Poems, viz. 1. A panegyrick to the king. 2. Songs and sonnets. 3. The blind lady, a comedy. 4. The fourth book of Virgil, 5. Statius his Achilleis, with annotations. 6. A panegyrick to Generall Monck. / By the Honorable Sr Robert Howard.
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Poems, viz. 1. A panegyrick to the king. 2. Songs and sonnets. 3. The blind lady, a comedy. 4. The fourth book of Virgil, 5. Statius his Achilleis, with annotations. 6. A panegyrick to Generall Monck. / By the Honorable Sr Robert Howard.
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Howard, Robert, Sir, 1626-1698.
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London, :: Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Anchor on the lower Walk of the New Exchange.,
1660.
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To the Same.
TEmpt me no more (fair Cynthia) 'tis as vain,As was the hated Action when you lost,What you unjustly fancy novv to gain;Though at the same repeated vice's cost.For he you lov'd more than your Constancy,Must suffer now as then you injur'd me.
Such punishment attends that hated sinne,That the repentance of it, is a Crime:And you to gain my heart must act agenThe vice which lost it first, from being thine.How justly does Love's-god his power show,In making the unconstant ever so?
That Queen whose charms on Caesar all could do,He did to others by his Sword and Mind,
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Making the VVorld his Slave and Lover too;Had she as constant been as fair and kind.Octavius vvould have blush'd at thoughts to have,Romes conquering Caesar's Mistris for his slave.
Nor did one Caesar justlier think his Love,Paid to her charm's, vvhilst equall flames she feels,Than t' other vvhen she did unconstant prove,Design'd those beauties for his Chariot-wheels.So you may fall unpitti'd as she did,Unconstant unto all things but her pride.
Those beauties vvhich in your fair face and eyes,So long have rendevouz'd in Constant pay,Like Armies still attempting victories,And alway's kept on duty, must decay.Then vvhen those troops of beauties once decline,You'l feel the vvant of your lost Truth and Time.
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Cleop••tra, whole beamy gain'd her as absolute an Empire over Julius 〈◊〉〈◊〉; as he had over others, by his victories and vertues. After him, this Queen as various in Love, as in Ambition, exten∣ded her Conquests over Marcus Antoni••s, to whose power Octavius Caesar put an end, overthrowing the Lovers in a Batrell, and de∣sign'd Cl••opatra to adorn his Triumph, who by death prevented a shame, so contrary to her former glories.