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 |
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Epig. 25. A Frolick to Capt. Baines the Poet being
Prisoner (for his Loyalty) in Whittington Goale.
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Epig. 25. A Frolick to Capt. Baines the Poet being Prisoner (for his Loyalty) in Whittington Goale.
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Polihymnia , lend me thy Lute,And thou (my Bains) take the shrill Flute,
No rainie Hyades
Or the rude blasts at Seas
Can strike our Musick mute.
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Drink thou to Peleus stout Sonne,Or the Grand-Child of Laomedon,
With ardent zeale then I
Will flowing Cupps apply
To Pindar, Horace, and Anacreon.
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'Tis sin for us to knowWhat Fate Jove will bestow,
What need we trie
Lillies Astrologie,
The Gods, at Westminster can truest show.
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With Ivie Chaplets lets empaleOur Fronts, and though lodg'd in a Goale
(My loved Baines)
Did we were chaines
Their ratling should make Briscoes heart to faile.
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Bring forth the Tun of sparkling WineSuch as learn'd Flaccus tearm'd Divine,
Pierce its rough rind,
Leave none behind,
(Deare Baines) 'twill make our Faces shine.
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Minerva, (O my Patronesse)To thee I will my Faults confesse,
I am too Stoicall,
But yet can smile withall,
And now and then slip into loose excesse.
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About with't, let us swillStand neare (boy) nimbly fill,
Sing, Jo, triumph crie,
Young C. hath Victorie,
Thanks powerfull Rector of Olympus Hill.
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What though we do not weareLaconick Purple, but are forc'd to beare
The frownes of slaves,
When in our graves,
Fame to our memories shall Pillars reare.
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Foggie Cocytus we must view,Nor can we the Eumenides eschew,
In Charons Wherrie
We both must Ferrie,
Then drink and Dance, Earths blisses are our due.
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