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Ioannis Ioviani Pontani Amorum libri II : De amore coniugali III. Tumulorum II, qui in superiore aliorum poëmaton editione desyderabantur. Lyrici I. Eridanorum II. Eclogæ duæ Coryle, & Quinquennius superioribus quatuor additæ. Calpurnij Siculi Eclogæ VII. Aurelij Nemesiani Eclogæ IIII. Explicatio locorum omnium abstrusorum Pontani authore Petro Summontio uiro doctissimo. Index rerum, quæ in his Pontani lusibus contineantur

Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano (1429-1503); Calpurnius Siculus, Titus; Nemesianus, Marcus Aurelius Olympius; Summonte, Pietro (fl. 1504); Torresanus, Andreas de Asula (1451-1529)

1518

"C'est le second volume des poésies de Pontanus: il n'a été imprimé que cette seule fois par les Alde." Cf. Renouard. Leaves 89, 91, 93, and 95 misnumbered 97, 99 101, and 103. Printer's devic...

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The mistresse, or Seuerall copies of love-verses. Written by Mr A. Cowley

Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667)

anno Dom. 1647

In verse. A different edition than the one with "& are to be sold" in imprint. In this edition the second line of text on A2r ends "writ-". Mistresse. Seuerall copies of love-verses. Severall ...

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Ovid's art of love, in three books : Together with his remedy of love. Translated into English verse by Dryden, Congreve, and others. To which are added, The court of love: A tale from Chaucer: and The history of love

Ovid; Ovid

MDCCLXIV. [1764]

'The history of love', by Charles Hopkins, has separate title-page dated 1763. 'The court of love' is a verse paraphrase by Arthur Maynwaring. P.275 misnumbered 265.

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Consummation: or, The rape of Adonis

MDCCXLI. [1741]

8vo: [A]⁴ B-F⁴. Half-title: Consummation: an original poem. Price One Shilling. -- Captions (p. [i]): To the reader; (p. [iv]): To the author; (p. [1]): The rape of Adonis; (p. 25): The resurrec...

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BC MS Lt 88, f. 1r: John Ellis's poem
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Translations by Thomas Tooly and John Ellis of some of the Basia or Kisses of Joannes Secundus, inserted on additional leaves into a printed edition of 1731.

Tooly, Thomas

c. 1731

Comprises a copy of "Basia Joannis Secundi Nicolai Hagensis: or the kisses of Joannes Secundus Nicolaius of the Hague, in Latin and English verse", London, 1731, with ten English love poems by Thomas ...

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Poems, songs and love-verses, upon several subjects

Coppinger, Matthew

1682

Index: [6] p. at end.

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Nosce teipsum : This oracle expounded in two elegies : 1. Of humane knowledge. 2. Of the soule of man, and the immortalitie thereof. Hymnes of Astraea in acrosticke verse. Orchestra, or, A poem of dauncing. In a dialogue betweene Penelope, and one of her wooers. Not finished

Davies, Sir John (1569-1626)

1622

Signatures: B-M8 L⁴. Last leaf is blank. The general title page has "ORCHESTRA"; a variant has "Orchestra"; with errata on recto of L3; a variant lacks errata. "Hymnes of Astrea" (beginning le...

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