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Epigrams theological, philosophical, and romantick

Six books, also the Socratic Session, or the Arraignment and Conviction, of Julius Scaliger, with other Select Poems. By S. Sheppard
Sheppard, S.

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Epig. 17. Joves Cup-Bearer.

Sweet Ganimed, snatch'd fvom the Idean Hill
By Joves appointment, Nectar for to fill
Unto him, and the rest o'th' Dieties,
The Allegory fitly this implies.
“Ganimed, or the understanding Soule,
“The beauteous mind not clog'd with error foule,
“(So drawing neare the nature of great Jove)
“Is rap't to Heaven by his Eternall love.
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