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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.
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Funerall Elegies and Epitaphs.
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Epithalamions or Nuptiall Songs.
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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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Of Chrisalus.

Flava Ceres longi spes interceperat anni,
Aruerat pigro vinea testa gelu.

Graine the long yeares hope in the eare doth pine,
The tedious frost doth pinch thy forward kine:
Rot kills thy sheepe, theeves steale thy gotes; and now
Thy labouring Oxen perish at the plow.
Losse after losse when Chrisalus had found,
And he himselfe unwilling to be found
Alone: when his whole state was cras'd, bethought
To hang himselfe so he might do't for nought.
But soone that purpose in his mind was lost,
When he considerd what a rope would cost,
For he would die of free-cost: he thinks then
To kill himselfe with a sharpe sword, but when
He lookt about and saw none, nay saith he,
To buy a sword were too much charge for me.
Hee then saith to himselfe: doubtlesse that knave
The Sexton expects something for my grave,
And somewhat those that put me in my shroud,
And somewhat must the bearers be allowd.
The Priest, the candles, ringing of the bell:
And prayers too, must cost somewhat I know well.
Therefore to save all charges, this I say,
Ile drowne my selfe, and that's the cheapest way.
He did so, And thus speaking in his fall,
See thus for nothing I discharge them all.
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