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

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. Presented the last New-yeares night.

The silver Swan soft gliding in the streame, Cald to the Cocke then pearching on a beame, And said to him; why, Chanticleere, when I Move on the waves so low, thou sit'st so high? The Cocke replide: O thou my best lov'd Sister Well knowne in Poe, Meander, and Caister, But, best in Thamesis; Dost thou not know The reason, why we in December crow? More than before, or after? who againe Thus answer'd: we of nothing can complaine Being of all the birds that are, most white, Loyall and chaste, and taking our delight In rivers onely, bathing there our feete To make our rare-heard musick sound more sweet. Yet one thing to resolve, would make me proud, To tell why at this time thou sing'st so lowd? Who said: none of our ancestors but knew That ever since Saint Peters Cock first crew, We are injoyn'd to make lowd proclamation, Of our most blessed Saviours Incarnation. ••o which the Swan, (then in a Tone much higher)

Said, in this Caroll I will fill the quire: Which being voyc't, did sound so sweet and shrill, That where the Swan and Cock were heard, did fill The ayre with such an eccho, thither came Vpon that summons, both the blind and lame, Hungry and thirsty, poore, of all estates, And none but fully sated at these gates. Long may your bounty last, and we rejoyce, To heare both City and the Country voyce Your Hospitality, to your loud fame, Whilst Time indures, or Christmas beares a name. And now great Lord and Lady both prepare, To know what Sports in agitation are.