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Love's Dialect

or; Poeticall Varieties; Digested Into a Miscelanie of various fancies. Composed by Tho. Iordan

Jordan, Thomas (1612?-1685?)

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To Mr. Thomas Jordan on his Fancies.

To his Friend the Author Mr. Thomas Jordan, on his Varieties.

On my Friend and adopted sonne Mr. Thomas Jordan the Infant-Poet of our Age.

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POETICALL VARIETIES.

A Gentleman in love with twenty Mistresses.

A Gentleman's deploration for his Mistresse, falling from Vertue.

To his Mistrisse Philonella, being at her Looking-glasse.

To Clora a farewell, once his coy Mistresse.

To Leda his coy Bride, on the Bridall Night.

A Paradox on his Mistresse, who is cole Blacke, Blinde, Wrinckled, Crooked and Dumbe.

A Dialogue betwixt Castadorus and Arabella in bed.

To his faithlesse Mistresse Vxoria.

To her perjur'd Love Maritus, her dishonorer.

A vow to his inestimable Mistresse.

A Dialogue betweene Icarus and surprized Phillida.

Loves progresse.

To his most excellent Mistresse, Avis Booth.

Achrostick to his Mistresse.

A Gentleman desirous to have his Lady's Picture drawne, describes her thus.

Chaste Love sitting under a Grove of yong Bay-trees, is thus solicited by Lust.

What a Whore is.

An abused Man: Quasi, a Cuccold.

Lust loseth all.

A Dialogue betwixt Adversus and his Mistresse the Lady Contra.

Rara Avis in terr is nigroque Similima Cigno.

To his Mistris Elizabeth Brooke.

A Dialogue betwixt Fidelius and his Silent Mistris Flora.

A Ladies Complaint for the losse of her Love Theodorus.

A Morall Eclogue presented by Vertue, Wealth, and Beauty.

The complaint of an old Lady for the losse of her beauty.

A Gentleman deploring his former follies.

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ELEGIACK POEMS.

An Elegie on his Inestimable friend, Mr. Richard Gunnell, Gent.

An Epitaph on his kind friend, Mr. Iohn Honiman, Gent.

An Elegie on Mr. Iohn Raven, Gent.

An Elegie on his beloved friend Mr. Charles Rider, Student in the Art of Limning, or Picture-drawing.

An Elegie on the death of a Male-child drown'd in Ice.

An Elegie and Epitaph on his Mistresse Fidelia.

An Epicedium on his Mistresse Arbella.

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A Dialogue betweene Icarus and surprized Phillida.

Phil.
Pretty sweete one looke on me
Faine I would thy captive be,
Bound by thee is libertie.

Icar.
Be not so unkindly wise
For your lookes will bribe my eyes
To divulge where my heart lyes.

Phil.
If they doe, thou needst not feare,
By my innocence I sweare,
Ile but place another there.

Icar.
Thats my feare I dare not prove
Nor my resolution move,
Cause I know you are in love.

Phil.

Lov'd Icarus and if I be
I know I cannot injure thee,
Love and beauty will agree.

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Oh you doe my hearing wrong,
I have turn'd my eyes thus long
To be captiv'd by your tongue.

Then my houres are happy spent,
If my tongue give such content
It shall be thy Instrument.

But be sure you use it then
Thus unto no other men,
Left that I grow deafe agen.