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Epig. 5. What Loue is.

A Iocund-Iayle, a wanton-warre,
A most unpleasant Pleasure;
A tottering Trust, a Bitter-sweet
Is Loue; Mirth without Measure.

Epig. 14. A Mathematicall Instrument, called a Iacobs-Staffe, to Mathematicks.

Thy Iacobs-Staffe take vnto thee,
Ile Iacobs-Ladder choose;
These Steps, more than thy Staffe can show,
If I them well will vse.

Epig. 17. Death's Epitaph, to the Death of Death .

Deaths Losse, was in Christs Crosse,
Thence ne're more rising:
Christs Death, Deaths Death,
Christs Crosse, Deaths Tombe comprizing.

Epig. 19. Of God and Man .

God is the Word, and by his Word,
God, All ith' World hath wrought:
Man vtters Words, Words Mans chiefe Marke,
than words, Man else is nought.

Epig. 21. Of Fasts .

Popes in the Yeere, as may appeare,
Doe many Fasts ordayne;
For to declare, that Peters Chaire
They rightly doe retayne.

Epig. 39. Socrates Wisedome.

When I was Yong, I thought I All-things knew:
The more I now-know, more my wants I rue.

Epig. 44. Earths Body.

Earths Sinewes, are her Mettels rich;
Her Bones, are Stones most strong;
Water's her Bloud; her Superfice,
Her Skinne; Grasse, her Haire long.

Epig. 54. The Religious Man .

What's Well-done, 's Ill-done, if too-Publikely.
Politician.
What's Ill-done, 's Well-done, if none doe it Spie.

Epig. 56. An English Proteus .

In Clothes, we Thrift and Honesty refuse,
For Pride and Pleasure's All, Nought, Long, wee vse.

Epig. 66. A Shrow Tamed .

Would'st Tame thy Wife? first, Tame her Tongue. as Dumbe:
Who thus his Wife Comes-o're, shall Ouer-come.

Epig. 74. Pride of Life .

Man swels, although his Gran-Dame is the Earth,
Earth swels, although from Nothing it had Birth:
So, Man, as Mould; Him, past Himselfe doth raise,
Mould swels with Mounts; Mans Minde his Pride displayes.

Epig. 81. Eues and the Serpents meeting .

Eves and the Serpents Prattling, wrought our Sin:
Oh would to God; Hee Dumbe, Shee Deafe had bin.

Epig. 85. Neyther too great a Good one,/too little a Bad one.

A Giant-like, tall, flammell-Wife,
Though Exc'llent, I'de not choose;
A Bad-condition'd, though a Dwarfe,
I will as soone refuse.

Epig. 88. Loue is Blinde.

Like one another, Drunkennesse,
And Loue, are, in effect;
Drunkennesse Blindes the Bodies Eyes,
Loue Blinds the Mindes aspect.

Epig. 87. An Amorous Epistle .

No Loue is Hopelesse, this makes Louers free:
The Thing, not Hope, I Loue; No-Thing but Thee.

Epig. 91. A Christian Zodiacke .

Th' Apostles goodly Fellowship,
Are my twelue heauenly Signes;
My Zodiacke, is perfect Faith;
My Sunne, in Iesus shines.

Epig. 100. To the Reader .

I leaue Narcissus when I Uerses write;
When thou do'st Reade them, banish Him thy sight.