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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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To his worthie friend the Authour, Master Thomas Heywood.
  
To the learned Authour Master Thomas Heywood.
  
To my praise-worthy friend Master Thomas Heywood.
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[The Dialogue of Erasmus, called Naufragium]
  
The Argument of Erasmus his Dialogue called Naiagaion, or Naufragium.
  
The Dialogue.
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[The Dialogue of Erasmus, called Procus and Puella]
  
The Dialogve.
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[The Dialogue of Ravisius Textor, called Earth and Age]
  
The Argument of the Dialogue betwixt Earth and Age.
  
The Dialogue.
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[A Dialogue from Lucianus Samosatensis, called Misanthropos, or the Man-hater]
  
The Dialogve.
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[A Dialogue of the Same Author, betwixt Iupiter and Ganimede]
  
The Argument of the Dialogue intitled Ivpiter and Ganimede.
  
The Dialogve.
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Ivpiter and Ivno.
  
The Argument of the Dialogue.
  
The Dialogue.
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Ivpiter and Cvpid.
  
The Argument.
  
The Dialogve.
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Vulcan and Apollo.
  
The Argument.
  
The Dialogve.
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Mercvry and Apollo.
  
The Argument.
  
The Dialogve.
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Mercvry and Maia.
  
The Argument.
  
The Dialogve.
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Vulcan and Iupiter.
  
The Argument.
  
The Dialogve.
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Neptvne and Mercvry.
  
The Argument.
  
The Dialogve.
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Diogenes and Mausolus.
  
The Argument.
  
The Dialogue.
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Crates and Diogenes
  
The Argument.
  
The Dialogve.
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Charon, Menippvs, Mercvry.
  
The Argument.
  
The Dialogve.
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Menippvs, Æacvs, Pythagoras, Empedocles, and Socrates.
  
The Argument.
  
The Dialogve.
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Nerevs, Thersites, Menippvs.
  
The Argument.
  
The Dialogve.
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Ivpiter, Mercvry, Ivno, Pallas, Venvs, and Paris.
  
The Argument of the Dialogue, entituled Deorum Iudicium.
  
The Dialogve.
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Ivpiter and Io.
  
The Argument.
  
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Apollo and Daphne.
  
The Argument.
  
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[A Pastorall Drama called Amphrisa, or the Forsaken Shepheardesse.]
  
The Argument of Amphrisa the forsaken Shepheardesse.
  
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An Emblematicall Dialogue,
  
1. The Argument.
  
2. The Argument.
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The Epilogue.
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Sundry Fancies writ upon severall occasions.
  
The Queene feasting the King at Somerset house, upon his Birth-day, hers falling in the same weeke, this was there spoken unto them.
  
A speech spoken to their two excellent Majesties, at the first Play play'd by the Queenes Servants, in the new Theater at White Hall.
  
To the King and Queene upon a New-yeares day at night: the Two-fac't Ianus with a great golden Key in his hand, the Presenter.
  
The Epilogue spoken by the same Ianus.
  
A Prologue spoke before the King, when her Majesty was great with child.
  
Another spoken at White Hall before their sacred Majesties.
  
A Prologue spoken to their sacred Majesties at Hampton Court.
  
Spoken to their two Majesties at Hampton Court.
  
Spoken to their two Majesties at White Hall.
  
Spoken to their excellent Majesties upon the like occasion.
  
Spoken to the King and Queene, at the second time of the Authors Play cald Cupids Mistresse or Cupid and Psiche, presented before them.
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The speech spoken to their two Majesties, eight dayes before, being the Kings birth-day: presented at Somerset house, by the Queenes appointment, she then feasting the King.
  
Cupid, the Prologue.
  
The Maske concluding with a stately measure, of the Gods and Planets, Cupid (they all standing about him bending) the Epilogue thus concludes.
  
Spoken to his Majesty upon a New yeares day at night.
  
Another spoken at the Court to the like purpose.
  
A Prologue spoken at the right Honourable the Earle of Dover house in Broadstreet, at a Play in a most bountifull Christmas hee kept there; the Speaker Hospitality a frollick old fellow: A Coller of Brawne in one hand, and a deepe Bowle of Muscadel in the other.
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Spoken to the right Honourable the Earle of Dover, at his house in Broadstreet upon a Candlemas night.
  
The Prologue.
  
Epilogue.
  
A speech spoken before the right Honourable the Earle of Dover, at his House at Hunsden, as a preparation to a Maske, which consisted of nine Ladyes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Upon a Booke late published by one Bird a Coachman, calld Byrds businesse.

Reader, who ere thou beest; approach man,
And heare the Iornall of a Coachman,
(In which he is not too prolix)
Who with two Horses, foure, or six,
If let him have a good Postillion,
Shall drive with any for a Million.
We read in Stories long agon,
That there was one Automedon,
Great Hectors Charioter, Another
Who of the same trade was a brother
Whom Archeptolemus men name,
And hee, Achilles steeds did tame.
These could their Horses turne, and wind,
And check, and curb them to their mind,
Wheeling with many a strange Meander,
In the most famous field Scamander.
I wonder Homer was so rash
To praise those expert in the lash,
But he was ignorant and blind,
Who knew not Byrd should come behind.
Who had he liv'd then; might King Rhemnon
Have served, or great Agamemnon,
And taught their Palphreyes how to draw,
But they alas to him were raw.
I must confesse they had the braines,
In the day time to guide the raines,
And in plaine ground to use the whip,
And one another to outstrip.
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But this our Bird, although no Owle,
His Horse is able to controule,
And them to governe I dare say,
(And guide) as well by night as day,
As in his travels may appeare,
Which largely are discoursed there.
And though I know not how, or when,
Yet all describ'd by his owne pen.
In which to exceed so much he strives
That whether he better writes or drives
May well be questioned; Reader judge,
Pay for thy Booke, and doe not grudge.
And now if any question make
In this worke he did undertake,
Why he in number or in rime,
Should so much faile? observe the time
And place withall, where these were writ.
And he no doubt will both remit.
Neither doth it the Author, wrong,
To make one verse short, the other long,
As you may find oft in his booke,
He suites them to the way he tooke.
If any line against his will
Goe lagging on: he drove up-hill.
Againe: If any passe it's length,
Downe hill he ran, and had not strength,
Though take unto him all his force,
Either to stop it, or his horse.
I will appeale to all who use
The trade, and they will that excuse.
When he was driving in even way,
The verse runs smooth (perceive you may)
But being rough, then thinke he feeles
Some deepe foule slough to clogge his wheeles.
Here in his praise my sayle I strike,
Let any Coachman doe the like.
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