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Pleasant dialogues and dramma's

selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. ... By Tho. Heywood

Heywood, Thomas

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Sundry Fancies writ upon severall occasions.

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.

Epigrams.

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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.

What stronger circle can Art-magick find
Wherein a Scholers spirit can be confind,
Then this of Bookes? next how he spent his time,
Scorning earths drosse to looke on things sublime.
So long thy love to learning shall be read,
Whilst fame shall last, or Statues for the dead.