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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.

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[The Dialogue of Erasmus, called Procus and Puella]

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[The Dialogue of Ravisius Textor, called Earth and Age]

The Argument of the Dialogue betwixt Earth and Age.

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[A Dialogue from Lucianus Samosatensis, called Misanthropos, or the Man-hater]

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[A Dialogue of the Same Author, betwixt Iupiter and Ganimede]

The Argument of the Dialogue intitled Ivpiter and Ganimede.

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Ivpiter and Ivno.

The Argument of the Dialogue.

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Ivpiter and Cvpid.

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Vulcan and Apollo.

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Mercvry and Apollo.

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Mercvry and Maia.

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Vulcan and Iupiter.

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Neptvne and Mercvry.

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Diogenes and Mausolus.

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Crates and Diogenes

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Charon, Menippvs, Mercvry.

The Dialogve.

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Menippvs, Æacvs, Pythagoras, Empedocles, and Socrates.

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Nerevs, Thersites, Menippvs.

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Ivpiter, Mercvry, Ivno, Pallas, Venvs, and Paris.

The Argument of the Dialogue, entituled Deorum Iudicium.

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Ivpiter and Io.

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Apollo and Daphne.

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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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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.

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.

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.

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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Epig. ex Theod. Beza.

Of Erasmus, pictured but from the girdle upwards.

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.

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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The Dialogve.

Char.
Pay me my fare, thou wretch.

Menip.
Nay, scold outright,
If thou to heare thy selfe speake tak'st delight.

Char.
My due for thy trajection downe here lay.

Menip.
I prethee how can he that hath not, pay?

Char.
Is't possible there any one can be
That is not worth a single halfpenny?

Menip.
I know not to whom else thou pratest here,
But for myne owne part I have none I sweare.

Char.
I'le bast thee with this ship-rope, if my hire
Thou tendrest not.

Menip.
Then shall my staffe aspire

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To fly about thine eares.

Char.
So long a cut
Must I take paines to waft thee, and thou put
To no expence at all?

Menip.
Let Hermes stand
Ingag'd for me, who gave me to thine hand.

Merc.
By Iove, in time I shall be ill bested,
If I be put to pay fares for the dead.

Char.
He shall not so passe from me.

Men.
For his sake
Continue still thy course, and quickly make
Towards the shore; What to thy share can fall
from him who (as thou seest) hath nought at all?

Char.
Didst thou not know what thou shouldst bring along?

Menip.
'Tis true I did, but can excuse the wrong;
I had it not, because I want to give,
I'st therefore fit that I should ever live?

Char.
Wilt thou be he then, who alone canst boast
To have ferried this great river without cost?

Menip.
Not so, ô Charon, wanting to defray,
Thou hast my paines, I pumpt part of the way,
Then tug'd at th' oare, being that only soule
Who in thy barge did neither mourne nor houle.

Char.
Tush, these are nothing to my fare that's due,
Lay downe my halfpenny, my fare, in view.

Men.
Not having it, best way to end this strife,
Is, That thou Charon beare me backe to life.

Char.
For that Gramercy, so I might be sure,
From Æacus a beating to endure.
This base Ghost would persuade me to the whip.

Men.
Be not so peevish then.

Char.
What's in that scrip
Thou keepst so close about thee?

Men.
A small cheat,
A little pulse for Hecate to eat.

Char.
Tell me, ô Mercury, whence hast thou brought

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This Dog to us? a wretch that mindeth nought.
What strange things talkt he by the way, I guiding
The helme, whilest he was all the while deriding
The passengers? what a loud coile he kept,
He only singing whilest the other wepr?

Merc.
Knowst thou not him? he hath a spirit daring,
Hee's bold, free spoken, and for nothing caring:
This is Menippus, (Foole.)

Char.
Well, if againe
I take him here,—

Men.
Thou threatnest me in vain:
This passage, though not for 'twixt shore and shore,
Yet once being past, cannot be traveld more.