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

Where vertue tyes, love never dyes.

An.

The Rose doth yeeld a savour sweet and strong, After 'tis shed, or in the Sunne laine long. Fond is the love of feature, which doth fade, And putrid growes, when age doth once invade, Agues deface, and cares the beauty staine, And these in young men often breed disdaine. But wit's more stedfast; 'twill to age indure, A thousand waies that, favour can procure. Gray haires, nor wrinckles, can such ardor quench, Nor love (on vertue built) in Lethe drench. If match with one, whose mind his shape excels, That love, till death lasts onely, and none else. In us we nought immortall find,

Saving the goods of brest and mind. Ovid.

Couples ill matcht, like garments patcht.

An

If love thy selfe, doe not an old man wed, Lest thou lie frozen in a desolate bed. If any; thou a posthume birth shalt beare. He, if thy child call father, cannot heare. Or should he have choice whom to make his heire,

Fame, to speake largely of thee will not spare. Meane time the faire flower of thy youth is spent, And thy best dayes thou sadly shalt lament. Why doth the Ivie 'bout the Elme so cling? 'Las; one must perish, if the other spring, Whilst it (ambitious) 'bout the top branch twines, The drooping Tree hangs downe the head and pines.

Matrimonium ita demum tranquillè exigi potest, si mulier ••ca, maritus surdus fiat, &c.

Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, ••hen the wife is blind, and the husband deafe. The na∣••••••e of women is subject to jealousie, from whence grows ••amour and noise, and the wives garrulity and prating ••sends the husband, which he should bee farre from, if •• wanted his hearing, &c.