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Divine poems

Containing The History of Ionah. Ester. Iob. Sampson. Sions Sonets. Elegies. Written and newly augmented, by Fra: Quarles

Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)

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THE PROPOSITION of this first Worke.

The Introduction.

TO THE MOST HIGH, HIS HVMBLE Servant IMPLORES HIS FAVOVRABLE Assistance.

A FEAST FOR WORMES.

THE GENERALL VSE OF this History.

A Hymne to God.

ELEVEN PIOVS Meditations.

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The Proposition of the Worke.

TO THE GREAT Tetragrammaton, LORD PARAMOVNT OF Heaven AND Earth: His Humble Servant dedicates himselfe, and implores the Enfranchising of his Muse.

The Digestion of the whole History.

THE HISTORIE OF SAMSON: By Fra. Quarles.

SIONS SONETS. Sung By Solomon the King; And Periphras'd

SIONS ELEGIES. Wept BY IEREMIE THE PROPHET

FUNERALL ELEGIES

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The Argvment.

Samson at Timnah falls in love
And fancies a Philistian maide:
He moves his parents: They reprove
His sinfull choyce: dislike, disswade.