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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

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Epig. 19. To Cupid.

God of hearts Prithee be gon,
Forsake my homely Mansion,
Thy Diety is all to great
On Parsly for too make thy meat,
Such, as to my Lares I
Offer up nocturnally;
Lucullus doth not harbor here,
But Cato with his beard austere.