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Out of the third Booke.

Epig. 1. God the Beginning of All Things .

God was the first, ith' first God did reside,
Before the first, after the first shall bide;
First without firsts, and from this first, each thing,
That first was made, did first-beginning bring.

Epig. 4. The Art of Memory .

Simonides , found th' Art of Memory,
But none the Art of Wit could ere descry.

Epig. 6.

[Satan o'th' Woman Bought-vs; Christ re-Bought-vs]

Satan o'th' Woman Bought-vs; Christ re-Bought-vs;
Adam Impure, but Christ Most-Pure hath wrought-vs.

Epig. 7. The Prayse of Liberalitie .

What e're we Giue, doth euer liue,
Gifts follow Him that Giues;
The Giuer and the Taker both,
By Gifts the better Liue.

Epig. 10. To Queene Anne .

Wife , Daughter, Sister, Mother to a King,
What rarer Titles may wee to Thee bring?
With these foure Titles, thou foure Vertues hast,
With what more Glory may a Queene be grac't?

Epig. 13. A New-Man .

Driue what thou didst Deriue from th' Old-Man-Sinne,
Soone, to Refresh thy Flesh, from Sinne, Beginne.

Epig. 14. Health.

Even from my Heart, much Health I Wish,
No Health I'le Wash with Drinke:
Health Wish't, not wash't, in Words, not Wine,
To be the best I thinke.

Epig. 15. Forbidden-Fruit.

When Adam Ate Forbidden-Meate,
Deluded by the Diuell;
He was not Euils Primitiue,
But, worse than th' Apple of Euill.

Epig. 16. Troians and Greekes .

The Troian sayes, I much doe feare
The Greekes, when they bring Gifts.
Who is the Greeke? The Poore-Man. Who
Are Troians? Rich-Make-Shifts.

Epig. 21. N. A.

N's first; A, followes; Nought than All's more old:
That God of Nought made All, all Truth doth hold.

Epig. 23. Holinesse is Healthfulnesse .

No man can Long; Well, all Men may;
Yet no Man Will, Liue, Well:
If thou'lt Liue Long, endeuour then
In Vertue to excell.

Epig. 25. A Bride is a Ship .

The Taile's the Sterne; Fore-Decke the Beake;
The Keele, the Belly is;
Her Wings, the Sayles; a Bird, a Barke
Is then, not much amisse.

Epig. 30. Against Pannicus a Rich-Asse .

That Fortune fauours Fooles canst thou not see?
Beleeue thy Selfe, if thou'lt not Credit Mee.

Epig. 33. Homer.

Maruell not much though Homer blind tell Lyes,
Since He by Heare-say went, not Sight of's Eyes.

Epig. 35. Little, Nothing, Too-much, Enough.

The Poore haue Little, Beggers None,
The Rich Too-much, Enough not One.

Epig. 37. To the Right Honourable, William Earle of Pembrooke, &c.

Not Old in yeeres, nor Young in each rare Part,
One of the Kings and Kingdomes Props thou art,
That on thee this great Grace thy King doth Lay:
Or should I ioy thy Merit? Both I may.

Epig. 48. Humility.

As, Low-Dales beare more fertile Grasse,
More Sterill Mountaines-high;
In Wisdome, so, Meeke Minds doe passe
Selfe-flated Subtilty;
The Mind's a Mount, our Will's a Hill;
The Mounts Top is Wils Wit:
Each highest Hill is Sterill still,
And Nimblest Wit vn-fit.

Epig. 54. The Clyent .

If to thy Cause the Iudge shall Helpe apply,
Thy Knees to Him, Clyent, in-cline wisely.

Epig. 57. The Serpent, Eue, Adam .

The subtill Serpent, heed-lesse Eue
Deceiu'd, was not deceiued;
Not Adam Her, Shee Him made fall,
Both thus of Ioy bereaued:
Both Actiuely and Passiuely,
Shee therefore thus did Sin;
Deceiu'd Her-Selfe, deceiueth Him,
Snar'd, Snares Him in Deaths Grin.

Epig. 59. To Polydore .

O Polydore , to Men most Poore,
The Datiue-Case is best;
Your Ablatiue doth them depriue
Of Comfort, Ease and rest:
Giuers than Takers better are.
True, but these Ablatiues,
This Age doth see too frequent bee,
Seld' seene are Rich-Datiues.

Epig. 60. To ------

Alas, poore Creature-Seruing two,
Thou art in wofull state:
One-Master, nothing hath to Giue,
Thy tother is Ingrate.

Epig. 61. Three-fold Continency.

When thou dost any Ill-thing Heare or See,
Thy Windowes, Eares and Eyes fast shut let bee;
And that thou Speake-not vnaduisedly,
Locke-fast thy Doores, thy Lips; thy Tongue fast tye.

Epig. 62. Saturnes three Sonnes .

Three Sonnes had Saturne, Poets faine,
And of especiall fame;
Hell was ones place, Riches his Grace,
Nummi-potent by Name:
The Second had ith' Sea abode,
His Name Amni-potent;
To th' Third was giuen his seat in Heauen,
Call'd Ioue Omni-potent.

Epig. 63. The Old-man speakes to the Yong-man .

My Life is short, and Liue I cannot Long;
Thine shortly will bee short, though now th' art strong.

Epig. 67. To an Angry-Man .

Let Wrath and Anger with the Day decay,
Yet let them not with Phœbus next Day rise;
But as from thy Horizon Titan flyes,
Vnto th' Antipodes; there let them stay.

Epig. 73. The Lord loueth Liberality .

Thy Benefits, it not-be-fits,
When Giuen to count and tell:
God will them both Remunerate,
And Ruminate full well.

Epig. 77. Heauen.

Heauen is Gods Spacious, Spacious Throne of Grace,
The Lords All-potent and All-patent Place.

Epig. 80. Against Pontilianus .

Dogges on their Masters fawne and leape,
And wag their Tailes apace;
So, though the Flatt'rer want a Taile,
His Tongue supplyes the place.

Epig. 81. To Distrust.

Let none distrust (though Dust) Heau'ns light to see,
Nor none despaire, though's Soule a shaddow be:
Our Flesh is Dust, true, but o'th very same,
The glorious Body of Christ Iesus came.
And though our Soule in vs a shaddow bee,
Yet 'tis th' Idea of the Deitie.

Epig. 83. The Rich-Man .

That Man's most 'Retch which is most Rich,
Th' are oft defil'd that play with Pitch;
Men to be Great, not Good; desire
Greatnesse, not Goodnesse most acquire.

Epig. 87. To the Iewes .

The Law, is your Religion,
And ours is Faith most pure;
You, to beleeue, will not be-led,
Nor we Good-workes inure.

Epig. 97. Riches.

Gold 's th' onely-God, Rich-Men beare Rule,
Mony makes Maiesty;
Rich-Pluto, not Plaine-Plato, now,
Speakes with applause most high.

Epig. 98. Three Genders.

A wife, although most Wise and Chaste,
Is of the Doubtfull Gender;
A Queane, oth' Common; Fœminixes,
Are Women small and tender.

Epig. 99. ST. ST. a Signe of Silence .

St, ST, Men say, Silence to signifie:
S, Silence notes: T, Taciturnity.

Epig. 100. Where I Doe-Well, There I Dwell.

That , is my Country, where I'm Fed, not Bred,
Not where I'm Borne, but where I'm best-bested.
Where I may haue sufficient Sustenance,
And Liue in Loue, ther's my Inheritance.

Epig. 103. Actæon.

Actæons Dogs, his flesh, bones, skinne, ate cleane:
His Hornes remayne in London to bee seene.

Epig. 112. A Paradox of Dreames .

Dreames which be Bad, are very Good,
Dreames that be Good, are Bad:
For, if my Dreames be Good, I grieue,
But, being Bad, I'm glad.

Epig. 119. Scoffing, Prudence.

Wit without Wisedome, is Salt without Meate,
Rude-Literature, Meate without Salt, to Eate.

Epig. 123. Against a tedious Oratour .

When thou hast Said all thou wilt Say,
'T remaynes to Say, I'ue Said;
This onely-word would please mee more,
Than all the Speech th' 'ast made.