Poems: vvritten by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent

Title

Poems: vvritten by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent

Author

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Publication

Printed at London :: By Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson, dwelling in St. Dunstans Church-yard,

1640.

Rights/Permissions

To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.

Link to this Item

https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12034.0001.001 content_copy

Cite this Item

"Poems: vvritten by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12034.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• To the Reader.
• Vpon Master WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, the Deceased Authour, and his POEMS.
• Of Mr. William Shakespeare.
• title page
• POEMS
  • The glory of beautie.
  • Injurious Time.
  • True Admiration.
  • The sorce of love.
  • The beautie of Nature.
  • Loves crueltie.
  • Youthfull glory.
  • Good Admonition.
  • Quicke prevention.
  • Magazine of beautie.
  • An invitation to Marriage.
  • False beleefe.
  • A Temptation.
  • Fast and loose.
  • True content.
  • A bashfull Lover.
  • Strong conceite.
  • A sweet provocation.
  • A constant vow.
  • The Exchange.
  • ▪A disconsolation.
  • Cruell Deceit.
  • The unconstant Lover.
  • The benefit of Friendship.
  • Friendly concord.
  • Inhumanitie.
  • A congratulation.
  • Losse and gaine.
  • Foolish disdaine.
  • Ancient Antipothy.
  • Beauties valuation.
  • Melancholy thoughts.
  • Loves Losse.
  • Loves Releefe.
  • Vnanimitie.
  • Loath to depart.
  • A Master-peece.
  • Happinesse in content.
  • A dutifull Message.
  • Goe and come quickly.
  • Two faithfull friends.
  • Carelesse neglect.
  • Stoute resolution.
  • A Duell.
  • Love-sicke.
  • Loves labour lost.
  • Wholesome counsell.
  • Sat fuisse.
  • A living monument.
  • Familiaritie breeds contempt.
  • Patiens Armatus.
  • A Valediction.
  • Nil magnic Invidia.
  • Love-sicke.
  • The Picture of true love.
  • In prayse of his Love.
  • A Resignation.
  • Sympathizing love.
  • Arequest to his scornefull Love.
  • A Lovers affection though his Love prove unconstant.
  • Complaint for his Loves absence.
  • An invocation to his Muse.
  • Constant affection.
  • Amazement.
  • A Lovers excuse for his long absence.
  • A complaint.
  • Selfe flattery of her beautie.
  • Tryall of loves constancy.
  • A good construction of his Love: unkindenesse.
  • Errour in opinion.
  • Vpon the receit of a Table Booke from his Mistris.
  • A Vow.
  • Loves safetie.
  • An intreatie for her acceptance.
  • Vpon her playing on the Virginalls.
  • Immoderate Lust.
  • In prayse of her beautie though black.
  • Vnkinde Abuse.
  • A Love-Suite.
  • His heart wounded by her eye.
  • A Protestation.
  • An Allusion.
  • Life and death.
  • A Consideration of death.
  • Immoderate Passion.
  • Loves powerfull subtilty.
  • Retaliation.
  • Sunne Set.
  • A monument to Fame.
  • Perjurie.
  • The Tale of Cephalus and Procris.
  • Cupids Treacherie.
  • That Menelaus was cause of his owne wrongs.
  • And in another place somewhat resembling this.
  • Vulcan was Iupiters Smith, an excellent workemn, on whom the Poets father many rare workes, among which, I fid this one.
  • The History how the Mynotaure was begot.
  • This Mynotaurē, when hee came to growth, was incloased in the Laborinth, which was made by the curious Arts-master Dedalus, whose Tale likewise we thus pursue.
  • Achilles his concealement of his Sex in the Court of Lycomedes.
  • A Lovers Complaint.
  • The amorous Epistle of Paris to Hellen.
  • Hellen to Paris.
  • The Passionate Shepheard to his Love.
  • The Nimphs reply to the Shepheard.
  • Another of the same Nature.
  • poem
  • poem
  • Threnes.
  • poem
  • An Epitaph on the admirable Dramaticke Poet, William' Sheakespeare.
  • On the death of William Shakespeare, who died in Aprill, Anno Dom. 1616.
  • An Elegie on the death of that famous Writer and Actor, M. William Shakspeare.
• An Addition of some Excellent Poems, to those precedent, of Renowned Shakespeare, By other Gentlemen.
  • His Mistresse Drawne.
  • Her minde.
  • To Ben. Iohnson.
  • His Mistris Shade.
  • Lavinia walking in a frosty Morning.
  • A Sigh sent to his Mistresse.
  • An Allegoricall allusion of melancholy thoughts to Bees.
  • The Primrose.
  • A Sigh.
  • A Blush.
  • Orpheus Lute.
  • poem
  • Vpon a Gentlewoman walking on the Grasse.
  • On his Love going to Sea.
  • poem