Castara: The Third Edition of 1640; Edited and Collated with the Earlier Ones of 1634, 1635Habington, William
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Castara: The Third Edition of 1640; Edited and Collated with the Earlier Ones of 1634, 1635
Habington, William
English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Love poetry, English
iii. A CHARACTER. _A Wife._ 57
iv. FOURTEEN additional Poems.
94. Though my deare _Talbots_ Fate exact, a sad 84
95. If your example be obey'd 86
96. Its false Arithmaticke to say thy breath 88
97. Why should we feare to melt away in death 89
98. When _Pelion_ wondring saw, that raine which fell 89
99. O whither dost thou flye? Cannot my vow 90
100. Where sleepes the North-wind when the South inspires 90
101. Should the cold _Muscovit_, whose furre and stove 91
102. _Amphion_, O thou holy shade 92
103. You'd leave the silence in which safe we are 92
104. Give me a heart where no impure 94
105. Why doth the eare so tempt the voyce, 95
106. I hate the Countries durt and manners, yet 96
107. I wonder when w'are dead, what men will say; 97
v. A CHARACTER. _A Friend._
vi. EIGHT Elegies "_The Funerals of the Honourable, my best
Friend and Kinsman_, GEORGE TALBOT, Esq." 101
108. (1) Twere malice to the fame; to weepe alone 101
109. (2) _Talbot_ is dead. Like lightning which no part 102
110. (3) Let me contemplate thee (faire soule) and though 103
111. (4) My name, dear friend, even thy expiring breath 104
112. (5) Chast as the Nuns first vow, as fairely bright 105
113. (6) Goe stop the swift-wing'd moments in their flight 107
114. (7) There is no peace in sinne. Æternall war 108
115. (8) Boast not the rev'rend Vatican, nor all 109
3. 1640. Third Edition in 12mo: with Titles, Characters, and Poems
arranged in the order here reprinted. For titles, see _pp._ 9, 55, 111.
There are no further additions to the first two parts: but there is
added an entire Third Part.
_CASTARA._ THIRD PART.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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