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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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The Language Of The Frontispeice.

To Mr. Sheppard on His Epigrams.

To the Author on his exquisite Epigrams and other Poems.

To the Author on his Epigrams.

To my much honoured Friend the Author, on his most Excellent Epigrams.

A due Encomium on the Author and his Ingenious Epigrams.

To the Author on his excellent Epigrams.

The SOCRATICK SESSION,

A MAUSOLEAN MONUMENT, ERECTED By a Sorowfull Sonne over His Deceased Parents: With Three Pastorals. Two of them alluding to some Late Proceedings between Parties. By S. Shepard.

To the Reader on the Errors of the Presse.

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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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Epig. 22. Joves Raping Europa.