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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.

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Ex Antonio Casanova. Of Lucrece.

Dicite, cum melius cadere ante Lucretia posset,
Cur potius voluit post scelus illa mori.

Why Lucrece better might her selfe have slaine
Before the act, than after her black staine,
Can any tell? no crime she did commit,
For of all guilt, her hand did her acquit.
Her ravisher she slew by that brave stroke,
And from her Countries neck tooke off the yoke.
From thine owne hand thy death most willing came,
To save thy Country, and preserve thy fame.
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