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The Lady-Errant

A Tragi-Comedy

Cartwright, William (1611-1643)

THE LADY-ERRANT.

[Thus thy left hand the Mighty Stagyrite Supports]

To the Memory of the most Ingenious and Vertuous Gentleman Mr Wil: Cartvvright, my much valued Friend.

Upon Mr Cartvvright's Excellent Poems Now collected and published.

On Mr Cartvvright's Poems.

On the Incomparable Poems of Mr William Cartvvright, late Student of Christ-Church in Oxford.

On Mr Cartvvright's excellent Poems, now Collected and Published.

On Mr Cartvvright and his Poems.

On Mr William Cartvvright's excellent Poems, collected and published since his Death.

To the deceased Author of these Poems.

On Mr Will: Cartvvright's excellent Poems, Now collected and Published.

On the publication of the Posthume Poems of M. William Cartwright, sometime Student of Christ-Church in OXON.

To my dear Mother the Vniversity of Oxford, Upon Mr Cartvvright's Poems.

To the Stationer (Mr Moseley) on his Printing Mr Cartvvright's Poems.

Vpon the Ingenuous Author and his Poems.

On Mr Will: Cartwright's excellent Poems.

ON Mr William Cartvvright's excellent Poems.

Vpon Mr. Cartvvright's Poems, published long after his death.

In Memory of his honoured Friend Mr VVilliam Cartvvright.

To the Memory of his deceased Friend. Mr William Cartvvright.

In Memory of Mr William Cartvvright.

On Mr William Cartvvright's surviving Poems.

Upon the Poems and Plaies of the ever Memorable Mr Will: Cartvvright.

On Mr William Cartvvright's excellent Poems.

To the rich Memory of my Honoured Friend the Learned Author.

TO The Memory of Master Cartvvright.

On Mr William Cartvvright's excellent Poems, collected and published since his Death.

On Mr VVil: Cartvvright's excellent Poems, Collected and Published since his death.

To the Memory of Mr William Cartvvright.

On his Deceased Friend Mr Will: Cartvvright's Poems, now Collected and Published.

TO The Memory of my most deserving and peculiar Friend Mr Wil. Cartvvright.

On the Death of Mr. William Cartvvright, and the now publishing of his Poems.

On the Death of Mr Cartvvright, and the Life of his desired Poems.

On the Death of Mr William Cartvvright.

Upon Mr Cartvvright and his Poems.

On Mr Cartvvright's Incomparable Poems published after his Death.

On M. Will: Cartwrights Incomparable Poems.

Upon the setting forth M. Will: Cartwrights Poems.

To the Memory of Mr VVilliam Cartvvright.

To the Memory of the deceased Author Mr William Cartvvright.

On Mr William Cartvvright excellent Poems.

On Mr William Cartvvright's excellent Poems.

On M. Cartvvright and his Poems.

On Mr Cartvvright's Poems Now collected and Published.

On Mr Cartvvright's Poems.

To the Memory of Mr William Cartvvright, On the publication of these His Incomparable Poems

Upon the Memory of Mr William Cartvvright and his admirable Poems.

Vpon the Author's decease, and Poems.

TO THE Memory of Mr Cartvvright, and on his Incomparable Poems.

On the Death of Mr Cartvvright, and Resurrection of his Poems.

Upon Mr Cartvvright's Poems.

Vpon the Incomparable Poems of the Learned Mr Cartvvright.

To the Memory of the Incomparable Mr William Cartvvright.

Upon the Incomparable Poems of Mr William Cartvvright late Student of Christ Church in Oxford.

On the Death of my dear Friend Mr William Cartvvright, relating to the fore-going Elegies.

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On Mr Cartvvright and his Poems.

Some say that Poets, like Grand Signeurs, hate
Their Brothers, yet will bury them in State.
A bold expression of a strain so high,
No Poet e'r invented such a Lye.
Truth knows, when Cartwright liv'd and was inspir'd,
I envied not what other Men admir'd:
Nor (though on Tombs, Custome and Grief allow
Hyperboles in Marble) will I now
Follow him with a Complement so far,
To plant his Spirit in a New-found Star.
Yet I presume, a more harmonious Sphere
Moves not in Heav'n, than Cartwright mov'd in here.
Witness these Charmes and Raptures, which he sung
Like th' aged Swan; but He, alas, dy'd young.
So did

Præfect [illeg.] Rome, the[illeg.] Sanctuary [illeg.] Treasuary [illeg.] the Law ([illeg.] Historian [illeg.] call him.)

Papinian, whom the Romans saw
The Miracle, and

At the [illeg.] of 36. was [illeg.] put to [illeg.] by [illeg.] for deny [illeg.] to excuse [illeg.] murder [illeg.] his [illeg.] Get[illeg.].

Martyr of their Law;
And still 'mong those the Learn'd Civilians quote,
That grave young Chair-man hath a double Vote.
Much more is due unto this younger Sage,
A Man That merits th' honours of an Age.
All Poets graces may in him be read,
Why should not all their Bayes then crown his head?
'Tis true, he's of our Authors last set forth,
But last in Order is the first in Worth:

If Time be measur'd by an hour glass run,
He may be Johnson's Grand-Child, Fletchers Son.
If by desert, a Muse might be his Mother,
He Homer's Heir, and Hesiod's elder Brother.
Nature allow'd, when she did Cartwright mould,
Not one and Thirty years to make him old,
By living to time-past: There's in his List
Of Friends Pythagoras and Trismegist;
These Ancients will engage our Modern men,
To doat upon their Learning in his Pen.
Nor as his Knowledge grew did's Form decay,
He still was strong and fresh, his Brain was gray.
Such agedness might our young Ladies move
To somewhat more than a Platonick Love,
Which to prevent Fate barrs him their Commerce,
And leaves them what is handsomer, his Verse:
'Tis an Adonis, they may safely wooe,
Yet to our Sex 'twill be a Venus too,
And make (in Poetry such vertue lurks)
His Readers as immortall as his Works.

Robert Stapylton Kt.