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Author: Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672.
Title: Several poems compiled with great variety of wit and learning, full of delight wherein especially is contained a compleat discourse, and description of the four elements, constitutions, ages of man, seasons of the year, together with an exact epitome of the three by a gentlewoman in New-England.
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Print source: Several poems compiled with great variety of wit and learning, full of delight wherein especially is contained a compleat discourse, and description of the four elements, constitutions, ages of man, seasons of the year, together with an exact epitome of the three by a gentlewoman in New-England.
Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672.
Boston: Printed by John Foster, 1678.
Alternate titles: Tenth muse lately sprung up in America
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A29149.0001.001
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title page
to the reader
encomium
To my dear Sister, the Author of these Poems.
Ʋpon the Author; by a known Friend.
encomium
In praise of the Author, Mistris Anne Bradstreet, Virtues true and lively Pattern, Wife of the Worshipfull Simon Bradstreet Esq
Upon the Author.
Another to Mrs. Anne Bradstreet, Author of this Poem.
An Anagram. Anna Bradestreate Deer neat An Bartas.
Another. Anne Bradstreate Artes bred neat An.
ƲPON Mrs. Anne Bradstreet Her Poems, &c.
To her most Honoured Fa∣ther Thomas Dudley Esq these humbly presented.
THE PROLOGUE.
The Four Elements
Fire.
Earth.
Water.
Air.
Of the four Humours in Mans Constitution.
Choler.
Blood.
Melancholy.
Flegme.
Of the four Ages of Man.
Childhood.
Youth.
Middle Age.
Old Age.
The four Seasons of the Year.
Spring.
Summer.
Autumn.
Winter.
section
The four Monarchyes, the Assyrian being the first, beginning under Nimrod, 131. Years after the Flood,
Belus.
Ninus.
Semiramis.
Ninias or Zamies.
Sardanapalas
Belosus or Belochus.
Tiglath Pulassar.
Salmanassar or Nabanassar.
Senacherib.
Essarhadon.
Merodach Balladan.
Ben Merodach.
Nebulassar.
Nebuchadnezzar, or Nebopolassar.
Evilmerodach
Belshazzar.
The Second Monarchy, being the Persian, began under Cyrus, Darius being his Uncle and Father-in-law reigned with him about two years.
Cambyses.
The inter regnum between Cambyses And Darius Histaspes.
Darius Hystaspes.
Xerxes,
Artaxerxes Longimanus.
Darius Nothus.
Artaxerxes Mnemon.
Dorius Ochus.
Arsames or Arses,
Darius Codomanus.
The Third Monarchy, being the Grecian, beginning under Alexander the Great in the 112. Olympiad.
Aridaeus.
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The Romane Monarchy, being the fourth and last, be∣ginning Anno Mundi, 3213.
Numa Pompilius.
Tullius Hostilius.
Ancus Martius.
Tarquinius Priscus
Servius Tullius.
Tarquinius Superbus the last King of the Romans
An Apology.
A Dialogue between Old En∣gland and New; concerning their present Troubles, Anno, 164.
An Elegie upon that Honou∣rable and renowned Knight Sir Philip Sidney, who was untimely slain at the Siege of Zutphan, Anno, 1586.
His Epitaph.
In honour of Du Bartas, 1641.
His Epitaph.
In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth OF HAPPY MEMORY.
The Proeme.
The Poem.
HER EPITAPH.
Another.
Davids Lamentation for Saul and Jonathan. 2. Sam. 1.19.
To the Memory of my dear and ever honoured Father Thomas Dudley Esq Who deceased, July 31. 1653. and of his Age, 77.
His Epitaph.
An EPITAPH On my dear and ever honoured Mother Mrs. Dorothy Dudley, Who deceased Decemb. 27. 1643. and of her age, 61:
CONTEMPLATIONS.
The Flesh and the Spirit.
The Ʋanity of all worldly things.
The Author to her Book.
Several other Poems made by the Author upon Diverse Occasions, were found among her Papers after her Death, which she never ednt should come to publick view, amongst which, these following (at the desire of sme friends that knew her well) are insrted
Upon a Fit of Sickness, Anno. 1632. Atats suae, 10.
Ʋpon some distemper of body
To my Dear and loving Husband.
A Letter to her Husband, absent upon Publick employment.
Another.
Another.
To her Father with some verses.
In reference to her Children, 23. June, 166.
In memory of my dear grand-child Elizabeth Bradstreet, who deceased August, 1605. being a year and half old.
In memory of my dear grand child Anne Bradstreet. Who deceased June 20. 1669. being three years and seven Moneths old.
On my dear Grand-child Simon Bradstreet, Who dyed on 16. Novemb. 1669. being but a moneth, and one day old.
To the memory of my dear Daughter in Law, Mrs. Mercy Bradstreet, who deceased Sept. 6. 1669. in the 28. year of her Age.
A Funeral Elogy, Ʋpon that Pattern and Patron of Virtue, the truely pious, peerless & matchless Gentlewoman Mrs. Anne Bradstreet, right Panaretes, Mirror of Her Age, Glory of her whose Heaven-born-Soul leaving its earthly Shrine, chose its native home, and was taken to its Rest, upon 16th. Sept. 1672.