For what wee can, wee care not
An.
Wee see in birds for whom the pitfall's set,
Such as would faine be tooke, escape the net.
Others that would fly thence, the strings combine,
Pleasant dialogues and dramma's, selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. With sundry emblems extracted from the most elegant Iacobus Catsius. As also certaine elegies, epitaphs, and epithalamions or nuptiall songs; anagrams and acrosticks; with divers speeches (upon severall occasions) spoken to their most excellent Majesties, King Charles, and Queene Mary. With other fancies translated from Beza, Bucanan, and sundry Italian poets. By Thomas Heywood
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- Pleasant dialogues and dramma's, selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. With sundry emblems extracted from the most elegant Iacobus Catsius. As also certaine elegies, epitaphs, and epithalamions or nuptiall songs; anagrams and acrosticks; with divers speeches (upon severall occasions) spoken to their most excellent Majesties, King Charles, and Queene Mary. With other fancies translated from Beza, Bucanan, and sundry Italian poets. By Thomas Heywood
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- Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.
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"Pleasant dialogues and dramma's, selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. With sundry emblems extracted from the most elegant Iacobus Catsius. As also certaine elegies, epitaphs, and epithalamions or nuptiall songs; anagrams and acrosticks; with divers speeches (upon severall occasions) spoken to their most excellent Majesties, King Charles, and Queene Mary. With other fancies translated from Beza, Bucanan, and sundry Italian poets. By Thomas Heywood." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03241.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2024.
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Their captive legges intangling in their twine.
She that first craves deserves a scornefull smile,
As both in maid or woman hold most vile.
Shee's onely certaine to be caught that flies,
Shee teacheth to bee su'd to that denies.
Coy Dames the brests of lovers most besot,
The sweetest kisses are by struggling got.
That game best pleaseth which is sur'st in chace,
Not that being swolne, and lies dead in the place.
What I most wish may for a time be spar'd,
Nor pleaseth me the conquest that's prepar'd. Petron.
To this purpose is that of Sencea the Philosopher, it ••ameth me to enter conflict with a man prepared to bee ••vercome. The sword-player holdeth it a great indignity •••• bee matched with his inferiour, as knowing it can bee ••o glory to him to subdue that man, who is vanquisht without danger.