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The poems and verse-translations of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor

For the first time collected and edited after the author's own text: With introduction. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart [in Miscellanies of The Fuller Worthies' Library]
Taylor, Jeremy (1613-1667)
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II. Festival Hymns.
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III. Job's Curse.
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IV. Verse-portraits of the Four Evangelists;
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V. Aurea Grana.
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I. From “Deus Justificatus or a Vindication of the Glory of the Divine Attributes in the Question of Original Sin: in a Letter to a Person of Quality.” 1656 (12o) and 1657 (folio).
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II. From “A Discourse of the Nature, Offices, and Measures of Friendship” 1657 and 1673 (folio) and 1678 (12o.)
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9. FRIENDSHIPS.
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10. LOVE FOR LOVE.
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11. MUTUAL FRIENDS.
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12. A FRIEND NOT MONEY.
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13. A NOBLE FRIENDSHIP.
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14. UNSELFISHNESS IN FRIENDSHIP.
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15. BROTHERS.
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16. FRIENDSHIP IMMORTAL.
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17. HELP IN ADVERSITY.

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II. From “A Discourse of the Nature, Offices, and Measures of Friendship” 1657 and 1673 (folio) and 1678 (12o.)

9. FRIENDSHIPS.

Where Vertue dwells there friendships make,
But evil neighbourhoods forsake.
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[Pythag. carm. aur. 5: Theogn. lin. 113.]


10. LOVE FOR LOVE.

They lov'd each other with a love
That did in all things equal prove. [OMITTED]
The world was under Saturn's reign
When he that lov'd was lov'd again.
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[Idyll xii. 15.]


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11. MUTUAL FRIENDS.

Let God give friends to me for my reward,
Who shall my love with equal love regard;
Happy are they, who when they give their heart
Find such as in exchange their own impart.
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[Theogn. line 337: Bion, ap. Stob. floril, tit. lxiii. (de Venere, &c.) 28.]


12. A FRIEND NOT MONEY.

When Fortune frowns upon a man,
A friend does more than money can.
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[Auct. incert. ap. Grot. excerpt. ex trag. et com. p. 945. Paris 1626. 4o.]


13. A NOBLE FRIENDSHIP.

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By wine and mirth and every daye's delight
We choose our friends to whom we think we might
Our souls intrust; but fools are they that lend
Their bosome to the shadow of a friend.
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[Line 3rd πατερ . . οιετ', edd. recentt: ap. Plutarch de frat. am. t vii. p. 872.]


14. UNSELFISHNESS IN FRIENDSHIP.

Lands, gold, and trifles many give or lend:
But he that stoops in fame is a rare friend;
In friendship's orbe thou art the brightest starre,
 Before thy fame mine  thou preferrest far.
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[Martial, lib. viii, ep. 18: Ibid, lin. 3.]


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15. BROTHERS.

It is not often you shall see
Two brothers live in amity.
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[Ovid, Met. i., 145.]


16. FRIENDSHIP IMMORTAL.

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To me though distant let thy friendship fly;
Though men be mortal, friendships must not die;
Of all things else ther's great satiety.
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[Theogn lin. 595.]


17. HELP IN ADVERSITY.

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Friends are to friends as lesser gods, while they
Honour and service to each other pay:
But when a dark cloud comes, grudge not to lend
Thy head, thy heart, thy fortune to thy friend.
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[Poet incert.—Grot. excerpt. p. 945.]


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