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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.
 22. 
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.
 26. 
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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37. Iugatus and Liber,

Ivugatus by a chance with Liber met,
And counsel'd him a second selfe to get;
(Quoth Liber) I am now my selfe and free,
Wouldst haue me seuer'd and in mysery?
No (quoth Iugatus) tis sweet harmony,
Where two affections ioine in vnity:
I, but (said Liber) is there any sence,
That he should suffer, that doth no offence?
At last they both agree'd, that Libers life,
Had greatest pleasures, and was free'st from strife,
Then he that's free, and liberty doth scorne,
Let him endure the Yoake, or (worse) the (------)
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