
An Anniversary On the Hymeneals of my noble Kinsman Tho. Stanley Esquire.
Paris's Second Judgement, Upon the three Daughters of my Dear Brother Mr. R. Cæsar.
Peinture.
To my Dear Friend Mr. E. R. On his Poems Moral and Divine.
To my Noble Kinsman T. S. Esq; On his Lyrick Poems composed by Mr. J. G.
On the Best, last, and only remaining Comedy of Mr. Fletcher.
To Dr. F. B. On his Book of Chesse.
To the Genius of Mr. John Hall On his exxct Translation of Hierocles his Comment upon the golden Verses of Pythagoras.
On Sanazar's being honoured with six hundred Duckets by the Clarissimi of Venice, for composing an Eligiack Hexastick of The City.
TRANSLATIONS
ELEGIES SACRED To the Memory of the AUTHOR:
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Lucasta
In English.
[Because with bought books, Sir, your study's fraught]
Because with bought books, Sir, your study's fraught
A learned Grammarian you would fain be thought,
Nay then buy Lutes and strings, so you may play
The Merchant now, the Fidler the next day.
Lucasta