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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19945	A poetical rapsodie containing: diuerse sonnets, odes, elegies, madrigals, epigrams, pastorals, eglogues, with other poems, both in rime and measured verse. For varietie and pleasure, the like neuer yet published.	Davison, Francis, 1575?-1619?	1611 (1611)	STC 6375; ESTC S105119	99,741	216

III. The Souldier My occupation is the noble trade of Kings The tryall that decides the highest right of things Though MARS my Master be I doe not VENVS loue Nor honour BACCHVS oft nor often sweare by ●…OVE Of speaking of my selfe I all occasion shunne And rather loue to doe then boast what I haue done IIII. The Lawyer The Law my calling is my robe my tongue my pen Wealth and opinion gaine and make me Iudge of men The knowne dishonest cause I neuer did defend Nor spun out sutes in length but wisht and sought an end Nor counsaile did bewray nor of both parties take Nor euer tooke I see for which I neuer spake V. The Phisitian I study to vphold the slipperie state of man Who dies when we haue done the best and all we can From practise and from bookes I draw my learned skil Not from the known receipt of Pothecaries bill The earth my faults doth hide the world my cures doth see What youth and time effects is oft ascrib'de to me VI. The Merchant My trade doth euery thing to euery land supply Discouer vnknown coasts strange Countries doth ally I neuer did forestall I neuer did ingrosse Nor custome did withdraw though I return'd with losse I thriue by faire exchange by selling and by buying And not by Iewish vse reprisall fraude or lying VII The Country-Gentleman Though strange outlādish spirits praise towns country scorn The coūtry is my home I dwel where I was born There profit and commaund with pleasure I partake Yet do not Haukes and dogs my sole companions make I rule but not oppresse end quarrels not maintaine See towns but dwel not there t'abridg my charg or train VIII The Bacheler How many things as yet are deere alike to me The field the horse the dog loue armes or libertie I haue no wife as yet whom I may call mine owne I haue no children yet that by my name are knowne Yet if I married were I would not wish to thriue If that I could not tame the veriest shrew aliue IX The married man I onely am the man among all married men That doe not wish the Priest to be vnlinkt agen And thogh my shoo did wring I wold not make my mone Nor think my neighbors chance more happy then mine own Yet court I not my wife but yeeld obseruance due Being neither fond nor crosse nor iealous nor vntrue X. The Wife The first of all our Sex came from the side of man I thither am returnd from whence our sex began I doe not visit oft nor many when I doe I tell my minde to few and that in counsaile too I seeme not sicke in health nor sullen but in sorrow I care for somewhat else then w●…at to weare to morrow XI The Widowe My husbād knew how much his death wold grieue me And therfore left me wealth to comfort and releeue me Though I no more will haue I must not loue disdaine PENELOPE her selfe did sutors entertaine And yet to draw on such as are of best esteeme Nor yonger then I am nor richer will I seeme XII The Maide I marriage would forsweare but that I heare men tell That she that dies a maide must lead an Ape in hell Therefore if fortune come I will not mocke and play Nor driue the bargaine on till it be driuen away Titles and lands I like yet rather fancie can A man that wanteth gold then gold that wants a man A Lottery presented before the late Queenes Maiestie at the Lord Chancellors house 1601. A Marriner with a box vnder his arme containing all the se●…erall things following supposed to come from the Carricke came into the Presence singing this Song CYNTHIA Queene of Seas and lands That fortune euery where commands Sent forth Fortune to the Sea To try her fortune euery way There did I fortune meet which makes me now to sing There is no fishing to the Sea nor seruice to the King All the Nymphes of THETIS traine Did CYNTHIAES fortune entertaine Many a iewell many a iem Was to her fortune brought by them Her fortune sped so well as makes me now to sing There is no fishing to the Sea nor seruice to the King Fortune that it might be seene That she did serue a royall Queene A franke and royall hand did beare And cast her fauors euery where Some toies fel to my share which makes me now to sing There is no fishing to the Sea nor seruice to the King And the Song ended he vttered this short speech GOd saue you faire Ladies all and for my part if euer I be brought to answere my sinnes God forgiue me my sharking and lay vsurie to my charge I am a Marriner and am now come from the sea where I had the fortune to light vpon these few trifles I must confesse I came but lightly by them but I no sooner had them but I made a vow that as they came to my hands by fortune so I would not part with them but by fortune To that end I haue euer since carried these Lots about me that if I met with fit company I might deuide my booty among them And now I thanke my good fortune I am lighted into the best company of the world a company of the fairest Ladies that euer I saw Come Ladies trie your fortunes and if any light vpon an vnfortunate blanke let her thinke that fortune doth but mocke her in these trifles and meanes to pleasure her in greater matters THE LOTS 1. Fortunes wheeles FOrtune must now no more on triumph ride The wheeles are yours that did her Chariots guide 2. A Purse You thriue or would or may your Lots a Purse Fill it with gold and you are nere the worse 3. A Maske Want you a Maske here fortune giues you one Yet nature giues the Rose and Lilly none 4. A Looking Glasse Blinde fortune doth not see how faire you be But giues a glasse that you your selfe may see 5. A Hand-kerchiefe Whether you seeme to weepe or weepe indeede This hand-kerchiefe will stand you well in steed 6. A plaine Ring Fortune doth send you hap it well or ill This plaine gold Ring to wed you to your will 7. A Ring with this Poesie As faithfull as I finde Your hand by Fortune on this Ring doth light And yet the words do hit your humour right 8. A paire of Gloues Fortune these gloues to you in challenge sends For that you loue not fooles that are her friends 9. A dozen of Points You are in euery point a louer true And therefore fortune giues the points to you 10. A Lace Giue her the Lace that loues to be straight lac'd So fortunes little gift is aptly plac'd 11. A paire of Kniues Fortune doth giue this paire of kniues to you To cut the thred of loue if ●… be not true 12. A Girdle By fortunes Girdle you may happy bee But they that are lesse happy are more free 13. A paire of writing Tables These