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POEMS


Compiled with great Variety of Wit and Learning,
full of Delight;

Wherin especially is contained, a compleat Discourse and
Description of

The Four Elements,

Constitutions,
Ages of Man,
Seasons of the Year,

Together with an exact Epitome of the three first
MONARCHIES, viz. the

ASSYRIAN,
PERSIAN,
GRECIAN, and

ROMAN Common
Wealth
,

from its begining
to the End of their
last King.

With divers other pleasant and serious POEMS.


By a Gentlewoman in New-England.


The Third Edition, corrected by the Author,
and enlarged by an Addition of several other
Poems found amongst her Papers after her
Death.


Re-printed from the second Edition, in the Year

M. DCC. LVIII.