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Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political

The Eighth Impression. With New and several other Additions Both in Prose and Verse Not Extant in the former Impressions. By Owen Felltham
Felltham, Owen (1602?-1668)
  
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The Face of the Book, Unmasked.
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LUSORIA:
  
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 I. 
I. True Happinesse.
 II. 
II. To the Lady D.S.
 III. 
III. The Sun and Wind.
 IV. 
IV. On the Duke of Buckingham slain by Felton, the 23. Aug. 1628.
 V. 
V. The Appeal.
 VI. 
VI. Elegie on Henry Earl of Oxford.
 VII. 
VII. On a Jewel given at parting.
 IX. 
IX. The Cause.
 X. 
X. The Vow-breach.
 XI. 
XI. The Sympathy.
 XII. 
XII. The Reconcilement.
 XIII. 
XIII. A Farewell.
 XIV. 
XIV. FUNEBRE VENETIANUM.
 XV. 
XV. An Epitaph on Robert Lord Spencer.
 XVI. 
XVI. The Spring in the Rock.
 XVII. 
XVII. The Amazement.
 XVIII. 
XVIII. An Epitaph on the Lady Mary Farmor.
 XIX. 
XIX. On a hopeful Youth.
 XX. 
XX. An Answer to the Ode of Come leave the loathed Stage, &c.
 XXI. 
XXI. To Phryne.
 XXII. 
XXII. To Mr. Dover on his Cotswold Games.
 XXIII. 
XXIII. On Sir Rowland Cotton, famous for Letters and other Parts.
 XXIV. 
XXIV. On a Gentlewoman, whose Nose was pitted with the Small Pox.
 XXV. 
XXV. Elegie on Mr. Fra. Leigh, who dyed of the Plague, May-day, 1637.
 XXVI. 
XXVI. SONG.
 XXVII. 
XXVII. Gunemastix.
 XXVIII. 
XXVIII. To the Painter taking the Picture of the Lady Penelope Countesse of Peterburgh.
 XXIX. 
XXIX. Upon a breach of Promise.
 XXX. 
XXX. To this written by a Gentlewoman, the Answer underneath was given.
 XXXI. 
XXXI. SONG.
 XXXII. 
XXXII. This ensuing Copy the late Printer hath been pleased to honour, by mistaking it among those of the most ingenious and too early lost, Sir John Suckling.
 XXXIII. 
XXXIII. SONG.
 XXXIV. 
XXXIV. Upon a rare Voice.
 XXXV. 
XXXV. Considerations of one design'd for a Nunnery.
 XXXVII. 
XXXVII. On Thomas Lord Coventry, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, who dyed Decemb. 1640.
 XXXVIII. 
XXXVIII. Upon Abolishing the Feast of the Nativity of our blessed Saviour, Anno 1643.
 XXXIX. 
XXXIX. On Mr. Mynshull.
 XL. 
XL. AN EPITAPH
 XLI. 
XLI. On the Lady E. M.

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XXII. To Mr. Dover on his Cotswold Games.

Summon'd by Fame (brave Dover) I can now
Tell what it was old Poets meant to show
In the feign'd stories of their Pegasus,
Muses and Mount, which they have left to us.
Nor need we wonder such a flow of years
Should roul away, when yet no light appears.
Since Prophesies and Fates predictions
Come to be known, and are fulfill'd at once.
So Delphos spake, and in a mystick fold
Hid that, at once which acted was and told.
What then was typ'd by Pegasus, but that
Proud Troup of fiery Coursers, muster'd at
Thy Cotswold? where like rapid spheres they hurld
Strain for a salt, the seasoning of the world.
Then the sagacious Hound, at losses mute
Alone, shews Natures Logick in pursuit.
But at thy other meeting, he is blind
That cannot Muses and their musick find:
Shewing that pleasure would be cold and dye,
Without converse and noble harmony.
The Ladies Muses are, there may you chuse
A Patronesse, each Mistresse is a Muse.
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Nor does Apollo's Harp e'r sound more high,
Than when 'tis vigour'd from a Ladies eye.
Now to complete the story, I do see
How future times will learn to title thee
That Youth'd Apollo: So Mount Helicon
Will Cotswold prove, which shall be fam'd alone,
And sacred all unto thy happy Name,
That long shall dwell in the fair voice of Fame.
For great thou must be: and as first, have prize,
Or else, as th'Exit of old Prophesies.
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