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Epigram. 99. Fata Epigrammata:
I wish not with ambitious desiresThese lines eternity, no I do not,
Nor yet to liue the nine liues of a Cat:
For few and none but those blest heau'n inspires,
Are like to liue vnto another age;
Our former Writers, wee count barbarous,
Succeeding times may do as much for vs;
And then shal we be throwen off the Stage,
Yea eu'n the best; much lesse these idle toyes
May they hope life; but like th' abortiue birth
No sooner borne but dead, so this my mirth:
Or at the most some Tearme, or two, inioyes.
Epigram's like the stuffs your Gallants weare,
Hardly hold fashion aboue halfe a yeare.
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