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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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14. UNSELFISHNESS IN FRIENDSHIP.

Lands, gold, and trifles many give or lend:
But he that stoops in fame is a rare friend;
In friendship's orbe thou art the brightest starre,
Before thy fame mine thou preferrest far.
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[Martial, lib. viii, ep. 18: Ibid, lin. 3.]


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