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Epigrams theological, philosophical, and romantick

Six books, also the Socratic Session, or the Arraignment and Conviction, of Julius Scaliger, with other Select Poems. By S. Sheppard

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Epig. 19. To Mr. Davenport on his Play called the Pirate.

Make all the cloth you can, haste, haste away,
The Pirate will o'retake you if you stay:
Nay, we will yeeld our selves, and this confesse,
Thou Rival'st Shakespeare, though thy glory's lesse.