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 |
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Epig. 5. On Lucians true History.
That there were Snake-foote Gyants, that a RingObscur'd the person of the Lydian King,
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That Hercules drew Cacus from his Den,
That Uulcans shop's in the Island Lemnos, where
He forgeth fire-balls for the Thunderer,
That the two Gorgons could transforme to stone
All those unhappy men they look'd upon;
Are things so credible compar'd with those,
Weav'd by thy wilie hand in looser prose,
I will beleeve them all, and as I read
Register each an Article of Creede:
Great Lord of Lying, I applaude thy wit,
But wish none, save thy self, may Father it.
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