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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Title: 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
Author: Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.
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8. To Lodovick Masurus of his verses made of the fall of Babylon.

Dum Masuri rudiore tonas Babylona ruentem, Cantata est quanta Troja nec ipsa tuba, &c.

Whilst Masurus thou with a lowder tongue Soundst Babels fall, then ever Troyes was song, Thou hast given cause Homer should thee envie, Or Maro (greater) that thou writ'st so hye, Yet Masurus one error may be found In thy brave worke for all its stentors sound, That in so great a verse thy fame pursuing Thou buildst for ever what thou striv'st to ruin.