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Certain Selected Odes Of Horace, Englished

and their Arguments annexed. With Poems (Antient and Modern) of diuers Subjects, Translated. Whereunto are added, both in Latin and English, sundry new Epigrammes. Anagrammes. Epitaphes [by John Ashmore]

Ashmore, John

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[RVERENDISSIMO IN CHRISTO PATRI ET DOMINO, D. Todiæ, Archiepiscopo Eboracensi Angl. Primati & Metropolitano dignissimo]

To my Friend, the Author.

To the ingenious Author.

[Grac't by the Muses, Poët most expert]

CERTAIN SELECTED ODES OF Horace TRANSLATED.

EPIGRAMMES, EPITAPHES, ANAGRAMMES,

A SPEECH, MADE TO the Kings Maiestie comming in his Progress to Rippon, the 15. of Aprill, 1617.

Ad Potentissimū & Clementiss. Regem Iacobvm, Ecclesiæ Collegiatæ Ripponensis Restauratorē benigniss. auspicatissimo Maiestatis suæ progressu Ripponam advenientem, 15. Aprilis 1617.

Ad Carolvm, Augustissimum Walliæ Principem.

To the most Beautifull and Uertuous Princess, the Lady Elisabeth.

Ad Illustrissimum Dominum, Georgivm Villiers, Marchionem Buckinghamiæ Amplissimum.

To the same right Honourable, George, Marquess of Buckingham, upon the Accession of his Office of the Admiralty.

[Let's Io's sing, till th'Eccho's ring]

[Iö. A thousand Mermaids dance oth' Maine]

To the Right honourable, Edmvnd, Lord Sheffield, after his Recovery from a dangerous sickness.

[The Sermon Bub (whatsoe'r the Preachers doe)]

[A double Gelding Gervase did provide]

To the Right Honourable, Sir Francis Bacone, Knight, Lord High Chancelor of England.

Epithaphium Radulphi Simson, Ecclesiæ Collegiatæ Rippon. Choristæ.

To Master Aldebrough Esquire.

[Sloth for a man unfitting is.]

To the Right Worshipfull, Sir Edward Mosley, Knight, Attorney of his Maiesties Court of the Dutchie of Lancaster.

To Mr. Miles Moody, of an Epitaph which he wrote of the death of his vertuous and loving wife, Elisabeth, daughter to Mr. William Fawcet, Alderman of Rippon.

An Epitaph upon the death of Elisabeth Brigges, Daughter to the discreet Matron and Widow, Bettrice Brigges.

To Sir Iohn Mallory, Knight, after his Recovery from a great Sickness.

In Matildam.

To the vertuous, and fairely spreading Buds of Beautie, Mistris Marie, Francis, and Ioane Metcalf, daughters of Sir Thomas Metcalf, Knight, he dedicates these Roses.

To Mr. William Mallory, and his deare brother Iohn, the generous and gracefull children of Mr. William Mallory, Esquire.

Ausonius, ex græco, de ambiguitate eligendæ vitæ. Edyl. 15. begining thus

To Mr. Iohn Cameage.

[When perils I by Land and Sea had past]

Epitaph.

Epitaphium D. Stephani Procter, Militis.

De Poculo. Ad G. N.

Ad M. T.

Reverendo in Christo Patri & D. Ioh. King, Episcopo Londinensi.

Epithaphium D. Gvil. Talentire, Rectoris de Goldsbrough.

Ad D. Gvil. Mallory, cum Virgilivm sibi auro pulchrè ornatum dederim.

Ad T. N.

Epitaphium Reverendi viri, D. Mosis Fowler, primi Ecclesiæ Collegiatæ Ripponensis Decani.

Allusio in eiusdem nomen.

Ad. D. Cradock, Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Dunelmensis Cancellarium, de Patris sui morte.

Ex Martial. Lib. 1. Epigr.

Ad D. Christoph. Lindall, Ripponæ Præbendar. digniss.

To the worthily much-honor'd Knight, Sir Thomas Ferfax, of Denton.

To the famous Martialist, Captaine William Ferfax.

Dialogus inter Vram & Skell, duos amnes Ripponam ambientes, & in parte oppidi orientali coeuntes, de morte celeberrimi viri, Ioh. Mallory, Equitis aurati.

In Rufum.

Ad G. W. qui casu caput suum Cantabrigiæ fregit.

In Sacrificum quendam.

To the Right Worsh. the Lady Elsabeth Metcalf, the La. Catherin Fennick, and the La. Marie Bethell, Daughters of Sir Hen. Slingsbie, Knight.

[When with a knife chaste Lucrece stabd her side]

[My Bodie's staind: my Soule is pure and free.]

[If the Adult'rer, Lucrece did thee please]

To Mrs. Dorathy Wythes, wife to Mr. Charles Wythes, Esquire.

To Mr. Marke Metcalf.

An Epitaph of I. H. Dyer.

Ad Poetam doctissimum (utinam dicissimum) Ioh. Owen.

[Mecœnas earst three Poëts did mantaine]

[Three Poëts one Mecœnas whilom fed]

To the Honourable, Sir Thomas Wentworth, Knight Baronet.

To Sir Charles Egerton, Knight.

Ex Io. Syl. Anagr. Thomas Egerton. Honors mett Age.

Ad Ornatissimum Virum, D. Guidonem Palmes, Militem.

Ad D. Franckland.

Ad Hen. Bethell, D. Gualteri Bethell, Militis filium, cum Iustinianum sibi mitterem.

Ad D. Io: Davies, Militē, Iudicem Itinerariū.

Ad D. Thomam Best.

To Mistris Katherin Dutton, Daughter of M. Dutton, the worthy Alderman of Chester, lately deceased.

Epitaphium Robini.

To M. Christopher Moyser.

Of One that (wearing an Hawthorne in his hat to save him from the thunder) was suspected, upon Examination found to be a Priest, and is now in Prison.

[While fondly thou the Thunder shuns]

To Mr. Iohn Paget.

In Tortum.

De Seipso.

THE PRAISE OF A COVNTRY LIFE.

OF A BLESSED LIFE.

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Martial. Lib. 4. Epigram. 90. De Rusticatione.

Asks thou, ith' Country how I spend the Day?
Early, each morning, to the gods I pray.
My Servants then, and Fields to see I goe,
And every one appoint what worke to doe.
This done, I read, and Vows to Phœbus make
To ease me, and my drouping Muse t'awake.
My Body then I rub and ore-anoynt,
And easily stretch-out each Lim and Ioynt,
Reioycing in my mind, secure and free
From debt, and the black books of Vsurie.
I dine, I drink, I sing, I wash, I play,
I sup; then, from my Rest not long do stay:
Yet, till my Lampe a little Oyle doe spend,
Som time I nightly to the Muses lend.