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The works of Sr William Davenant

... Consisting of Those which were formerly Printed, and Those which he design'd for the Press: Now published Out of the Authors Originall Copies
D'Avenant, William (1606-1668)
  
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GONDIBERT:
  
TO Sr WILL. D'AVENANT,
  
TO Sir WILLIAM D'AVENANT,
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GONDIBERT.
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THE FIRST BOOK.
 1. 
Canto the First.
 2. 
Canto the Second.
 3. 
Canto the Third.
 4. 
Canto the Fourth.
 5. 
Canto the Fifth.
 6. 
Canto the Sixth.
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THE SECOND BOOK.
 1. 
Canto the First.
 2. 
Canto the Second.
 3. 
Canto the Third.
 4. 
Canto the Fourth.
 5. 
Canto the Fifth.
 6. 
Canto the Sixth.
 7. 
Canto the Seventh.
 8. 
Canto the Eighth.
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THE THIRD BOOK.
 1. 
Canto the First.
 2. 
Canto the Second.
 3. 
Canto the Third.
 4. 
Canto the Fourth.
 5. 
Canto the Fifth.
 6. 
Canto the Sixth.
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MADAGASCAR,
  
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To my worthy Friend Mr. William D'avenant; upon his Poem of Madagascar, which he writ to the most Illustrious Prince Rupert.
  
To my Friend William D'avenant; upon his Poem of Madagascar.
  
On his other Poems.
  
To Will. D'avenant my Friend.
  
To my Friend, William D'avenant.
  
Madagascar. A POEM,
  
ELIZIUM.
  
To the Lord D. L. upon his Marriage.
  
A Journey into Worcestershire.
  
To Endimion Porter.
  
To the Queen, entertain'd at night by the Countess of Anglesey.
  
In remembrance of Master William Shakespire.
  
To the Lady Bridget Kingsmill sent with Mellons after a report of my Death.
  
To the King on Newyeares day. 1630.
  
To the Queen, presented with a Suit, in the behalf of F. S. directed from Orpheus Prince of Poets.
  
To the Lord B. in performance of a vow, that night to write to him.
  
To Endimion Porter.
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Jeffereidos, on the Captivity of Jeffery.
 1. 
Canto the First.
 2. 
Canto the Second.
  
For the Lady Olivia Porter; A Present upon a New-years day.
  
To I. C. Robb'd by his Man Andrew.
  
To the Earl of Portland, Lord Treasurer; on the Marriage of his Son.
  
The Queen returning to London, after a long absence.
  
To I. W. upon the death of his Mistress.
  
To Endimion Porter.
  
Epitaph on I. Walker.
  
To Doctor Cademan, Physitian to the Queen.
  
To Endimion Porter, when my Comedy (call'd the Wits) was presented at Black-Fryers.
  
In celebration of the yearly Preserver of the Games Costwald.
  
On the Death of the Lady Marquess of Winchester.
  
To Endimion Porter, upon his recovery from a long Sickness.
  
Upon the Nuptials of Charles Lord Herbert, and the Lady M. Villers
  
Prologue to a reviv'd Play of Mr. Fletchers, call'd, The Woman-hater.
  
To Endimion Porter, passing to Court to him by Water.
  
Elegie on B. Haselrick, slain in's youth, in a Duell.
  
To the QUEEN upon a New-years day.
  
Elegie,
  
To Endimion Porter.
  
To the Countess of Carlile, on the death of the Earle her Husband.
  
Epilogue, to LOVE and HONOR, A Tragicomedy.
  
Epilogue, to a Vacation Play at the Globe.
  
To the QUEEN, upon a New-yeares day.
  
To Edward Earl of Dorset, after his Sickness, and happy Recovery.
  
Written, when Collonel Goring was believ'd to be slain at the Siege of Breda.
  
To the Lord Cary of Lepington, upon his Translation of Malvezzi.
  
To Henry Jarmin.
  
To Tho. Carew.
  
To Doctor Duppa Dean of Christ-Church, and Tutor to the Prince. An acknowledgment for his Collection, in Honour of Ben. Johnson's Memory.
  
To his Excellency the Lord General Monck.
  
POEM upon His Sacred Majestie's most happy Return to His Dominions.
  
POEM to the Kings most Sacred Majesty.
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POEMS
  
POEM TO THE Earl of Orrery.
  
To him who Prophecy'd a Succesles end of the Parliament, in the Year 1630.
  
The Countess of ANGLESEY lead Captive by the Rebels, at the Disforresting of Pewsam.
  
The long Vacation in London, in Verse Burlesque, or Mock-Verse.
  
EPITAPH.
  
Song.
  
Upon the Marriage of the Lady Jane Cavendish with Mr. Cheney.
  
To the Duke of Richmond, in the Year 1639.
  
To Mr, W. M. Against Absence.
  
A New-years-Gift to the Queen, in the Year 1643.
  
To the QUEEN; Entertain'd at Night. In the Year 1644.
  
To the QUEEN.
  
PROLOGUE,
  
EPILOGUE.
  
PROLOGUE,
  
EPILOGUE.
  
EPITAPH
  
SONG.
  
The PLOTS.
  
Sung as a Prologue when the faithful Shepherdess was Presented.
  
EPITAPH.
  
Master Serjeant's Clients
  
To my Friend Mr. Ogilby,
  
SONG.
  
To Mr. Edward Laurence.
  
EPITHALAMIUM.
  
The DREAME.
  
To the Earle of Monmouth.
  
EPITAPH
  
To Edward Earl of Dorset.
  
SONG.
  
In the Person of a Spy,
  
Against Womens pride.
  
To the Dutchess of Buckingham.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
Sent with a Lock of Hair.
  
The Philosopher and the Lover; to a Mistress dying.
  
SONG.
  
To Mistress E. S. Married to an old Usurer.
  
To Mr. Benlowes, on his Divine Poem.
  
Epitaph on a young Virgin.
  
To all Poets upon the recovery of Endimion Porter from a long Sickness.
  
The Mistress.
  
The Philosophers Disquisition directed to the Dying Christian.
  
The Christians Reply to the Phylosopher.
  
To the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
  
To Clelia.
  
A BALLAD.
  
Prologue for the Temple: at the Acting of Fivehours Adventure, to my Lord Chancelor.
  
EPILOGUE to the King at Whitehall, at the Acting the Siege of Rhodes.
  
EPILOGUE to the Villain;
  
The First Dayes Entertainment at Rutland-House, by Declamations and Musick: after the manner of the Ancients.
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Cœlum Britannicum, A Masque at Whitehal in the Banquetting-House, on Shrove-Tuesday night, the 18 of February 1633
  
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The first SONG.
 2. 
The Second SONG.
 3. 
The third SONG
 4. 
The fourth SONG.
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The TEMPLE of LOVE A Masque. Presented by the Queens Majesty, and her Ladies at Whitehall.
  
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The Song after they have retir'd (playing on their Instruments) by the Chorus of Poets.
  
The Entry of the Magicians.
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The Antimask of the Spirits.
 1. 
1. Entry.
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2. Entry.
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3. and 4. Entry.
 5. 
5. Entry.
 6. 
6. Entry.
 7. 
7. Entry.
  
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The Song of the Brachmani, in Answer to Orpheus his Harp.
  
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The SONG.
  
The SONG.
  
The Song.
  
The Triumphs of the Prince D'Amour. A Masque Presented by his Highness at his Palace in the Middle Temple.

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The DREAME.

To Mr. George Porter.

1

No Victor, when in Battel spent,
When he at night asleep doth lie,
Rich in a Conquer'd Monarchs Tent,
Ere had so vaine a dreame as I.

2

Me-thought I saw the early'st shade,
And sweetest that the Spring can spread;
Of Jesmyn, Bry're; and Woodbine made,
And there I saw Clorinda dead.

3

Though dead she lay, yet could I see
No Cypress nor no mourning Ewe;
Nor yet the injur'd Lovers Tree;
No Willow near her Coffin grew.

4

But all shew'd unconcern'd to be;
As if just Nature there did strive
To seem as pittiless as she
Was to her Lover when alive,
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5

And now methought I lost all care
In losing her; and was as free
As Birds let loose into the Ayre,
Or Rivers that are got to Sea.

6

Methought Loves Monarchy was gone;
And whilst Elective Numbers s{t}ay
Our choice and change makes Pow'r our own,
And those Court us whom we obey.

7

Yet soon, now from my Princess free,
I rather frantick grew then glad:
For Subjects, getting liberty,
Got but a Licence to be mad.

8

Birds that are long in Cages aw'd,
If they get out, a while will roame,
But straite want skill to live abroad,
Then pine and hover near their home.

9

And to the Ocean Rivers run
From being pent in Banks of Flowers,
Not knowing that th'exhaling Sun
Will send them back in weeping showers.

10

Soon thus for pride of Liberty
I low desires of bondage found;
And vanity of being free.
Bred the discretion to be bound.

11

But as dull Subjects see too late
Their safety in Monarchal Reign,
Finding their freedome in a State
Is but proud strutting in a Chaine.

12

Then growing wiser, when undone,
In Winters nights sad Stories fing
In praise of Monarchs long since gone,
To whom their Bells they yearly Ring.

13

So now I mourn'd that she was dead,
Whose single pow'r did govern me,
And quickly was by reason led
To find the harm of liberty.

14

In Loves free State where many sway,
Number to change our Hearts prepares,
And but one Fetter takes away,
To lay a world of handsome snares.

15

And I, Loves Secretary now,
(Ray'd in my dreame to that grave stile)
The dangers of Loves State to showe,
Wrote to the Lovers of this Isle.
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16

For Lovers correspond, and each,
Though, States-man like, he th' other hate,
Yet slily one another teach
By civil Love to save the State.

17

And, as in interreigne men draw
Pow'r to themselves of doing right,
When generous reason, not the Law,
They think restraines their appetite.

18

Even so the Lovers of this Land
(Loves Empire in Clorinda gone)
Thought they were quit from Loves command,
And beauties World was all their own.

19

But Lovers (who are Natures best
Old Subjects) never long revolt;
They soon in Passions Warr contest;
Yet in their March soon make a halt.

20

And those (when by my Mandates brought
Near dead Clorinda) ceast to boast
Of freedome found, and wept for thought
Of their delightful bondage lost.

21

And now the day to night was turn'd,
Or sadly nights close Mourning wore;
All Maids for one another mourn'd,
That Lovers now could love no more.

22

All Lovers quickly did perceive
They had on Earth no more to doe;
But civilly to take their leave
As worthys that to dying goe.

23

And now all Quires her Dirges sing;
In shades of Cypress, and of Ewe;
The Bells of ev'ry Temple ring,
Where Maids their wither'd Garlands strew

24

To such extreames did sorrow rise
That it transcended speech and forme;
And was so lost to Eares and Eyes
As Seamen sinking in a storme.

25

My Soul, in sleeps soft fetters bound,
Did now for vital freedome strive;
And strait, by horror wak't, I found
The fair Clorinda still alive.

26

Yet she's to me but such a Light
As are the Stars to those who know
We can at most but guess their height,
And hope they minde us here below.
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