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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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The Language Of The Frontispeice.
  
To Mr. Sheppard on His Epigrams.
  
To the Author on his exquisite Epigrams and other Poems.
  
To the Author on his Epigrams.
  
To my much honoured Friend the Author, on his most Excellent Epigrams.
  
A due Encomium on the Author and his Ingenious Epigrams.
  
To the Author on his excellent Epigrams.
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EPIGRAMS
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The First Book
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The Second Book.
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THE THIRD BOOK.
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THE FOVRTH BOOK.
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Epig. 1. On the death of I. P.
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Epig. 2. Sir Philip Sydneys Arcadia.
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Epig. 3. To Doctor Bulwer, on his artificiall Changeling .
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Epig. 5. On Lucians true History.
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Epig. 6. AN HYMN TO BACCHUS.
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Epig. 7. To Lillie the Starre-Gazer.
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Epig. 9. Dedalus, and Icarus, A Dialogue .
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Epig. 10. To Clio, having but begun my Faerie King.
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Epig. 11. To Iudge Jenkins .
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Epig. 12. To the Illustrious Cardinall Mazerine, his Victory lately obtained over the Spanish Army under the Archduke Leopold .
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Epig. 13. To Mr. E. C. the Lawyer.
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Epig. 14. All is not Gold that Glisters.
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Epig. 15. A Catholick Medicine to cure the Passion of Love.
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Epig. 16. To Mr. E. G.
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Epig. 17. A Dialogue maintained by five, viz. the Poet, Clio, Povertie, Ignorance, Mammon.
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Epig. 18. A defiance to Fortune.
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Epig. 19. The Poets invitation to Ben Johnsons Ghost to appeare again.
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Epig. 20. Women must not rule.
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Epig. 21. To my much honoured, and incomparable Friend, Mr. Theodor Loe Esquire, upon his request to me to pen a peculiar Poem of Oberon and his Queen.
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Epig. 22. Lucan to Nero .
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Epig. 23. Fantastick Silius .
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Epig. 25. Epitaph on the Lord Capell .
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Epig. 26. Epitaph on Duke Hamilton .
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Epig. 27. On the Earle of Holland .
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Epig. 28. On Mr. Spencers inimitable Poem, the Faerie Queen .
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Epig. 29. To the brave and nobe Lady, the Lady E. B.
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Epig. 30. On Mr. Davenants most excellent Tragedy of Albovinek of Lombards .
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Epig. 31. CUPIDS CREATION.
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Epig. 32. All Saints, and all Soules Day, 1. and 2. of November .
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Epig. 33. The Ægyptians first found out the Art of Navigation.
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Epig. 34. For the Statue of Queen Elizabeth .
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Epig. 35. Baptizing of Infants, the New Mode.
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Epig. 36. The Powder Treason.
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Epig. 37. To Mr. L. H.
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Epig. 38. On the birth of the Lady E. D.
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Epig. 39. On the Death of Strafford Deputie of Ireland .
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Epig. 40. On the Death of the truely learned and exquisitely Vertuous I. D. Esquire.
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Epig. 41. A Cobler to Plato, on his Commonwealth.
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Epig. 42. To Mr. G. K.
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Epig. 43. To Will. Lee, the Bookseller at Pauls Chaine.
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Epig. 44. To Lydia scorning him.
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Epig. 45. To I. Buzby
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Epig. 46. Epitaph, on Mr. Fountaine and his young Son dying, and being buried together in one Grave.
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Epig. 47. The deliverance from a garrulous vain-glorious Scholar in Sion Coledge.
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THE FIFTH BOOK.
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THE SIXTH BOOK.
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The SOCRATICK SESSION,
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A MAUSOLEAN MONUMENT, ERECTED By a Sorowfull Sonne over His Deceased Parents: With Three Pastorals. Two of them alluding to some Late Proceedings between Parties. By S. Shepard.
  
To the Reader on the Errors of the Presse.

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Epig. 28. On Mr. Spencers inimitable Poem, the Faerie Queen .

Collin my Master, O Muse sound his praise,
Extoll his never to be equal'd Layes,
Whom thou dost Imitate with all thy might,
As he did once in Chawcers veine delight,
And thy new Faerie King, shall with Queen,
When thou art dead, still flourish ever green.
Cease wealthy Italy to brag and boast,
That thou for Poesie art famed most
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Of any Nation, Ariostos veine,
Though rare, came short of our great Spencers streine:
His great Orlando hath receiv'd great losse
By Spencers Faerie Knight of the Red Crosse:
Warrelike Rogeros honour clouded is
By his Arthegall, and much fame doth misse,
His sweet Angellica describ'd with Art,
Is wan and withered, to his Brittomart,
His admirable Poem darkned quite,
As if he onely had known how to write,
Nor may that wonder of your Nation claime
Supremacie, before our Spencers Fame:
Admired Tasso, (pardon) I must do
That right the Muses all perswade me to,
Although to Godfery by thy worthy Layes,
Thou dost a Mausolean Trophey raise,
Yet Spencer to Eliza hath done more,
And by his fullnesse lesseneth thy store:
He like the grand Meonian sits on high,
Making all Verse stoope to his Poesie;
Like to some mighty River Nile or Po,
All that obstruct him, hee'l soon overthrow:
And shallow Brooks, if any list to strive,
From forth his Ocean soon they may derive.
Hee next unto Apollo sits above
With Homer, and sweet Maro, who approve
Of his society, and joy to see
Him that did equall their fam'd Poesie.
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Niggardly Nation be asham'd of this,
A Tombe for thy great Poet wanting is,
While fooles, not worth the naming, seated high
On Sepulchers of Marble God-like lie:
The learned in obscurity are thrust,
But yet their Names shall long out-live their dust:
Although Great Spencer they did thee interre,
Not Rearing to thy name a Sepulcher,
Yet thou hast one shall last to the last day,
Thy Faerie Queen, which never shall decay:
This is a Poets Priviledge, although
His person among sordid dolts do goe
Unto the Grave, his Name shall ever live,
And spite of Time, or Malice shall survive.
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