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Streams from Helicon

Or, Poems On Various Subjects. In Three Parts. By Alexander Pennecuik ... The Second Edition. Enter'd in Stationer's Hall
Pennecuik, Alexander
  
[epigraph]
  
[dedication]

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[Part I.]
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BEAUTY IN DISTRESS.
  
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SONG.
  
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On a fair Lady,
  
ON THE RUINS OF Wallace's Tree In the TORWOOD.
  
To the Nine Muses,
  
To Sir Richard Steele,
  
An amorous Epistle from the Abbot Bothwell,
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The Spider and the Gout.
  
[prologue]
  
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[epilogue]
  
MORAL.
  
A DIALOGUE BETWIXT A Sea-Man and a Taylor.
  
Duke of Buckinghan's Jest on Dr. Barrow,
  
Mr. HERRON'S Memorable Saying when Dying.
  
Chancellor Hyde's Jest, ON Dr. Bull the famous Jester:
  
TO My honour'd Friend Dr. P---k,
  
A Farewell to CELIA going to the North.
  
A MARRIAGE BETWIXT
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ON CORINNA
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PART I.
 II. 
PART II.
  
MERRY TALES FOR THE Lang Nights of Winter,
  
Jotham's Parable:
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[Part II]
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SONG OF SONGS:
  
[dedication]
  
[Let me behold thy reconciled Face]
  
[O Glory to the King, who's Favour I have sought]
  
Unto the learn'd and pious Paraphraser of the Canticles, AND Author of the following sacred Composures.
  
CHORUS FIDELIUM.
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SONG OF SONGS
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DIALOGUE I. PROLOGUE.
  
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DIALOGUE II.
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DIALOGUE III.
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DIALOGUE IV.
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DIALOGUE V.
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DIALOGUE. VI.
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DIALOGUE. VII.
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DIALOGUE VIII.
  
A Sabbath-Days Thoughts UPON THE Love of Jesus.
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MEDITATIONS In Sickness, Upon several Texts of Scripture relating to the Resurrection.
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MEDITATION I.
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MEDITATION II.
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MEDITATION III.
  
A DISCRIPTION OF THE Person of Jesus Christ,
  
On Devout Dorinda,
  
On a fair Lady,
  
THE Fair MAID OF DUMBLAIN.
  
A SONG To the Tune of Morning O Geberland.
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PART III.
  
[epigraph]
  
A Morning Walk TO ARTHUR's SEAT, On the First Day of May.
  
THE AMOURS OF Polyndus and Ardella.
  
THE Mourning Muse,

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In Days of Old, when Kenneth rul'd the Nation,
And Trews and naked Buttocks were in Fashion,
Maids did not Fence their Bums with Ribs of Whales
But just as Nature made them wore their T---ls.
The Scope of all love Tales and am'rous Charms
Is to have naked Meg claspt in our Arms.
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