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The Works of William Fowler

Secretary to Queen Anne, Wife of James VI. Edited with introduction, appendix, notes and glossary by Henry W. Meikle
Fowler, William (1560?-1612)

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POEMS FROM PRINTED TEXTS
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THE TRIVMPHS OF PETRARKE
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THE TARANTULA OF LOUE
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[A SONNET-SEQUENCE]
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OF DEATH
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MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS
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CERTAINE PSALMES MEDITATED BE THEODORE BEZA
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THE PEST
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS OF DOUBTFUL AUTHENTICITY
 I. 
I. ODE.
 II. 
II. PASTORELL.
 III. 
III. EPIGRAME.
 IV. 
IV. ELIGYE.
 V. 
V. EPIGRAME.
 VI. 
VI. EPIGRAME.
 VII. 
VII. [My dolefull harte, the tombe of deadly care.]
 VIII. 
VIII. EPIGRAME.
 IX. 
IX. ELIGYE.
 X. 
X. [If tyme might cause me tyre.]
 XI. 
XI. [Thoughe tyme & absence worketh wonders strange.]
 XII. 
XII. BALLAD.
 XIII. 
XIII. SONET.
 XIV. 
XIV. SONETT.
 XV. 
XV. ELEGYE.
 XVI. 
XVI. SONETT.
 XVII. 
XVII. SONETT.
 XVIII. 
XVIII. ELEGYE.
 XIX. 
XIX. 4 SONET. HARUEST.
 XX. 
XX. SONGE.
 XXI. 
XXI. SONET.
 XXII. 
XXII. SONET VPPON HOPE HELPS HEVYE HARTES.
 XXIII. 
XXIII. ENIGME.
 XXIV. 
XXIV. ELIGYE.
 XXV. 
XXV. HIMPNE.
 XXVI. 
XXVI. HIS LADIES DREAME.
 XXVII. 
XXVII. ELEGYE.
 XXVIII. 
XXVIII. [O well of witt, Of vertues head & springe.]
 XXIX. 
XXIX. ELEGYE.
 XXX. 
XXX. THE LASTE EPISTLE OF CRESEYD TO TROYALUS.
 XXXI. 
XXXI. [Whilst brazen bodies breathing flames of fire.]
 XXXII. 
XXXII. [What is beutie.]
 XXXIII. 
XXXIII. [Be as thow seemst, faire creature.]
 XXXIV. 
XXXIV. [If when I die to hells eternall shade.]
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POEMS ADDRESSED TO THE AUTHOR.

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XI. [Thoughe tyme & absence worketh wonders strange.]

Thoughe tyme & absence worketh wonders strange,
And ‘out of sight forgott’ to often trewe,
Thoughe frowarde Fortune sowethe cause of change,
And sondry sightes engendreth fancyes new,
Yet otherwyse my steidfast mynde shall shew:
For one alone with me is in eche parte,
And she alone contentes my constant harte.
If I with bewtye seik my mynde to ease,
Whom should I wish but she that is my choyse?
If comly grace & wisdome may me please,
Who ought but she to haue the vulgar voyce?
And as I iustlye cause haue to reioyce
That she in vertue farr exceides the reste,
So shall my truthe to hir surmownt the best.
And as my harte is wholly to hir bent,
So hope assures me happy happ for hyre,
That when that tyme & Fortune shall assent,
My chance shall present me my hartes desyre.
Thoughe tyme against me semes for to conspyre,
And crewell absence threates me with disdaine,
Yet sweit remembrance comfortes me againe.
Finis.
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