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. 7. To the brave and beautious Lady, the Lady I. G.
Circe the Enchanteresse (who as Homer relates) transformed rationall men into the similitude of bruite Beasts.
Circe , not onely was a Sorceresse,But also Lais Function did professe,
By her loose postures many were enthrall'd,
Most aptly she's Hyperions Daughter call'd,
Because her filthinesse to every eye
Was obvious, by her Impudicitie,
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(More base then any London Meretrix)
Shee caused men, of honest Morallists
To become Brutish, and meere Sensualists:
“Man by the Gods was framed Just, and Free,
“But innate guile forfeits his puritie.
Thus did she Metamorphose Men to Beasts,
So he (bright Lady) on your beauty feasts,
Sol's Daughters Soporiferous draught doth drink,
Let me be Gryll, or what you please to think,
Not any sordid shape will I eschew,
Some Bristled Swine, so I may grunt neare you.
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