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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.

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In allusion to the French-Song. N'entendez vous pas ce language.

Love Inthron'd.

A Black patch on Lucasta's Face.

Lucasta at the Bath.

Courante Monsieur.

A loose Saraband.

Love made in the first Age:

To a Lady withchild that ask'd an Old Shirt.

Cupid far gone.

A Fly caught in a Cobweb.

A Fly about a Glasse of Burnt Claret.

Lute and Voice.

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.

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.

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Sanazar's Hexastick.

[In Adriatick waves when Neptune saw]

[In Virgilium. Pentadii] In English.

[De Scævola] Englished.

[Pentadii] Englished.

To Marcus T. Cicero.

[Portii Licinii.] Englished.

[Senecæ ex Cleanthe.] Englished.

[Quinti Catuli.] Englished.

The Asse eating the Æneids.

[Auso. lib. Epig.] Englished.

[Auso. lib. Epig.] Englished.

[Auso. lib.I. Epig.] Englished.

To the same Ayre in English, thus

Theophile being deny'd his addresses to King James, turned the Affront, to his own glory, in this Epigram.

[Avieni v.c. ad amicos.] Englished.

[Ad Fabullum. Catul. lib.I. Ep.13.] Englished.

[Mart. lib.I. Epi.14.] Englished.

[Mart. Epi.43. lib.I.] In English.

[Mart. Ep.15. lib.6.] Englished.

[Mar. lib.4. Ep.33.] In English.

[Mart. lib.8. Ep.19.] In English

In an English Distick.

Female Inconstancy.

[Ad Lesbiam, Cat. Ep.73.] Englished.

[In Lesbiam Cat. Ep.76.] Englished.

To Quintius.

[De Quintia & Lesbia. Ep.87.] Englished.

[De Suo in Lesbiam amore Ep.88.] Englished.

[Ad Sylonam Ep.104.] Englished.

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ELEGIES SACRED To the Memory of the AUTHOR:

To the Memory of my Worthy Friend, Coll. Richard Lovelace.

Upon the Posthume and precious Poems of the nobly extracted Gentleman Mr. R. L.

An Elegie, Sacred to the Memory of my late Honoured Friend, Collonell Richard Lovelace.

To his noble friend Capt. Dudley Lovelace, upon his Edition of his Brothers Poems.

On the truly Honorable Coll. Richard Lovelace, occasioned by the Publication Of his Posthume-Poems.

On the Death of my Dear Brother.

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To Quintius.

Quintius if you'll endear Catullus eyes,
Or what he dearer then his eyes doth prize,
Ravish not what is dearer then his eyes,
Or what he dearer then his eyes doth prize.