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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. 22. Joves Raping Europa.

If we beleeve the wittie Sulmian, Jove,
Was pleas'd (in shape) a lustfull Bull to prove
In all proportion, (sure) as strong as he
Leap't the prodigious lustfull Pasiphæ)
For faire Europas sake; great Jove thy brow
Should have had hornes, when Io was a Cow.
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