title: Poems
variant_description: There are three issues of this collection. Wing B1602 contains the original title page dated 1653, listing Blaiklock as publisher. Wing B1603 contains a cancel title page dated 1653, listing Hope as publisher and with slightly different formatting. Wing B1604 contains a cancel title page dated 1660, listing a different book title, advertising the collection as the "second Edition enriched with the addition of other Drolleries," and naming Hope as publisher; it also contains a different author attribution, list of contents, and bookshop location. The contents in the third issue are actually the same as those in the first two. See also Wing 
title_page_title: POEMS: ... <i>Viz.</i> { The Hermaphrodite. | The Remedy of Love. | Elegies. | Sonnets, with other Poems.
title_page_author: BY <i>FRANCIS BEAVMONT</i>, Gent.
title_page_imprint: <i>LONDON</i>, Printed for <i>Laurence Blaiklock</i>, and are to be sold at his Shop neare the middle Temple Gate in <i>Fleet-street</i>. 1653.
paratext_dedication: Dedicatory verses <i>to</i>: Robert Parkhurst (<i>Esquire</i>); <i>from</i>: Lawrence Blaicklock [A2r]
paratext_other_paratexts: "To the true Patronesse of all Poetry, Caliope" (verses) signed "F. B." (Francis Beaumont) [A3r]
stationer_entries_in_register: Oct 7, 1639: Entered to William Wethered: "Poems by ffrancis Beomont. gent<i>leman</i> viz<sup>t</sup>. Remedium Amoris. The Passion of Christ. w<sup>th</sup>. diuers Elegies. Also a Poem against Stargaizers &c. by M<sup>r</sup> Iohn ffletcher".<br />Nov 1, 1654: Transferred from Lawrence Blaiklock to Richard Best: "Poems written by Fra: Beaumont."
transcript_modern_spelling: Poems by francis beaumont gent viz. the hermaphrodite the remedy of love elegies sonnets with other poems london printed for lawrence blaiklock and are to be sold at his shop near the middle temple gate in fleet street 1653