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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. 16. My Imprisonment in Whittington for Writing Mercurius Elencticus .

Most strange it seemes unto the Vulgar rout,
That, that which thrust me in, should guard me out,
My Soule with no engagement's clog'd, but thus
My gaining life, strook dead Elencticus.