Flosculum Poeticum Poems Divine and Humane, Panegyrical, Satyrical, Ironical. By P. K. [i.e. Peter Ker] |
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AN EPITAPH On the Brother of Heliogabolus.
Within this Tombe lyes one, I canScarce nominate a Brute, or Man
But yet the veritatem loqui,
He borrow'd partem, ab utroque.
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Or animal implume bipes.
He spent his time here in a mist,
A Papist, yet no Atheist.
He liv'd by robries, and oppression;
Whereof (at Death) he made Confession.
His fame still cry'd he liveth ill:
And now he's dead, against his will.
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