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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Of the most excellent Lady, the Lady Anna Carre, sole daughter to the right Honourable Robert Earle of Somerset, Knight of the Garter, &c,

ROBERT ANNA CARRE.

The Anagram, Rarer cannot beare.

An Acrostick upon the Anagram.
Rarer than you either for brest or braine, O can the earth beare? or shall it againe ud a more hopefull bloome? with this new yeare Entring, by Janus leave, may you appeare are Lady like bright Cinthia in her Carre, That's alwayes seene with some conspicuous starre.

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Amply, Heaven hath indow'd you for a Bride, None of your age more nobly qualifide. None (than your selfe) more vertuous, chaste and faire, And therefore worthy to be counted rare. Challenge you may amongst the vertues place, And to the former three, adde a fourth grace. Raptur'd I am, and I presume, Iove would Rayne in your lap, a liquid showre of Gold Even now: did he your sweet aspect behold.
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