Ben. Johnson's poems, elegies, paradoxes, and sonnets
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- Ben. Johnson's poems, elegies, paradoxes, and sonnets
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- King, Henry, 1592-1669.
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- 1700.
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The Vow-Breaker.
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Ʋpon a Table-Book presented to a Lady.
VVHen your fair hand receives this little book You must not there for prose or verses look Those empty regions which within you see, May by your self planted and peopled be: And though we scarce allow your sex to prove Writers (unless the Argument be Love); Yet without crime or envy you have roome Here, both the Scribe and Author to become.Page 4
To the same Lady upon Mr▪ Burtons Melancholy.
The Farewell. Splendidis longùm valedico nugis.
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A Black-moor Maid wooing a fair Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds.
STay lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee That languish in these flames for thee? I'm black 'tis true: why so is Night, And Love doth in dark Shades delight. The whole World, do but close thine eye, Will seem to thee as black as I; Or op't, and see what a black shade Is by thine own fair body made, That follows thee where e're thou go; (O who allow'd would not do so?) Let me for ever dwell so nigh, And thou shalt need no other shade than I.The Boyes answer to the Blackmoor.
BLack Maid, complain not that I fly, When Fate commands Antipathy:Page 7
To a Friend upon Overbury's wife given to her.
I Know no fitter subject for your view Then this, a meditation ripe for you, As you for it. Which when you read you'l see What kind of wife your self will one day bee: Which happy day be neer you, and may this Remain with you as earnest of my wish;Page 8
Ʋpon the same.
Madam, who understands you well would swear, That you the Life, and this your Copie were.To A. R. upon the same.
NOt that I would instruct or tutor you What is a Wifes behest, or Husbands due, Gi;ve I this Widdow-Wife. Your early date Of knowledge makes such Precepts slow and late. This book is but your glass, where you shall see What your self are, what other Wives should bee.Page 9
An Epitaph on Niobe turned to Stone.
Ʋpon a Braid of Hair in a Heart sent by Mrs. E. H.
IN this small Character is sent My Loves eternal Monument. Whil'st we shall live, know, this chain'd Heart Is our affections counter-part. And if we never meet, think I Bequeath'd it as my Legacy.Page 10
SONNET.
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SONNET.
VVEre thy heart soft as thou art faire, Thou wer't a wonder past compare: But forzen Love and fierce disdain By their extremes thy graces stain. Cold coyness quenches the still fires Which glow in Lovers warm desires; And scorn, like the quick Lightnings blaze, Darts death against affections gaze. O Heavens, what prodigy is this When Love in Beauty buried is! Or that dead pity thus should be Tomb'd in a living cruelty.SONNET.
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SONNET. To Patience.
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Silence. A SONNET.
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Loves Harvest.
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The Forlorn Hope.
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The Retreat.
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SONNET.
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SONNET.
SONNET.
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SONNET.
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To a Lady who sent we a copy of verses at my going to bed.
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The Pink.
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To his Friends of Christ-Church upon the mis∣like of the Marriage of the Arts acted at Woodstock.
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The Surrender.
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The Legacy.
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The short Wooing.
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St. Valentines day.
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To his unconstant Friend.
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Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice. Con mala Muger el rem••dio Mucha Tierra por el medio.
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The Defence.
Piensan los Enamorados Que tienen los otros, los oios quebranta dos.
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To One demarding why Wine sparkles.
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By occasion of the Young Prince his happy birth
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Ʋpon the Kings happy return from Scotland.
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To the Queen at Oxford.
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A salutation of his Majesties Ship the Soveraign.
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AN EPITAPH On his most honoured Friend Richard Earl of Dorset.
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The Extquy.
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The Anniverse. AN ELEGY.
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On two Children dying of one Disease, and buried in one Grave.
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A Letter.
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An Acknowledgment.
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The Acquittance.
NOt knowing who should my Acquittance take, I know as little what discharge to make. The favour is so great, that it out-goes All forms of thankfulness I can propose. Those grateful livies which my pen would raise, Are stricken dumb, or bury'd in amaze. Therefore, as once in Athens there was shown An Altar built unto the God unknown, My ignorant devotions must by guess This blind return of gratitude address, Till You vouchsafe to shew me where and how I may to this revealed Goddess bow.Page 68
The Forfeiture.
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The Departure. AN ELEGY.
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PARADOX. That it is best for a Young Maid to marry an Old Man.
FAir one, why cannot you an old man love? He may as useful, and more constant prove. Experience shews you that maturer years Are a security against those fears Youth will expose you to; whose wild desire As it is hot, so 'tis as rash as fire. Mark how the blaze extinct in a shes lies, Leaving no brand nor embers when it dies Which might the flame renew: thus soon consumes Youths wandring hear, and vanishes in fumes. When ages riper love unapt to stray Through loose and giddy change of objects, may In your warm bosom like a cynder lie, Quickned and kindled by your sparkling eie. 'Tis not deni'd, there are extremes in both Which may the fancie move to like or loath: Yet of the two you better shall endure To marry with the Cramp then Calenture.Page 73
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PARADOX. That Fruition destroyes Love.
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The Change Il sabio mude conseio: Il loco persevera.
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To my Sister Anne King, who chid me in verse for being angry.
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AN ELEGY Ʋpon the immature loss of the most vertuous Lady Anne Rich.
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AN ELEGY Ʋpon Mrs. Kirk unfortunately drowned in Thames.
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AN ELEGY Ʋpon the death of Mr. Edward Holt.
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To my dead friend Ben: Johnson:
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AN ELEGY Ʋpon Prince Henry's death.
KEep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure On thy supporters shoulders, lest past cure, Thou dasht in ruine fall by a griefs weight Will make thy basis shrink, and lay thy height Low as the Center. Heark! and feel it read Through the astonisht Kingdom, Henry's dead. It is enough; who seeks to aggravate One strain beyond this, prove more sharp his fate Then sad our doom. The world dares not survive To parallel this woes superlative. O killing Rhetorick of Death! two words Breathe stronger terrours then Plague, Fire, or Swords Ere conquer'd. This were Epitaph and Verse Worthy to be prefixt in Natures herse, Or Earths sad dissolution; whose fall Will be less grievous though more generall: For all the woe ruine ere buried, Sounds in these fatal accents, Henry's dead.Page 96
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AN ELEGY Ʋpon S. W. R.
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AN ELEGY Ʋpon the L. Bishop of London John King.
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Ʋpon the death of my ever desired friend Doctor Donne Dean of Pauls.
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AN ELEGY Ʋpon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus.
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—O Famâ ingens ingentior armis Rex Gustave, quibus Coelo te laudibus aequem? Virgil. Aeneid. lib. 2.
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To my Noble and Judicious Friend Sir Henry Blount upon his Voyage.
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To my honoured Friend Mr. George Sandys.
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The Woes of Esay.
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An Essay on Death and a Prison.
A Prison is in all things like a grave, Where we no better priviledges have Then dead men, nor so good. The soul once fled Lives freer now, then when she was cloystered In walls of flesh; and though she organs want To act her swift designs, yet all will grant Her faculties more clear, now separate, Then if the same conjunction, which of late Did marry her to earth, had stood in force, Uncapable of death, or of divorce: But an imprison'd mind, though living, dies, And at one time feels two captivities; A narrow dungeon which her body holds, But narrower body which her self enfolds. Whil'st I in prison••ly, nothing is free, Nothing enlarg'd but thought and miserie; Though e'ry chink be stopt, the doors close barr'd, Despight of walls and locks, through e'ry ward These have their issues forth; may take the aire, Though not for health, but onely to comparePage 131
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The Labyrinth.
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Being waked out of my sleep by a su••ff of Candle which offended me, I thus thought.
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Sic Vita.
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My Midnight Meditation.
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A Penitential Hy••••ne.
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AN ELEGY Occasioned by sickness.
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The Dirge.
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AN ELEGY Occasioned by the lesse of the most incompara∣ble Lady Stanhope, daught or to the Earl of Northumberland.
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Notes
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Resurgam.
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Magis iumphati uam icti. acit. de ••or. Ger.
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Sr. Edw•• Sandys survay of religion i•• the West.
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••ob.
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••cl siast••s
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••re Act of ••arliament ••r publick ••••a••ks gi∣••ing on the ••••th of No∣••••mb. set to ••••tune by 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Dod a tradesman of London, at the end of his Psalmes, which sto••∣••••om the Press Anno Domini 1620.
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Hymns Lament at. Psalmes.
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Non na∣sci, aut quàm ci∣tissinè mori.