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Certain Selected Odes Of Horace, Englished

and their Arguments annexed. With Poems (Antient and Modern) of diuers Subjects, Translated. Whereunto are added, both in Latin and English, sundry new Epigrammes. Anagrammes. Epitaphes [by John Ashmore]

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[Grac't by the Muses, Poët most expert]
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[Grac't by the Muses, Poët most expert]

Grac't by the Muses, Poët most expert,
My Praises cannot equall thy Desert.
My ravisht Soule thy rare Straines doth admire,
And thy sweet Muses high aspiring fire.
Come Poëts; and his temples Crown with Bayes:
Not many have, or can write better Layes.
R. I.