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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

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Epig. 12. To the Pamphleters of these times.

Forbeare fond Pamphleters, forbeare to vex,
The giddy world, as with an Apoplex,
Cease rayling Rabsheka's cease to disclose,
And vent such poyson in prophaner Prose,
Whose Basilisk-like Vapors seeme t'impaire
The squeasie temper of the troubled Ayre.