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] |
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Martialis, ad seipsum, vel potius ad Iulium Martialem. Lib. 10. Epigr. 47.
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Martialis, ad seipsum, vel potius ad Iulium Martialem. Lib. 10. Epigr. 47.
O merrie, Martial, I mistake,A happy Life if these not make;
Riches bequeath'd, not got by toyle,
A fire ne'r out, no barren Soyle,
No Strife, seld' Office, a Minde found
Still calme, fit Strength, a Body sound,
Wise Smpleness, Friends equall bred,
No costly Fare, a Boord soon spred,
Nights never drunk, but from Cares free,
A gamesome Bed with Modestie,
Sleep making Darkness short to bee.
Be with thy State Content: so stay:
Wish not, nor feare, thy Fatall-Day.
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