The Harmony of the muses, or, The gentlemans and ladies choisest recreation full of various, pure and transcendent wit : containing severall excellent poems, some fancies of love, some of disdain, and all the subjects incident to the passionate affections either of men or women / heretofore written by those unimitable masters of learning and invention, Dr. Joh. Donn, Dr. Hen. King, Dr. W. Stroad [et al].

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The Harmony of the muses, or, The gentlemans and ladies choisest recreation full of various, pure and transcendent wit : containing severall excellent poems, some fancies of love, some of disdain, and all the subjects incident to the passionate affections either of men or women / heretofore written by those unimitable masters of learning and invention, Dr. Joh. Donn, Dr. Hen. King, Dr. W. Stroad [et al].
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London :: Printed by T.W. for William Gilbertson ...,
1654.
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English poetry -- 17th century.
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"The Harmony of the muses, or, The gentlemans and ladies choisest recreation full of various, pure and transcendent wit : containing severall excellent poems, some fancies of love, some of disdain, and all the subjects incident to the passionate affections either of men or women / heretofore written by those unimitable masters of learning and invention, Dr. Joh. Donn, Dr. Hen. King, Dr. W. Stroad [et al]." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A31143.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 4, 2024.

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An Elegie on a Hunter.

HEre lies a dogged fellow, who hath run Out all his time, & now his course is don; A running head he had, and did not scorne, Though it did sound abroad, to wear the horn. His course so open was, that whosoere Observ'd it, soon might have him at a Hare.

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He could not hunt thrift, yet his trace shal stand He kept his Leases, though he sold his Land. He cannot leave his lying, though he die, For he being dead, yet in his grave doth lye. Lament his losse, that like a Hunter, he Brought to his Grave, with a great cry might be.
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