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Epigrams of That most wittie and worthie Epigrammatist Mr Iohn Owen

Translated by Iohn Vicars

Vicars, John (1579 or 80-1652)

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TO THE MOST HIGH, HOPEFVLL and Happy Charles, Prince of Wales.

THE TRANSLATOR to the most Worthy and wel-deseruing Author.

To the Courteous Readers.

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Out of the first Booke.

Epig. 1. To the Lady Nevil .

Epig. 2. To the Reader.

Epig. 3. To Iohn Hoskins, I. C. of his Booke.

Epig. 4. To the Lady Mary Nevel .

Epig. 5. To the same Lady.

Epig. 13. Loue.

Epig. 6. To Master Thomas Nevel, Sonne to the foresaid Lady .

Epig. 9. To the Lawyer.

Epig. 11. To Degenerous, Generous Avlvs .

Epig. 12. Against Hernick .

Epig. 14. To D. Gilbert .

Epig. 15. To Phisicians and Lawyers .

Epig. 19. To Linvs .

Epig. 20. To a Noble young Gent.

Epig. 23. Against Marcvs .

Epig. 26. To Phyllis .

Epig. 31. Prophets, Poets.

Epig. 32. Of Life and Death .

Epig. 36. Of Life and Loue.

Epig. 38. The Housband, and the Cuck-old-Maker .

Epig. 39. New Rhetorike.

Epig. 42. Against Borbonivs the Poets Trifles .

Epig. 48. To the True Statesman .

Epig. 55. The Courtier .

Epig. 58. A Secret against Hoary-Haires to Bithynicus .

Epig. 63. Against Pontia .

Epig. 68. Venus.

Epig. 70. Woman.

Epig. 71. Affinity twixt Lawyers and Phisicians .

Epig. 82. Of the Day .

Epig. 87. A Good-man .

Epig. 89. Against Pavlinvs .

Epig. 92. A Machiuilian .

Epig. 101. Death.

Epig. 102. A Client .

Epig. 104. Children and Fooles tell True.

Epig. 106. Against Ball'd-pates .

Epig. 115. Backe-biters, Flatterers.

Epig. 117. An Herculean Labour .

Epig. 123. Of Bardella a Theefe.

Epig. 128. Answere to Cynthiaes Epistle.

Epig. 129. To Sextillian Sp .

Epig. 131. Saturnes three Sonnes .

Epig. 137. Against Pomponia .

Epig. 146. Vertue in the Middle .

Epig. 150. To his absent Loue .

Epig. 163. A Probleme of Hornes .

Epig. 168. To the Reader, of himselfe.

Epig. 170. Of Himselfe.

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Out of the second Booke.

Epig. 4. To the Lady Mary Nevell .

Epig. 10. A true Troian.

Epig. 16. To the Lord High Treasurer of England .

Epig. 24. To Richard Vaughan, once Bishop of London .

Epig. 29. To Sir Philip Sidney .

Epig. 32. To the Right Honourable Lucy, Countesse of Bedford .

Epig. 33. An Honourable Gold-Ring: To Henry Goodyeer, Knight.

Epig. 35. To D. B .

Epig. 40. The Strength of England to the Prince .

Epig. 41. The Terrestriall Globe .

Epig. 42. Vn-Healthy Healths.

Epig. 43. The Diuine, the Politician

Epig. 52. The Louer .

Epig. 55. The German-Death to Polynicus .

Epig. 61. The Niggard, the Prodigall .

Epig. 65. The Earle of Dorset his Adagie, Neyther furiously, nor fearefully .

Epig. 66. Sir Henry Neuill his Adagie. Wish no vaine thing .

Epig. 69. To his Friend.

Epig. 70. Money ouercomes all.

Epig. 73. Adulterie and Fornication .

Epig. 74. Of Hercules to C. D.

Epig. 85. Erasmus Fooleries.

Epig. 90. Against Vnfaithfulnesse .

Epig. 94. Wisedome.

Epig. 96. Against a certaine Drunkard .

Epig. 99. Anger or Wrath .

Epig. 106. To a certayne Dyer waxing-old.

Epig. 120. Against a great Clerke .

Epig. 124. Against an Harlot .

Epig. 127. To Claudius, and Linus .

Epig. 131. Against Couetous and Lame Alanus.

Epig. 142. Against Marcus a Lawyer .

Epig. 148. Sir Francis Drake his Epitaph .

Epig. 165. The King, the People .

Epig. 166. The Senate .

Epig. 168. Of Dyet, to I. H. Knight.

Epig. 173. The fiue Senses .

Epig. 179. The Obiects of the Senses .

Epig. 185. The Phœnix, the Uiper.

Epig. 186. The Silke-Worme .

Epig. 194. Manuring of the Ground .

Epig. 196. The Parret .

Epig. 206. The Souldier .

Epig. 208. The Louers Teares .

Epig. 213. Eccho.

Epig. 214. The Looking-Glasse .

Epig. 215. Eccho and the Looking-Glasse .

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Out of the third Booke.

Epig. 2. To the Lady Mary Neuil .

Epig. 3. To the Reader of his Booke.

Epig. 8. Basilicon Doron, to the King .

Epig. 13. Of Vertue .

Epig. 20. Union.

Epig. 21. Three Tempters .

Epig. 23. Man to Man's a God, a Wolfe .

Epig. 28. The Misery of this Life.

Epig. 29. Of Nature and Grace .

Epig. 30. A Catechisme .

Epig. 31. The Rich-man .

Epig. 34. The Holy-Ghost .

Epig. 36. Of the King .

Epig. 41. God-Man.

Epig. 42. Death.

Epig. 44. A Miracle .

Epig. 45. Adams Fall, Mans Thrall.

Epig. 46. To Adam .

Epig. 48. The Tempter .

Epig. 49. Mortification.

Epig. 51. Against thee-onely haue I sinned. Psalme 51.

Epig. 52. Prayer.

Epig. 53. Mary Magdalens Teares.

Epig. 55. Methusalem is Dead .

Epig. 56. Of Law and Iustice .

Epig. 57. Intemperance.

Epig. 60. Liberty.

Epig. 63. The Crosse of Christ .

Epig. 64. Of Religion .

Epig. 66. Marryed-folke.

Epig. 67. Study.

Epig. 69. The Blessed Virgine .

Epig. 74. Liberty of Speech .

Epig. 75. A Probleme to Marcus .

Epig. 78. To Christ .

Epig. 79. Selfe-Loue.

Epig. 84. A Prayser .

Epig. 92. Al-wayes the same.

Epig. 94. Christs Wounds.

Epig. 101. Christ the Way .

Epig. 104. Patience or Content .

Epig. 109. Man.

Epig. 112. Eloquence.

Epig. 117. O Times and Manners!

Epig. 120. Of Strife or Contention .

Epig. 124. Marryed-folke.

Epig. 135. Christ.

Epig. 140. Of Sleepe .

Epig. 147. Against Epicures.

Epig. 148. Workes.

Epig. 161. Sence, Reason, Faith, Loue, God.

Epig. 164. Wisedome, Fortitude.

Epig. 165. Labour.

Epig. 168. Christian Aduerbes.

Epig. 171. Time.

Epig. 172. Much Admonition to his Friend Michael Heydon .

Epig. 176. Honesty, Dishonesty.

Epig. 178. Of the Soule.

Epig. 180. Hell.

Epig. 192. Man.

Epig. 196. Wise Simplicitie.

Epig. 206. Vpon the Death of Charles Blunt, Earle of Deuonshire .

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Out of one sole Booke.

Epig. 23. Against Marcus .

Epig. 24. The Romish Masse-Priest, and Geneuian Minister .

Epig. 27. Against a Couetous Clyent .

Epig. 34. Against Linus .

Epig. 39. Man is a Stage-Player .

Epig. 44. Neyther in this World, nor in the World to come.

Epig. 52. Against byting Momus or Carping Zoilus .

Epig. 54. Against a Selfe-Louer .

Epig. 63. Learning most neglected.

Epig. 67. 'Tis Better to Giue, than to Receiue .

Epig. 68. Against Ponticus the Clyent .

Epig. 71. Philautus and Philaristo .

Epig. 73. To Sir Henry Fanshaw, Knight.

Epig. 78. A Heauenly Archer .

Epig. 81. To a Litigious Debtor.

Epig. 91. Couetous Liberality, Against Acerra .

Epig. 92. Against the Romish Catholike .

Epig. 101. The Soules Eclipse .

Epig. 112. From the Wombe to the Tombe .

Epig. 119. Womens Tyre.

Epig. 120. All-things are Nothing .

Epig. 135. Funerall Sermons.

Epig. 121. Anger and Patience .

Epig. 143. The Bodie bids the Soule fare-well.

Epig. 145. Hot-Waters.

Epig. 147. Poore Comfort to his Rich Friend.

Epig. 153. To his Friend waxing-old .

Epig. 157. To Pontilian .

Epig. 160. London to I. W. Citizen and Gold-Smith .

Epig. 161. To William Cawley, a London Marchant .

Epig. 166. A Marriage-Song .

Epig. 168. To his Beloued .

Epig. 169. A Younger Brother .

Epig. 180. To Old Ponticus .

Epig. 181. A Black-Moore in White Clothes .

Epig. 199. Gold out of Doung .

Epig. 205. To his Couetous Friend .

Epig. 208. Christ-Masse and Mid-sommer .

Epig. 214. Æsops Tongue .

Epig. 220. Hard'ned Wickednesse Against Linus .

Epig. 240. Against Ponticus a Selfe-Louer.

Epig. 241. A Querê .

Epig. 242. Report, Errour.

Epig. 249. Of Himselfe .

Epig. 253. The Worlds Dungeon .

Epig. 259. The Bagge .

Epig. 276. To the Lady Arbella Stuart .

Epig. 138. Euery one thinkes his owne fairest.

Epig. 255. Mans Condition.

Epig. 262. Two Contrary Courtiers.

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Out of the sixe last Bookes.

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The first Booke.

Epig. 4. To the Prince.

Epig. 6. Orpheus.

Epig. 8. Whether Saint Peter were at Rome .

Epig. 16. Honours Etymo/Genea logie.

Epig. 19. A Regular Woman .

Epig. 20. Salomons Wish.

Epig. 24. Blessed are the Power/Peace makers.

Epig. 34. Irregularitie.

Epig. 63. To a Batchelour .

Epig. 66. Three Delta's.

Epig. 67. A Payre of Gallowes to P. L.

Epig. 72. Whether Bacchus be a God. To a Drunkard.

Epig. 76. The Priest, the People .

Epig. 58. To the most Learned King Iames.

Epig. 44. Against Quintus a Dreamer .

Epig. 80. Deaths Indifferencie.

Epig. 86. Against Cinna a Phisician.

Epig. 92. To the Prince.

Epig. 94. A Court Louse .

Epig. 96. Against Galatèa .

Epig. 102. Against Gellia .

Epig. 103. Against Aulus .

Epig. 108. Against Festus .

Epig. 110. Against Cornelius .

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Out of second Booke.

Epig. 5. What Loue is.

Epig. 14. A Mathematicall Instrument, called a Iacobs-Staffe, to Mathematicks.

Epig. 17. Death's Epitaph, to the Death of Death .

Epig. 19. Of God and Man .

Epig. 21. Of Fasts .

Epig. 39. Socrates Wisedome.

Epig. 44. Earths Body.

Epig. 54. The Religious Man .

Epig. 56. An English Proteus .

Epig. 66. A Shrow Tamed .

Epig. 74. Pride of Life .

Epig. 81. Eues and the Serpents meeting .

Epig. 85. Neyther too great a Good one,/too little a Bad one.

Epig. 88. Loue is Blinde.

Epig. 87. An Amorous Epistle .

Epig. 91. A Christian Zodiacke .

Epig. 100. To the Reader .

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Out of the third Booke.

Epig. 1. God the Beginning of All Things .

Epig. 4. The Art of Memory .

Epig. 7. The Prayse of Liberalitie .

Epig. 10. To Queene Anne .

Epig. 13. A New-Man .

Epig. 14. Health.

Epig. 15. Forbidden-Fruit.

Epig. 16. Troians and Greekes .

Epig. 21. N. A.

Epig. 23. Holinesse is Healthfulnesse .

Epig. 25. A Bride is a Ship .

Epig. 30. Against Pannicus a Rich-Asse .

Epig. 33. Homer.

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

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

Epig. 48. Humility.

Epig. 54. The Clyent .

Epig. 57. The Serpent, Eue, Adam .

Epig. 59. To Polydore .

Epig. 60. To ------

Epig. 61. Three-fold Continency.

Epig. 62. Saturnes three Sonnes .

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

Epig. 67. To an Angry-Man .

Epig. 73. The Lord loueth Liberality .

Epig. 77. Heauen.

Epig. 80. Against Pontilianus .

Epig. 81. To Distrust.

Epig. 83. The Rich-Man .

Epig. 87. To the Iewes .

Epig. 97. Riches.

Epig. 98. Three Genders.

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

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

Epig. 103. Actæon.

Epig. 112. A Paradox of Dreames .

Epig. 119. Scoffing, Prudence.

Epig. 123. Against a tedious Oratour .

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Out of the three last Bookes.

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The First Booke.

Epig. 3. Lawyers and Phisicians .

Epig. 9. Against Tomasinus .

Epig. 10. Against Fabianus .

Epig. 12. Dalilah.

Epig. 14. Birth.

Epig. 18. Against Pætus, a Probleme .

Epig. 19. Against Pontiliana .

Epig. 22. Against Festus, an vn-Iust Iudge .

Epig. 26. Against Colinus, Dying Intestate .

Epig. 36. From Bad to Worse .

Epig. 47. Against a Foolish-Writer .

Epig. 51. Females.

Epig. 52. Foure Law-Termes.

Epig. 57. To Faustine .

Epig. 65. A Widdow .

Epig. 78. Doctor Ios. Hals Vowes and Meditations .

Epig. 95. The forsaken Louer .

Epig. 98. The Epitaph of Crœsus and Irus .

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Out of the second Booke.

Epig. 9. Wheele-Greace.

Epig. 17. Against a certaine Drunkard .

Epig. 49. Veni, Vidi, Vici.

Epig. 58. A Pure Sacrifice .

Epig. 71. Of the King, Law and People .

Epig. 78. The Deuils Force and Fraud .

Epig. 79. Precept, Practice.

Epig. 84. Against Couetous-Men .

Epig. 87. Man, a Hunter, a Fisher, a Fowler .

Epig. 26. Christ a Diuine, a Phisician, a Lawyer .

Epig. 43. Baptisme, to a Iew .

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Out of the third Booke.

Epig. 9. Matrimoniall Rule.

Epig. 10. Against a certaine Proud-Woman .

Epig. 11. Faith.

Epig. 13. Contempt of the World .

Epig. 19. Knowledge, Loue.

Epig. 21. Of God and the World .

Epig. 22. The right of First-fruits and Tithes .

Epig. 50. Grauity, Leuity.

Epig. 52. Schoole-Diuines.

Epig. 58. Democritus, Heraclitus.

Epig. 60. Against Arrogant, Ignorant Linus .

Epig. 65. Against a Couetous Niggard .

Epig. 67. Against the Writers of this Age .

Epig. 69. The Authours Desire. A Good-mans Desire .

Epig. 78. Christs Life and Death .

Epig. 79. The Wise-Mens Starre .

Epig. 83. Of the Deluge and Worlds-End .

Epig. 86. Of the Iust and vniust.

Epig. 88. Our Redeemer .

Epig. 91. A Paradox .

Epig. 94. Difference betwixt a Good King and a Tyrant.

Epig. 95. Against a certaine ------.

Epig. 98: Life-Bloud.

Epig. 100. Against a Foolish Writer .

Epig. 102. Vpon the Death of Prince Henry. 1612 .

To the Excellent Translatour of the Epigrams of Master Iohn Owen, Master Iohn Vicars.

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Epig. 32. Of Life and Death .

As Riuers pleasant Source to th' Salt-Sea hastes;
So, day by day Life vnto Death still wastes.
Tis sweet to Liue, but (oh) tis dire to dye,
Thus sweet with bitter ends Mortalitie.