A royal arbor of loyal poesie consisting of poems and songs digested into triumph, elegy, satyr, love & drollery / composed by Tho. Jordan.
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A royal arbor of loyal poesie consisting of poems and songs digested into triumph, elegy, satyr, love & drollery / composed by Tho. Jordan.
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Jordan, Thomas, 1612?-1685?
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London :: Printed by R.W. for Eliz. Andrews ...,
[1663]
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"A royal arbor of loyal poesie consisting of poems and songs digested into triumph, elegy, satyr, love & drollery / composed by Tho. Jordan." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A46270.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.
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The jealous Duke, and the injur'd Dutchess: A story▪
Tune, The Dream.
1.
OF all the wedlock plagues that be,None are so fierceAs Jealousie,
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As you shall see drawn to the lifeBetween a Duke.And's vertuous Wife;He was a Duke of Parma in Italy,His Lady great with childeWas wronged by his jealousie:He sends her unto prison guiltless of crime▪And in that sickly season,When as she was near her time.
2.
Where afterward it came to pass,She of a ChildeDelivered was,A lovely Daughter, which they tookAnd brought it toThe Jealous Duke;Who in a fury did protest as before,The Infant was a Bastard,And its Mother was a Whore:The noble Lady that did bring it did cry,The vertuous Dutchess suffer'dOnely for his Jealousie.
3.
The Lady being much revil'd,She goes awayAnd leaves the Childe;He straight by oath enjoyns a LordWho made a conscienceOf his word:
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Then quoth the Duke, you must perform my commandTake shipping strait,And bear this Brat into a forreign Land;Leave it in any wilderness you can finde,And let it there be nourishedOnely by the rain and winde.
4.
The Nobleman is griev'd to do't,But that his OathEnjoyns him to't;The Dutchess hearing that her ChildeWas sent awayTo Countreys wilde,Falls in a swound, (her spirits all being fled)The word was brought unto the Duke,His wife was newly dead;And that her last words were, (her eyes waxing dim)Commend me to the Duke,I ne're knew any man but him.
5.
Her dying words the Duke believes▪And now alackToo late he grieves;For now the Lord (by his command)Is in the DukeOf Padua's Land;Where he the pretty Infant layes down (as he Had sworn to the Duke)And now returns agen to sea:But (by good fate) a shepherd that lost a sheep
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Was searching up and down that way,And heard the Infant weep.
6.
The Mantle which the Childe did holdWas rich embroideredCloth of Gold;But when it was undrest; he foundThe value ofTwo thousand pound,Besides a paper where was writ down the Name▪This treasure made the Shepherd straightTo grow in wealth and fame;He bred the Childe as decently as he cou'd,But in its disposition oneMight finde the parents bloud.
7.
At sixteen years of age she wasThe prettiest NimphThat trod on grass;Once on a day when she did keep(As she suppos'd) Her fathers sheep,A Gentleman which her fair face lookt upon▪Was strucken straight in love,And 'twas the Duke of Padua's Son;Who from that hour would every day come to se••His Mistress whom he lov'd like life,Though of a low degree.
8.
Much love there was betwixt them both,Till they contracted were by oath;
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Which when his father came to know,Then did beginThe Lovers woe;For with extream outragious words he begunTo bid him leave her,Or he'd never own him as a son;The Prince did vow his love he ne're would withdrawAlthough he lost his father,And the Crown of Padua.
9.
But having got much treasure, heDoth with this VirginPut to sea;After a while there was report,They're in the DukeOf Parma's Court;The Duke of Padua then for fear they should wed,Will follow, if he finde it true,His son shall lose his head:But the old Shepherd fearing wrong should befall,His pretty witty DaughterDoth resolve to finde them all.
10.
The Bride and Bridegroom now in stateAre going toThe Temple-gate,The Duke of Padua with his trainsDoth stop them,And forbids the Banes;And to the Duke of Parma plainly sayes, that
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His son did flye from himTo marry with a Shepherds brat;The Bride and Bridegroom by both Dukes in a breathCommanded are to separate,Or they shall meet in death.
11.
Both are content, and are led onUnto theirExecution.They were to suffer both alike,The Headsmans AxeWas up to strike:Hold quoth the Shepherd, I bring strange news to town;The Dukes were both amazed,And the Axe was straight laid down,This Lady sixteen years ago did I finde,This paper and these Jewels,For the Child is none of mine.
12.
The Lord that bore the Childe awaySeeing the Name,Did boldly say,Great Duke of Parma, this is sheWhich you did send away by me;'Tis your own Daughter: then the Duke full of tearsEmbrace them both, and nowAnother Marriage day appears;Bonefires and Bells, the Conduits all run with wine:By this we see there's nothing canPrevent the Powers divine.
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