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The poems of George Daniel

... From the original mss. in the British Museum: Hitherto unprinted. Edited, with introduction, notes, and illustrations, portrait, &c. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart: In four volumes
Daniel, George (1616-1657)

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VOL. I.
  
Portraits of the Author and his Brother.
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POEMS Written upon Severall Occasions.
  
Coat of Arms and Portrait.
  
An Addresse By the Author:
  
To his honoured friend ye authour vpon his Poems.
  
Vpon a Reviewe of Virgil, translated by Mr. Ogilby.
  
A Vindication of Poesie.
  
To Time and Honour.
  
A Pastorall Ode; The Eglogue is Lost.
  
The Spring.
  
The Difference.
  
Parted, per pale.
  
Woman Charactred.
  
Silvia revolted.
  
Scorne returned.
  
Supplanted.
  
To Nicotiana. A Rapture.
  
The farewell.
  
An Epode.
  
To the Memorie of the most worthy and excellently vertuous Ladie The Ladie Alford.
  
To: D: i
  
To the Memorie of the Best Dramaticke English Poet
  
Vpon Ben Ionson's Booke.
  
To my Muse.
  
Wounded.
  
The Dedication of a Poem, now lost; written in the Royall Expedition against the Scotts.
  
This was placed in the End of the Same Poeme.
  
One desiring me to read, but slept it out; Wakening.
  
One boasting himselfe Iudge of pure Witt.
  
Reversed
  
Ænigma.
  
Fame.
  
Agonie.
  
An Essay;
  
Prevention!
  
The many Scurrile Pamphlets (going vnder the name of Poems,) frequently printed; occasion'd this.
  
Vpon a late printed Booke Entituled:
  
A Strange Maye.
  
When the Cloud of Calamitie, had somewhile overspread vs, and the whole Kingdome plunged in warre
  
After a storme, going a hawking.
  
Freedome.
  
Vanitie.
  
Proportion.
  
The Userper.
  
The Magazine.
  
A Pause.
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Love Platonicke
  
[epigraph]
  
To Cinthia; coying it.
  
To Cinthia Converted.
  
Cinthia confirmed.
  
To the Platonicke pretender.
  
Pure Platonicke.
  
Court-Platonicke.
  
Anti-Platonicke.
  
To the Sweet feminine Platonicks.
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Vervicensis:
  
Vervicensis.
  
To the Memorie of the great Earle of Warwicke
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“The Genius of this Great and glorious Ile.”
  
[subsection]
  
“The Genius of this Great and glorious Ile.”
  
To the Reader of Doctor Brown's booke Entituled Pseudodoxia Epidemica.
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Some Poemes; Written vpon Severall occasions, By the Same Author.
  
To the Tombe of Thomas Earl of Strafford.
  
An Elegie To the Memorie of the trulie Noble and my worthie Freind, Sr William Alforde Knt:
  
To honour the Memorie of Loyaltie & Courage eminentlie glorious in: Sir T: M
  
To the honour of Sr: M: L: Commrd: in Ch': at the Releife of P'.
  
Vpon an excellent Treatise Written by T: B: D: M: called Religio Medici
  
To my honored Cozen P: Cr: Esqr. an Affectionate Invitation
  
To the Memorie of the Excellent Dramatique English Poets; Mr. Fra: Beaumont & Mr. Io: Fletcher;
  
Sent to my dearest Brother Sexto Septembr, 1648: by Rt: Ta
  
An Ode Vpon the incomparable Liricke Poesie Written by Mr. George Herbert;
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VOL. II.
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Scattered Fancies;
  
Carmen Protrepticon; Lectori
 I. 
ODE I
 II. 
ODE II
 III. 
ODE III.
 IV. 
ODE IV.
 V. 
ODE V.
 VI. 
ODE VI.
 VII. 
ODE VII.
 VIII. 
ODE VIII.
 IX. 
ODE IX.
 X. 
ODE X.
 XI. 
ODE XI.
 XII. 
ODE XII.
 XIII. 
ODE XIII.
 XIV. 
ODE XIV.
 XV. 
ODE XV.
 XVI. 
ODE XVI.
 XVII. 
ODE XVII.
 XVIII. 
ODE XVIII.
 XIX. 
ODE XIX.
 XX. 
ODE XX.
 XXI. 
ODE XXI.
 XXII. 
ODE XXII.
 XXIII. 
ODE XXIII.
 XXIV. 
ODE XXIV.
 XXV. 
ODE XXV.
 XXVI. 
ODE XXVI.
 XXVII. 
ODE XXVII.
 XXVIII. 
ODE XXVIII.
 XXIX. 
ODE XXIX.
 XXX. 
ODE XXX.
 XXXI. 
ODE XXXI.
 XXXII. 
ODE XXXII.
 XXXIII. 
ODE XXXIII.
 XXXIV. 
ODE XXXIV.
 XXXV. 
ODE XXXV.
 XXXVI. 
ODE XXXVI.
 XXXVII. 
ODE XXXVII.
 XXXVIII. 
ODE XXXVIII.
 XXXIX. 
ODE XXXIX.
 XL. 
ODE XL.
 XLI. 
ODE XLI.
 XLII. 
ODE XLII.
 XLIII. 
ODE XLIII.
 XLIV. 
ODE XLIV.
 XLV. 
ODE XLV.
 XLVI. 
ODE XLVI.
 XLVII. 
ODE XLVII.
 XLVIII. 
ODE XLVIII.
 XLIX. 
ODE XLIX.
 L. 
ODE L.
 LI. 
ODE LI.
 LII. 
ODE LII.
 LIII. 
ODE LIII.
 LIV. 
ODE LIV.
 LV. 
ODE LV.
 LVI. 
ODE LVI.
 LVII. 
ODE LVII.
 LVIII. 
ODE LVIII.
 LIX. 
ODE LIX.
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FURTHER POEMS.
  
To Mr. Ogilby:
  
The Author;
  
[Portrait of the Author.]
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ΙΙΟΛΥΛΟΓΙΑ;
  
An Ecloge Spoken by Amintas and Strephon.
  
An Ecloge: Spoken by Mælibeus and Dorilus.
  
An Ecloge: Spoken by Halon and Eudœmon
  
An Ecloge: Spoken by Damon and Amintas.
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An Ecloge: Spoken by Hilas and Strephon.
  
THE SONGE.
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Eclesiasticus:
  
The Induction to the worke.
 I. 
Cap. i.
 II. 
Chap. ii.
 III. 
Chap. iii.
 IV. 
Chap. iv.
 V. 
Chap. v.
 VI. 
Chap. vi.
 VII. 
Chap. vii.
 VIII. 
Chap. viii.
 IX. 
Chap. ix.
 X. 
Chap. x.
 XI. 
Chap. xi.
 XII. 
Chap. xii.
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VOL. III. VOL. IV.
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Eclesiasticus.
 XIII. 
Chap. xiii.
 XIV. 
Chap. xiv.
 XV. 
Chap. xv.
 XVI. 
Chap. xvi.
 XVII. 
Chap. xvii.
 XVIII. 
Chap. xviii.
 XIX. 
Chap. xix.
 XX. 
Chap. xx.
 XXI. 
Chap. xxi.
 XXII. 
Chap. xxii.
 XXIII. 
Chap. xxiii.
 XXIV. 
Chap. xxiv.
 XXV. 
Chap. xxv.
 XXVI. 
Chap. xxvi.
 XXVII. 
Chap. xxvii.
 XXVIII. 
Chap. xxviii.
 XXIX. 
Chap. xxix.
 XXX. 
Chap. xxx.
 XXXI. 
Chap. xxxi.
 XXXII. 
Chap. xxxii.
 XXXIII. 
Chap. xxxiii.
 XXXIV. 
Chap. xxxiv.
 XXXV. 
Chap. xxxv.
 XXXVI. 
Chap. xxxvi.
 XXXVII. 
Chap. xxxvii.
 XXXVIII. 
Chap. xxxviii.
 XXXIX. 
Chap. xxxix.
 XL. 
Chap. xl.
 XLI. 
Chap. xli.
 XLII. 
Chap. xlii.
 XLIII. 
Chap. xliii.
 XLIV. 
Chap. xliv.
 XLV. 
Chap. xlv.
 XLVI. 
Chap. xlvi.
 XLVII. 
Chap. xlvii.
 XLVIII. 
Cap. xlviii.
 XLIX. 
Chap. xlix.
 L. 
Chap. l.
 LI. 
Chap. li.
  
[epilogue]
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TRINARCHODIA
  
The Author vpon his Picture before these Poems.
  
Vpon the Frontispice.
  
Vpon the Picture of Richard the Second.
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The severall Raignes of Richard the Second Henrie the Fourth, & Henrie the Fifth
  
The Dedication.
  
To the Reader
  
The Generall Argument of this followinge TRINARCHODIA.
  
The Raigne of Richard the second.
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The Raigne of Henry the Fourth.
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The Raigne of Henrie the Fifth.
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[subsection]
  
Crastini Animarum.
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Idyllia.
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Idyllia: The Distemper.
  
The Illustration.
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Idyll I.
 2. 
Idyll 2.
 3. 
Idyll iii.
 4. 
Idyll 4.
 5. 
Idyll 5.
  
L' Envoy.
  
The Designe.
  
The Colouringe.
  
The Shadow
  
Proportion.
  
The Landskip.
  
The Ceremonie.
  
Vpon the Reading: a Booke, called the Life of Periskirus.
  
Vpon the Excellent Poems of Mr. George Herbert.
  
An Occasionall reflection
  
[Man yet a Stranger from ye Africke Side]

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To Time and Honour.

Faire Albion, of the world thou fairest Ile!
And thou Deare Yorkshire, thou my native Soyle,
My Nurse, my Mother; oh, how can I pay
My Gratitude? Muse! teach me what to Say;
How shall I praise thee most? let me looke backe
To former Ages, and I heare 'em Speake
With almost wonder; what prodigious name
Can boast he Saw, he went, and overcame,
ffurther then some of ours? Third Edward's Son,
Son of brave Sire! how did he overrun
The face of ffrance? and Victorie Create
In his owne fortune; pardon, if I say't,
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Hee was not Second to those names wee heare
Pronounc'd with Admiration and ffeare;
Not that Great Alexander, nor the name
Of Punicke Hannibal, nor Cæsar's ffame,
Outshine his Glories; had he seene a Day
As large in Time, he'd beene as great as they;
Him Shall I praise? or his brave father most?
Or his great Grandsire? or of Richard boast?
That Richard Lion's-heart; and from that Stemme
Bring downe the Glorie, to fifth Harrie's name,
Or the fowerth Edward; these and many more
(Though not in ffame) in Blood-inferior,
Might I repeat; but better let them goe
To swell huge Chronicle in ffolio.
How shall I praise thee most? in thy full peace!
Thy nat'rall Bounties, and the large increase
Which everie yeare forth brings; thy inborne wealth,
Thy selfe-existence, where wee need noe Stealth
Of Marchants to enrich vs; but might rest
Safe in our Selves, with native bounties blest;
Shall I praise one, or All? for All are thine.
Noe more will I admire the Southerne Shine,
Nor Easterne perfumes, nor the wealth o'th' west;
But thinke thee fairest, Sweetest, richest, Best;
fforgetting Chaucer, and Dan Lidgate's Rhime;
Loe here, the Glorie of our modern time,
A learnèd Age; Since great Elizae's reigne
And peace came in; the proud Italian
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And iustly proud in Poesie, will allow
The English (though not Equall) next him now.
The noble Sidney, crown'd with liveing Bayes;
And Spencer, cheif, (if a peculiar praise
May pass, and from the rest not derogate)
The learnèd Jonson, whose Dramaticke State
Shall stand admir'd Example, to reduce
Things proper, to the light, or buskind Muse.
Many the present Age afford, of which
Heare ffalkland, Digbie, Beaumond, Carew, Rich,
In their Composures Severall; with whom
Maye, Allein, Randolph, Shirley, Rutter come;
Sons of thy wombe all these; with whom may I
(Though in a weake and humble Poesie)
Thy glories Celebrate, and quitt the Score
Nature obligeth me; I aske noe more.
Not that I covet fame; let those high names
Inherite all the Glorie of their Thames,
And live to many ages, though I fall,
In scornèd Dust, and have noe name at all:
Suffice it I may sing vpon thy flood,
Neglected Humber; or my Muse (lesse proud)
Sport in the Sedges of my neighbouring Streame,
Poore as my verse, neither deserving name.
And may the village where I had my birth
Enclose as Due, my Bodie in her Earth.
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