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The poems and translations of Sir Edward Sherburne (1616-1702)

excluding Seneca and Manilius Introduced and Annotated by F. J. Van Beeck
Sherburne, Edward (1618-1702)

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POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS 1651
 
EROTICA SALMACIS
 
The Metamorphosis of LYRIAN and SYLVIA,
 
Forsaken LYDIA.
 
The Rape of HELLEN
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LUDICRA
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THE SYRACUSIANS,
 
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The Hymn.
 
THE SUN-RISE
 
The Night:
 
I SOSPIRI.
 
The Surprise.
 
Chloris Eyes and Breasts.
 
Love's Arithmetick.
 
Cælia weeping.
 
The Vow.
 
Ice & Fire.
 
Novo Inamoramento.
 
Cælia's Eyes.
 
The Resemblance.
 
Love once, Love ever.
 
The Pendants.
 
The sweet Meat.
 
Violets in Thaumantia's Bosome.
 
The Dream.
 
An old Shepheard to a young Nymph.
 
Beauty encreased by Pity.
 
Weeping and Kissing.
 
The Dilemma.
 
Change defended.
 
The Microcosme.
 
The Defeat.
 
Amore secreto.
 
A Maid in Love with a Youth blind of one Eye.
 
The broken Faith.
 
Complaint on the Death of Sylvia, to the River.
 
A Shepheard inviting a Nymph to his Cottage.
 
Sogno, a la sua donna
 
To Ligurinus.
 
The Penitent Murderer.
 
The Shepheard.
 
The Pastorall Wooing.
 
On the Picture of Icarus in Wax.
 
On a Marble Statue of Nero, which falling kill'd a Child.
 
On Paula.
 
On an Ill Husband and Wife.
 
On Candidus, a rich Miser.
 
On Bassus a Pittifull Poet.
 
On a Boy kill'd by the fall of an Icesicle.
 
On Nestor a whisperer.
 
On Martinia, an old, old, leacherous—
 
On Philomuse, a needy Newesmonger.
 
On Aulus a Poet-Hater.
 
On Lentinus, being troubled with an Ague.
 
To Priscus.
 
On Phœbus that wore leather Caps.
 
On Horace a poor fellow.
 
On a Swallow torn in Peeces by her Fellowes.
 
To Apollo pursuing Daphne.
 
De Erotio Puella.
 
On Mancinus a Prating Braggart.
 
On Picens.
 
On Caius, one of large Promises, but small Performances.
 
To Posthumus, an Ill Liver.
 
To Thelesinus.
 
On Cinna a bold Suter.
 
The happy life. To Julius Martialis.
 
Epitaphium Glauciæ.
 
To Sextus.
 
To Maximus.
 
To Stella.
 
On Parthenopæus.
 
On Philænus.
 
The Choice of his Mistris.
 
To Sextus.
 
On Baucis, an old drunken Crone.
 
On Captain Ansa, a bragging Run-away.
 
To Fuscus.
 
On Marcus Anton: Primus his Picture.
 
Horat.
 
Ad Puellam edentulam.
 
Epitaph on an old drunken Crone.
 
On Bibinus, a notorious Drunkard.
 
On poor Codrus, who though blind, was yet in Love.
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ETHICA
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Ausonii Ludus septem Sapientum.
 
The Prologue.
 
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The Sentences of those seven Sages, comprehended in as many Septenaries.
 
Amphion, or a City well ordered.
 
Vertue improv'd by suffering.
 
To Mr Stanley, on his unimitable Poems.
 
On his Translation of Oronta.
 
To Mr James Shirley, on his Way of Grammer explained in English Verse.
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SACRA
 
To the Eternall WISEDOME:
 
Draw Me, and I will follow Thee.
 
If a Man should give all the substance of his House for Love, he would value it as nothing
 
And they laid him in a Manger.
 
On the Innocents slain by Herod.
 
Christo Smarrito.
 
Christus Mathæum & discipulos alloquitur.
 
Conscience.
 
And she washed his Feet with her Teares, and wiped them with the Hairs of her Head.
 
Good Fryday.
 
Mary Magdalen weeping under the Cross.
 
On the Receiving of the blessed Sacrament.
 
The Message.
 
The Fountain.
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PRINTED POEMS from Books by Various Authors
 
To his Ingenious friend Mr. Charles Aleyn, on this his learned Poem.
 
To his loving brother M. John Sherburn on his Translation of OVIDS Heroicall Epistles.
 
To the unfading Memory of the Lord Horatio Veere deceased.
 
The Graces, or Hieron
 
On the publication of the Posthume Poems of M. William Cartwright, sometime Student of Christ-Church in Oxon.
 
On Ælian his Various History, Translated into English by Mr Thomas Stanley, the hopeful and onely Son of my dearest Friend Thomas Stanley of Cumberlow, Esquire.
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MANUSCRIPT POEMS, FRAGMENTS, DRAFTS.
 
[Lines on Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses]
 
[Fragment I]
 
[So dying Swans in Heliconian Plaines]
 
[Epigram I]
 
[Fragment II]
 
[Christ Crucified]
 
[Epigram II]
 
[Take Dardan what from dying Dido past.]
 
The Beginning of Virgils Third Booke
 
[Now Night befriending; fir'd with Lust and Wine]
 
[Haveing past cloudy Nava's rapid Stream]
 
[Of an old Law past Times Repeale, Wee read]
 
[The Best of Elements is Water; Gold]
 
[Fragment III]
 
[Fragment IV]
 
[Epigram III]
 
[Fragment V]
 
[Epigram IV]
 
[Epigram V]
 
[Epigram VI]
 
[Men from ye Sea, fish from ye Earth might rise]
 
[Lines on the Death of Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle, shot at Colchester on 28 August, 1648]
 
[Lines on Ovids Heroical Epistles]

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The Choice of his Mistris.

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Mart. l. [11]. Epigr. [100].

I would not have a VVench with such a VVaste
As might be well with a Thumb-Ring embrac'd;
VVhose bony Hips, which out on both sides stick,
Might serve for Graters, and whose lean Knees prick;
One, which a saw does in her back-Bone bear,
And in her Rump below carries a Spear.
Nor would I have her yet of Bulk so grosse
That weigh'd should break the Scales at th'market-cross;
A meer unfathom'd lump of Grease; no, that
Like they that will; 'tis Flesh I love, not Fat.
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