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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.
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EPIGRAMS
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The First Book
 1. 
Epig. 1.
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Epig. 2. To my beloved Friend Mr. James Naworth, the best way to better a bad Wife.
 3. 
Epig. 3. To Sir I. C. Knight.
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Epig. 4. Of Proems.
 5. 
Epig. 5. The proofe of Princes.
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Epig. 6. Loving Mirabell.
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Epig. 7. Absolonisme.
 8. 
Epig. 8. Homer.
 9. 
Epig. 9. To his unconstant Mistresse.
 10. 
Epig. 10. To Captaine C. D. on his Periwig.
 11. 
Epig. 11. To Mistresse E. L.
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Epig. 12. To James Nevill Esquire.
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Epig. 13. The Letanie.
 14. 
Epig. 14. On Saint Thomas .
 15. 
Epig. 15. To my Friend Theodor Vaux .
 16. 
Epig. 16. Afflictions Beneficiall.
 17. 
Epig. 17. The Incarnation of Iesus Christ our blessed Redeemer, narrated by a Shepherd.
 18. 
Epig. 18. An Acknowledgement.
 19. 
Epig. 19. On my Selfe.
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Epig. 21. Ballad Poets.
 22. 
Epig. 22. Scylla and Charibdis.
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Epig. 23. Pedro, and Roderigo, The one Franciscan, the other a Dominican Frier.
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Epig. 24. Acrisius Inclosing his Daughter Danae .
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The Second Book.
 2. 
Epig. 2. Epitaph on I. P.
 3. 
Epig. 3. Catalines conspiracy.
 4. 
Epig. 4. Confident Carrus.
 5. 
Epig. 5. Richard the Vsurper.
 6. 
Epig. 6. To Mr. E. C. on his Spolario.
 7. 
Epig. 7. The Spanish Armado.
 8. 
Epig. 8. Borgias.
 10. 
Epig. 10. These Times.
 11. 
Epig. 11. To Claius.
 12. 
Epig. 12. Ovid banished.
 13. 
Epig. 13. On the two admirable witts, Francis Beaumont, and John Fletcher .
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Epig. 14. Ovid, to Augustus Daughter in the Person of Corinna .
 15. 
Epig. 15. To our Brittish Bards.
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Epig. 16. Palladium Homeri.
 18. 
Epig. 18. To my Friend Mr. E. R.
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Epig. 19. To Mr. Davenport on his Play called the Pirate.
 20. 
Epig. 20. A Pacification.
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Epig. 21. Francis Spira.
 22. 
Epig. 22. Of Fame.
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Epig. 24. Of Honour.
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Epig. 25. On the wondrous accident happening in Delf, a Towne in Holland (much frequented by Storks) which Towne being accidentally set on fire, the old Storks perceiving the Flame to approach their Nests, attempted to carry their Young ones away, but could not, they were so weighty, which perceiving, they never ceased with their wings spread to cover them, till both the old ones and young ones perished together.
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Epig. 26. An old Woman Letcherous.
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Epig. 27. Ben. Johnsons Play, called the silent Woman.
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THE THIRD BOOK.
 1. 
Epig. 1. The Sectaries of these times.
 2. 
Epig. 2. A Contented Citizen called Horne.
 3. 
Epig. 3. To Penelope.
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Epig. 5. To Clarissa
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Epig. 6. To the most excellent Poet, Sir William Davenant .
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Epig. 8. Of Sillius.
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Epig. 9. The fall of the Druinian Oake.
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Epig 10. To my Friend Lucius Varrus .
 12. 
Epig. 12. Carbo the Courtier.
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Epig. 13. On a Lady singing.
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Epig. 14. To my noble Friend Van Velsen, the merited praise of the famous Citty of Amsterdam .
 15. 
Epig. 15. Epitaph on Prince Henry .
 16. 
Epig. 16. The Lady E. D. had her Picture drawn thus.
 17. 
Epig. 17. Joves Cup-Bearer.
 18. 
Epig. 18. Wicked Myrha.
 19. 
Epig. 19. To Cupid.
 20. 
Epig. 20. Homers Prophesie of our Saviours Incarnation and Passion, &c. Odiss. 12.
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Epig. 21. To Mr. Glascow, a solution of his Question, what Wit is, and who ought chiefly to drink Sherrie.
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Epig. 22. Joves Raping Europa.
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Epig. 23. Lucians memoriall.
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Epig. 24. The transformation of Narcissus .
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Epig. 25. Tis money makes the man.
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Epig. 26. To Mrs. Rhodes .
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Epig. 27. Epitaph on a young man that dyed on his Wedding Day.
 28. 
Epig. 28. On the death of Mary Queen of Scots.
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Epig. 29. To my much honoured unckle M. Paul Clapham .
 30. 
Epig. 30. On Sir Phillip Sydneys Decease.
 31. 
Epig. 31. Disorder the fore-runner of Ruine.
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Epig. 32. A journey to Totnam Court.
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Epig. 33. Valour alwaies accompanied with Love.
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Epig. 34. To Mr. K. R.
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Epig. 35. Lodowick and Artesia.
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Epig. 36. The basenesse of the present age.
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Epig. 37. On the death of that Incomparable Hero, Sir Walter Rawleigh Knight.
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Epig. 38. On Mr. Sands inimitable translation of Ovids Metamorphosis .
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Epig. 39. The power of money, to Sir Edward Buzbey Knight.
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Epig. 40. A Simile.
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Epig. 41. An Apollogie to Sir Thomas Engham .
 42. 
Epig. 42. To Sir Alexander Wroth, of the most noble Order of the Garter Knight, a Resolution to his Demand, &c.
 43. 
Epig. 43. On the probable continuance of these Civill Warrs, the Scot, and Irish not reduced.
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Epig. 44. King Arthur.
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Epig. 45. Lots Wife turned to a Pillar of Salt.
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THE FOVRTH BOOK.
 1. 
Epig. 1. On the death of I. P.
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Epig. 2. Sir Philip Sydneys Arcadia.
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Epig. 3. To Doctor Bulwer, on his artificiall Changeling .
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Epig. 5. On Lucians true History.
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Epig. 6. AN HYMN TO BACCHUS.
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Epig. 7. To Lillie the Starre-Gazer.
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Epig. 9. Dedalus, and Icarus, A Dialogue .
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Epig. 10. To Clio, having but begun my Faerie King.
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Epig. 11. To Iudge Jenkins .
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Epig. 12. To the Illustrious Cardinall Mazerine, his Victory lately obtained over the Spanish Army under the Archduke Leopold .
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Epig. 13. To Mr. E. C. the Lawyer.
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Epig. 14. All is not Gold that Glisters.
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Epig. 15. A Catholick Medicine to cure the Passion of Love.
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Epig. 16. To Mr. E. G.
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Epig. 17. A Dialogue maintained by five, viz. the Poet, Clio, Povertie, Ignorance, Mammon.
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Epig. 18. A defiance to Fortune.
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Epig. 19. The Poets invitation to Ben Johnsons Ghost to appeare again.
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Epig. 20. Women must not rule.
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Epig. 21. To my much honoured, and incomparable Friend, Mr. Theodor Loe Esquire, upon his request to me to pen a peculiar Poem of Oberon and his Queen.
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Epig. 22. Lucan to Nero .
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Epig. 23. Fantastick Silius .
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Epig. 25. Epitaph on the Lord Capell .
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Epig. 26. Epitaph on Duke Hamilton .
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Epig. 27. On the Earle of Holland .
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Epig. 28. On Mr. Spencers inimitable Poem, the Faerie Queen .
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Epig. 29. To the brave and nobe Lady, the Lady E. B.
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Epig. 30. On Mr. Davenants most excellent Tragedy of Albovinek of Lombards .
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Epig. 31. CUPIDS CREATION.
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Epig. 32. All Saints, and all Soules Day, 1. and 2. of November .
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Epig. 33. The Ægyptians first found out the Art of Navigation.
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Epig. 34. For the Statue of Queen Elizabeth .
 35. 
Epig. 35. Baptizing of Infants, the New Mode.
 36. 
Epig. 36. The Powder Treason.
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Epig. 37. To Mr. L. H.
 38. 
Epig. 38. On the birth of the Lady E. D.
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Epig. 39. On the Death of Strafford Deputie of Ireland .
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Epig. 40. On the Death of the truely learned and exquisitely Vertuous I. D. Esquire.
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Epig. 41. A Cobler to Plato, on his Commonwealth.
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Epig. 42. To Mr. G. K.
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Epig. 43. To Will. Lee, the Bookseller at Pauls Chaine.
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Epig. 44. To Lydia scorning him.
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Epig. 45. To I. Buzby
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Epig. 46. Epitaph, on Mr. Fountaine and his young Son dying, and being buried together in one Grave.
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Epig. 47. The deliverance from a garrulous vain-glorious Scholar in Sion Coledge.
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THE FIFTH BOOK.
 1. 
Epig. 1. To Lydia.
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Epig. 2. Unmanly Feare.
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Epig. 3. To Cap. Purvey .
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Epig. 4. A Callidonians Character.
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Epig. 5. To Mr. E. H. Complaining of his Wife.
 6. 
Epig. 6. Sir John Harringtons translation of Ariosto .
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Epig. 8. To Mr. John Sands, on his excellent Water-Worke called the Chaos .
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Epig. 9. A Constellation betwixt bad and good Fortune, for Antiquitie, and Supremacie.
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Epig 10. To H. P.
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Epig. 11. The Invention of Letters.
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Epig. 12. On the death of the late Prince of Orange, by the Small Pox.
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Epig. 13. The Boy-preaching Furrier.
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Epig. 14. To Delia.
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Epig. 15. To Claudius.
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Epig. 16. The Prodigall.
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Epig. 18. An Alderman.
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Epig. 19. Christmasse Day.
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Epig. 20. To Mr. L. H. Esquire.
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Epig. 21. To E. K.
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Epig. 22. A Dialogue 'twixt Lydia, and the Poet, for the renewing their Loves after a long time of suspension.
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Epig. 23. On excellent strong Beere.
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Epig. 24. Leanders Ruine.
 25. 
Epig. 25. A Frolick to Capt. Baines the Poet being Prisoner (for his Loyalty) in Whittington Goale.
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Epig. 26. Martagon, and Ancilla in the person of the Poet, and Mistris E. R .
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Epig. 27. On Mr. Websters most excellent Tragedy, Called the White Devill.
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Epig. 28. Epitaph on that Excellently Learned young man Mr. Anthony Dyer .
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Epig. 29. To his Muse in (reference to his Faerie King.
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Epig. 30. Epitaph on my dearely loved Kinsman Thomas Clapham .
 31. 
Epig. 31. To his Book.
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Epig. 32. It is the greatest Conquest for a Conquerour to Conquer himself, to conquer his Irascible passions, which Alexander could not doe, and his Concupiscible, which Hercules could not do, so vassalized to his IOLE, to him, Dei ira Hercules.
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Epig. 33. Ben Johnson's due Encomium.
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Epig. 34. Epitaph on a Virgin dying for Love.
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Epig. 35. The Paper Hero's .
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THE SIXTH BOOK.
 1. 
Epig. 1. Uirgula Divina.
 2. 
Epig. 2. To Wil. Drosse the upstart Gallant.
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Epig. 3. To Tatam.
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Epig. 4. To Mr. Giles Granvert .
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Epig. 5. Aristotle.
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Epig. 6. Epitaph on Mahomet the Second, Emperour of Turkes, Anno Dom. 1450 .
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Epig. 7. To the brave and beautious Lady, the Lady I. G.
 8. 
Epig. 8. Silvesters Translation of Du-Bartas, His Divine Weeks, and Works.
 9. 
Epig. 9. On the pollution of a well known Temple.
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Epig 10. The celebration of a Health to my jovial Friend, James Gort Esquire.
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Epig. 11. Defacing of Images
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Epig. 12. To the Pamphleters of these times.
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Epig. 13. To John Taylor (commonly called) the Water-Poet.
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Epig. 14. Modest, Martha .
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Epig. 15. Lactantius, his strange opinion of that Text of Scripture, Gen. 6. 2. Then the Sonnes of God saw the Daughters of Men that they were faire, and they took them Wives, &c.
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Epig. 16. My Imprisonment in Whittington for Writing Mercurius Elencticus .
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Epig. 17. In Memory of our Famous Shakespeare .
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Epig. 18. Pimponello, Flambello, A Dialogue.
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Epig. 19. To Mr. James Ford, his Medalls being Miraculously preserved from fire.
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Epig. 20. Our Blessed Redeemer (in scorne) by the Cursed Jewes, cloathed in White Rayment.
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Epig. 21. Mortimer, and Queene Isabel ,
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Epig. 22. To the hopefull and excellently Ingenious, Mr. John Quarles.
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Epig. 23. On Mr. Chapmans Incomparable Translation of Homers Workes.
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Epig. 24. Epitaph on Mr. Flood .
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Epig. 25. To Mr. E. G.
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Epig. 26. Epitaph on Mr. James Gourd a singing-man.
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Epig. 27. To the Parliament of England .
 28. 
Epig. 28. To Mr. Edward Gosling pittying my want of Books.
 29. 
Epig. 29. A Paralell.
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Epig. 30. To Mr. John Sob, of these times.
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Epig. 31. The Character of an accomplisht Man.
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Epig. 32. To his Excellency, the Lord Generall Cromwell .
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Epig. 33. To the profoundly Learned, and unparalleld Antiquary, John Selden Esquire.
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Epig. 34. Not to wonder at the Monstrositie of these times.
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Epig. 35. To Mall my Wife.
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Epig. 36. The Conclusion.
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The SOCRATICK SESSION,
  
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To the Author on his Socratick Session.
  
The SOCRATICK SESSION,
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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.
  
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FUNERAL ELLEGIES.
  
An Ellegie On The Death Of My Most Deare And Reverend Father, Doctor Harman Sheppard, who Deceased Iuly 12. 1639.
  
An Ellegie On The Death Of My Deare And Truly Vertuous Mother, Mis. Pettronella Sheppard, Who Deceased September 10. 1650.
  
THE ADVENTUROUS Bard. OR (UXORIOUS) ORPHEUS His Descent.
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PASTORALS.
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The FIRST PASTORAL.
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The SECOND PASTORAL.
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The THIRD PASTORAL.
  
ANINTOR. MARTAGON.
  
To the Reader on the Errors of the Presse.

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Six books, also the Socratic Session, or the Arraignment and Conviction, of Julius Scaliger, with other Select Poems. By S. Sheppard

S. Sheppard

Printed by G. D. for Thomas Bucknell [etc.]
London
1651
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