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Ostella Or the Faction of Love and Beauty Reconcil'd

By I. T. [i.e. John Tatham]
Tatham, John (fl. 1632-1664)

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[dedication]
 
[dedication]
 
The Book to the Reader.
 
Upon my first sight of OSTELLA.
 
My Resolution.
 
Ostella discribed.
 
In the Morning
 
To Ostella, an Advise before she send an Answer.
 
Ostella smiling.
 
To Ostella upon the pain of her Tooth-ach.
 
To Ostella upon the lamenting the death of her Sparrow.
 
Vpon the Sparrow.
 
A Summons to a Seige.
 
The Retreat.
 
Ostella's Kisse.
 
Returning to my Chamber at night to the Taper.
 
To Love.
 
To Ostella's Brother.
 
Ostella visiting me in time of Sicknesse.
 
My Scorn to Cupid, or Cupid ungodded.
 
Loves melancholly.
 
Ostella's Scorn.
 
To Ostella.
 
A Tempest.
 
To Death.
 
A Bird presented to Ostella.
 
Imagination.
 
Ostella saying she pittied me, but could not help me.
 
Reason.
 
Ostella saying, she would not say she did, could, nor would not Love me.
 
To Ostella my Choice.
 
Ostella Confessing She loved Me.
 
Ostella asking why: I loved Her.
 
The Nut to Ostella.
 
To Ostella.
 
The FACTION. To Ostella.
 
Ostella asking me how I liked a painted Lady came to see her.
 
Vpon my assurance of Ostella's Love.
 
Ostella veiled.
 
Ostella shewing me Verses sent to her by a friend of mine.
 
Ostella advising me to leave off drinking Wine.
 
To one asking how he should know my Mistresse.
 
My Vow to Ostella upon her doubting my faith.
 
Vpon an occasion; to Ostella, Of Jealousie.
 
Ostella forth of Town: To my Heart.
 
To the worst of Passions.
 
The Iealous Lovers, A Dialogue.
 
To my Thoughts.
 
To Ioy.
 
Ostella's Welcome to Town.
 
A Dialogue between Love and Honour.
 
Ostella weeping for my Imprisonment.
 
Ostella questioning of me concerning Clarinda, a former Mistress.
 
To Ostella upon her Reproving me and Councelling me from some Inconveniences.
 
Musick in the dead Season of the Night.
 
Ostella commanding my absence for a time.
 
To Time.
 
A Dialogue between Nature and Art.
 
To Ostella upon her saying she wonder'd how one S. B. got into preferment, and not I.
 
To Ostella, commending meeknesse of Spirit.
 
The Swallow.
 
Vpon my Departure.
 
DAPHNES.
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Occasional Copies upon several SUBJECTS.
 
To a Mistris that told me, I could not live without her Love.
 
To a simply Coy Mistress.
 
To an imperiously proud Mistress, swell'd with my Praises.
 
Vpon the acquaintance of a Gallant Gentlewoman. To my self.
 
Crying and Laughing.
 
To Meritricia.
 
To Mistress S. W.
 
To Silvia
 
To a timorously willing Mistress.
 
Vpon my Noble friend, Richard Lovelace Esquire, his being in Holland. An Invitation.
 
To a Mistresse that thinks the sight without other enjoyment is Love sufficient.
 
To a vertuous Lady, on whom Envy had thrown a Scandal, for which she Mourned, and hung her Chamber with Blacks.
 
Spying Splendora through a Casement.
 
My Friend Paul Squire.
 
Seeing a Lady ------
 
An Occasional Frolick to an unknown Friend.
 
To a Gentlewoman that Loved me, and I not her.
 
Another upon the same.
 
A Dialogue.
 
To ------
 
To a Mistresse that bid me make another Choice.
 
To my self.
 
To the Deceiving Mistress.
 
To Cupid
 
Lycoris a Rapture.
 
Lycoris weeping.
 
A Smile.
 
To Mrs. J. H. upon my recovery of a fit of sickness.
 
To Mrs. I. H. upon the sight of a Marble Coverture or Statue in the Church.
 
A Frown.
 
Vpon my leaving off the Company of Hellena.
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Songs in a Masque.
 
1 Song: Fortune Descending.
 
2 The poor Schollers Song.
 
3 Song. The Country-life.
 
4. Song. Ambition.
 
5. Song.
 
A Prologue spoken at the Cock-pit, at the coming of the Red-Bull Players thither.
 
A Prologue spoken at the Red-Bull to a Play called the Whisperer, or what you please.
 
On the Report of Master William Lawes his Death.
 
To my Mother, Mris. Dorothy Tatham, one of the Daughters of Christopher Percy of Manson in the County of Dorset, Esquire, then Iustice of Peace and Quorum, and High Sheriff of that County.
 
Vpon the Death of my Father.
 
Song.
 
To Cupid.
 
To the ------

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Ostella saying she pittied me, but could not help me.

Pitty without Relief is just
one on a sleevelesse Errand sent:
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That wanting what should Shape his trust
returns more simple than he went.
For, Naked Pitty brings but Cold
and heartless Comfort on his back,
It onely guilds the grief is told
and make us worse in what we lack.
Compassion bears a Sense with it,
as though it felt th' afflicted'st Grief,
Loves Messenger it's tearmed fit,
It never comes without relief.
But th'Pitty that proceeds from you,
adorns my Temples and my Eyes
With Wreaths of Roses mixt with Rue,
deckt onely up for Sacrifice,
And in the sweetnesse of that breath
You do but Musick forth my Death.
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