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

To a vertuous Gentlewoman at the parting from her own Fathers house, to live with her husband at her Father-in-lawes.

May it please you thinke I am the place which now You ready are to part from, which whilst you Were present, seem'd a paradise, and full Of all delights, but now growne sad, and dull. Me thinkes it stands, as by an Earthquake shaken, When it perceives it is by you forsaken, And though it selfe all mute and silent be, Thinke that it's Genius doth speake thus in me. Farewell sweet Lady; all the choise delights, The comforts of the day, the joy of nights, The friendly houres (the handmaides unto time.) The seasons: Winter, August, Summer, prime; ••y day, the cheerefull Sun; by night, the Moone, ••eepe or awake, at midnight, or at noone, Protect you: All things happen to you well, ••o please your eye, your eare, touch, taste, and smell. Where e're you walke, the ayre fresh breath bequeath you, The earth on which you tread, prove smooth beneath you. •• stand, time stand still with you, or seeme slow; •• move, may Angels wheresoe're you goe ••ttend you; or if sit; the chaire to ease you ••ove soft, as Iunoes throne. If ride, to please you ••ay your Caroch wheeles run as swift and faire, •• Venus Chariot mounted in the ayre.

If lye to rest, then gently may yee sleepe; Whom, He that made you sweet, as sweetly keepe. Your dreames be such; that waking, you may say Darknesse to me as pleasing was as day. So sleepe, so wake, so walke, so ride, so rest, With all contentments, treasur'd in your brest, Till this sad house, which now you leave, to mourne, May be made joyfull in your quick returne.