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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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Lucretius Enters.
And thou Lucretius,
Sit yee together, be not vex't
Deare Horace, thou art next.
Horace Enters with Persius.
Horace.
I cannot Persius brook,
H'as such a crabbed look.


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Mercury.
Still jeering, Flaccus, (Sir) sit down,
Weare (next to Juvenal) the Crown.