Poems: by Francis Beaumont, Gent.: Viz. The hermaphrodite. The remedy of love. Elegies. Sonnets, with other poems.

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Poems: by Francis Beaumont, Gent.: Viz. The hermaphrodite. The remedy of love. Elegies. Sonnets, with other poems.
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Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616.
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London :: Printed for Laurence Blaiklock, and are to be sold at his shop neare the middle Temple Gate in Fleet-street,
1653.
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"Poems: by Francis Beaumont, Gent.: Viz. The hermaphrodite. The remedy of love. Elegies. Sonnets, with other poems." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A76292.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.

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The Prologue to the Faire Maid of the Inne.
PLaies have their fates, not as in their true sence They're understood, but as the influence Of idle custome madly works upon The drosse of many tongu'd opinion. A worthy story, howsoever writ For language, modest mirth, conceit, o wit, Mercies oft times with the sweet Commendation Of hang't 'tis scurvey, when for approbation, A Jigge shall be clapt at, and every Rhime Prais'd and applauded by a clam'rous chyme; Let ignorance and laughter dwell together, They are beneath the Muses petty. Hether Came Nobler Judgements, and to those the straine Of our invention is not bent in vaine. The faire maid of the Inne to you commends Her hopes and welcomes, and withall intends In the entertaines to which she doth invite ye, All things to please, and some things to delight ye.
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