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 June 4, 2024.
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Page 233
Can neither musick, sport, nor myrth awake thee,
But to eleven moneths sleep must thou betake thee?
Why doth not January then appeare,
Before old Janus father of the yeare?
My eldest boy? now I remember. Hee,
Is busied in this annuall Iubilee.
And still the one hand with the other shifts,
In giving and receiving New-yeares gifts.
But stay; two faces Ianus? one to view
The past yeare; th' other, that which shall insue.
Shal't be imputed to thine age or sloath * 1.1
To neglect these; the glory of them both?
No; fall thus low, to celebrate that throne
In which the two great lights are met in one
Without ecclipse; This key commands the screw,
That lockes the past yeare up, and opes the new,
This shuts up all disaster, dearth, disease,
Opening to you all glad things that may please,
To crowne your blessednesse, and as that gone.
Hath crown'd you with an Heire (as yet alone)
There's by auspitious Iove a second breeding,
Our hope, and honour of the yeare succeeding.
As in the last, may Heaven in this defend them,
Whilst Ianus with his twelve sonnes shall attend them.
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* 1.1
Meaning their 2. Majesties.