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Flovvers of Epigrammes

Ovt of sundrie the moste singular authours selected, as well auncient as late writers. Pleasant and profitable to the expert readers of quicke capacitie: By Timothe Kendall

Kendall, Timothy

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VV. Seymour gentleman of Grayes Inne: in commendation of the author.

George VVhetstones gentleman in the authors commendation.

E. G. To the reader.

Abraham Fleminge vpon T. K. his translated Epigrammes.

A. VV. gent. to the courteous reader, in commendation of these flowers.

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FLOWERS OF EPIGRAMS: out of sundrie the moste singuler authors selected.

Out of Pvlix an auncient Poet.

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EPIGRAMMES OVT OF MARTIAL.

TIMOTHE KENDAL to the Reader.

Of a Lion, that offended his keper.

Of a Tiger and a Lion.

Of Gemellus, and Maronilla.

Of Arria, and Pætus.

To Fabulla, vainglorious.

To Cæcilianus for the gender, and declination of Ficus.

To Neuolus, a Lawier.

Of Diaulus, a Phisition.

Against Cæcilianus.

Against Gargilianus.

Against Attalus.

Against Posthumus.

Against Zoilus.

Against Apicius.

Of Cærelia, and Gellia.

Of his abidyng in the countrey.

Against Calistratus.

Against Gellia.

To Aulus, against Mamercus.

That we should benifite our frendes.

Against Posthumus.

Against Candidus.

Against Matrinia.

Of Fishes engrauen.

Against Ligurinus.

To the same Ligurinus.

To Faustinus, against an euill Phisition Hermocrates.

Against Phœbus.

Against the enuious.

Of the thefe Cilix.

To a married couple, that could not agree.

Of Fabius, and Chrestella.

Against Gallicus.

Of Priscus, his banquet.

Against Crispus.

Against Carmenion.

Against Zoilus.

To Fabullus. Of Themison.

Against Thelesinus.

To one diuersly conditioned.

Against Zoilus.

Against Policarnus.

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EX XENIIS, ET APOPHORETIS, MARTIALIS.

Leekes oft cut.

The Ringdoue, or Stockdoue.

A shelfishe, in Latine Murex.

Wine of Tarentum.

Sweete oyle, or oyntment.

Chestes made of Iuery.

The combe, to the baldpate.

The Coffer wherin bookes are laid.

Light, pertainyng to the chamber

A Candlesticke of wood.

A medicine by rubbyng to make the teeth vvhite.

A Lanterne of Horne.

A Flye flap of Peacockes plumes.

The Nightingale.

Cups of Christall.

A baker of fine Cakes, or like thinges.

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To Leonellus. Submission.

Sorovvyng for the dead.

To Titus. Naughtines borne withall.

To A man thankeles.

To Sextus. Pittie: almes.

To Baptista Castellus.

To Zoylus. Weepyng teares.

To Homer. an Hypocrite.

To Zeno. Castigation.

To Caper. tauntes. backbityngs.

To Criticus. Children must be instructed.

To Vrsus. a backbiter.

To Philenius. a flatterer.

To Petrus. Loue dissimuled.

To Arnus. Surfet.

To Marius. Armour and weapon against the deuill.

To Cosmicus. Curiositie in decking the bodie.

To Pamphilus. frendship.

To Propertianus. a Niggarde.

To Lazarus. Uice in honour.

To Paulus B. Of an harlot.

To Ponticus. Examples.

To Marianus. Stable abidyng.

To Larius. Infirmities.

To Maximus. a Miser.

Luste vnsatiate.

To Ollus. Patience.

To Iacobus Melitus. Detraction.

To Vincentius Nouatus. shun sloth.

To Flaccus. Extortioners, Cormorauntes.

To Marullus. Almesdeedes.

The good man feareth nought.

To Dionisius Feb. The holy Scripture.

To Archemedorus. A Cussoner.

To Linus. Uice.

To one verie timerous.

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A liuely description of Hope.

The Description of Iustice.

Verses of Dardanus, sent to Dominicus Saulus.

The song of S. Ierome in the desert.

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ANGELVS POLITIANVS.

To his Ladie beloued.

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A Iest of a certayne harebraind husband.

Of a Foole that found a Crab-fish.

A Iest of a Theefe.

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CYNTHIVS IOANNES BAPTISTA.

To Diana Ariosta.

Of his straunge loue.

To Renata, a noble Dame.

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Praiers for the ded, nothyng profit.

To spirituall pastors.

How to get frendship.

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The properties of certaine birdes.

The Swanne.

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NICOLAVS BARTHOLOMAEVS LOCHIENSIS.

Of a dronkard goyng home from the Tauerne.

To one hauyng a verie red nose.

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HIERONYMVS BALBVS.

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ERASMVS IN HIS Chiliades.

Of a sheepe that fostered a woolfe.

Againe of the same.

Best neuer to be borne.

Metrodorus minde to the contrary.

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Of Scaurus, a riche man and couetous.

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ANTONIVS MVRETVS.

Of Pontilianus.

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An exhortation vnto modestie.

Of the Picture of Rufus, a vaine Rhethorician.

Of a woman that would haue poysoned her husbande.

To one that painted Eccho.

An Epitaphe of Anitia.

Of a Hare taken by a Dog-fishe.

Of Miron an old dottrell, that would haue lyen with Lais.

Translated out of twoo Greeke authors: Plato and Scatilius.

Of Venus in armour.

The same otherwise.

Of the picture of Rufus a vaine Rhethoritian, of whom there is an Epigram before.

Of the picture of the same Rufus.

Of the Table wherein Rufus was painted.

Of the picture of kyng Cræsus, translated out of the first booke of Greke Epigrams.

Of the drinke Dodra: Which is made of nine thinges.

Against tvvo sisters of diuers conditions.

Of the riche and poore man.

Of his deare deceased.

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MICHAEL TARCHAMOTA MARVLLVS.

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ANDREAS DACTIVS.

Of hym self, and his frende.

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IOANNIS BAPTISTA PIGNA.

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CÆLIVS RHODIGINVS.

How a man should prepare to dye.

Piscarius his Epitaphe.

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GEORGIVS SABINVS.

Of the discorde of Princes.

To a Lasse, lamentyng of her mother the losse.

Of a Painter: A pleasant and mery iest.

A mery iest of a scattergood.

A Iest of a Iester.

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Of his loue Cælia.

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IOANNES SECVNDVS.

The riche old man, of hym selfe.

Loue is vncurable.

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SIMON VALLAMBERTVS Avalon.

To a couetous old Carle.

To a backbiter that was balde.

To Achilles Combanus.

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OVT OF GREEK EPIGRAMMES.

How to vse riches.

Mannes miserie.

Of a Thracian lad.

Pittie and compassion.

To Orestes preparyng to kill his mother.

How death is hastened.

Three thynges bothe hurt and helpe.

Nothyng hid from God.

Fayned frendship.

To muche brynges lothsomnesse.

Against stepdames.

Of the contempt of Fortune.

A controuersie betwene Fortune and Venus.

The seuen sages names, saiynges, and countryes, in seuen verses.

The report of the multitude not to be regarded.

Of a foolish Astronomer.

When Women profite.

Of Castors Nose.

Of a foule wife.

To one, hauyng a long nose.

Of a deaf Iudge, a deaf plaintife, and a deaf defendant.

Of Marcus a sluggard.

Against one very deformed.

Against a drunkerd.

Of drunkennesse.

Againe of the same.

Against a miser.

Of Chrisalus couetous.

Of a riche miser.

Of Aulus, Auarus.

The same otherwise.

Of Asclepiades, a greedie carle.

A beard makes not a Philosopher.

To one lame and loutishe.

Cassander his Epitaphe.

Timocritus his Epitaphe.

Olde age longed for, yet lothed.

Death euerywhere.

It matters not where a man dye.

Liuyng on the Seas.

Venus to Praxiteles.

Of Venus in armour.

Of Cinyras a Fisher.

Of Alcon an Archer.

Timon his Epitaphe.

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THEODORVS BEZA Vezelivs.

An Epitaphe vppon the death of William Budæus, an excellent learned man of our tyme, who died at Paris in Fraunce. Anno. M. D. XL. XII. Cal. Septemb.

An other Epitaphe of the same Budæus.

An Epitaphe vppon the death of Katharina Texea.

Written vppon the graue of Anton. Prat. (chefe Chaunceler of Fravnce) which was a grosse great Gorbely.

Of Titus Liuius.

To Cl. Marotus.

A present to Truchius and Dampetrus.

Description of vertue.

Against a maidenly man.

Of a Painter, and a Baker.

A sportfull comparison, betwene Poets and Papists.

Against stepdames.

An Epitaphe vpon the death of Ihon Caluin, poorely and plainly enterred at Geneua.

Againe vppon the death of Ihon Caluin

Martino Luthero, antichristi Romani domitori Trophæum.

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Of an Astrologer, That was a Cuckold.

Of Beuty. Dilemma.

Against Wiuyng.

Againe of wiues.

Of a Picture liuely described.

Of a Niggard departing this life.

The difference betwene a King and a Tyrant.

A Tyrant in slepe, naught differeth from a common person.

Of a good Prince and an euill.

Of a Theef and a Lawier.

A ridiculous pranke of a Priest.

Of a waterspaniell.

A Cur by a crib, a couetous miser.

Of a Beggar, bearyng hym self for a Phisition.

Of a dishonest wife.

To one whose wife was naught at home.

To Sabinus: whose wife conceiued in his absence.

Of Fuscus a drunkerd.

Of a Kyng and a Clowne.

Of an vnlearned Bishop.

To one light minded.

A Iest of a Iackbragger.

Against a Parasite.

Against Chelonus.

Of Sleep. The sentence of Aristotle

Desire of Dominion.

Remedies, to take away a stinkyng breath occasioned by sundry meates.

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IO. IOVIANVS PONTANVS.

Vppon the graue of a Begger.

Vpon the Toumbe of Lucretia the daughter of Alexander. 6.

Of the infelcitie of Louers.

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GASPAR VRSINVS.

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ANTONIVS GOVEANVS.

Of Briandus Vallius.

A pretie prancke of a modest mayden.

To Andreas Goueanus his brother.

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CLAVDIVS ROSELETTVS.

A Lute of fir tree.

Against womens lightnes.

To Syluius, a louely lad but lewdly liued.

To a towardly yong man.

To a certaine Barber.

Against a Churle or thankles person.

An Epitaphe, of an excellent Shipmaster, or Pilote.

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CLAVDIVS CLAVDIANVS.

Of a Bore, and a Lion.

Of a poore man in loue.

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IACOBVS ROGERIVS.

Vnder Hercules painted spinnyng.

Against the riche vnlearned, out of Laertius.

Of three Grecians, writers of Tragedies.

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GEORGIVS BVCHANANUS SCOTVS.

Against Pope Pius.

Fratres EXTRA MVNDVM.

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Of Auctus, a swilbole.

Of the booke whiche Vincentius Obsopœus wrote of the feat of drinkyng.

To a certaine drunkarde.

An Epitaphe, of a notorious drunkard.

Of a Iade most vile and pestilent.

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OVT OF THE POEMES of M. Gvalter Haddon.

The way to liue well.

Precepts of wedlocke.

Desire not to obtaine, that whiche thou canst not gaine.

By vertve not vigovr.

How euery age is enclined.

A noble dame: I hide her name.

Of the Queenes Picture.

Of the picture of Thomas Cranmer, somtyme Archbishop of Canterbury.

Of his owne picture.

Of the picture of the most excellent Dame A. H.

An Epitapthe vpon the death of Sir Ihon Cheke.

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IHON PARKHVRST, late Bishop of NORWICH.

An Epitaph vpon the death of a Couetous Miser.

Of Robin Bartlet fallyng into the handes of Theues.

Against Battus, an euell Singer.

Of an old trot Persephone, and Pyllio a yongster.

To Marcellinus.

Against Bossus, a Prieste

Of Molzus that caste his wife into the Sea.

Of Lollus and Cæciliana, man and wife.

Of a certain Duke, and Robin Bartlet.

To Alexander Nowell.

Of certaine faire maydens plaiyng with Snowe.

To a certayne Draper.

Against Bossus.

To papisticall Prelats.

Of the Lady Iane Gray.

Against Colte, a coltish Preist.

Of Holus a Souldier beyng lame.

To Ihon Gibbon.

Against Alanus.

Against Fridolinus.

Of Robin Bartlet, fainyng hymself deafe to get lodgyng, beyng on a tyme benighted.

Of Cælia, and her sonne, now redie to dye.

Of Editha, trauelyng in child-bed.

Of a certaine Bishop, and his foole Philibert.

Against Claudia.

To a certaine frend.

Of an egregious drunkard.

To certaine proude Papisticall persones.

To Pope Paulus. 2.

Of Pope Ione the 8. and of the maner of makyng the Pope.

Of Lucretia whiche was daughter and wife to Pope Alex. 6.

Of Nodosius, a Papist.

Of a certaine yongman, and a toothlesse sire.

To a proude princox.

Of Cotilus a Priest.

Against Huberdine, an old dottrell and peuish Preacher.

To Ruffina. He playeth the woer for a frend of his, of person as pretty as a Pigmey.

Of the vnsatiable couetousnes of this worlde.

To Pontiana, a mayd so called.

To Ihon Cullier.

Of Glaurus an old dotyng Priest.

To Hermannus Mennus.

This Monostichon here followyng, was written vpon the gate of the Monestarie of the Benedictines, or blacke Monkes.

Of the aunswere of a foole to a certaine Duke.

Of Rob. Bartlet, and of one that had a foule byg nose, and a precious (as they terme it.)

Of him that is in debt.

Of Squyre, an old man flewmatike.

N. Noman To B. Bonner.

To a certaine Papist.

To a wife, whiche set a pot full of flowers in her windowe.

Of a counterfet Diuell.

An Epitaphe vpon the death of Kyng Edvvard the 6.

Of Furnus a Cuckold.

Of Pope Innocent. 8.

Of Alexander 6. and his daughter Lucretia.

Against Claudia.

To Dauid Whitehed.

Against Gaspus, whiche with one draught of wine or ale would be made drunke.

Against Colt a Preist.

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M. ROGER ASCHAM.

The sentence whiche Darius Kyng of Persia commaunded to bee engrauen on his Toumbe.

The gracelesse grace of the Court.

A verse of Homer, translated into Englishe, by M. Watson.

Of the herbe Moly, translated out of Homer.

Master Aschams lamentation for the death of master Ihon Whitney.

A golden sentence out of Hesiodus.

A verse of Homer.

An excellent saiyng of Homer.

A saiyng of Adrastus, out of Euripides.

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TRIFLES BY TIMOTHE KENDAL deuised and written (for the moste part) at sundrie tymes in his yong and tender age.

THE AVTHOR TO HIS Pamphlets and Trifles.

The Author to hymself.

A Comparison betwene Christ and the Pope.

Written in heuines.

A letter written to T. w. gent. when he was scoller in Oxford.

Verses written to his father when he was scholler in Æton.

Of Boner, and his brothers.

Of Pope Alexander. 6.

To one of a diuers and straunge nature.

Of the workes of Poets.

How to get the loue, bothe of God and men.

A similitude, of Idlenes.

What thyng he feareth moste.

How the xij. signes doe gouerne and rule in mannes bodie.

Commendation and praise of Vertue.

The couetous carle, compated to a Mule.

Christe speaketh.

To one so giuen to goe braue. That at last he left hymself like a slaue.

To one that made his bragges that he was nosed like vnto kyng Cirus.

Of money and lande.

Of women, water, and wine.

Of wemens lightnes.

Again of the same.

Of the misery of man.

To his vnkle: Henry kendall.

Of the Poet Lucan.

Gold, not God, regarded now adayes.

Remedies against loue.

Death spareth no kinde.

Who riche, who poore.

Labour killes loue.

The more a man hath, the more he desireth.

To Iesus Christe.

Of Pope Iulius. 3.

Of an Astrnomer, and a Plowman.

Anacharsis the Philosophers saying.

Otherwise, and shorter.

Precepts written to HENRY KNEVET gent.

Preceptes written in his frend RICHARD WOODWARDS praier booke, somtime his companion in Oxford.

Of fower Beastes and the Spider.

Of the vanity of this world

Of hym that marryes twise.

The same and shorter.

Bewtie and Vertue seldom coupled.

How the Papist praies.

Who takes the paines, the profite gaines.

To one that married a foule wife for riches.

To an vnskilfull Phisition.

Of a Fishe, a Swallowe, and an Hare, shot through at one shoote.

To the Rechlesse route.

Tyme doeth all.

Be aduised ere thou speake.

To one furious and full of Pride.

To Henry Kneuet gent.

Idem est pauperibus, diuitibusque Deus.

To Markes a marker of faultes.

To a sweete mouthed minion.

A verse wherein the numerall letters shewe the yere of the Lorde, when the Queene began her raigne ouer this Realme.

A Rime against ROME.

To one named Loue.

To a common Bragger.

A prettie similitude.

Of a certayne Ruffian.

Of a certayne Ciuilian.

To one that sayd he was a Lawyer almost.

Agayne, of a Lawyer.

Ridyng by the way with a gentleman, and beyng Demaunded by hym, the difference betwene their horses, he thus answered extempore.

Wrytten to a frend, in hys extreme sicknesse.

An Epitaph vppon the death of M. Ihon Bradford.

A prancke of Pope Iulius 3. about a Peacocke.

To a certayne frend.

Written vnder the picture of M. Thomas Becon.

Of the picture of Thomas Cranmer, sometyme worthie Archbishop of Canterburie.

Of his owne picture.

Of fower liuyng creatures, that liue by the fower Elementes.

A saiyng of S. Ciprian.

An other saiyng of S. Cyprian.

Xij. abuses in the life of man, collected out of S. Cyprian.

A saiyng of S. Austin.

An olde saiyng.

Thinkyng on the latter daie.

Please, Praise, and Praie.

Fiue thynges white.

Three thynges detestable.

Three things not to be lente.

Three things should not be forgotten.

Of Mark miserable, that hanged hymselfe.

Of saiyng grace.

The Best are hated of the Bad.

To the carpyng Corrector.

The saiyng of Bias.

The torment of Turnecotes.

Translated out of Theocritus.

Preceptes written to his Cosen Paul Tooley.

To all tender Youthes and young schollers.

A young schollers Poesie.

Verses written at the request of his Cosen Mary Palmer, in her praier booke called the Pomander of praier.

To one that called hym Spendall.

To a Niggard that called hym vnthrift.

To a certaine frende.

The nature of the Hernshew.

Fower properties of the dog.

To a naughty Lawier.

Translated out of an Italian writer.

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A Tennice ball.

Of fower birdes, signifiyng the fower quarters of the yere.

To his Cosen Ihon Kendall.

To his dere brother Ihon Sheppard gent. of Grayes Inne.

An Epitaphe vppon the death of the right wise and worthy Matron the Lady Alse Avenon.

An Epitaphe vppon the death of his deere Mother, Alse Kendall. Which died and lieth buried at Northaston.

An Epitaphe vpon the death of his deare father, William Kendall: which died (beyng cut of the stone) and lyes buried at Northaston in Oxford shire.

An Epitaph vpon the death of his deare aunt Ellen Kendall: which died, and lyes buried at Bloxam.

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A sorrowfull Sonet vpon the death of Walter, late Erle of Essex.

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The Swanne.

A Swanne my name doeth hight:
from forren coste I cam:
Dame Venus Charriot I derect,

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and Venus birde I am.
Emong the Gods I am belovde,
like Syren sweete I syng:
I ioye to chaunt, before I feele
of Death the dreadfull styng.