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New Epigrams, and a Satyre

Written by Ios: Martyn
Martyn, Joseph
  
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TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPfull, Sir Henry Martyn Knight.
  
A Poeticall insinuation.
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EPIGRAMS.
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1. To Time.
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2. To the Gentle Reader.
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3. To the vnkind Reader.
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4. To the indifferent Reader.
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5. To Opinion.
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6. To Fame.
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7. To Desteny.
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8. Mineruaes Ghost.
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9. To Venus Shrine.
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10. A Drunkard. Ænigma.
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11. To the poore Cobler.
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12. A Roaring Boy.
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13. A Player.
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14. In Cornutum.
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15. A Carpet Knight.
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16. Mundus immundus.
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17. An euill Age.
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18. Venus and Adonis.
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19. Mars and Neptune.
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20. A Gam'ster.
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21. Epigram.
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22. Don Fashionista.
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23. A contented mind.
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24. A meere Richman.
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25. A Citizen and a decaied Gentleman.
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26. A Womans Tailor.
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27. The Barbers Office.
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28. In Catum.
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29. Painters and Poets.
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30. Loues Lunacy.
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31. A Puritan.
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32. To Mounsieur Melancholy.
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33. To Romista a Traueller.
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34. Elementa non alimenta.
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35. Gallen and Morbosus .
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36. To Iulia.
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37. Iugatus and Liber,
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38. To Lucina.
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39. To Flaua of her yellow Band.
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40. To Verinus a Tobacco taker.
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41. To Iocosa a Nightwalker.
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42. To the sharking Camelion.
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43. Epigram.
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44. To Experience.
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45. To Silla a Trader.
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46. In Vrbanum.
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47. To Auarus of his Argument.
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48. Of Arnaldo.
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49. In Prodigum.
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50. To Nobodie.
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51. Rusticus and Thraso.
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52. A broken Citizen.
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53. Of Hircanus.
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54. Lifes Tragedie.
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55. To Logista.
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56. The louing Drunkard.
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57. Times abuse.
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58. Of the merry Host.
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59. A Seruing man.
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60. To Superbus.
  
TO THE KIND ACCEPTANCE of his louing Kinsman William Martyn of the middle Temple, Gent.
  
A Satyre.
  
To his Deare friend the Author.
  
The Author in answere to his friend.
  
A Postscript.

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29. Painters and Poets.

Betwixt these two there lately grew dissention,
Whether of twaine, excel'd in his Inuention.
The Painter, sets a good face on the matter,
Though not so true, but it might seeme to flatter,
And yet protests, against it, and disgrace,
Saying what he doth is before their face.
The Poet, (in a harsh Satyricke vaine)
Tels him he dawbes; his own the purest straine;
Yet yeelds to reason, and (by meerest fortune,
Meeting with me, my iudgement did importune,
My answer was; that Painters were confin'd
Onely to mortall shape, and there resign'd
But Poets were the Oracles of Fame,
Who long since dead, had liuing still a name,
To them I therefore did the conquest yeeld,
Who did remaine the longest in the Field:

Yet (gentle Reader) I refer't to thee,
Whether of twaine shall haue priority.
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