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Miscellany Poems

By Tho. Heyrick

Heyrick, Thomas

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To his Worthy Friend Mr. THOMAS HEYRICK on his Ingenious Poems.

To my Ingenious Friend Mr. Heyrick, Author of the Submarine Voyage.

To his Ingenious Friend, and Brother-Angler Mr. Thomas Heyrick on his Submarine Voyage, &c.

To Mr. Heyrick on his Excellent Poems.

To the Author on his Ingenious Submarine Voyage.

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MISCELLANY POEMS.

On the Right Honourable John Earl of Rutland, &c.

To the Right Honourable Katherine Countess of Rutland.

On the Lord Roos, Eldest Son of the Earl of Rutland.

On an Indian Tomineios, the Least of Birds.

Claudian's Eagle.

The Fisherman and Treasure.

On the Lady Bridget Noel.

Hippomenes and Atalanta.

The Honourable Grazier.

On a Flea presented to a Lady, whose Breast it had bitten, in a Golden Wire, Extempore. 1679.

Mart. Lib. 12. Epig. 23.

On the Crocodile.

On a Faithfull Dog.

The Norway Whale.

Martial's Ague. Lib. 10. Ep. 45.

[We all prize Life; and yet how short's the Date?]

Martial Lib. 9. Ep. 15.

The Battle between a Cock and a Capon.

Olympias's Lamentation over Dead Alexander.

On a Robin-red-breast, that for many years built and dwelt in a Church.

On the Death of a Monkey.

Advice to a Despairing Lover.

Death's Warning.

The Athenian Madman.

Martial's happy Life.

Advice to a Virgin.

The Twelve Rules of Friendship to my Worthy Friend, Mr Joshua Barnes, B. D. President of Emmanuel College in Cambridge.

On the Phænix.

An Epitaph on his Dear Friend Mr. Robert Cony, the Younger, who died November the Ninth 1681. and lies buried in Weypole-Church in Marchland Norf.

To my Worthy Friend Mr. Joshua Barnes B D. Senior Fellow of Emmanuel College, on his Incomparable History of King EDWARD the Third, &c.

Plutarch's Serpent.

The Looking-Glass to Gellia.

On a Covetous Man.

Dorinda weeping.

To Sr. James Butler, on the Death of the Lady Butler:

On the Earth, our Common Mother.

The Parting Lover.

The Chase of the Fox at Welby 1677.

On Man's unhappy Composition.

The Sceptick, against Mechanism.

A Pindarique Ode in Praise of Angling.

On the Honourable the Countess Dowager OF GAINSBOROW, &c.

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THE SUBMARINE VOYAGE.

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The Norway Whale.

I

I am the Messenger of angry Fate,
And do approaching Monarchs Death relate:
Norway with trembling Eyes doth look on me,
And I'me the Comet of the Sea.
Meteors from Heaven betoken Death,
And I do tell it from beneath.

II

To Mariners an Island I appear,
And fearless they unto my side draw near,
Wondering what unknown Land their course doth stay,
And think they have mistook their way.

24

Their Charts and Mapps in vain they spread,
Believing Nature's lately brought to Bed.

III

Yet wisely Nature with my Bulk doth deal,
And Folly on my Greatness doth entail;
Makes me a dull, stupid, and senceless Piece,
My Head but not my Brains encrease.
Did Wit or Malice dwell in me,
How dangerous a Monster should I be?

IV

How many Whales may even our Country boast,
Whose Souls are in their Massy Bodies lost?
Who, if it haps they don't mischievous grow,
Their praise is, that they know not how:
Their Innocence from Folly got,
Their Excellence not in their Head, but Throat.