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New Epigrams, and a Satyre

Written by Ios: Martyn
Martyn, Joseph
  
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TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPfull, Sir Henry Martyn Knight.
  
A Poeticall insinuation.
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EPIGRAMS.
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1. To Time.
 2. 
2. To the Gentle Reader.
 3. 
3. To the vnkind Reader.
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4. To the indifferent Reader.
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5. To Opinion.
 6. 
6. To Fame.
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7. To Desteny.
 8. 
8. Mineruaes Ghost.
 9. 
9. To Venus Shrine.
 10. 
10. A Drunkard. Ænigma.
 11. 
11. To the poore Cobler.
 12. 
12. A Roaring Boy.
 13. 
13. A Player.
 14. 
14. In Cornutum.
 15. 
15. A Carpet Knight.
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16. Mundus immundus.
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17. An euill Age.
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18. Venus and Adonis.
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19. Mars and Neptune.
 20. 
20. A Gam'ster.
 21. 
21. Epigram.
 22. 
22. Don Fashionista.
 23. 
23. A contented mind.
 24. 
24. A meere Richman.
 25. 
25. A Citizen and a decaied Gentleman.
 26. 
26. A Womans Tailor.
 27. 
27. The Barbers Office.
 28. 
28. In Catum.
 29. 
29. Painters and Poets.
 30. 
30. Loues Lunacy.
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31. A Puritan.
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32. To Mounsieur Melancholy.
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33. To Romista a Traueller.
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34. Elementa non alimenta.
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35. Gallen and Morbosus .
 36. 
36. To Iulia.
 37. 
37. Iugatus and Liber,
 38. 
38. To Lucina.
 39. 
39. To Flaua of her yellow Band.
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40. To Verinus a Tobacco taker.
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41. To Iocosa a Nightwalker.
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42. To the sharking Camelion.
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43. Epigram.
 44. 
44. To Experience.
 45. 
45. To Silla a Trader.
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46. In Vrbanum.
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47. To Auarus of his Argument.
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48. Of Arnaldo.
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49. In Prodigum.
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50. To Nobodie.
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51. Rusticus and Thraso.
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52. A broken Citizen.
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53. Of Hircanus.
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54. Lifes Tragedie.
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55. To Logista.
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56. The louing Drunkard.
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57. Times abuse.
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58. Of the merry Host.
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59. A Seruing man.
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60. To Superbus.
  
TO THE KIND ACCEPTANCE of his louing Kinsman William Martyn of the middle Temple, Gent.
  
A Satyre.
  
To his Deare friend the Author.
  
The Author in answere to his friend.
  
A Postscript.

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7. To Desteny.

You cursed Fates! that hinder good Intention̄s,
And smother Goodnesse with decree'd preuentions;
Cease to seduce, set open Vertues Gate
To all that come; be not preiudicate:
And if you needs of things to come will speake,
Decree my Worke to perish, t'is so weake.
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