Poeticall varieties: or, Varietie of fancies. By Tho. Iordan Gent

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Poeticall varieties: or, Varietie of fancies. By Tho. Iordan Gent

Author

Jordan, Thomas, 1612?-1685?

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London :: Printed by T[homas] C[otes] for Humphry Blunden, and are to be sold at his shop, neare the Castle Taverne, in Corne-hill,

1637.

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Contents

• title page
• TO THE MECOENAS OF CANDID INDVSTRY, Mr. IOHN FORD of Grayes Inne, Gent. My humble Muse directs her weake Endeavours.
• TO THE CRITICALL READER.
• TO THE CANDID Reader, Health and increase of Knowledge.
• encomia
  • Of my friend Mr. Thomas Iordan, Tetraslichon.
  • To my Friend Mr. Tho. Iordan on his Poems, which I title, His Vnder-wood.
  • To Mr. Thomas Iordan on his Fancies.
  • To his Friend the Author Mr. Thomas Iordan, on his Varieties.
  • On my Friend and adopted sonne Mr. Thomas Iordan the Infant-Poet of our Age.
• POETICALL VARIETIES.
  • A Gentleman in love with twenty Mistresses.
  • A Gentleman's deploration for his Mistresse, falling from Vertue.
  • To his Mistrisse Philonella, being at her Looking-glasse.
  • To Clora a farewell, once his coy Mistresse.
  • To Leda his coy Bride, on the Bridall Night.
  • A Paradox on his Mistresse, who is cole Blacke, Blinde, Wrinckled, Crooked and Dumbe.
  • A Dialogue betwixt Castadorus and Arabellain bed.
  • To his faithlesse Mistresse Vxoria.
  • To her perjur'd Love Maritus, her dishonorer.
  • A vow to his inestimable Mistresse.
  • A Dialogue betweene Icarus and surprized Phillida.
  • Loves progresse.
  • To his most excellent Mistresse, Avis Booth.
  • Ahrostick to his Mistresse.
  • A Gentleman desirous to have his Lady's Picture drawne, describes her thus.
  • Chaste Love sitting under a Grove of ong Bay-tres, is thus solicited by Lust.
  • What a Whore is.
  • An abused Man: Quasi, a Cuccold.
  • Lust loseth all.
  • A Dialogue betwixt Adversus and his Mistresse the Lady Contra.
  • Rara Avis in terris nigroque Similima Cigno.
  • To his Mistris Elizabeth Brooke.
  • A Dialogue betwixt Fidelius and his Silent Mistris Flora.
  • A Ladies Complaint for the losse of her Love Theodorus.
  • A Morall Eclogue presented by Vertue, Wealth, and Beauty.
  • The complaint of an old Lady for the losse of her beauty.
  • A Gentleman deploring his former follies.
• ELEGIACK POEMS.
  • An Elegie on his Inestimable friend, Mr. Richard Gunnell, Gent.
  • An Epitaph on his kind friend, Mr. Iohn Honiman, Gent.
  • An Elegie on Mr. Iohn Raven, Gent.
  • An Elegie on his beloved friend Mr. Charles Rider Student in the Art of Limning, or Picture-drawing.
  • An Elegie and Epitaph on his Mistresse Fidelia.
  • The Epitaph.
  • An his Mistresse Arbella.