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A young witty Lad playing the part of Richard the third: at the Red Bull: the Author because hee was interessed in the Play to incourage him, wrot him this Prologue and Epilogue.

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The Epilogue.

A Prologue to the Play of Queene Elizabeth as it was last revived at the Cock-pit, in which the Author taxeth the most corrupted copy now imprinted, which was published without his consent.

Vpon his Majesties last birth-night, be being then thirty five yeares of age, and the Queene great with child.

Spoken to the Palsgrave at his first comming over, in the presence of his Majesty, &c.

Funerall Elegies and Epitaphs.

A Funerall Elegie upon the death of the thrice noble Gentleman Sir George Saint Poole of Lincolne-shire my Country-man.

A Funerall Elegie upon a vertuous Maide, who dyed the very day on which shee should have beene married.

An Epitaph upon the death of Sir Philip Woodhouse Knight Baronet.

An Epitaph upon one Mr. Robert Honywood and his Mother, and of their numerous Issue.

Sacrum Amoris.

Of Mr. Thomas Skipp her husband since deceased, and buried in the same Tombe, whose Statue is plac't in a circle of Bookes, for the great love he bore to learning.

An Epitaph upon a worthy Gentlewoman whose name was Patience.

An Epitaph upon a vertuous young Gentlewoman, who after seven yeares marriage expired.

Vpon a Toomb-stone which covereth the body of a worthy Citizen, on which is ingraven a white hand pointing to a Starre.

A Funerall Elegie upon the death of Mistris Mary Littleboyes, Daughter to Master George Littleboyes of Ashburnham in Sussex, Esquire.

The Inscription upon her Tombe-stone lying in Clerkenwell Church.

Epithalamions or Nuptiall Songs.

An Epithalamion or Nuptiall Song upon a young sweet vertuous Gentlewoman. F. L.

To a vertuous Gentlewoman at the parting from her own Fathers house, to live with her husband at her Father-in-lawes.

A nuptiall song, devoted to the Celebration of a Marriage betwixt Master Iames, and Mistresse An. W.

A Song at their uprising.

An Anagram upon the name of the right honourable Sir Thomas Coventry, Lord Keeper of the great Seale, &c.

Another of the same.

Of the right Honourable Sir Henry Carey, Lord Hunsden, Earle of Dover, &c.

Of Sir Ranoulphe Crewe, once Lord Chiefe Iustice of England.

Of the most excellent Lady, the Lady Anna Carre, sole daughter to the right Honourable Robert Earle of Somerset, Knight of the Garter, &c,

Of that worthy and most religious Knight, Sir Paul Pindar.

Epigrams.

Epig. ex Theod. Beza.

Of Erasmus, pictured but from the girdle upwards.

Of Lucrece.

Vpon the Venetian History written by Petrus Bembus.

Of Helionora the French Queene.

Of Iohannes Secundus an excellent Poet of the Hage in Holland.

Against Philenus who carpt at Erasmus.

To Lodovick Masurus of his verses made of the fall of Babylon.

Vpon three the most excellent Divines of France then living.

A comparison betwixt Poets and Monkes.

The excellent Poet George Buchanan, upon a Diamond cut like an Hart, and sent from Mary Queene of Scots, to the most excellent Lady Queene Elizabeth.

Of Chrisalus.

In Romam.

An Epitaph upon Iacobus Sylvius.

Ex Angelo Politiano. Epigram In Pamphilum.

Against Mabilius a bitter rayling Poet.

Ex Accij sinceri sannazarij Neopolitani viri patricij. Epigram. Of the admirable City Venice.

Ex M. Anthonij Flamminij. Epigram. Of Cardinall Pooles Picture.

Of a faire gilt Bowle sent unto him from Benedict Accoltus Cardinall.

Ex Mario Molsa. Of the City Rome being late wasted by the Germanes.

Ex Antonio Titaldeo. An Epitaph upon Ioannes Mirandula.

Ex Benedicti Theocreni. Epigram. Upon a Comet which Lewes of Savoy saw a little before his death.

Ex Ioanne secundo Hagiensi. Of one Charinus who had married a deformed wife.

Ex Henrici Stephani Epigram. Of Phillis who was delivered within five moneths after her marriage.

Upon Pompe's death.

Ex Ioanne Colta. Of the City Verona.

Ex Petro Hembo. An Epitaph upon one Thebaldæus an excellent Musitian.

Ex Balt asser Castilione. An Epitaph upon a Virgin whose name was Gratia.

Ex Antonio Casanova. Of Lucrece.

In praise of Archery.

Upon a Booke late published by one Bird a Coachman, calld Byrds businesse.

Against a base and infamous Balladder, who disperst a scandalous riming Libell, in which hee malitiously traduced the noble exercises weekely practised in the Artillery Garden.

I conclude this Worke, suiting with the present, concerning the worth of Physick, and Physitians, deriving my president from a worthy Gentleman called M. Perisaulus Faustinus.

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A young witty Lad playing the part of Richard the third: at the Red Bull: the Author because hee was interessed in the Play to incourage him, wrot him this Prologue and Epilogue.

The Boy the Speaker.

If any wonder by what magick charme,
Richard the third is shrunke up like his arme:
And where in fulnesse you expected him,
You see me onely crawling, like a limme
Or piece of that knowne fabrick, and no more,
(When he so often hath beene view'd before.)
Let all such know: a Rundlet ne're so small
Is call'd a vessell: being a Tunne; that's all.
Hee's tearm'd a man, that showes a dwarfish thing,
No more's the Guard, or Porter to the King.
So Pictures in small compasse I have seene
Drawne to the life, as neare, as those have beene
Ten times their bignesse: Christenmas loaves are bread,
So's your least Manchet: have you never read
Large folio Sheets which Printers over-looke,
And cast in small, to make a pocket booke?
So Richard is transform'd: if this disguise
Show me so small a letter for your eyes,

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You cannot in this letter read me plaine,
Hee'l next appeare, in texted hand againe.

The Epilogue.

Great I confesse your patience hath now beene,
To see a little Richard: who can win,
Or praise, or credit? eye, or thinke to excell,
By doing after what was done so well?
It was not my ambition to compare,
No envie, or detraction: such things are
In men of more growne livers, greater spleene,
But in such lads as I am, seldome seene.

I doe, but like a child, who sees one swim,
And (glad to learne) will venter after him
Though he be soundly duckt for't, or to tell
My mind more plainely, one that faine would spell,
In hope to read more perfect: all the gaines
I expect for these unprofitable paines,
Is, that you would at parting from this place
Doe but unto my littlenesse that grace
To spie my worth, as I have seene dimme eyes
To looke through spectacles, or perspectives,
That in your gracious view I may appeare,
Of small, more great; of coming far off, neare.