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With a Taste of the Variety of Other Poems, Left by Sir John Beaumont ... Set Forth by his Sonne, Sir Iohn Beaumont

Beaumont, John (1583-1627)

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An Elegy to the liuing memory of his deceased Friend, Sir Iohn Beaumont, Knight, Baronet.

An Elegy, dedicated to the memory of his much honoured friend, Sir Iohn Beaumont, Knight and Baronet.

To the worthy Muse of his Noble Friend, Sir Iohn Beaumont, Knight Baronet.

A Congratulation to the Muses, for the immortalizing of his deare Father, by the sacred Vertue of Poetry.

Vpon the following Poems of my deare Father, Sir Iohn Beaumont, Baronet, deceased.

Vpon these Poems of his dearest Brother, Sir Iohn Beaumont, Baronet.

On the honor'd Poëms of his honored Friend, Sir Iohn Beaumont, Baronet.

To the deare Remembrance of his Noble Friend, Sir Iohn Beaumont, Baronet.

Vpon the Honored Poems of his Vnknowne Friend, Sir Iohn Beaumont, Baronet.

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Bosworth Field:

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An expression of Sibylls Acrostichs.

Virgil. Eclog. 4.

An Epigram concerning Mans life composed by Crates, or Posidippus.

The answer of Metrodorus.

Horat. Lib. 2. Sat. 6.

Horat. Carm. Lib. 3. Od. 29.

Avson. Idyll. 16.

Claudians Epigram of the old man of Verona.

Vpon the two great Feasts of the Annunciation and Resurrection falling on the same day,

Of the Epiphany.

Of the Transfiguration of our Lord.

On Ascension day.

An Ode of the blessed Trinitie.

A Dialogue betweene the World, a Pilgrim, and Vertue.

An act of Contrition.

In spirituall comfort.

An Act of Hope.

Of the miserable state of Man.

Of true Liberty.

Against inordinate loue of Creatures.

Against abused Loue.

A description of Loue.

The Shepherdesse.

On the Anniversary day of his Maiesties reigne ouer England, March the 24.

A thanksgiuing for the deliuerance of our Soueraigne, King Iames, from a dangerous accident, Ianuary 8.

To his late Maiesty, concerning the true forme of English Poetry.

To the glorious memory of our late Soueraigne Lord, King Iames.

A Panegyrick at the Coronation of our Soueraigne Lord King Charles.

Of the Princes iourney.

Of the Princes departure and returne.

Of the Princes most happy returne.

Vpon the anniuersary day of the Princes return October the fifth.

To the most illustrious Prince Charles, of the excellent vse of Poems.

An Epithalamium vpon the happy marriage of our Soueraigne Lord King Charles, and our gracious Lady Queene Mary.

At the end of his Maiesties first yeere.

An Epithalamium to my Lord Marquesse of Buckingham, and to his faire and vertuous Lady.

Of his Maiesties vow for the felicity of my Lord Marquesse of Buckingham.

My Lord of Buckinghams welcome to the King at Burley.

A Congratulation to my Lord Marquesse of Buckingham, at the Birth of his Daughter.

Of true Greatnesse:

Vpon my Lord of Buckinghams Armes.

Vpon my Lord of Buckinghams Shield at a Tilting, his Impresse being a Bird of Paradise.

To the Duke of Buckingham at his returne from Spaine.

To the Duke of Buckingham.

To my gracious Lord, the Duke of Buckingham, vpon the birth of his first Sonne.

Vpon the Earle of Couentryes departure from vs to the Angels.

To my Lord Vicount Purbeck: a Congratulation for his health.

To the memory of the faire and thrice vertuous Gentlewoman, Mistris Elizabeth Neuell.

Of the truly Noble and Excellent Lady, the Lady Marquesse of Winchester.

Vpon his Noble Friend, Sir William Skipwith.

An Epitaph vpon my deare Brother, Francis Beaumont.

Of my deare Sonne, Geruase Beaumont.

Teares for the death of the truly Honourable, the Lord Chandos.

Vpon the vntimely death of the Honourable, hopefull young Gentleman, Edward Stafford, Sonne and Heire to the Lord Stafford.

To the Memory of the Learned and Religious, Ferdinando Pulton, Esquire.

To the immortall memory of the fairest and most vertuous Lady, the Lady Clifton.

Vpon the death of the most noble Lord Henry, Earle of Southampton, 1624.

An Epitaph vpon that hopefull young Gentleman, the Lord Wriothesley.

Ivvenal. Sat. 10.

A funerall Hymne out of Prudentius.

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Teares for the death of the truly Honourable, the Lord Chandos.

Let him whose lines a priuate losse deplore,
Call them to weepe, that neuer wept before;
My griefe is more audacious: giue me one
Who eu'ry day hath heard a dying grone.
The subiect of my verses may suffice
To draw new teares from dry and weary eyes.
We dare not loue a man, nor pleasure take
In others worth for noble Chandos sake:
And when we seeke the best with reasons light,
We feare to wish him longer in our sight.
Time had increast his vertue and our woe,
For sorrow gathers weight by comming slow:
Should him the God of life, to life restore
Againe, we lose him, and lament the more.
If Mortals could a thousand liues renew,
They were but shades of death which must insue.
Our gracious God hath fitter bounds assign'd,
And earthly paines to one short life confin'd;
Yet when his hand hath quench'd the vitall flame,
It leaues some cinders of immortall fame.

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At these we blow, and (like Prometheus) striue
By such weake sparkes, to make dead clay aliue:
Breath flyes to ayre, the body falls to ground;
And nothing dwels with vs but mournfull sound.
O, might his honor'd Name liue in my Song,
Reflected as with Ecchoes shrill and strong!
But when my lines of glorious obiects treate,
They should rise high, because the worke is great.
No Quill can paint this Lord, vnlesse it haue
Some tincture from his actions free and braue:
Yet from this height I must descend againe,
And (like the calme Sea) lay my Verses plaine,
When I describe the smoothnesse of his mind,
Where reasons chaines rebellious passions bind:
My Poem must in harmony excell,
His sweet behauiour and discourse to tell;
It should be deepe, and full of many Arts,
To teach his wisdome, and his happy parts.
But since I want these graces, and despaire
To make my Picture (like the patterne) faire;
These hasty strokes vnperfect draughts shall stand,
Expecting life from some more skilfull hand.