Epigrammes in the oldest cut, and newest fashion A twise seuen houres (in so many weekes) studie: No longer (like the fashion) nor vnlike to continue. The first seuen. [by] Iohn Weeuer |
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Intentio operis & Authoris.
For pride with Clio Tamyras contend,For profit Otho, all thy Poems spend,
Pedro for praise, praise Burgloneroes vice,
Please thou thy selfe, in reading ouer thrice
Tubro thy verse. Speake faire ye Gnatonists,
But whip and scourge ye Epigrammatists:
To whip and scourge, my chiefest meaning is,
With seu'n sower rods laid ful seu'n weeks in pisse
Yet pleasure, profit, pride, nor praise allures me,
To whip & scurge. But vertue that procures me.
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