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Epigrams theological, philosophical, and romantick

Six books, also the Socratic Session, or the Arraignment and Conviction, of Julius Scaliger, with other Select Poems. By S. Sheppard
Sheppard, S.

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Epig. 45. Lots Wife turned to a Pillar of Salt.

This is a Sepulcher, a Body too,
A Sepulcher or Body chuse you whether,
A Riddle strange, one, yet distinctly two,
A Sepulcher and Body both together:
This fatall fortune fell to Niobe,
Yet this the odds; this the more Savorie.
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