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A90351	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. To which is annext a century of heroick epigrams, (sixty whereof concern the twelve Cæsars; and the forty remaining, several deserving persons). / By the author of that celebrated elegie upon Cleeveland: Tho. Pecke of the Inner Temple, Gent.	Pecke, Thomas, b. 1637.; Martial.; More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535.; Cottrel, James, fl. 1649-1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing P1040; Thomason E1861_1	59,144	197

not rash count no opportune Time cheap To fearful Nature Prudence lends a Shield None dangers dread who their Ambush beheld 173. Sir minde the matter in hand VVHat though Philosophers on the Face fly One word will vanquish them say I deny 174. Justification DOth God us Justifie by Works or Faith By both together holy Scripture saith 175. The Day of Judgment IF all this Day their large Accounts must clear St Barnabie will be too short I fear 176. To Marianus GOod Men for Vertues sake do detest Vice But now a Daies there 's few that are so Nice Goodness is so contemned in our Time That to be Good is thought an heinous Crime 177. Mary Magdalens Sorrow ONe Mountain here two well-fed Springs can show From whence two Rivers of Salt water flow 178. Upon the Soul THe Soul is not infus'd for if it were It would be mortal as our Bodies are 179. To Marcus VVHen to Pray you at any Time shall please You institute your Bed Chappel of ease You might well think Heaven would exclude thence Prayers presented with irreverence Till wandring thoughts rude gestures you forbear God Audience gives but is not pleas'd to Hear 180. Hell WHo can reduce Cloth dyed Black to White What Damned Soul enjoy'd again the Light 181. To his poor Friend YOur bad Estate I wish worse for your sake On extreme evils Fate may pity take 182. Europe Asia Africa America THe worlds division is into Four parts So many distinct * Faiths possess Mens hearts 183. The causes of Discord WHen Sense and Reason be enslav'd to Will They prove the Source of segregating Ill Will Brethren sets at distance for we see When Will consents Kindred do well agree 184. The Liberal Man THe Just to ev'ry Man his own allow Let Rich have Justice to poor Mercy show 185. The Temperate WHo know things Causes who Times supervise Bridle their Passions Actions rule are Wise 186. A Wise Man FAte governs Fools a wise Man curbs the Stars His Wisdom shields him from intended scars 187. Upon an Infant dying before Baptism ALas I dy'd before pure Water could Mark me A Lamb belonging to Christs Fold The Church implores my Saviour would not look For Name Lord write me Nameless in thy Book Though I want Name yet am I known to Thee For thy Names-Sake be Merciful to Me 188. The Flatterer and Envious ENvy and Flattery are both content To fall under the same Predicament Zoilus hates Good Mens Vertue Gnatho will Labour of Goodness to defraud the Ill. 189. Love and Friendship WIth Prudence Friendships Knot may be unty'd To purchase Love but on the other side It were a foolish Fancy to remove For fickle Friendship a well-grounded Love 190. St. Peter and Paul EMpire the Sword Wealth the Key signifies Peter's Richer then Paul as I surmise That Paul was Poor his Epistles record But Peter's Pen let slip not one such Word 191. Socrates YOu nothing know and you know only this To know that you know nothing something is Yet that something you understand I shall According to directions Nothing call 192. A Man NO sooner Born but you began to cry Since Life 's no Pleasure why is 't Grief to Die 193. To Paulus after Burial THough you were at Birth naked now you have An Holland sheet to sleep on in the Grave You carry that away you did not bring Thank not your Mother Earth for any thing 194. To such Courtiers as shall please to Read MOst touch upon the Schools but few them court Observe my humor to divide my sport 195. Prudent simplicity MOrality endeavour to improve To Innocence as candid as the Dove But lest good Nature should to Mischiefs lead To Dovelike Hands annex the Serpents Head 196. The eyes of the Common-wealth LAw and Religion are the Nations Eyes One forbids Sins the other Injuries 197. To John Gifford Doctor of Physick NO wonder Gifford knows Apollo's Art Of his own Body He knows ev'ry part Though Know your self was not Galen's command To that Advice Apollo set his Hand 198. The Daw WHich Sister of the Grove dares make pretence To excel Me in nimble Eloquence The Goose FOr some things I my Self may be turn'd loose Though you Prate more you write less then a Goose 199. The Afflictions of Job IF you on Riches Children or Health look The Devil by Gods Leave away these took When all was gone his Wife was left behinde Lest some small Comfort should refresh Job's minde 200. Pauls and Westminster-Abbey THe Pleading Place Exchequer and White-Hall Are Neighbours to St. Peters-Abbey all The Learned Preachers make St. Pauls to sound And furnisht Stationers encompass round The two Apostles very well agree Most Gold hath Peter Paul Divinity 201. Against the Conspirators upon Tuesday the Fift of November 1605. TO make low Earth challenge the lofty Sky And sordid Dust oppose the Deity What is this but for to revoke the Hour And Architecture of Confusions Tow'r 'T were to make wanton Ilium once more Burn And antiquated Chaos should return 202. Upon the same VVOuld ye have thrust fair Troy into the Fire And Millions thrown upon the Fatal Pyre Were ye bewitcht to pitch on such a Day Tuesday was never made Ash-Wednesday 203. The King to his Kingdoms NEws of my Death swoln Fame did lately bring I am not dead By the Word of a King 204. To England concerning the Vnion WE shall enjoy Thrice-Happy Peace since Three Are Married to a lasting Unity Wales is your Wall ev'ry Scot is your Scout You are secure O England without doubt 205. To Tho. Nevill an Ingenious young Gentleman YOu are Branch'd from the Noble Nevil's Race Nature hath Limn'd both Parents in your Face But what of that She likewise thought not fit You should want Mothers Vertues Fathers Wit 206. Upon the Death of Charles Blunt Earl of Devonshire 1606. SHall I to pin upon thy Herse devise Eternal Praises or weep Elegies Fame hath of you a double-tongu'd Report Your Death was Good Mens Sorrow Bad Mens Sport 207. To the Reader MY Epigrams are short and also few From many short Longitude would ensue Reader these few are short for were they Long Few would prove Many and thy Patience wrong 208. The Difference betwixt Words and Writings VOice is alive Writing 's Inanimate Yet the Tongue before Quill resigns to Fate Libellus de Spectaculis Or an Account of the Most memorable Monuments of the ROMANE GLORY Composed by the ever-celebrated Epigrammatist M. Val. Martial And now Periphrastically Translated into English Verse By T. P. of the Inner Temple Gent. Non cuivis Lectori Auditorive placebo Lector Auditor non mihi quisque placet Owen l. 3. Printed at London 1659. Libellus de Spectaculis Or an Account of the Most memorable Monuments of the ROMANE GLORY 1. Vpon the Caesarean Amphitheater NO more let Sun-burnt Cayro vaunt that She Bequeaths her wonders to Eternitie Let not Euphrates in a superb Style Brag her Wall

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 To which is annext A Century of Heroick Epigrams Sixty whereof concern the Twelve Caesars and the Forty remaining several deserving Persons By the Author of that celebrated Elegie upon CLEEVELAND THO. PECKE of the Inner Temple Gent. Ista tamen mala sunt Quasi nos manifesta negemus Haec mala sunt sed Tu non Meliora facis Mart. l. 2. Ep. 8. My Stock of Wit is small let them who flout My Poverty be pleas'd to bear Me out Printed at London by J. Cottrel for Tho. Bassett in St. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street 1659. To the Ingenious READERS THat a Chain of Gold could be fastned to the Neck of a Flea was heretofore such a Rarity that it obtain'd a Memorial in the Chronicle and could not purchase Belief at an easie Rate untill it was rendred undeniable by the verdict of Quotidian Experience The facetious Epigrammatist can boast a wit capring hither and as fast retreating conscious of no greater Crime then under 〈◊〉 fictitious Name to Flea-bite some particular Persons And draw● after it such a Golden Chain of Invention as challengeth not onely applause from the most Cynical Morosity but is irradiant with the two Poetical Jewels Profit and Pleasure In the Translation of Owen it was not necessary to be curious in electing here and there an Epigram by reason He carries an even strain and if I had omitted some in the first three Books I could not have inserted more ingenious I made it my devoir to be Brief Perspicuous And I hope from six hundred Pen-fulls of Ink not many blots have fallen upon my Author Out of ●artial I selected his most Heroick ●●ok of Rarities to be seen at ●●me And because Variety is delectable I have subjoyned fourty out of Sir Tho. More And a Century of my Own Although no part of Poetry but is at my command I have made choice of Epigrams as the very Nerves of this exquisite Art For if a Poem be good it consists of nothing else but various Epigrams cemented by a dexterous sagacity And not onely Verse but Prose is dull and languishing unlesse the sparkling Genius of the Epigrammatist be artificially interwoven That Plaudit the World were pleased to vouchsafe my Elegie upon the unparalleld Poet Mr. Cleeveland forbids me to complain of that carping humour notoriously predominant in English men in relation to any Authors of their own Countrey The candid acceptance granted me then I have no reason to suspect now from ingenious and deserving Persons of all sorts And as for a Generation of Sciolists that make it their recreation to slight others either natural or acquired endowments I crave at their hands to give the World as ample a Testimony of their abilities as I have done of mine And then if they think my Epigrams routed I shall desire them to trie their valour upon my Satyrs T. P. Amico mihi magnopere colendo Juvenique tam propter morum suavitatem acutissimam ingenii indolem Prosapiae antiquissimae generositatem honorando Dom. THOMAE PECKO Armigero c. In Poemata c. QUis tua Maeonio roravit pectora succo Peckiadum gentilis honos Quae Musa per auras Enthea Sydereas Te sustulit alta sonantem Atque inspiratos afflavit Fulmine sensus Dum teneros Annos meditor canumque cerebrum Impubes mihi Nestor eris virtutibus annos Qui superas calamoque senes Sic gaudet Apollo Imberbi comes ire Pater dum spectat ephebum Et vix vestitas rosea lanugine malas Quòd si ver tenerum tot jam produxit amoenos Florum fasciculos quae tum maturior aestas Incrementa dabit nostroque obsonia seclo Et Nascendorum Delectamenta Nepotum Scilicet auspiciis primum foelicibus orsus Cleevelando monumenta struis Musaque parentas Manibus altisono gradiens super astra Cothurno Nec veluti nostri Juvenes proh tempora perdis Crescentes sine fruge dies Quodcunque sopori Temporis eximitur studiis adjicitur unde Concoquis Authores lectosque in sanguinis usum Et Succi convertis edax Testabitur orbi Illud opus sapido quantum praecesseris Ipse Historicas quantumque tumens Maeonidis aestro Ebrius Aeonios dudum Potaveris amnes I decus Aeonidum Famamque extende per anglos PECKE Tuos ut Te felix Norfolcia natum Vendicet utque itidem te doctus Chamus alumnum Jactet uti patulus quandam discordibus orbis Vocibus Indigenae Cunas jactabat Homeri Haec in amicitia Tesseram Profudit P. Piscator OWEN'S EPIGRAMS THE FIRST BOOK 1. To the most Illustrious the Lady Mary Nevill my ever honoured Patroness I Want no Patrons for to vouch my Books No places Rudeness denies gracious Looks My Papers to the Reader I shall vow The Dedication of my self take you 2. To the Reader IF you applaud what ever I have writ I must deride your Indigence of Wit If you praise nothing then the cause stands thus Your epithite shall be The Envious 3. To Counsellor Hoskins concerning his Book THis Book is the Mad World these verses Men Choose Man or verse scarce one found good in ten 4. To the Lady Mary Nevill SUppose Pythagoras the white did kiss When he talkt of a Metemsychosis The proof is facile that you are the same with Pallas Juno and the Lemnian Dame For Three rich Vertues shine in you alone When many Threes cannot lay claim to One 5. To the same AS Phoebus revels in the arched skie And with him light quarters her Majestie So ador'd Vertue proclaims it a Grace That shee 's incumbent to your charming Face Whoever tell-tale Fame invites to see Your Ladyship bowes to captivity If he evade your Beauties Fetters yet Inward endowments cast a faithful Net 6. To her Ladyships Son Mr. Tho. Nevill YOur Genius is so eminent that due Belief is banish't though the story 's true He that will praise a Childe doth Hope commend And not the Merits which must crown the end Not Hope but real Worth doth magnifie The happy Torrent of the Ingenie 7. To her Ladyships Daughter Caecilia THE Mother you are like when I say this Avant as useless all Periphrasis 8. Nosce teipsum upon Harpalus TO some this know your self were good advice But in the application be you nice You are not worthy Knowledge seek abroad Something that is may once fall in thy road 9. To the Lawyer IF he be happy that can Causes scan You ken to plead our Causes Oh brave Man 10. Vpon John Protus I Well remember Protus you did threat That shortly nothing should your wedding let Your Latine phrase in my brest creates strife It signifies to Marry Lead a wife VVhen Ale hath Crippled you but in small stead You 'l stand your VVife or any