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Certain Elegant Poems

Written by Dr Corbet

Corbet, Richard (1582-1635)

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On Bishop Ravis.

On Doctor Corbets Father.

On the death of Master Rice Manciple of Christ-Church.

To his sonne Vincent Corbet.

An Elegy on the late Lord William Howard, Baron of Effingham, dead the 10 of December, 1615.

An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls.

Upon Mistris Mallet.

On great Tom of Christ-Church.

On John Dawson Butler of Christ Church, Doctor Corbet.

Doctor Corbet against the Anniversarist.

A Letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailebury, Decem. 9. 1618.

Doctor Corbet to the Lord Mordant.

To the Duke of Buckingham.

Upon the death of the Lady Haddington dying of the Small Pox.

A proper new Ballad, intituled The Fairies farewel, or God a mercy Will, to be sung or whistled, to the tune of the Medow Brow by the learned, by the unlearned to the tune of Fortune.

To the Ghost of Rob. Wisdome.

An Epitaph on Tho. Jonce.

On the Earl of Dorsets Death.

On Henry Bolings.

The Authors Answer.

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An Epitaph on Tho. Jonce.

Here for the nonce
Came Thomas Jonce,
In St. Jileses Church to lye.

None Welch before,
None Welshman more,
Till Shon Clerk dye.

Ile tole the Bell,
Ile ring his Knell;
He dyed well,
He's saved from Hell:
And so farewell
Tom Jonce.