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Amorea, The Lost Lover

Or The Idea of Love and Misfortune. Being Poems, Sonets, Songs, Odes, Pastoral, Elegies, Lyrick Poems, and Epigrams. Never before printed. Written by Pathericke Jenkin

Jenkyn, Pathericke

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To his ever Honoured friend Mr P. I. on his Amorea.

To my dear friend Mr. P. J. on his Amorea.

To his Ingenious Friend Mr. P. J. on his Poems of the King's Return.

To his esteemed friend Mr. P. J. On his Poems.

To his Dear Brother, on his Amorea.

To my dear friend on his Amorea

To his Dear and ever honoured freind Mr. P. J. on his Poems.

To his dear and ever Honoured friend Mr. P. J. On his Poems.

To my dear friend on his Amorea.

To his ever friend Mr P. J. On his Poems.

To Mr P. J. on his Amorea.

To Amorea on his going to Sea.

His Inducement to Love.

To Amorea from Prison.

The Authors danger, and deliverance.

Hopeless Affection.

Under his Mistress's Picture.

On his departing.

A Fancie on Courting.

On the Curtain of his Mistress's Picture.

Writ on her Lute.

To his Dream.

Commanded to conceal his Love.

The Phenix.

Loves Elegie.

On his Quondum Mistress.

Hespelon, and Amorea.

On the five Senses.

Loves Liberty.

A Dream.

His complaint to the Groves.

To his Ingenuous Friend, J. P. Esq; on Limbing.

A Fancie.

A Contention between a Poet and a Limner.

A Pastorall Poem.

To Amorea on his going to Travell.

Writ at Sea.

To Cloris, imploring a revenge.

To Amorea walking in her Garden.

To Mr. James Sherley on his playes.

On the perfection of Beauty.

To his unconstant Mistress.

An Elegie on the Death of the Princess Royal.

To Phyla.

The difference between a Lute, and a Via

The Change.

To Amorea.

On the Inequalletie of Marraige.

On the Death of his Mistress.

On His Sacred MAJESTIES haypy Restauration.

To the most Honoured Sir James Smith Knight, On his many favours received.

To Celinda.

EPIGRAMS.

On a simple Gentleman which spake in dispraise of Poetry.

On a Deboist Scoller.

On a Coukold.

On a Duble Marraige

On a Zealous Brother.

On a Lawyer.

On a Shoemaker.

On Mistress Florella.

The Unfortunate Lover.

The Conclusion.

To his little Book.

On the Contents of his Book, to the Readers.

ERATA.

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The Conclusion.

Like to a Ship that now involv'd must be
In th'Abiss of all profundity,
When a Charibdiss sends a cruell Billow
To intimate his thundring neighbur Seilla,
To entertain the Wrack, or like a man
That just before his death, sings with the Swan:
So it is now with me; I Versefy,
And Carroll out my dying Tragedy.
'Twas Amorea, it was only she,
The sole effect of my lov'd destinie:
'Twas she alone that could the sentence give,
And after judgement grant a sweet reprieve;
'Twas she at first, that stole my liberty,
Making it captive, which was born free,
'Twas she that did command me for to prove,
And write the best of passions, which is Love:
'Twas she that set my senses all at strife,
'Tis she that can, but will not save a life,
'Tis she my thoughts have put in a confusion,
'Tis she presented me with this conclusion,
'Twa she that scorned such a love as mine is,
'Tis she hath gi'n my Love and Book a