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. 36. The basenesse of the present age.
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O that (if Fate so pleased (I now were oneThe Palfray, that same chaste and wonderous wight
Bestrod, and cleft the Ayre, BELLEROPHON,
Or in Medeas Charriot took my flight
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To some strange Country not inhabitedWith humans, but a wilde and barren waste,
Whereas the LOTOS Tree, his boughs doth spread,
Whose fruit I'de prize 'bove all by men embrac'd.
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For that rare fruit, my most ingratefull soile,Would make me soon forget, and I ne're more
Should back return 'mongst Furies for to toile,
Who (with fond Mydas) with for golden oare:
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And nothing else esteem, for should they heareApollo strike his strings, (unto their sence)
Even Rustick Pan the Lawrell wreath should weare,
And before Sol have the preheminence:
I grovell on the ground, and fooles do stride
Over my bulke, and on my back do ride.
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