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The Shorter Poems of Ralph Knevet

A Critical Edition by Amy M. Charles
Knevet, Ralph (1600-1671)

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ΣΤΡΑΤΙΩΤΙΚΟΝ.
  
[dedication]
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[3] To his friend the Author.
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[4] To any to whom I write.
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[5] To the same.
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[6] To Captaine HENRY SHELTON.
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[7] To Mr. THOMAS KNEVET of Ashwell Thorpe.
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[8] To Sir ROGER TOWNSEND.
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[9] To Sir CHARLES LE-GROSSE.
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[10] To Sir JOHN HARE.
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[11] To Sir WILLIAM YELVERTON of Ruffham.
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[12] To Sir MILES HOBART Knight of the Bathe.
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[13] To Sir JOHN HENNINGHAM.
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[14] To Sir HEYMAN LE-STRANGE.
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[15] To Sir THOMAS SOUTHWELL.
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[16] To Sir THOMAS WOODHOUSE.
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[17] To Sir THOMAS RICHARDSON.
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[18] To Sir ROBERT GAUDY.
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[19] To Sir DRU DRURY.
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[20] To Sir JOHN HOBART.
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[21] To Sir ROBERT BELL.
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[22] To Sir WILLIAM DE-GRAY.
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[23] To Mr. FRAMMINGHAM GAUDY.
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[24] To Mr. SHEPHERD of Kyrby.
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[25] To Mr. WEBBE of Breckles.
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[26] To Mr. ANTHONY HOBART of Hales.
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[27] To Mr. PHILIP WOODHOUSE.
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[28] To Mr. WILLIM POSTON of Paston.
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[29] To Mr. PETTIE of Morley.
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[30] To Mr. JOHN HOLLAND.
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[31] To Mr. BARTHOLOMEW COTTON.
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[32] To Mr. THOMAS WARDE of Bixley.
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[33] To Mr. THOMAS LAYER of Booton.
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[34] To Mr. JAMES CALTHORP.
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[35] To Mr. WILLIAM BLADWELL.
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[36] To Mr. RAPH BLEVER-HASSIT.
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[37] To Mr. CLEMENT HYRNE.
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[38] To Mr. EDMUND KNEVET.
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[39] To Mr. AUSTINE HOLLE.
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[40] To Mr. EDWARD WOOTTON.
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[41] To Mr. EDWARD DOILY.
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[42] To Mr. JOHN CRUSO.
  
A DISCOURSE OF MILITARIE DISCIPLINE.
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[43]. A Threnode
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[44] Upon the death of Sir RALPHE SHELTON.
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RHODON AND IRIS.
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FUNERALL ELEGIES;
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A GALLERY TO THE TEMPLE.

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[6] To Captaine HENRY SHELTON.

If many yeeres in honours service spent;
If vertues suting with a brave descent,
Can give true lustre to a Name; then thine
May seeme least to require a Verse of mine.
To give thy worth just height: yet Time displayes
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Many fine heads, that oft have earnd the bayes
In these and meaner taskes: for fame must know
She cannot pay those glories, shee doth owe
To great and good deserts, except some aides
Be sent her from the nine Castalian maides.
Had Homer (whom seven Cities strove to owne)
Not beene; then who had great Achilles knowne,
Or Hector in these times. Then let none blame
My Muse, although shee beares a part with fame
In thy due prayse; whether shee doth commend
Thy truest valour, that did alway tend
To noblest ends, or praise those honest Arts
With which thou didst attract the Souldiers Darts.
Nor art thou lesse expert to live belov'd
In Peace, then Warre: to love thee all are mov'd
By thy humanitie, and pietie.
Then let detraction foule and calumnie
Be alway Dumbe: and let the World know ever,
Thou maist be envy'd much, but flattered never.
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