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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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Juvenal preferred before Virgil by Mercury.
Did the Mœonian, and Ascræan use,
Him no supply,
All sprang from his own Ingenuitie.
Now you may sit
Having done homage to his Wit,
Make way
For Seneca.