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The Furies

With Vertues Encomium. Or, The Image of Honour. In two Bookes of Epigrammes, Satyricall and Encomiasticke. By R.N. [i.e. Richard Niccols]
Niccols, Richard (1584-1616)
  
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TO THE RIGHT Worshipfull and generous disposed (follower of vertue and fauourer of learning) Sir Timothie Thornhil Knight.
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THE FVRIES.
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Alecto.
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Tisiphone.
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Megera.
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Vertves Encomivm. Or, The Image of Honour.

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Epig. XXIX. In mortis timorem.

How base hath sinne made man to feare the thing,
That men call Mars; which yet hath lost all sting,
And is but a priuation, as we know,
Nay is no word if we exempt the O.
Then let good men the feare of it defie,
All is but ó when they shall come to die.
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