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Lucasta

by Richard Lovelace

Pages
about 229
Category
Literature & Fiction
Language
English
Reading time
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To Ellinda, that lately I have not written 74 Ellinda's Glove 75 Being Treated. To Ellinda 76 To Ellinda, upon his late Recovery. A Paradox 79

To Chloe, courting her for his Friend 81 Gratiana Dauncing and Singing 82 Amyntor's Grove 84 The Scrutinie 89 Princesse Loysa Drawing 90 A Forsaken Lady to her False Servant 92 The Grassehopper. To My Noble Friend, Mr. Charles Cotton [the elder] 94 An Elegie on the Death of Mrs. Cassandra Cotton 97 The Vintage to the Dungeon. A Song 99 On the Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Filmer. An Elegiacall Epitaph 100 To My Worthy Friend Mr. Peter Lilly 102 The Lady A[nne] L[ovelace]. My Asylum in a Great Extremity 104 A Lady with a Falcon on her Fist. To the Honourable my Cousin A[nne] L[oveace] 108 A Prologue to the Scholars 110 The Epilogue 111 Against the Love of Great Ones 113 To Althea, from Prison 117 Sonnet. To Generall Goring, after the Pacification at Berwicke 120 Sir Thomas Wortley's Sonnet 122 The Answer 123 A Guiltlesse Lady Imprisoned; after Penanced 124 To His Deare Brother Colonel F[rancis] L[ovelace] 125 To a Lady that desired me I would beare my part with her in a Song 126 Valiant Love<TOC.1> 131 La Bella Bona Roba. To My Lady H. 133 Sonnet. "I Cannot Tell," &c. 134 A la Bourbon 135 The Faire Begger 136 A Dialogue betwixt Cordanus and Amoret 138

<This is approximately the original location of footnote <TOC.1>. This footnote has been moved to a position after the poem 'La Bella Bona Roba.'>

IV. Commendatory and Other Verses, prefixed to Various Publications between 1638 and 1647.

An Elegie. Princesse Katherine Borne, Christened, Buried in one Day (1638) 140 Clitophon and Lucippe translated. To the Ladies (1638) 143 To My Truely Valiant, Learned Friend; who in his Booke resolv'd the Art Gladiatory into the Mathematicks (1638) 146 To Fletcher Reviv'd (1647) 148

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