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New Epigrams, and a Satyre

Written by Ios: Martyn
Martyn, Joseph
  
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TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPfull, Sir Henry Martyn Knight.
  
A Poeticall insinuation.
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EPIGRAMS.
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1. To Time.
 2. 
2. To the Gentle Reader.
 3. 
3. To the vnkind Reader.
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4. To the indifferent Reader.
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5. To Opinion.
 6. 
6. To Fame.
 7. 
7. To Desteny.
 8. 
8. Mineruaes Ghost.
 9. 
9. To Venus Shrine.
 10. 
10. A Drunkard. Ænigma.
 11. 
11. To the poore Cobler.
 12. 
12. A Roaring Boy.
 13. 
13. A Player.
 14. 
14. In Cornutum.
 15. 
15. A Carpet Knight.
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16. Mundus immundus.
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17. An euill Age.
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18. Venus and Adonis.
 19. 
19. Mars and Neptune.
 20. 
20. A Gam'ster.
 21. 
21. Epigram.
 22. 
22. Don Fashionista.
 23. 
23. A contented mind.
 24. 
24. A meere Richman.
 25. 
25. A Citizen and a decaied Gentleman.
 26. 
26. A Womans Tailor.
 27. 
27. The Barbers Office.
 28. 
28. In Catum.
 29. 
29. Painters and Poets.
 30. 
30. Loues Lunacy.
 31. 
31. A Puritan.
 32. 
32. To Mounsieur Melancholy.
 33. 
33. To Romista a Traueller.
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34. Elementa non alimenta.
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35. Gallen and Morbosus .
 36. 
36. To Iulia.
 37. 
37. Iugatus and Liber,
 38. 
38. To Lucina.
 39. 
39. To Flaua of her yellow Band.
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40. To Verinus a Tobacco taker.
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41. To Iocosa a Nightwalker.
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42. To the sharking Camelion.
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43. Epigram.
 44. 
44. To Experience.
 45. 
45. To Silla a Trader.
 46. 
46. In Vrbanum.
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47. To Auarus of his Argument.
 48. 
48. Of Arnaldo.
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49. In Prodigum.
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50. To Nobodie.
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51. Rusticus and Thraso.
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52. A broken Citizen.
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53. Of Hircanus.
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54. Lifes Tragedie.
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55. To Logista.
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56. The louing Drunkard.
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57. Times abuse.
 58. 
58. Of the merry Host.
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59. A Seruing man.
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60. To Superbus.
  
TO THE KIND ACCEPTANCE of his louing Kinsman William Martyn of the middle Temple, Gent.
  
A Satyre.
  
To his Deare friend the Author.
  
The Author in answere to his friend.
  
A Postscript.

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The Author in answere to his friend.

Were I the fowle whom thou wold'st haue transformd
From a black night bird, to a Nightingale:
Or were my youth with those sweet notes adorn'd,
Which any censure should delicious call,

I might beleeue affection would not flatter,
Or that my barren Muse deseru'd thy praise
But tis thy skill, each ill conformed matter,
So neere perfection as thou canst to raise,
And herein art thou knowne a Cooke compleate,
In making sweet sauce for vnsauory meate.
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