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<TITLE TO HIS BELOOVED; THE AUTHOR>
PRAISE WHERE SOER'T BE FOUND,IF IT BE DUE,
SHALL NO VAINE CULLOUR NEEDE TO SET IT FOORTH:
WHY SHOULD I IDELY THEN EXTOLL THE WORTH,
WHICH HEERE(DERE FRIEND)I FINDE BELONG TO YOU.
AND IF I ER'D,FULL WELL THE LEARNED KNEWE,
HOW WIDE,AMISSE MY MARKE I TAKEN HAD,
SINCE THEY DISTINGUISH CAN THE GOOD FROM BAD.
AND THROUGH THE VARNISH WELL DISCERNE THE HEWE
BE GLAD THEREFORE,THIS MAKES FOR YOU,AND KNOWE,
WHEN WISER READERS,HEERE SHALL FIXE THEIR SIGHT,
FOR VERTUES SAKE,THEY WILL DOE VERTUE RIGHT.
SO SHALT THOU NOT(FRIEND)UNREWARDED GOE,
THEN BOLDLY ON, GOOD FORTUNE TO THY MUSE,
SHOULD ALL CONDEMNE,THOU CANST AS WELL EXCUSE.
I.W. . . .
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<TITLE TO HIS INDUSTRIOUS FRIEND, MASTER HENRY COCKERAM.> TO OVER-PRAISE THY BOOKE, IN A SMOOTH LINE, (IF ANY ERROUR'S IN'T) WOULD MAKE IT MINE: ONELY, WHILE WORDS FOR PAIMENT PASSE AT COURT, AND WHILST LOUD TALKE AND WRANGLING MAKE RESORT I'TH TERME TO WESTMINSTER, I DOE NOT DREAD THY LEAVES SHALL SCAPE THE SCOMBRI, AND BE READ. AND I WILL ADDE THIS AS THY FRIEND, NO POET, THOU HAST TOILD TO PURPOSE, AND THE EVENT WIL SHEW IT. JOHN WEBSTER. . . .
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A
MONUMENTAL
COLUMNE,
ERECTED TO THE LIVING MEMORY OF
THE EVER-GLORIOUS HENRY, LATE
PRINCE OF WALES.
VIRGIL. OSTENDENT TERRIS HUNC TANTUM FATA.
BY JOHN WEBSTER.
LONDON,
PRINTED BY N.O. FOR WILLIAM WELBY, DWELLING IN
PAULS CHURCH-YARD AT THE SIGNE OF THE
SWAN. 1613.
TO THE RIGHT
HONOURABLE SIR ROBERT
CARRE VISCOUNT ROCHESTER,
KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE
GARTER,AND ONE OF HIS MAJESTIES MOST
HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCELL.
MY RIGHT NOBLE LORD: I PRESENT TO YOUR VOIDEST EASURE OF
SURVEY,THESE FEW SPARKES,FOUND OUT IN OUR MOST GLORIOUS
PRINCE HIS ASHES: I COULD NOT HAVE THOUGHT THIS WORTHY
YOUR VIEW,BUT THAT IT AIMES AT THE PRESERVATION OF HIS FAME; THEN
WHICH,I KNOW N . . .
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<TITLE TO HIS BELOVED FRIEND, MASTER THOMAS HEYWOOD.> SUME SUPERBIAM QUAESITAM MERITIS. I CANNOT, THOUGH YOU WRITE IN YOUR OWNE CAUSE, SAY YOU DEALE PARTIALLY; BUT MUST CONFESSE (WHAT MOST MEN WIL) YOU MERIT DUE APPLAUSE, SO WORTHILY YOUR WORKE BECOMES THE PRESSE. AND WELL OUR ACTORS MAY APPROVE YOUR PAINES, FOR YOU GIVE THEM AUTHORITY TO PLAY, EVEN WHILST THE HOTTEST PLAGUE OF ENVY RAIGNES; NOR FOR THIS WARRANT SHALL THEY DEARLY PAY. WHAT A FULL STATE OF POETS HAVE YOU CITED TO JUDGE YOUR CAUSE; AND TO OUR EQUAL VIEW FAIR MONUMENTALL THEATRES RECITED, WHOSE RUINES HAD BENE RUINED BUT FOR YOU^ SUCH MEN WHO CAN IN TUNE BOTH RAILE AND SING, SHALL, VIEWING THIS, EITHER CONFESSE 'TIS GOOD, OR LET THEIR IGNORANCE CONDEMN THE SPRING, BECAUSE 'TIS MERRY AND RENEWES OUR BLOOD. BE, THEREFORE, YOUR OWNE JUDGEMENT YOUR DEFENCE, WHICH SHALL APPROVE YOU BETTER THAN MY PRAISE, WHILST I, IN RIGHT OF SACRED INNOCENCE, DURST O'ER EACH GUILDED TOMB THIS KNOWNE TRUTH RAISE: WHO DEAD WOULD NOT BE ACTED B . . .
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<TITLE TO MY KINDE FRIEND, MA. AN. MUNDY.> THE SIGHES OF LADIES, AND THE SPLEENE OF KNIGHTS, THE FORCE OF MAGICKE, AND THE MAP OF FATE: STRANGE PIGMEY-SINGLENES IN GIANT-FIGHTS, THY TRUE TRANSLATION SWEETLY DOTH RELATE. NOR FOR THE FICTION IS THE WORKE LESSE FINE: FABLES HAVE PITH AND MORALL DISCIPLINE. NOW PALMERIN IN HIS OWNE LANGUAGE SINGES, THAT (TILL THY STUDIE) MASKT IN UNKNOWNE FASHION, LIKE A FANTASTICK BRITTAINE, AND HENCE SPRINGS THE MAPPE OF HIS FAIRE LIFE TO HIS OWNE NATION. TRANSLATION IS A TRAFFIQUE OF HIGH PRICE: IT BRINGS ALL LEARNING IN ONE PARADISE. JO: WEBSTER. . . .
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<TITLE ODE.> TRIUMPHES WERE WONT WITH SWET AND BLOUD BEE CROUN'D: TO EVERY BROW THEY DID ALLOW THE LIVING LAURER, WHICH BEGIRTED ROUND THEIR RUSTY HELMETS AND HAD POWER TO MAKE THE SOULDIER SMILE, WHILE MORTALL WOUND DID AKE. BUT OUR MORE CIVILL PASSAGES OF STATE (LIKE HAPPY FEAST OF IN-UR'D REST, WHICH BELS AND WOUNDLESSE CANONS DID RELATE,) STOOD HIGH IN JOY: SINCE WARLIKE TRIUMPHES BRING REMEMBRANCE OF OUR FORMER SORROWING, THE MEMORY OF THESE SHOULD QUICKLY FADE, (FOR PLEASURE'S STREAME IS LIKE A DREAME, PASSANT AND FLEET, AS IS A SHADE,) UNLESSE THY SELFE WHICH THESE FAIRE MODELS BRED, HAD GIVEN THEM A NEW LIFE WHEN THEY WERE DEAD. TAKE THEN(GOOD COUNTRYMAN AND FRIEND) THAT MERIT, WHICH FOLLY LENDS, (NOT JUDGEMENT SENDS,) TO FORRAINE SHORES FOR STRANGERS TO INHERIT: PERFECTION MUST BE BOLD, WITH FRONT UPRIGHT, THOUGH ENVY GNASH HER TEETH, WHILST SHE WOULD BITE. JOH. WEBSTER. . . .
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<TITLE THE PROGENIE OF THE MOST RENOWNED PRINCE JAMES KING OF GREAT BRITAINE FRANCE AND IRELAND> <SN A KING JAMES!> TU DECUS OMNE TUIS ARS UTINAM MORES, ANIMUSQUE EFFINGERE POSSET; PULCHRIOR IN TERRIS, NULLA TABELLA FORET. COULD ART, HIS GUIFTES OF MIND, EXPRESS AS WELL, NO PICTURE IN THE WORLD, SHOULD THIS EXCELL. <SN B QUEEN ANNE!> MORS SCEPTRA, LIGONIBUS AEQUAT. QUEEN ANN, RESIGNES HER SCEPTER UNTO FATE, AND YET IN DEATH, YOU MAY OBSERVE HER STATE, WHICH OUTSHINES, ALL THE JEWELS OF THE CROWNE, SHEE LEFT BEHIND HER, A MOST CLEARE RENOWNE; <SN C PRINCE HENRY!> UNO AVULSU NON DEFICIT ALTER. PRINCE HENRY (TO OUR GENERALL SORROW) DIE'D, EARE, HIS BELOVED SISTER WAS A BRIDE; NEVER DID A GREAT SPRIGHT, EARLIER SHOOT BUT THE PRIME BLOSSOMES, SELDOME BECOME FRUICT <SN D FREDERICK, KING OF BOHEMIA!> VIRESCIT VULNERE VIRTUS GREAT IN THY BIRTH, & GREATER IN THY CHOICE BUT ABSOLUTLY GREATEST, IN THE VOICE PROCLAIMES THEE CONSTANT, UNDER FORTUN'S SPIGHT; THUS ENVY, DEATH, AND HELL THOU . . .
