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Certain Selected Odes Of Horace, Englished

and their Arguments annexed. With Poems (Antient and Modern) of diuers Subjects, Translated. Whereunto are added, both in Latin and English, sundry new Epigrammes. Anagrammes. Epitaphes [by John Ashmore]

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Ad Regem

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Angl.

If of the gods good Kings high Stewards be,
To ease them of the care of things belowe;
Then live secure, O heavenly Powrs: for we
So good a Steward ne'r before did knowe.