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Ostella Or the Faction of Love and Beauty Reconcil'd

By I. T. [i.e. John Tatham]

Tatham, John (fl. 1632-1664)

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The Book to the Reader.

Upon my first sight of OSTELLA.

Ostella discribed.

To Ostella, an Advise before she send an Answer.

Ostella smiling.

To Ostella upon the pain of her Tooth-ach.

To Ostella upon the lamenting the death of her Sparrow.

Vpon the Sparrow.

A Summons to a Seige.

Ostella's Kisse.

Returning to my Chamber at night to the Taper.

To Ostella's Brother.

Ostella visiting me in time of Sicknesse.

My Scorn to Cupid, or Cupid ungodded.

Loves melancholly.

Ostella's Scorn.

A Bird presented to Ostella.

Ostella saying she pittied me, but could not help me.

Ostella saying, she would not say she did, could, nor would not Love me.

To Ostella my Choice.

Ostella Confessing She loved Me.

Ostella asking why: I loved Her.

The Nut to Ostella.

The FACTION. To Ostella.

Ostella asking me how I liked a painted Lady came to see her.

Vpon my assurance of Ostella's Love.

Ostella veiled.

Ostella shewing me Verses sent to her by a friend of mine.

Ostella advising me to leave off drinking Wine.

To one asking how he should know my Mistresse.

My Vow to Ostella upon her doubting my faith.

Vpon an occasion; to Ostella, Of Jealousie.

Ostella forth of Town: To my Heart.

To the worst of Passions.

The Iealous Lovers, A Dialogue.

To my Thoughts.

Ostella's Welcome to Town.

A Dialogue between Love and Honour.

Ostella weeping for my Imprisonment.

Ostella questioning of me concerning Clarinda, a former Mistress.

To Ostella upon her Reproving me and Councelling me from some Inconveniences.

Musick in the dead Season of the Night.

Ostella commanding my absence for a time.

A Dialogue between Nature and Art.

To Ostella upon her saying she wonder'd how one S. B. got into preferment, and not I.

To Ostella, commending meeknesse of Spirit.

Vpon my Departure.

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Occasional Copies upon several SUBJECTS.

To a Mistris that told me, I could not live without her Love.

To a simply Coy Mistress.

To an imperiously proud Mistress, swell'd with my Praises.

Vpon the acquaintance of a Gallant Gentlewoman. To my self.

Crying and Laughing.

To Mistress S. W.

To a timorously willing Mistress.

Vpon my Noble friend, Richard Lovelace Esquire, his being in Holland. An Invitation.

To a Mistresse that thinks the sight without other enjoyment is Love sufficient.

To a vertuous Lady, on whom Envy had thrown a Scandal, for which she Mourned, and hung her Chamber with Blacks.

Spying Splendora through a Casement.

My Friend Paul Squire.

Seeing a Lady ------

An Occasional Frolick to an unknown Friend.

To a Gentlewoman that Loved me, and I not her.

Another upon the same.

To a Mistresse that bid me make another Choice.

To the Deceiving Mistress.

Lycoris a Rapture.

Lycoris weeping.

To Mrs. J. H. upon my recovery of a fit of sickness.

To Mrs. I. H. upon the sight of a Marble Coverture or Statue in the Church.

Vpon my leaving off the Company of Hellena.

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Songs in a Masque.

1 Song: Fortune Descending.

2 The poor Schollers Song.

3 Song. The Country-life.

4. Song. Ambition.

A Prologue spoken at the Cock-pit, at the coming of the Red-Bull Players thither.

A Prologue spoken at the Red-Bull to a Play called the Whisperer, or what you please.

On the Report of Master William Lawes his Death.

To my Mother, Mris. Dorothy Tatham, one of the Daughters of Christopher Percy of Manson in the County of Dorset, Esquire, then Iustice of Peace and Quorum, and High Sheriff of that County.

Vpon the Death of my Father.

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To a timorously willing Mistress.

Like Summer bringing in a Dearth,
or Beauty blasted in its Birth;
Such is thy Love to me, that fils
but expectation 'till it kils.

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Thy Smiles no sooner warm my Heart,
but Frowns dart Death through ev'ry part,
And the choice pleasure of thine eyes
invite me but to Tantalize.

When thirsty Grief desires to sip
Life from the Cherries of thy lip;
The Root of Life by which they grow,
declares my Death by answering No.

Nor can I guess why it hath bin,
unlesse to love be held a sin;
If so, the Gods themselves must be
in such a sort as deep as We.

Oh think not (Dearest) 'tis in vain
to hope for pleasure without pain:
Whil'st equal Love and Joys attend us,
Both Faith and Silence shall befriend us.

Could'st thou my Heart Anatomize,
wherein thy perfect Figure lies,
There should'st thou find what neither Fate
nor envious Time shall violate,

Such Constant Truth my Love doth bear,
in all thy Fortunes I will share;
And of each Misery will boast,
wherein my self shall suffer most.

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Thus dare I boast my Love to thee,
beyond our frail Humanity:
For he whose Love transcendeth mine,
must not write Mortal, but Divine.

And should thy Cruelty extend
this loathed Life of mine to end,
Th' Arabian wonder shall not die
more glorious in her Flames than I.