Item genre: Eclogue

Huntington Library: Huntington MS HM 904
Poetical Miscellany (before 1656)
Constance Aston Fowler (scribe)

Item 19 (Verse, Eclogue), fol.28v - fol.31r


(scribe)Constance Aston Fowler

An eclogue between Melibeus and Amyntas

Melibeus: Tell me Amyntas why you look

...

Makes her soul and body one:

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Huntington Library: Huntington MS HM 904
Poetical Miscellany (before 1656)
Constance Aston Fowler (scribe)

Item 64 (Verse, Eclogue), fol.189r - fol.195v


(author)Thomas Randolph

[Attributed to "TR".]


(scribe)Constance Aston Fowler

The constant lovers a pastoral eclogue Laura Amintas, and chorus

[Below the title the initials "MWS" and "LDS" appear, referring to William Stafford and his wife Lady Dorothy Shirley .]

The half starv'd lamb warm'd in her mother's wool

...

Become the fickle lovers' heads

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Huntington Library: Huntington MS HM 904
Poetical Miscellany (before 1656)
Constance Aston Fowler (scribe)

Item 65 (Verse, Eclogue), fol.196r - fol.200v


(author)Sir William Pershall

[ The poem is attributed to "SWP", but the initials have been crossed out.]


(scribe)Sir William Pershall

A pastoral eclogue on the death of Lawra: Amyntas: Dorus: Chorus:

Amyntas But tell me Dorus since no object here

...

Are ornaments but while he lives

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