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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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The Argument.

Th'abortive Infant from the wombe tooke late
Of dying Semele, Iove doth translate
Into his owne thigh: but the time expir'd
For mature birth, which (pregnant) he desir'd;
This childe, by one conceiv'd, borne of another,
Bacchus, enioyes the name of

Bacchus bimater.

double Mother.
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