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The poems and verse-translations of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor

For the first time collected and edited after the author's own text: With introduction. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart [in Miscellanies of The Fuller Worthies' Library]
Taylor, Jeremy (1613-1667)

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II. Festival Hymns.
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III. Job's Curse.
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IV. Verse-portraits of the Four Evangelists;
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V. Aurea Grana.

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13. A NOBLE FRIENDSHIP.

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By wine and mirth and every daye's delight
We choose our friends to whom we think we might
Our souls intrust; but fools are they that lend
Their bosome to the shadow of a friend.
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[Line 3rd πατερ . . οιετ', edd. recentt: ap. Plutarch de frat. am. t vii. p. 872.]


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