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Epigrams of That most wittie and worthie Epigrammatist Mr Iohn Owen

Translated by Iohn Vicars

Vicars, John (1579 or 80-1652)

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TO THE MOST HIGH, HOPEFVLL and Happy Charles, Prince of Wales.

THE TRANSLATOR to the most Worthy and wel-deseruing Author.

To the Courteous Readers.

Out of one sole Booke.

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Out of the sixe last Bookes.

The first Booke.

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Out of second Booke.

Epig. 5. What Loue is.

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

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

Epig. 19. Of God and Man .

Epig. 21. Of Fasts .

Epig. 39. Socrates Wisedome.

Epig. 44. Earths Body.

Epig. 54. The Religious Man .

Epig. 56. An English Proteus .

Epig. 66. A Shrow Tamed .

Epig. 74. Pride of Life .

Epig. 81. Eues and the Serpents meeting .

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

Epig. 88. Loue is Blinde.

Epig. 87. An Amorous Epistle .

Epig. 91. A Christian Zodiacke .

Epig. 100. To the Reader .

Out of the third Booke.

Out of the three last Bookes.

To the Excellent Translatour of the Epigrams of Master Iohn Owen, Master Iohn Vicars.

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Authours haue Auctours of Good-Name or Shame,
As Readers Lookes to Writers Bookes doe frame.

Epig. 233. Lib. Singu.