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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London :: Printed by R. O[ulton] for R. H[earne] and are to be sold by Thomas Slater at the Swan in Duck-lane,
1637.
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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 1, 2024.

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To have thy will, be humble still.

Now thy injunctions please: but, woon with gold, My father aymes me at a man that's old.

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What shall I doe? my love I will not slave To an old King, (though he my love should crave.)
An.
If he to one unworthy would thee tye, What ere he urge, let not thy voyce sound hye, Prayers arme the virgin, If intreat; 'tis done, Sterne fathers, by no other art are woon. Smooth foreheads more prevaile, than these averse Hard hearts, submission, and not feare can pierce. The Pine-tree Nut thou canst not break with blow But a soft fire, the shels wide open throws.

Mild power doth compasse that which rough vio∣lence never can. Claud.

Where men by favour strive to git Gods favour, and incourage it, But the same gods when force is us'd, (As angry) thinke themselves abus'd.
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