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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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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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