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Parnassi Puerperium

or, Some Well-wishes to ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in Sir Tho. More...
Pecke, Thomas
  
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OWEN'S EPIGRAMS: THE FIRST BOOK.
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THE SECOND BOOK.
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THE THIRD BOOK.
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Libellus de Spectaculis:
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Certain Select EPIGRAMS, Translated Out of the Works of that upright Lord Chancellor, and facetious Poet, Sr THO. MORE, &c.
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1. To King Henry the Eighth.
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2. Upon the Union of the York, and Lancaster Roses.
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3. Upon an ignorant Rhetorician.
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4. Upon Suspicion.
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5. Upon the accurate Picture, of a pitiful Oratour.
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6. Upon a blinde, and a lame Begger.
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7. The complaint of a Ship, sunk in a Storm.
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8. Upon a Ships being Burnt.
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9. Upon a Rabbet, who having escap'd a Weasel, fell into the Hayes.
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10. Innocency, is obnoxious to Injury.
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11. Upon the Quality of Death.
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12. Upon a Niggard.
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13. The Spiders Hunting.
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14. Upon a Cynick, indiscreetly abstinent.
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15. Upon a Chamber-maid deceased.
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16. Upon a Fisher-man, who was faln in Love withall.
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17. Upon Mediocrity.
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18. Fear is altogether unprofitable.
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19. A Cause, finely pleaded.
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20. Upon the uncertainty, of the Hour of Death.
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21. Upon the same.
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22. Upon a certain Ridiculous Astrologer.
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23. Upon the same.
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24. On the same.
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25. Death not to be feared.
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26. Upon a certain Covetous, and sordid Bishop.
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27. Upon the Inconstancy of Fortune.
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28. Upon Death.
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29. Upon a Rabbet, that was catch'd twice.
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30. Concerning Wifes.
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31. On the same Subject.
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32. Upon an Emperick, who sold a Drop of Balsam, very Deer.
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33. Upon a Picture, much resembling the Party.
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34. Upon a Picture, unlike.
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35. Upon a Ridiculous Prognostication.
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36. Upon a Roman Nose.
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37. On a certain Fool.
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38. Aristotles Judgement, concerning Sleep.
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39. The difference betwixt a good Prince, and a Bad.
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40. Upon a good King, and vertuous Subjects.
  
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HEROICK EPIGRAMS, Upon Some choice Passages in the LIVES of the Twelve CÆSARS, And other worthy Subjects.
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Epigrams upon Various Subjects.

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32. Upon an Emperick, who sold a Drop of Balsam, very Deer.

Sir Quack, his Patient told, nothing could cure,
The stubborn Feaver; did He not endure,
To pay for precious Balsam; to be found,
With none but Him; One Drop, would cost ten Pound.
Five I require, to have lay'd down, in Hand:
The other, when you're well; I shall demand.
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But about this, there scarce can be a strife:
What is ten pound, to secure a Mans Life?
The Bargain's made; from a well-cover'd Glasse,
A Grain of this Elixar, taken was.
The sick crav'd all; as willing to be sound:
No; the Remainder's worth, an hundred pound.
Besides the present Dose, would stand instead:
And so it did; for He was quickly dead.
Unhappy Bargain! what won't the Fates do?
Life was not onely lost; but Balsam too.
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