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Parnassi Puerperium

or, Some Well-wishes to ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in Sir Tho. More...
Pecke, Thomas
  
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OWEN'S EPIGRAMS: THE FIRST BOOK.
 1. 
1. To the most Illustrious, the Lady Mary Nevill, my ever honoured Patroness.
 2. 
2. To the Reader.
 3. 
3. To Counsellor Hoskins concerning his Book.
 4. 
4. To the Lady Mary Nevill.
 5. 
5. To the same.
 6. 
6. To her Ladyships Son, Mr. Tho. Nevill.
 7. 
7. To her Ladyships Daughter Cæcilia.
 8. 
8. Nosce teipsum, upon Harpalus.
 9. 
9. To the Lawyer.
 10. 
10. Upon John Protus.
 11. 
11. Upon Aulus, an ignoble Nobleman.
 12. 
12. Upon Hernicus.
 13. 
13. Venus.
 14. 
14. To Doctor Gilbert.
 15. 
15. To the Physicians, and the Lawyers.
 16. 
16. O Times! O Reformation!
 17. 
17. The Judgment of Paris.
 18. 
18. The German Truth.
 19. 
19. To Linus.
 20. 
20. To a certain young Noble-man.
 21. 
21. To a certain poor Medic.
 22. 
22. Upon a certain Woman.
 23. 
23. Upon Marcus.
 24. 
24. Upon the Writers of our times. To the Reader.
 25. 
25. Upon Phyllis.
 26. 
26. Upon the same.
 27. 
27. The impious Atheist.
 28. 
28. The Epitaph of the Atheist.
 29. 
29. The Optative Mode.
 30. 
30. Upon Alanus.
 31. 
31. Prophets, Poets.
 32. 
32. Upon Life, and Death.
 33. 
33. Of Vulcan.
 34. 
34. The Grammar in English.
 35. 
35. Free Will.
 36. 
36. Of Life, and Venus.
 37. 
37. The Elysian Fields.
 38. 
38. The Cuckold, and Cuckold-maker.
 39. 
39. The new Rhetorick.
 40. 
40. Upon Cotta, lately turn'd a Monk.
 41. 
41. The Arms of Geneva.
 42. 
42. Upon the Poet Borbonius his toyes.
 43. 
43. Faith.
 44. 
44. Upon Paulinus the Physician.
 45. 
45. Upon Cottula.
 46. 
46. Upon Fabiana.
 47. 
47. A Joque, upon the Covetous.
 48. 
48. To a Lover of his Countrey.
 49. 
49. The World.
 50. 
50. Upon Aretine.
 51. 
51. Upon Silius.
 52. 
52. Upon Atheists.
 53. 
53. The Physician.
 54. 
54. The Counsellor.
 55. 
55. The Courtier.
 56. 
56. Upon one-ey'd Marc.
 57. 
57. Upon Paul.
 58. 
58. A Receipt against Baldness. To Bithynicus.
 59. 
59. Upon Theodorus.
 60. 
60. Apollo and the Muses.
 61. 
61. Upon Alanus now grown old.
 62. 
62. New-years-Day.
 63. 
63. Upon Pontia.
 64. 
64. The Work of Darkness.
 65. 
65. You Lie.
 66. 
66. Upon an Hypocrite.
 67. 
67. Upon an Hermaphrodite.
 68. 
68. Venus.
 69. 
69. Upon Rivals.
 70. 
70. A Woman.
 71. 
71. The Relation betwixt Physicians and Lawers.
 72. 
72. To Philip concerning Pamphilus.
 73. 
73. To Bald-pate.
 74. 
74. Nilus in my Eyes, Ætna in my Brest.
 75. 
75. If all things be alike. Upon Camilla.
 76. 
76. Of Gyants and Dwarfs.
 77. 
77. Upon the spurious Off-spring of an Abbot.
 78. 
78. To Parsons.
 79. 
79. A Participle.
 80. 
80. A Cause for the Lawyers.
 81. 
81. The Morning.
 82. 
82. Of Day.
 83. 
83. Of Night.
 84. 
84. Upon Marcus.
 85. 
85. Death.
 86. 
86. To his Friend.
 87. 
87. A good Man.
 88. 
88. Upon a certain old Man.
 89. 
89. Upon Paulinus.
 90. 
90. Upon painted Dames.
 91. 
91. Upon Cotta.
 92. 
92. The Politician.
 93. 
93. Upon Venus.
 94. 
94. Upon two Masters.
 95. 
95. Upon Marc.
 96. 
96. To Jo. Hoskins.
 97. 
97. Of Death: To Epicharmus.
 98. 
98. Upon Phyllis.
 99. 
99. Upon Hallus the Grammaticastre.
 100. 
100. Of the Load-stone.
 101. 
101. Death.
 102. 
102. The Client.
 103. 
103. Upon Zoilus.
 104. 
104. Children and fools tell Truth.
 105. 
105. Upon Bald-pate.
 106. 
106. To the same.
 107. 
107. An Apology for Fortune.
 108. 
108. Upon Cotta.
 109. 
109. Upon Procillus. A Noble.
 110. 
110. To Paul, the Lawyer.
 111. 
111. To the same.
 112. 
112. To Marinus.
 113. 
113. The Chirurgion.
 114. 
114. The Venereal Disease.
 115. 
115. Calumniators. Flatterers.
 116. 
116. Upon Ponticus.
 117. 
117. An Herculean labour.
 118. 
118. War, Death.
 119. 
119. Upon Cynthia.
 120. 
120. Upon Gellia.
 121. 
121. Upon Albinus.
 122. 
122. Upon Claudius, the raw Philosopher.
 123. 
123. Upon Bardella, the Mantuan Thief.
 124. 
124. Upon lascivious Flora.
 125. 
125. Upon Quintil.
 126. 
126. To Aulus; concerning old Quintius.
 127. 
127. Upon Costus.
 128. 
128. An Answer to Cynthia's Letter.
 129. 
129. To Sextilianus, A spurious Brat.
 130. 
130. Upon Portia, an Hypocrite.
 131. 
131. Saturn's three Sons.
 132. 
132. Of single-life, to a certain married Man.
 133. 
133. Upon Corneus.
 134. 
134. Upon Caius.
 135. 
135. Upon Pomponia.
 136. 
136. Upon Pinotus, sick of the Cholick.
 137. 
137. Upon Pomponia.
 138. 
138. To H. L.
 139. 
139. Venus.
 140. 
140. Things of worth, are hard to come by. To Marinus.
 141. 
141. Upon Theodorus.
 141. 
141. New-years-Day, to Germanicus.
 143. 
143. Sara.
 144. 
144. To D. T.
 145. 
145. Upon Paula, the Atheist.
 146. 
146. Vertue consists in a Mean.
 147. 
147. Upon Acerra.
 148. 
148. To Pinotus.
 149. 
149. Upon Quintus, and Quintina.
 150. 
150. A Paradox. To his absent Friend.
 151. 
151. Upon Paulina.
 152. 
152. Upon Gellia.
 153. 
153. Upon a certain Woman.
 154. 
154. A Riddle.
 155. 
155. To Ponticus.
 156. 
156. Upon Mr. Calf.
 157. 
157. To a certain man, concerning a Dactyl.
 158. 
158. Love Descends.
 159. 
159. Upon a stammering Woman.
 160. 
160. A problem for the Lawyers, concerning Theft.
 161. 
161. To Ponticus.
 162. 
162. Upon Cerellia, married to Gallus, an Eunuch.
 163. 
163. Of Horns: A Problem.
 164. 
164. On New-years-Day, to Germanicus.
 165. 
165. Christ-Church Colledge in Oxford.
 166. 
166. Upon Phyllis.
 167. 
167. Of Himself.
 168. 
168. To the Reader, concerning himself.
 169. 
169. Upon Thraso, the Braggadocio.
 170. 
170. Of Himself.
 171. 
171. The Court-Musick for two Voices.
 172. 
172. To the Reader.
 173. 
173. To his Book.
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THE SECOND BOOK.
 1. 
1. To the Reader.
 2. 
2. To the Lady Mary Nevill.
 3. 
3. To the same.
 4. 
4. To the same.
 5. 
5. To Mr. J. H.
 6. 
6. What Newes?
 7. 
7. The Court.
 8. 
8. Upon Aulus.
 9. 
9. Upon the Chymist.
 10. 
10. A Trojan.
 11. 
11. The Cure of Love.
 12. 
12. Troynovant. To the Londoners.
 13. 
13. The Lawyers God.
 14. 
14. The Earth.
 15. 
15. To King James, De. of the Faith
 16. 
16. To the Lord Treasurer.
 17. 
17. To the Kings chief Secretary.
 18. 
18. To the Venetians.
 19. 
19. To the Lord Chancellor.
 20. 
20. To the Lord Richard Sacvil, Earl of Dorchester.
 21. 
21. Cecil Lord Treasurer. 1597.
 22. 
22. Upon the Lord William Cecil's Motto.
 23. 
23. To Richard Vaughan, Bishop of London.
 24. 
24. To the same.
 25. 
25. To Tho. Bilson, Bishop of Winchester.
 26. 
26. The Life of William of Wicham, formerly Bishop of Winchester; publisht in Latine, by Tho. Martin, Doctor of the Civil Law.
 27. 
27. Winchester Colledge.
 28. 
28. Sir Philip Sidney.
 29. 
29. To the same.
 30. 
30. Upon the Marriage of William Earl of Pembrook; and Mary, Daughter to the Earl of Salisbury, 1605.
 31. 
31. To Elizabet, Countess of Rutland, Daughter to Sir Philip Sidney.
 32. 
32. To Lucia Countess of Bedford.
 33. 
33. The Knights Ring. To Sir Henry Goodyear.
 34. 
34. To Mr. J. H.
 35. 
35. To D. B.
 36. 
36. To Th. M. the Princes Tutor.
 37. 
37. To the same.
 38. 
38. To Mr. Walter Gwyn.
 39. 
39. Francis Drake. 1581.
 40. 
40. Britains Strength. To the Prince.
 41. 
41. The Terrestrial Globe.
 42. 
42. The mad way to Health.
 43. 
[Your knowledge, is a Cypher, without you]
 44. 
44. All things desire that which seems Good.
 45. 
45. A Black Swan.
 46. 
46. Democritus, and Heraclitus.
 47. 
47. Upon Langa.
 48. 
48. King Arthurs Round Table.
 49. 
49. To Theophila. B. C.
 50. 
50. Upon Hernicus.
 51. 
51. Of Love, and Faith.
 52. 
52. The Lover.
 53. 
53. The Golden Age.
 54. 
54. Upon Alana.
 55. 
55. The German Death. To Polynicus.
 56. 
56. Upon Philodemus.
 57. 
57. Upon Long-tongue.
 58. 
58. The Gordian Knot.
 59. 
59. Love.
 60. 
60. The Laws, The loss of Quiet. To the Lawyers.
 61. 
61. The Covetous, and the Prodigal.
 62. 
62. Πονος. Labour, or Trouble.
 63. 
63. A Good man, Valiant, Wise.
 64. 
64. The Order, of the Golden-Fleece.
 65. 
65. Tho. Earl of Dorchester's Motto.
 66. 
66. Sir Tho. Nevil's Motto.
 67. 
67. To Sir Phil. Sidney, concerning his Arcadia.
 68. 
68. To the most learned Gentlewoman; Mris. Jane Owen.
 69. 
69. To his Friend.
 70. 
70. The Usurers Grammar.
 71. 
71. To one, like neither of his Parents.
 72. 
72. To two concealing their Names, at their Return from Venice.
 73. 
73. Adultery, and Fornication.
 74. 
74. Concerning Hercules. To C. D.
 75. 
75. A friendly Salute.
 76. 
76. A Problem to the Naturalist concerning a Kiss.
 77. 
77. To Labiemus.
 78. 
78. Upon Alexander.
 79. 
79. To Firmicus, against Aulus.
 80. 
80. Upon a certain Versifier.
 81. 
81. Upon certain Lying Letters.
 82. 
82. Physician, heal your self. To Gilbert.
 83. 
83. Upon a certain Usurer.
 84. 
84. Upon an Hypocrite.
 85. 
85. Erasmus his Encomium Moriæ.
 86. 
86. The Anagrammatist.
 87. 
87. To a certain silly Doctor.
 88. 
88. Love is Naked.
 89. 
89. Concerning the Exchequer. To Sir Will. Pits.
 90. 
90. Upon one Perfidious.
 91. 
91. The sin of the Silver Age.
 92. 
92. A Baud.
 93. 
93. Upon Self-Love.
 94. 
94. Wisdome.
 95. 
95. The Etymologie of Venus.
 96. 
96. To a certain Fox-catcher.
 97. 
97. To Polla.
 98. 
98. A Friend, A Wife.
 99. 
99. Anger.
 100. 
100. The Roman Flora.
 101. 
101. The Etymologie of Anger.
 102. 
102. Of Himself.
 103. 
103. Womens Titles of Honour.
 104. 
104. Upon Zoilus.
 105. 
105. The middle Age is unknown.
 106. 
106. To a Dyer waxing Gray.
 107. 
107. To the Courtier.
 108. 
108. Bed.
 109. 
109. Rider's Bibliotheca.
 110. 
110. Money.
 111. 
111. Upon Covetous I. S.
 112. 
112. Of Roman Flora. To the Grammarians.
 113. 
113. Upon John Protus.
 114. 
114. Upon Theodorus.
 115. 
115. To a certain Gentlewoman.
 116. 
116. The great Pestilence. 1603.
 117. 
117. Upon a perjured person, convicted, by his own Hand-writing.
 118. 
118. Upon Cottula, the Grammaticastre.
 119. 
119. The Anagram of Roma. To the Carthaginians.
 120. 
120. To a certain Great Clerk.
 121. 
121. Upon one Davis.
 122. 
122. Upon Aulus.
 123. 
123. Upon Doctor Linus.
 124. 
124. Upon Thais.
 125. 
125. Upon a great Scribler, ashamed to affix his Name.
 126. 
126. Upon Mr. No-Hair.
 127. 
127. To Claudius, and Linus.
 128. 
128. To George.
 129. 
129. Every Lover, is a Souldier.
 130. 
130. The Military Oath.
 131. 
131. Upon Covetous and Cripled Alanus.
 132. 
132. The Condition of Kings.
 133. 
133. Vis. Jus. The Anagram of Jus, the Law, is Vis, Force.
 134. 
134. Upon Marcus.
 135. 
135. Desperate Debt.
 136. 
136. Upon Culianus.
 137. 
137. Upon Beautiful Marc.
 138. 
138. Upon Adrian the Fifth.
 139. 
139. I, Thou, He.
 140. 
140. Ask, and you shall Receive.
 141. 
141. Husband, and Wife; Parents, Children.
 142. 
142. Upon Marc the Lawyer.
 143. 
143. To his Father.
 144. 
144. The Italian.
 145. 
145. What kinde of Wife.
 146. 
146. To one complaining, that he could Beget no Children, like Himself.
 147. 
147. To Husbands concerning Conjugal Affection.
 148. 
148. The Epitaph of Sir Francis Drake.
 149. 
149. An Epitaph, upon a Youth, dying before Father, or Grand-Father.
 150. 
150. The Epitaph of Maurus.
 151. 
151. The Epitaph of Pyramus, and Thisbe.
 152. 
152. Sir Tho. More at his Execution.
 153. 
153. Three Languages were Crucified.
 154. 
154. Don Antonio, King of Portugal.
 155. 
155. Alexander, and Aristotle.
 156. 
156. Plato.
 157. 
157. Virgil's Georgicks.
 158. 
158. The Poet Persius.
 159. 
159. Tacitus.
 160. 
160. To Martial.
 161. 
161. To Petrarch.
 162. 
162. Pliny Translated into English, by Doctor Holland.
 163. 
163. Concerning Cicero. To Catullus.
 164. 
164. To the Historians of our Age.
 165. 
165. The King. His Subjects.
 166. 
166. The Parliament.
 167. 
167. To the Historian.
 168. 
168. Concerning Diet. To J. H.
 169. 
169. The Peers of France.
 170. 
170. Publius Magnus. Cato Major. Fabius Maximus.
 171. 
171. To T. S.
 172. 
172. Of Himself.
 173. 
173. The five Senses.
 174. 
174. Seeing.
 175. 
175. Hearing.
 176. 
176. Smelling.
 177. 
177. Tasting.
 178. 
178. Feeling.
 179. 
179. The Objects of the Senses.
 180. 
180. Touch and Taste.
 181. 
181. An Epigram. A Satyr.
 182. 
182. Upon one Dumb.
 183. 
183. The Blinde, and Deaf.
 184. 
184. Dentes, the Teeth; Lingua, the Tongue.
 185. 
185. The Phœnix, and the Viper.
 186. 
186. The Silk-worm.
 187. 
187. The Right Hand.
 188. 
188. The Left Hand.
 189. 
189. Sunday.
 190. 
190. Terra di Lavoro.
 191. 
191. Cloathes.
 192. 
192. Wine.
 193. 
193. A Sheep.
 194. 
194. The Dunging of Arable Land.
 195. 
195. Harmony.
 196. 
196. A Parret.
 197. 
197. Ink, and Paper.
 198. 
198. A Comedie.
 199. 
199. A man in a Cloke.
  
A Scholar in a Gown.
 200. 
200. A Satyr.
 201. 
201. An Eunuch.
 202. 
202. The Hour-glass.
 203. 
203. The Merchant.
 204. 
204. Lasciviousness.
 205. 
205. Donna.
 206. 
206. A Souldier.
 207. 
207. What an Army usually is.
 208. 
208. The Tears of Lovers.
 209. 
209. The Stars.
 210. 
210. Venice.
 211. 
211. The Lute.
 212. 
212. The Fowler.
 213. 
213. The Eccho.
 214. 
214. A Looking-Glass.
 215. 
215. The Eccho and the Looking-Glasse.
 216. 
216. Musick.
 217. 
217. Albion. To the King.
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THE THIRD BOOK.
 1. 
1. To the Lady Mary Nevill.
 2. 
2. To the same Lady.
 3. 
3. To the Reader.
 4. 
4. The Off-spring of the Virgin-Queen Elizabeth. 1602.
 5. 
5. To the Hollander, 1602.
 6. 
6. To King James.
 7. 
7. To the Prince.
 8. 
8. Basilicon doron. To the King.
 9. 
9. To the Lady Mary Nevill.
 10. 
10. Of Cæcilia, Daughter to that Lady.
 11. 
11. To the Candid Reader.
 12. 
12. To the Envious Reader.
  
Hercules his two waies.
 13. 
13. Concerning Vertue.
 14. 
14. Lifes Dial.
 15. 
15. Of God.
 16. 
16. The Atheist.
 17. 
17. Charity.
 18. 
18. Dives, and Lazarus.
 19. 
19. Encrease, and multiply.
 20. 
20. Union.
 21. 
21. The three Tempters.
 22. 
22. The Spirit and the Flesh.
 23. 
23. A man was a God to another: Is now a Wolf.
 24. 
24. Gods Word.
 25. 
25. The Narrow way.
 26. 
26. St. John the Baptist.
 27. 
27. Of Autumn.
 28. 
28. The Miseries of Life.
 29. 
29. Of Nature, and Grace.
 30. 
30. A Catechism.
 31. 
31. The Rich Man.
 32. 
32. O Treacherous Hope!
 33. 
33. Upon our Redeemer.
 34. 
34. The Holy Ghost.
 35. 
35. Valour.
 36. 
36. Of the King.
 37. 
37. The Welsh.
 38. 
38. The English-Scot.
 39. 
39. Roses were united by Henry: Kingdoms by James. To the King.
 40. 
40. John Napiers Revelation.
  
God, and Man.
 42. 
42. Death.
 43. 
43. God.
 44. 
44. A Miracle.
 45. 
45. Adam's Disobedience.
 46. 
46. To Adam.
 47. 
47. To the Divine.
 48. 
48. The Tempter.
 49. 
49. Mortification.
 50. 
50. To Day.
 51. 
51. Against thee only have I sinned.
 52. 
52. Prayer.
 53. 
53. Upon Mary Magdalen.
 54. 
54. Concerning Hope and Fear.
 55. 
55. Methusalem is dead.
 56. 
56. Of Lawes, and Justice.
 57. 
57. Intemperance.
 58. 
58. To Ponticus.
 59. 
59. The Pharisees.
 60. 
60. Liberty.
 61. 
61. What Countrey Christ was of.
 62. 
62. Christ's Crucifixion.
 63. 
63. Christ's Cross.
 64. 
64. Upon Religion.
 65. 
65. Upon the Prodigal, and Covetous.
 66. 
66. Man, and Wife.
 67. 
67. Study.
 68. 
68. Memento Mori. Think on Death.
 69. 
69. The Virgin Mary.
  
That which is Rare, is not alwaies Dear. A Paradox.
 71. 
71. A Beast.
 72. 
72. Reason.
 73. 
73. Nature.
 74. 
74. I must take leave to talk my Minde.
 75. 
75. To Marcus. A Problem.
 76. 
76. Upon Antiquarians, and Novators.
 77. 
77. What Death is to a Christian.
 78. 
78. To Christ.
 79. 
79. Self-Love.
 80. 
80. The Lifes of Saints.
 81. 
81. A man's Countrey.
 82. 
82. Against the Atheist.
 83. 
83. Upon Hereticks.
 84. 
84. The effect of Praise.
 85. 
85. Not too Fast.
 86. 
86. The Envious, and the Fool.
 87. 
87. Λογος. Reason.
 88. 
88. Opinion.
 89. 
89. Art.
 90. 
90. Adam's Apologie.
 91. 
91. The Serpents Answer.
 92. 
92. Alwaies the same.
 93. 
93. Cordial Prayer.
 94. 
94. The five Wounds.
 95. 
95. Friendship delineated.
 96. 
96. Vertue.
 97. 
97. Rachel.
 98. 
98. Solomon.
 99. 
99. Hope.
 100. 
100. Humane Ignorance.
 101. 
101. Christ is the Way.
 102. 
102. Of Fame.
 103. 
103. Faith.
 104. 
104. Indifferency.
 105. 
105. The freshest Date.
 106. 
106. The Will.
 107. 
107. To the Sun.
 108. 
108. Probity.
 109. 
109. A Man.
 110. 
110. Concerning Loquacity. To the Preacher.
 111. 
111. Death is both contrary, and according to Nature.
 112. 
112. Eloquence.
 113. 
113. God.
 114. 
114. To Ponticus.
 115. 
115. Love and Friendship. To Charles.
 116. 
116. Princes.
 117. 
117. O the wickedness of our Times!
 118. 
118. Philosophy.
 119. 
119. Evils are innumerable.
 120. 
120. Upon Controversies.
 121. 
121. Christ upon the Cross.
 122. 
122. The Daughter of Time.
 123. 
123. Law and Physick.
 124. 
124. Husband and Wife.
 125. 
125. The shortest Day.
 126. 
126. Vertues Complaint.
 127. 
127. The Rigid Father.
 128. 
128. A Prayer to God in time of Sickness.
 129. 
129. To the Pleader.
 130. 
130. Upon Brunonius.
 131. 
131. Time.
 132. 
132. Upon Miracles.
 133. 
133. To Irus.
 134. 
134. Science.
 135. 
135. Christ.
 136. 
136. Who art Thou?
 137. 
137. The Kingdome of Heaven.
 138. 
138. Pain, and Pleasure.
 139. 
139. St. Peter.
 140. 
140. Sleep.
 141. 
141. Rome.
 142. 
142. Mans Perfection.
 143. 
143. Lord encrease our Faith, Luk. 17.
 144. 
144. Upon a Covetous Person.
 145. 
145. Good transcends.
 146. 
146. Omnia Vanitas. All is Vanity.
 147. 
147. Upon the Voluptuous.
 148. 
148. Works.
 149. 
149. The beginning of Wisdome.
 150. 
150. Upon one delighting in Tautologies.
 151. 
151. Upon the same.
 152. 
152. Upon those who imagine many Gods.
 153. 
153. Concerning Ingenuity and Study.
 154. 
154. Know your Self.
 155. 
155. Art is long, and Life is short.
 156. 
156. To old Moranus.
 157. 
157. To D. T.
 158. 
158. Every one as they like.
 159. 
159. Upon Brunonius.
 160. 
160. Reflect upon your End.
 161. 
161. Sense, Reason, Faith, Charity, God.
 162. 
162. Of Prudence.
 163. 
163. To my Parents.
 164. 
164. Prudence, and Fortitude.
 165. 
165. In the sweat of thy Face.
 166. 
166. Of Faith, and Charity.
 167. 
167. If thy right Eye offend thee, &c.
 168. 
168. Christian Adverbs.
 169. 
169. The shortness of Life.
 170. 
170. Lex Talionis. To Aulus.
 171. 
171. Time.
 172. 
172. Abundance of Caution, hurts not.
 173. 
173. Sir, minde the matter in hand.
 174. 
174. Justification.
 175. 
175. The Day of Judgment.
 176. 
176. To Marianus.
 177. 
177. Mary Magdalens Sorrow.
 178. 
178. Upon the Soul.
 179. 
179. To Marcus.
 180. 
180. Hell.
 181. 
181. To his poor Friend.
 182. 
182. Europe, Asia, Africa, America.
 183. 
183. The causes of Discord.
 184. 
184. The Liberal Man.
 185. 
185. The Temperate.
 186. 
186. A Wise Man.
 187. 
187. Upon an Infant dying before Baptism.
 188. 
188. The Flatterer, and Envious.
 189. 
189. Love, and Friendship.
 190. 
190. St. Peter, and Paul.
 191. 
191. Socrates.
 192. 
192. A Man.
 193. 
193. To Paulus, after Burial.
 194. 
194. To such Courtiers, as shall please to Read.
 195. 
195. Prudent simplicity.
 196. 
196. The eyes of the Common-wealth.
 197. 
197. To John Gifford, Doctor of Physick.
 198. 
198. The Daw.
  
The Goose.
 199. 
199. The Afflictions of Job.
 200. 
200. Pauls, and Westminster-Abbey.
 201. 
201. Against the Conspirators, upon Tuesday, the Fift of November, 1605.
 202. 
202. Upon the same.
 203. 
203. The King, to his Kingdoms.
 204. 
204. To England, concerning the Union.
 205. 
205. To Tho. Nevill, an Ingenious young Gentleman.
 206. 
206. Upon the Death of Charles Blunt, Earl of Devonshire. 1606.
 207. 
207. To the Reader.
 208. 
208. The Difference betwixt Words, and Writings.
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Libellus de Spectaculis:
 1. 
1. Upon the Cæsarean Amphitheater.
 2. 
2. Upon the Magnificent Structures built by Cæsar.
 3. 
3. The general Congratulation used to Cæsar.
 4. 
4. To the Emperour Titus, upon his Banishing Sycophants.
 5. 
5. Upon the same occasion.
 6. 
6. Upon Pasiphae.
 7. 
7. The Conflict of a Woman, with a Lion: As it was performed in the Amphitheater.
 8. 
8. The punishment of Laureolus.
 9. 
9. Upon Dædalus.
 10. 
10. The Rhinocerite.
 11. 
11. Upon a Lion, that kil'd his Keeper.
 12. 
12. Upon a Bear.
 13. 
13. Upon a Sow, who cast her Pigs, by reason of a Wound.
 14. 
14. On the same Accident.
 15. 
15. The third part, to the same Tune.
 16. 
16. Upon the Hunts-Man Carpophorus.
 17. 
17. Concerning Hercules, Riding to Heaven, upon a Bull.
 18. 
18. Of an Elephants kneeling down.
 19. 
19. Of a Tyger, and a Lion.
 20. 
20. Upon the Fight of the Bull, and Elephant.
 21. 
21. Of two Fencing-Masters.
 22. 
22. Upon Orpheus.
 23. 
23. The Rhinocerite.
 24. 
24. Upon Carpophorus.
 25. 
25. Upon a Sea-fight.
 26. 
26. Upon Leander.
 27. 
27. Upon the excellent Swimmers.
 28. 
28. He Flatters Cæsar.
 29. 
29. Upon a Sea-fight.
 30. 
30. Of the Champions, Pristus, and Verus.
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Certain Select EPIGRAMS, Translated Out of the Works of that upright Lord Chancellor, and facetious Poet, Sr THO. MORE, &c.
 1. 
1. To King Henry the Eighth.
 2. 
2. Upon the Union of the York, and Lancaster Roses.
 3. 
3. Upon an ignorant Rhetorician.
 4. 
4. Upon Suspicion.
 5. 
5. Upon the accurate Picture, of a pitiful Oratour.
 6. 
6. Upon a blinde, and a lame Begger.
 7. 
7. The complaint of a Ship, sunk in a Storm.
 8. 
8. Upon a Ships being Burnt.
 9. 
9. Upon a Rabbet, who having escap'd a Weasel, fell into the Hayes.
 10. 
10. Innocency, is obnoxious to Injury.
 11. 
11. Upon the Quality of Death.
 12. 
12. Upon a Niggard.
 13. 
13. The Spiders Hunting.
 14. 
14. Upon a Cynick, indiscreetly abstinent.
 15. 
15. Upon a Chamber-maid deceased.
 16. 
16. Upon a Fisher-man, who was faln in Love withall.
 17. 
17. Upon Mediocrity.
 18. 
18. Fear is altogether unprofitable.
 19. 
19. A Cause, finely pleaded.
 20. 
20. Upon the uncertainty, of the Hour of Death.
 21. 
21. Upon the same.
 22. 
22. Upon a certain Ridiculous Astrologer.
 23. 
23. Upon the same.
 24. 
24. On the same.
 25. 
25. Death not to be feared.
 26. 
26. Upon a certain Covetous, and sordid Bishop.
 27. 
27. Upon the Inconstancy of Fortune.
 28. 
28. Upon Death.
 29. 
29. Upon a Rabbet, that was catch'd twice.
 30. 
30. Concerning Wifes.
 31. 
31. On the same Subject.
 32. 
32. Upon an Emperick, who sold a Drop of Balsam, very Deer.
 33. 
33. Upon a Picture, much resembling the Party.
 34. 
34. Upon a Picture, unlike.
 35. 
35. Upon a Ridiculous Prognostication.
 36. 
36. Upon a Roman Nose.
 37. 
37. On a certain Fool.
 38. 
38. Aristotles Judgement, concerning Sleep.
 39. 
39. The difference betwixt a good Prince, and a Bad.
 40. 
40. Upon a good King, and vertuous Subjects.
  
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HEROICK EPIGRAMS, Upon Some choice Passages in the LIVES of the Twelve CÆSARS, And other worthy Subjects.
 1. 
1. Cæsar, quæsi celsus; because he was cut out of his Mothers Womb.
 2. 
2. Upon Cæsars Epilepsie, or Fallen-sicknesse.
 3. 
3. Upon his Motto; Cæsar, ex utroque.
 4. 
4. Venite huc.
 5. 
5. Veni, Vidi, Vici.
 6. 
6. The most Cowardly of Cæsars Souldiers, were Couragious, in Defence of his Honour.
 7. 
7. Upon Cæsars Ambition.
 8. 
8. Non Rex sum, sed Cæsar.
 9. 
9. Julio, & Cæsare, Consulibus.
 10. 
10. Upon Cæsars Horsmanship.
 11. 
11. Upon his weeping over Pompey's Head.
 12. 
12. Upon his Burning such Letters as were found in Pompey's Trunks.
 13. 
13. Mori malo, quam Timere.
 14. 
14. Upon his robbing of the Treasury.
 15. 
15. Difficilius est mihi, hoc dicere; quam Facere.
 16. 
16. Cæsar's Wife, should not only be without Fault, but without the least Suspition of Fault.
 17. 
17. Cæsarem vehis, & Fortunam ejus.
 18. 
18. Cæsar Sacrificing, One of the Beasts, wanted an Heart.
 19. 
19. The Ides of March are come, but not past.
 20. 
20. Και συ Τεκνον.
 21. 
21. Upon the Brightness of Augustus Cæsar's Countenance.
 22. 
22. Upon the styling of his Freckles, Stars.
 23. 
23. Upon one of his Edicts.
 24. 
24. Upon the ceasing of Oracles, at the same Time.
 25. 
25. Festina lente.
 26. 
26. Upon his Magnificence.
 27. 
27. Upon his Impartiality.
 28. 
28. Upon the Temple of Janus, being shut.
 29. 
29. Upon his Gaming.
 30. 
30. Upon his Humanity.
 31. 
31. Upon Tiberius Cæsar's Speech; Thoughts, and Words, should be Free; in a free State.
 32. 
32. A good Shepherd onely shears his Sheep, &c.
 33. 
33. Upon his forbidding Kisses.
 34. 
34. Tiberias was rare Good at Ex Tempore.
 35. 
35. Oderint, dum Probent.
 36. 
36. Upon his using the Laurel, as a Shield, to protect him against Lightning.
 37. 
37. It was a Capital Crime to name a Goat, before Caius Caligula.
 38. 
38. Upon his wish, that some Eminent Mischief, might befall; during his Reign.
 39. 
39. Upon his Cruelty.
 40. 
40. Upon his Dissimulation.
 41. 
41. Και συ γερων ει, δε μωρος.
 42. 
42. Upon his ridiculous Resolution.
 43. 
43. Upon Nero's feigned Clemencie.
 44. 
44. Upon his Quinquennium.
 45. 
45. Occidar modo Imperet.
 46. 
46. Upon his inhumane Wish.
 47. 
47. Upon his being deluded by the Oracle.
 48. 
48. Upon his inordinate Delight in Musick.
 49. 
49. Upon Sulpitius Galba's Deformity.
 50. 
50. Upon his Studies.
 51. 
51. Upon Salvius Otho's Perruck.
 52. 
52. Upon his Curiosity.
 53. 
53. Upon the Justice of Aulus Vitellius.
 54. 
54. Upon his Gluttony.
 55. 
55. Upon Flavius Vespasians Vertue.
 56. 
56. Upon his Avariciousnesse.
 57. 
57. Upon Titus Vespasians sweet Disposition.
 58. 
58. Upon his Assiduity in Goodnesse.
 59. 
59. Upon Flavius Domitians Timerousnesse.
 60. 
60. Upon Domitians private Recreation.
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Epigrams upon Various Subjects.
 1. 
1. To His Serene Highnesse, Richard, Lord Protector, &c.
 2. 
2. To the Right Honourable, the Lord Chief Justice Glyn.
 3. 
3. To the Right Honourable Oliver. St. John, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
 4. 
4. To the Right Honourable, the Lord Chief Baron Widdrington: And his Brother, Mr. University-Orator.
 5. 
5. To Sir Edmund Prideaux, Attorney-General.
 6. 
6. To those Excellent Conveyancers, Sir Orlando Bridgman; and the worthy Mr. Geofry Palmer.
 7. 
7. To Mr. Recorder, of the celebrious City of London.
 8. 
8. To the Learned Lawyer, and Eloquent Pleader, Henneage Finch, Esquire.
 9. 
9. To his Honoured Cousin Edward Peck, of the Inner Temple, Esquire.
 10. 
10. To a certain old Barrister.
 11. 
11. To his most indulgent Grandmother, Mrs. Anne Talbot.
 12. 
12. To his Honourable Father.
 13. 
13. To his Honourable Mother.
 14. 
14. To his Highly valued Uncle, Thomas Pecke of Spixworth, Esquire.
 15. 
15. To the worthy Mr. Philips, late Usher of the Free-school of Norwich.
 16. 
16. To his very loving School-master, Mr. Tho. Lovering.
 17. 
17. To his Endeared Tutor, Mr. Will. Naylour, Senior Fellow, of Gon. and Cai. Colledge in Cambridge.
 18. 
18. To the highly deserving Dr. Love, Master of Corpus Christi Colledge in Cambridge.
 19. 
19. To the learned Doctor Brown.
 20. 
20. To the Celebrated Doctor Scarborowe.
 21. 
21. To the Honourable John Lord Herbert.
 22. 
22. To the Honourable Lord Richardson.
 23. 
23. To those Eminent Members of Parliament, Sir Horatio Townshead; and Sir William Doyle.
 24. 
24. To the Noble Sir William Paston.
 25. 
25. To his highly valued Cousin, Will. Bloys, Esq; Author of that celebrated Book, call'd Modern Policy.
 26. 
26. To the grave and wise Gentleman, Mr. Tuthill.
 27. 
27 To the Fair Lady, his Daughter.
 28. 
28. To that profound Grecian, Mr. Duport, President of Trinity Coll. in Cambridge.
 29. 
29. To his worthy Friends Work, John Sherman, B. D. Author of that Pious Work, styl'd White Salt.
 30. 
30. To the Egregious Poet, Sir Will. Davenant.
 31. 
31. To his Adopted Uncle, James Howel Esquire.
 32. 
32. To the lover of Ingenuity, Tho. Stanly Esq;.
 33. 
33. To his Loving Friend, Mr. Payn Fisher.
 34. 
34. To Mr. John Ogilbie.
 35. 
35. To his Loving Friend Edmund Wharton, M. A. and Fellow of Gon. and Cai. Coll. in Cambridge.
 36. 
36. Upon Home-Spun, One of the Ordinary sort of Preachers.
 37. 
37. An Epigram, that should have been inserted, into a Book of the Authors, called Advice to Balaams Asse: under the Emblem of a Dog, barking at the Moon.
 38. 
38. There was also intended for that Book, the Picture of an Asse, (in reference to the Title,) with this Epigram.
 39. 
39. Upon the Parliament, that voted down the Universities.
 40. 
40. Upon Owen.
  
Verses made Ex tempore, and writ in a Ladies book; occasioned by a Friends recital, of that well-known Fancy of Doctor Corbets; Little Lute, when I am gone, &c. And referring to the Covers of a singing Book, Painted with Slips of Flowers, to several statues, which were there view'd; and bitter Cherries, tasted of by the Author. The Lady being absent, &c.

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146. Omnia Vanitas. All is Vanity.

VVhat showers of Tears! had Heraclitus seen,
Our times: Democritus had burst his spleen.
But one Democritus cannot suffice,
To Laugh at such mad Tricks, as men devise.
And Heraclitus eyes approach not nigh;
Due Lamentations, for our Misery.
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