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Selections from the Epigrams of M. Valerius Martialis

Translated or Imitated in English Verse: By W. J. Courthope
Courthope, William John (1842-1917)

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IX IMITATIONS
  
Literary Fame
  
To Robert Browning: On his “Society”
  
Choice of a Profession
  
Delay in Revising Proof-sheets
  
[You learned by heart, and copied out]
  
Valediction to the Book
  
To the Public

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Delay in Revising Proof-sheets

You once would urge me, “Publish quick!”
Now, of my proofs already sick,
You yawn above the second page,
And banish “Finis” to next age.
These Epigrams, when first you read,
You used to ask to take to bed.
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