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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.
 1. 
1. To the Reader.
 2. 
2. To the Lady Mary Nevill.
 3. 
3. To the same.
 4. 
4. To the same.
 5. 
5. To Mr. J. H.
 6. 
6. What Newes?
 7. 
7. The Court.
 8. 
8. Upon Aulus.
 9. 
9. Upon the Chymist.
 10. 
10. A Trojan.
 11. 
11. The Cure of Love.
 12. 
12. Troynovant. To the Londoners.
 13. 
13. The Lawyers God.
 14. 
14. The Earth.
 15. 
15. To King James, De. of the Faith
 16. 
16. To the Lord Treasurer.
 17. 
17. To the Kings chief Secretary.
 18. 
18. To the Venetians.
 19. 
19. To the Lord Chancellor.
 20. 
20. To the Lord Richard Sacvil, Earl of Dorchester.
 21. 
21. Cecil Lord Treasurer. 1597.
 22. 
22. Upon the Lord William Cecil's Motto.
 23. 
23. To Richard Vaughan, Bishop of London.
 24. 
24. To the same.
 25. 
25. To Tho. Bilson, Bishop of Winchester.
 26. 
26. The Life of William of Wicham, formerly Bishop of Winchester; publisht in Latine, by Tho. Martin, Doctor of the Civil Law.
 27. 
27. Winchester Colledge.
 28. 
28. Sir Philip Sidney.
 29. 
29. To the same.
 30. 
30. Upon the Marriage of William Earl of Pembrook; and Mary, Daughter to the Earl of Salisbury, 1605.
 31. 
31. To Elizabet, Countess of Rutland, Daughter to Sir Philip Sidney.
 32. 
32. To Lucia Countess of Bedford.
 33. 
33. The Knights Ring. To Sir Henry Goodyear.
 34. 
34. To Mr. J. H.
 35. 
35. To D. B.
 36. 
36. To Th. M. the Princes Tutor.
 37. 
37. To the same.
 38. 
38. To Mr. Walter Gwyn.
 39. 
39. Francis Drake. 1581.
 40. 
40. Britains Strength. To the Prince.
 41. 
41. The Terrestrial Globe.
 42. 
42. The mad way to Health.
 43. 
[Your knowledge, is a Cypher, without you]
 44. 
44. All things desire that which seems Good.
 45. 
45. A Black Swan.
 46. 
46. Democritus, and Heraclitus.
 47. 
47. Upon Langa.
 48. 
48. King Arthurs Round Table.
 49. 
49. To Theophila. B. C.
 50. 
50. Upon Hernicus.
 51. 
51. Of Love, and Faith.
 52. 
52. The Lover.
 53. 
53. The Golden Age.
 54. 
54. Upon Alana.
 55. 
55. The German Death. To Polynicus.
 56. 
56. Upon Philodemus.
 57. 
57. Upon Long-tongue.
 58. 
58. The Gordian Knot.
 59. 
59. Love.
 60. 
60. The Laws, The loss of Quiet. To the Lawyers.
 61. 
61. The Covetous, and the Prodigal.
 62. 
62. Πονος. Labour, or Trouble.
 63. 
63. A Good man, Valiant, Wise.
 64. 
64. The Order, of the Golden-Fleece.
 65. 
65. Tho. Earl of Dorchester's Motto.
 66. 
66. Sir Tho. Nevil's Motto.
 67. 
67. To Sir Phil. Sidney, concerning his Arcadia.
 68. 
68. To the most learned Gentlewoman; Mris. Jane Owen.
 69. 
69. To his Friend.
 70. 
70. The Usurers Grammar.
 71. 
71. To one, like neither of his Parents.
 72. 
72. To two concealing their Names, at their Return from Venice.
 73. 
73. Adultery, and Fornication.
 74. 
74. Concerning Hercules. To C. D.
 75. 
75. A friendly Salute.
 76. 
76. A Problem to the Naturalist concerning a Kiss.
 77. 
77. To Labiemus.
 78. 
78. Upon Alexander.
 79. 
79. To Firmicus, against Aulus.
 80. 
80. Upon a certain Versifier.
 81. 
81. Upon certain Lying Letters.
 82. 
82. Physician, heal your self. To Gilbert.
 83. 
83. Upon a certain Usurer.
 84. 
84. Upon an Hypocrite.
 85. 
85. Erasmus his Encomium Moriæ.
 86. 
86. The Anagrammatist.
 87. 
87. To a certain silly Doctor.
 88. 
88. Love is Naked.
 89. 
89. Concerning the Exchequer. To Sir Will. Pits.
 90. 
90. Upon one Perfidious.
 91. 
91. The sin of the Silver Age.
 92. 
92. A Baud.
 93. 
93. Upon Self-Love.
 94. 
94. Wisdome.
 95. 
95. The Etymologie of Venus.
 96. 
96. To a certain Fox-catcher.
 97. 
97. To Polla.
 98. 
98. A Friend, A Wife.
 99. 
99. Anger.
 100. 
100. The Roman Flora.
 101. 
101. The Etymologie of Anger.
 102. 
102. Of Himself.
 103. 
103. Womens Titles of Honour.
 104. 
104. Upon Zoilus.
 105. 
105. The middle Age is unknown.
 106. 
106. To a Dyer waxing Gray.
 107. 
107. To the Courtier.
 108. 
108. Bed.
 109. 
109. Rider's Bibliotheca.
 110. 
110. Money.
 111. 
111. Upon Covetous I. S.
 112. 
112. Of Roman Flora. To the Grammarians.
 113. 
113. Upon John Protus.
 114. 
114. Upon Theodorus.
 115. 
115. To a certain Gentlewoman.
 116. 
116. The great Pestilence. 1603.
 117. 
117. Upon a perjured person, convicted, by his own Hand-writing.
 118. 
118. Upon Cottula, the Grammaticastre.
 119. 
119. The Anagram of Roma. To the Carthaginians.
 120. 
120. To a certain Great Clerk.
 121. 
121. Upon one Davis.
 122. 
122. Upon Aulus.
 123. 
123. Upon Doctor Linus.
 124. 
124. Upon Thais.
 125. 
125. Upon a great Scribler, ashamed to affix his Name.
 126. 
126. Upon Mr. No-Hair.
 127. 
127. To Claudius, and Linus.
 128. 
128. To George.
 129. 
129. Every Lover, is a Souldier.
 130. 
130. The Military Oath.
 131. 
131. Upon Covetous and Cripled Alanus.
 132. 
132. The Condition of Kings.
 133. 
133. Vis. Jus. The Anagram of Jus, the Law, is Vis, Force.
 134. 
134. Upon Marcus.
 135. 
135. Desperate Debt.
 136. 
136. Upon Culianus.
 137. 
137. Upon Beautiful Marc.
 138. 
138. Upon Adrian the Fifth.
 139. 
139. I, Thou, He.
 140. 
140. Ask, and you shall Receive.
 141. 
141. Husband, and Wife; Parents, Children.
 142. 
142. Upon Marc the Lawyer.
 143. 
143. To his Father.
 144. 
144. The Italian.
 145. 
145. What kinde of Wife.
 146. 
146. To one complaining, that he could Beget no Children, like Himself.
 147. 
147. To Husbands concerning Conjugal Affection.
 148. 
148. The Epitaph of Sir Francis Drake.
 149. 
149. An Epitaph, upon a Youth, dying before Father, or Grand-Father.
 150. 
150. The Epitaph of Maurus.
 151. 
151. The Epitaph of Pyramus, and Thisbe.
 152. 
152. Sir Tho. More at his Execution.
 153. 
153. Three Languages were Crucified.
 154. 
154. Don Antonio, King of Portugal.
 155. 
155. Alexander, and Aristotle.
 156. 
156. Plato.
 157. 
157. Virgil's Georgicks.
 158. 
158. The Poet Persius.
 159. 
159. Tacitus.
 160. 
160. To Martial.
 161. 
161. To Petrarch.
 162. 
162. Pliny Translated into English, by Doctor Holland.
 163. 
163. Concerning Cicero. To Catullus.
 164. 
164. To the Historians of our Age.
 165. 
165. The King. His Subjects.
 166. 
166. The Parliament.
 167. 
167. To the Historian.
 168. 
168. Concerning Diet. To J. H.
 169. 
169. The Peers of France.
 170. 
170. Publius Magnus. Cato Major. Fabius Maximus.
 171. 
171. To T. S.
 172. 
172. Of Himself.
 173. 
173. The five Senses.
 174. 
174. Seeing.
 175. 
175. Hearing.
 176. 
176. Smelling.
 177. 
177. Tasting.
 178. 
178. Feeling.
 179. 
179. The Objects of the Senses.
 180. 
180. Touch and Taste.
 181. 
181. An Epigram. A Satyr.
 182. 
182. Upon one Dumb.
 183. 
183. The Blinde, and Deaf.
 184. 
184. Dentes, the Teeth; Lingua, the Tongue.
 185. 
185. The Phœnix, and the Viper.
 186. 
186. The Silk-worm.
 187. 
187. The Right Hand.
 188. 
188. The Left Hand.
 189. 
189. Sunday.
 190. 
190. Terra di Lavoro.
 191. 
191. Cloathes.
 192. 
192. Wine.
 193. 
193. A Sheep.
 194. 
194. The Dunging of Arable Land.
 195. 
195. Harmony.
 196. 
196. A Parret.
 197. 
197. Ink, and Paper.
 198. 
198. A Comedie.
 199. 
199. A man in a Cloke.
  
A Scholar in a Gown.
 200. 
200. A Satyr.
 201. 
201. An Eunuch.
 202. 
202. The Hour-glass.
 203. 
203. The Merchant.
 204. 
204. Lasciviousness.
 205. 
205. Donna.
 206. 
206. A Souldier.
 207. 
207. What an Army usually is.
 208. 
208. The Tears of Lovers.
 209. 
209. The Stars.
 210. 
210. Venice.
 211. 
211. The Lute.
 212. 
212. The Fowler.
 213. 
213. The Eccho.
 214. 
214. A Looking-Glass.
 215. 
215. The Eccho and the Looking-Glasse.
 216. 
216. Musick.
 217. 
217. Albion. To the King.
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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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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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70. A Woman.

In that rich Language, which victorious Rome,
Bequeath'd to those, Cæsars did overcome;
A Woman drew her name from Softness; 'cause
Mans brawny hardness they excell; by th'Lawes
Of benign Nature. Why so? 'tis well known,
Eve was not Adams Flesh, but his hard Bone.
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