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. 30. On Sir Phillip Sydneys Decease.
When Æricina saw brave Sydney die,She threw her purple Ceston clean away:
(As when Adonis bath'd in blood did lie
At her faire feet) weeping, she thus did say,
For Mars I plaine, and not for him alone,
In Sydney, Mars, and Sminthus both are gone.
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