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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. 33. The Ægyptians first found out the Art of Navigation.

These pass'd the dangerous Gulph, and durst
By new found waies adventure first,
These first fraught Ships, found Merchandize,
First observ'd Starres, and Checquer'd skies.
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