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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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Epigr. 1. Ad Librum suum.

Epigr. 2. Ad Do. Mountioy.

Epigr. 3. Ad Librum suum.

Epigr. 4. Ad vtrangue Academiam.

Epigr. 5. Ad easdem.

Epigr. 6. De sua Clepsydræ.

Epigr. 8. Ad Iohannem VVhitegift, Arch. Cant.

Epigr. 9. In adorantes reliquias.

Epigr. 10. Comparatio Cranmeri & Mutij.

Epigr. 12. De Læto & Bito.

Epigr. 15. De lue Mahometica.

Epigr. 16. Ad Reginam. Elizabetham.

Epigr. 18. Ad Comitem Essexiæ, de expeditione in Hispaniam.

Epigr. 19. Ad eundem

Epigr. 22. Ad Lectorem.

Epigr. 23. De tribus pucris in fornace ignea.

Epigr. 24. Epitaphum Cannis.

Epigr. 27. In cultum reliquiarum.

Epigr. 28. Epitap. Richardi Pinuer.

Epigr. 29. Ad Lectorem.

Epigr. 31. De Francisco Walsingham & Philppo Sidneio Equit.

Epigr. 34. Ad Iohannem Reynolds

Epigr. 37. De Gualtero Deurox in expeditione gallica cæso

Epigr. 38. Ad Lectorem.

Epigr. 39. Ad Henricum Wottonem.

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Epigr. 5. Ad easdem.

VVhy striue ye sisters for antiquitie?
Can not your present honour you suffice?
VVhy striue ye sisters for that vanitie.
VVhich if ye sawe as twas, you would despise?
You must make loue: loue is your surest hold,
Others must honour you and make you olde.