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Chrestoleros

Seuen bookes of Epigrames written by T. B. [i.e. Thomas Bastard]
Bastard, Thomas (1565 or 6-1618)

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[If I my Pen an higher taske should set]
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ΕΠΙΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΩΝ
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Liber Primus.
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Liber Secundus.
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Liber Tertius.
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Liber Quartus.
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Liber Quintus.
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Liber Sextus.
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Liber Septimus
 
Epigr. 1. Ad Lectorem.
 
Epigr. 2. De Mathone.
 
Epigr. 3. In Cophum.
 
Epigr. 4.
 
Epigr. 5. De Fortuna sua.
 
Epigr. 6. Ad Thomam Strangwayes de Martialis Epigrammate, Aurum & opes & rura, &c.
 
Epigr. 7. ad Lectorem.
 
Epigr. 8. In Carum.
 
Epigr. 9. De senectute & iuuentute.
 
Epigr. 10. Ad Iohannem Sooche.
 
Epigr. 11. De nouo orbe.
 
Epigr. 12. De Moro & Caro patrono.
 
Epigr. 13. ad reginam Elizabetham.
 
Epigr. 14 ad eandem.
 
Epigr. 15. In Misum.
 
Epigr. 16. Ad Comitem Essexæ.
 
Epigr. 17.
 
Epigr. 18. In Caium.
 
Epigr. 19. De nauo in facie Faustinæ.
 
Epigr. 20. De eadem.
 
Epigr. 22.
 
Epigr. 23. Ad Thomam Strangwaies.
 
Epigr. 24. In Mathonem.
 
Epigr. 25.
 
Epigr. 26.
 
Epigr. 27.
 
Epigr. 28 De infante mortuo ante partum.
 
Epigr. 29. In Causidicos.
 
Epigr. 30.
 
Epigr. 31.
 
Epigr. 32
 
Epigr. 33. De Poeta Martiali.
 
Epigr. 34. In Lætum.
 
Epigr. 35. Epitaph: Iohannis Sande.
 
Epigr. 36. De puero balbutiente.
 
Epigr. 37.
 
Epigr. 38.
 
Epigr. 39. Ad Do. Mountioy.
 
Epigr. 40. ad Lectorem.
 
Epigr. 41. in Sabellum.
 
Epigr. 42.
 
Epigr. 43.
 
Epigr. 44. In Brillum.
 
Epigr. 45.
 
Epigr. 46. In Porum.
 
Epigr. 47. De Hominis Ortu & sepultura.

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Epigr. 16. Ad Lectorem.

Reader, there is no biting in my verse;
No gall, no wormewood, no cause of offence.
And yet there is a biting I confesse
And sharpenesse tempred to a wholsome sense.
Such are my Epigrams well vnderstood,
As salt which bites the wound, but doth it good.
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