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Chrestoleros

Seuen bookes of Epigrames written by T. B. [i.e. Thomas Bastard]

Bastard, Thomas (1565 or 6-1618)

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[If I my Pen an higher taske should set]

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ΕΠΙΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΩΝ

Liber Secundus.

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[My Booke is not for learned men nor wise]

Epigr. 2. In Corum.

Epigr. 3. Ad Iohannem Dauis.

Epigr. 5. Ad comitem Essexiæ iam nauigaturum.

Epigr. 6. Ad eundem.

Epigr. 8. In Philonem.

Epigr. Ad Lectorem.

Epigr. 12. Of a pudding.

Epigr. 13. A crossing of that Epigram

Epigr. 14. Of the Lions?

Epigr. 15. Of Ienkin.

Epigr. 16. Of an Ape.

Epigr. 17. Of Bankes horse.

Epigr. 18. Of Pymer which fell mad for the loue of his dogg Talbott

Epigr. 18. Ad Lectorem.

Epigr. 19. In Seuerum.

Epigr. 20. In eundem.

Epigr. 21. Ad reginam Elizebetham.

Epigr. 22. Ad eandem.

Epigr. 23. Ad Do, Mountioy.

Epigr. 24. In Cacum.

Epigr. 25. In eundem

Epigr. 26. Ad Georgium Morton Armig.

Epigr. 27. Ad Richardum Eeds.

Epigr. 28. Ad Guilielmum Suttonum.

Epigr. 30. Ad Cacum.

Epigr. 31. In Libellum.

Epigr. 32. Ad Mathonem.

Epigr. 34. in Thymum.

Epigr. 38. In Seuerum.

Epigr. 39. Ad Essexia comitem.

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Epigr. 23. Ad Do, Mountioy.

Mountioy what is my muse, or my dull pen,
Or my forlorne conceipt, worthy of thee
The honoredst of honorable men,
Nobling with vertues thy Nobilitie?

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Yet sith thy same through euery eare doth slie,
And all men praise thy worth: why should not I?