John Ashmore

I lived from 1580-1635. I was from England, and am in the English category.

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• To the vertuous, and fairely spreading Buds of Beautie, Mistris Marie, Francis, and Ioane Metcalf, daughters of Sir Thomas Metcalf, Knight, he dedicates these Roses

  It 'Spring, the Day, by fair Aurora led,
  Breath'd cooly; yet the Sense with pleasure fed:

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• Ad Melpomenen. Lib. 4. Ode 3.

  The Argvment.
  Whose birth the Muse doth not refuse

  34 lines
• Io. A thousand Mermaids dance oth' Maine

  Io. A thousand Mermaids dance oth' Maine;
  Their Vice-Roy Buckingham to entertaine.

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• To Sir Charles Egerton, Knight

  Mov'd (gentle Knight) by thy great Courtesie,
  And good Report I meet with every where,

  5 lines
• The Sermon Bub

  The Sermon Bub (whatsoe'r the Preachers doe)
  Into three parts divides; and then sleeps two.

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• A double Gelding Gervase did provide

  A double Gelding Gervase did provide,
  That he and's wife to see their friends might ride.

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• To Mr. Miles Moody, of an Epitaph which he wrote of the death of his vertuous and loving wife, Elisabeth, daughter to Mr. William Fawcet, Alderman of Rippon

  And doth the Torrent of thy long-pent Griefe
  At last breake through the flood-gates of thy woe;

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• Ad Martialem. Lib. 5. Epigr. 21.

  If that with thee, dear Martial, I might
  Securely spend my dayes as I desire:

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• Epitaphium D.Stephani Procter, Militis

  Thy Ship, late tost from Coast to Coast,
  Thou steerd ith' Port to rest,

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• To the Right honourable, Edmvnd, Lord Sheffield, after his Recovery from a dangerous sickness

  When sickness late Heroïck Sheffield prest,
  Pallas was sick, and Mavors wisht to die:

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