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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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Ovid Enters.
Oh Sir, y've lost the Day,
By your too tardy stay,
Admired Naso t'would not please,
If we should Metamorphose these
Already seated, 'twould become
Another Tristium.
Therefore, though great
In worth, there take thy seate.
Apollo.
Active Cylenius
Bring hither next to us
Lucan, and Statius.