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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

Spectators eyes you are Venust 138. Upon Adrian the Fifth YOur silly Epigrams your dull Verse fears It should endure the sting of acute Jeers Though they are not Facetious Readers smile And laugh to see no Wit come all the while 139. I Thou He. SElf-Love's the Quarry at which all Birds flie From hence the first of Persons must be I. You can both flatter and Back-bite thus see He stands next Thou and Thou the nearest mee 140. Ask and you shall Receive WE read in Scripture Ask you shall Receive But 't is perform'd only to those who Give Give your Acquaintance first then They 'l give you No Chinke no Drink Nothing is Gratis now Give and it shall be Given you 141. Husband and Wife Parents Children HUsband Wife are both one Flesh although Before the sacred Union They were Two Father and Son were both one Body yet They can't their Horses in one Stable set 142. Vpon Marc the Lawyer YOu plead your own in your poor Clients Cause He Bags no Gold for all 's seiz'd by your Claws To you the Law is certain Not to him He is as sure to Sink as you to Swim 143. To his Father BY how much Man surpasseth Woman I By being Male excel the Female Fry 144. The Italian THe Latine like a Lord commands his Wife And forceth her to lead a Prisoners Life This Man or none acts Gods curse o'er again O Woman I will multiply thy Pain 145. What kinde of Wife LEt Vertue Beauty be in Her conjoyn'd Let her be courted yet bear a chaste Minde Rivals I like in Love For I alone Should be a Fool to Fancy any One 146. To one complaining that he could Beget no Children like Himself FIrst get a Wife in Visage much like Thee Then draw thy Picture on Posteritie 147. To Husbands concerning Conjugal Affection WHen happy Adam took Eve for his Bride He lov'd her more then the whole world Beside He was the first of Husbands and the best To serve Eve in his room now Love is prest 148. The Epitaph of Sir Francis Drake SUppose Queen Maries Reign once more return You may rest certain Malice can't you Burn. You did complot your Corps from Fire to save When you elected such a watry Grave 149. An Epitaph upon a Youth dying before Father's or Grand-Father DEath 's no Logician not Methodical To make young Sons before old Parents fall 150. The Epitaph of Maurus THy Soul doth want a Body Body Soul You nothing have but Name you want the whole 151. The Epitaph of Pyramus and Thisbe GRief did contrive your Death Death like a Friend Reveng'd the wrong and brought Grief to its end 152. Sir Tho. More at his Execution VVHat though Head was from Body severed More would not let Body be cut from Head 153. Three Languages were Crucified THe Grecian Tongue Porter of Wit and Art The Regal Roman That God did impart 154. Don Antonio King of Portugal A Late Divorce the Kingdom from you rent Though to the Bill you never gave consent You may well say now from the Throne you 're hurl'd With Christ My Kingdom is not of this World 155. Alexander and Aristotle THe greatest King the man to wonder wise Under their Notions these two Names comprise Great was Macedo but the Stagyrite As much outshin'd as bright Day Cypress Night The Sages Learning did direct the King But the Kings Greatness could no honour bring 156. Plato THose Bees which chose thy sweet Mouth for their Hive To gather Honey from thy Works survive 157. Virgil's Georgicks THose Verses which you sent to hold the Plough The Readers fallow Wits both Till and Sow 158. The Poet Persius I Read your Satyrs but can't understand An Oedipus fetch Readers out of hand 159. Tacitus VErtue made you speake True Nature made Wise Shortness Obscure and Gravity Concise 160. To Martial YOu lov'd to speak of Things but persons spare Your Jests want Spleen sweet as Hony are 161. To Petrarch WHilst Laura may be view'd thy burnisht strains Start boundless disputes in the Gazors Brains Whether fair Laura is more due to Thee Or the Prostration of the Laurel-Tree 162. Pliny Translated into English by Doctor Holland PLiny is Long 'cause many things he writes Pliny is short much Matter He endites Holland is Longer Shorter because He Hath Writ more full hath shun'd Obscuritie 163. Concerning Cicero To Catullus NOne could of falshood Catullus convict Nor that which he of Tully did Predict 164. To the Historians of our Age BEcause of old Historians would not Lie They were rewarded with an Eulogie But now He all Competitors outvies Whose Pen is fertil with the Rampant Lies What one Protests others defie how can Posterity confide in this that Man No Sciolist to Blot his Species spares Scarce any Modern Author Truth reveres 165. The King His Subjects A Prince Imprudent Subjects will confound As the Feet stumble when the Brains are drown'd 166. The Parliament THe King is King alone unto him Sole Why not Affairs committed in the Whole Because of Justice this makes him the Fount That though he Rules He must give an Account 167. To the Historian YOu noting Story without harm commence Expert in Things which sad experience The Learned taught What would be long to Try Is quickly known from Classick History 168. Concerning Diet. To J. H. IF you would shun old Age be sure to Use Moderate Physick or not to abuse Your self with Feastings If you should like Meat Take Physick 't is the way not long to eat But if as upon Physick you Meals make Thin Diet 's Healthful and there 's no Mistake 169. The Peers of France NOt at all Equals yet sometimes we see Unequal Concord equals disagree 170. Publius Magnus Cato Major Fabius Maximus THe greatest was less then the Great yet still Made the Greater under wing keep his Bill Now you have read the Riddle Answer Me Which was the very Greatest of the Three 171. To T. S. MY Wit and judgment serve not to rehearse Thy rare Endowments in a polisht verse Your Judgment Wit over all Arts prevail Unless both Wit and Judgment in Me fail But though my Wit and Judgment little be Yet I have Judg'd the Truth concerning Thee 172. Of Himself NO wonder that my Epigrams are Lead I never bite my Nails nor scratch my Head 173. The five Senses DO the five servant-Senses more assist Us in our Wils and Pleasure or resist 174. Seeing TO pleasing Objects Sight conveys the Minde And as her Vassal doth it strongly binde 175. Hearing SWeet Sounds make in our Ears but little stay They come like Air like Air they fly away 176. Smelling THe Nose is plac'd betwixt the Mouth Eyes In Bodies Spirits doth Sent exercise 177. Tasting THat you may disgust nothing you should Eat Let Hunger give the Hogoo to your Meat 178. Feeling A Touch may Tickle or give bare Delight The first is young the last is old Mens Right 179.

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

Good Fabiana Thou hast born great store 47. A Joque upon the Covetous VVHat foolish humour makes men so intent Natures contentedness to complement Whilest on the other side but few are nice To cast stones at flint-hearted Avarice But little Nature craves well you 'l grant us That nothing will suffice the Covetous 48. To a Lover of his Countrey 'T Is Honour to dye for my Countrey fit Suppose Death may my Countrey benefit Yet to Live for my native Countrey I Humbly conceive more pleasant then to Dye 49. The World NO certainty the world 's turn'd upside down What wonder then that there no good is known 50. Vpon Aretine THings have their scantlings but out trials find A measure hateful to fair Venus mind Lust hath invented 1000 tricks a part May Nature challenge but the greater Art 51. Vpon Silius PApists you might not be nor could you love The Protestants thus Atheist did you prove 52. Upon Atheists NO house stands without owner and will you Unto the worlds great House no Lord allow 53. The Physician SIr Mountebank will take gold but none gives Physick will give himself without it lives The paunch Quack empties his Pouch the diseas'd One thing to crave anothers help is pleas'd 54. The Counsellor LAwyers by Law are Jurisprudents named By their great wisdom Bumkin's title 's lamed Let who will smart they for themselves provide No greater prudence in the world beside 55. The Courtier IF you be Good already then in time You will be better but scarce higher climbe If you be great already in time you May become greater but scarce better grow 56. Upon one-ey'd Marc. ONe-eye wants honest Marc one may suffice Discern more things not better can two eyes I have two ears yet with those never cou'd Hear truth of things two eyes yet see no good 57. Upon Paul LEst that your Name should perish edifie You will a tomb fond man that tomb must die 58. A Receipt against Baldness To Bithynicus NO fear in age you should be Bald-pate cal'd Your youth O happy Man hath made you Bald. 59. Upon Theodorus THeodore marrying was of the minde That now he heavens narrow way should finde After experiment the owl could say He found the road to Hell the curst Broad-way 60. Apollo and the Muses FEmales are the Muses Apollo Male Nine Muses can he single counter-vale 61. Upon Alanus now grown old ALanus wishing his cold limbs no harm Desires his wife to turn his place is warm Here 's wit at will Girls must not at Age spurn But last night Alan's wife had a good turn 62. New-years-Day TO the Rich Olus sends no New-years-Gifts Lest they should think he were put to his shifts Sending the poor 't is Prudence to neglect From them requital he can scarce expect Quintus to send makes it his yearly task What he 's asham'd to beg his Gifts shall ask 63. Upon Pontia HIs Wife told Pontius there was a Law All Cuckolds should be thrown where Surges aw The Mariner Pontia in love to him Cry'd out For God-sake Husband learn to swim 64. The Work of Darkness TO preserve species from wing'd decay Then Individuums what 's fitter pray Yet nothing more mischievous is then these Soft Individuums to Species 65. You Lie BEware to Souldiers lest you give the Lie There 's no disgrace like this indignity You Lie it seems is a detested phrase To Lie you love that 's little no disgrace 66. Upon an Hypocrite ALL Swearers Superstitious you 'l controul Yet Lie all weathers a religious Soul 67. Vpon an Hermaphrodite ANdrogynus may boast himself the Race Of Mercury and Venus by his Face Not Male nor Female Bless me what 's he then Ask Maids a Man a Woman ask but Men 68. Venus LOve hath his Flux and Reflux Venus bred Was in the soyl where Tethys layes her head No credit Venus merits her descry You may 'twixt Sol and seduc'd Mercury The Planets are her Cronists none so far Can scout from sense to call her fixed star 69. Vpon Rivals ALL Sutors Phyllis would appropriate Call you it Love 't is Envy at this rate 70. A Woman IN that rich Language which victorious Rome Bequeath'd to those Caesars did overcome A Woman drew her name from Softness 'cause Mans brawny hardness they excell by th' Lawes Of benign Nature Why so 't is well known Eve was not Adams Flesh but his hard Bone 71. The Relation betwixt Physicians and Lawers THE Lawyer and Physician for their pains Pick out of others Losses legal Gains The Medic heals the Body Lawyers prate To cure the Falling-sickness of Estate Both will assist each moment whilst you live If you subsist each moment to Give Give 72. To Philip concerning Pamphilus NAture defies a Vacuum We see How sweetly She and Pamphilus agree 73. To Bald-pate TRees regain Hair Fields the verdant Grass But when will your Head Leaf'd be as it was 74. Nilus in my Eyes Aetna in my Brest A Briny Nilus overflowes my Eyes Whilst with Aetnaean flames my scorcht heart fryes Rivers of Tears quench not my ardent Heat Nor my Loves Fire dries up my Brains salt sweat Water and Fire in temper disagree Yet will accord so they may torture mee 75. If all things be alike Vpon Camilla TWo Swashes did the fair Camilla court The one was handsome but in stature short The other Features could not boast at all But like a May-pole was exceeding tall Camilla being question'd which would do Exactly view'd them both from top to toe Observing in the one a Roman Nose Long legs long arms she prudently him chose And modestly reply'd None can mislike The proper man if all things be alike 76. Of Gyants and Dwarfs TWo monstrous creatures land at Natures wharf The Gyant is an Oxe a Dolt the Dwarf 77. Upon the spurious Off-spring of an Abbot VVHen you pray with the Covent O how true Is Abba Father when pronounc'd by you 78. To Parsons A Priest by marriage did himself great wrong For wifes before did to his Tithes belong 79. A Participle A Verb is Eras Mus a Noun pray pass Your Censure Reader what Erasmus was 80. A Cause for the Lawyers A Goatish man led his own wife by chance Supposing her his neighbours Cupid's dance Admit a Childe the product of this Fate Is it a Bastard or Legitimate 81. The Morning IS it a wonder light breaks forth before Phoebus begins to blazon mountains Or Light as an elder Brother did out-run By three daies journey the life-giving Sun 82. Of Day LEt night with Argos have an hundred eyes Yet more with one a duskish day descryes 83. Of Night HAth Night no other gown but black aray Alas poor Widow dead 's her Husband-Day Were not Stars Lanthorns to the mourning night We likewise might be vext before Day-light 84. Vpon Marcus YOur Verses praise me Marc I know these wayes You are so kind that I your verse might praise 85. Death PEtty theeves may restore

nay high-way men Death never will what a Jade is she then 86. To his Friend HAlf you your Mistress claims your self I fear The other half what part fals to my share I reade you mine in Complements thick sown But are you Mine when you are not your Own 87. A good Man IF scarcity will estimation bring Beleev 't a good Man is a precious thing 88. Vpon a certain old Man YOur beard once black cold age hath frosted gray Your mind once white is turn'd to black they say 89. Upon Paulinus WHatever old acquaintance beg of you Yes yes to morrow Paulin will it doe Must I be grateful for the Gifts you send My thanks until to morrow I 'le suspend 90. Upon painted Dames YOU who delight to paint need not forbear To cry with Horace Shadowes dust we are 91. Vpon Cotta COtta his Wife is wholy but not sole Camilla soly his I can't say whole 92. The Politician DIssemble what you know let falshood range To finde the yeelding grain of every change Feel the pulse of all times that all may bee To thy desires subservient good to thee 93. Upon Venus VEnus and Mars play the unlawful game Because in lawful sporting Vulcan's lame 94. Upon two Masters NO man can serve two Masters I confess Marinus saith I serve two Mistresses 95. Vpon Marc. YOur beard grows fast hairs fall off thence is it Your beard becomes so long so short your wit 96. To Jo. Hoskins AT Winchester a Boy at Oxford I Being a youth found your Fidelity In doubtful matters you shew'd sincere love And sans deceit to your trust true did prove Of sending this small gift Love was the ground To me Love ty'd you Me to you hath bound 97. Of Death To Epicharmus EPicharm will not die yet his own Breath Wishes exhal'd would die but not by Death Sorrows bring death Death sorrows makes to fly Far worse then death is grating Misery 98. Vpon Phyllis THe Parthians flying backward cast their darts By flying Phyllis wounds her Lovers hearts 99. Vpon Hallus the Grammaticastre HAllus whilst hungry cry'd I 'm hugely fam'd I 'm hugely full when his guts were reclaim'd 100. Of the Load-stone AS from all Iron Load-stones do exact Coition so Lords all the Gold attract Courtiers I ask ye nothing for ye are Stingy in giving what ye ask ne'r care You give for your own ends I cannot see Gifts retrograde I shall scarce ask of yee 101. Death ASk Me what Death is pray stay till I die Come ask me then your suit I sha'nt denie 102. The Client CLients returning before theefs may sing For back from London they can't money bring 103. Vpon Zoilus I Blame bad manners Zoilus you repine Perhaps misdoubting that I aim'd at thine Then all the world you are more fearful grown When I chide Vices I may mean my own 104. Children and fools tell Truth THe English Proverb cals such Fools as tell The very Truth a Liar bears the Bell Therefore if you speak Truth to English Men You may be for your labour Fool cal'd then 105. Vpon Bald-pate YOu had a thing call'd forehead when shook down The leaves were not from your well-shaded crown But since the hair fel off with reverence 'Twixt head and fore-head there 's no difference In jumbling head and face age hath mistook No credit can be given to your Look 106. To the same HOW many hairs I have I can't divine Nor you for all are lost canst number thine 107. An Apology for Fortune BAD Fortune is a fancy she is just Gives the poor Hope sends the rich Distrust 108. Vpon Cotta COtta went to a Bawd to be befriended But did not return with his business ended 109. Vpon Procillus A Noble IF you Procillus would no Liars hear That hellish brood your presence would revere 110. To Paul the Lawyer YOur practice eats the year your worships salf If for your own you Register one half Your Wife will claim Vacations by all Lawes You must be vacant to attend her Cause The other part 's ingrost when as a Quirk Non-suits your Wife succeeds your Clients work The years most busie months are cal'd aright A term They terminate your Wifes delight 111. To the same A Lawyer Terms Vacations never sees But alwaies findes the Leisure to take Fees 112. To Marinus AS oft as your abused Wife bewails Your impotency you shall feel her nails In vain you flatter good words nothing can She must and will have Satisfaction Man 113. The Chirurgion MY Trade will flourish Jove send peace send war Venus and Mars both my kinde patrons are 114. The Venereal Disease BOrn an Italian bred in France quoth Fame Which Country strives to give the Pox a name 115. Calumniators Flatterers OLD Anaxagoras that snow was black Related most like him love truth to wrack Old Reynards suffrage the Crow white decreed How many thousand Foxes Our age breed 116. Vpon Ponticus YOu have repented I sha'nt credit it None can repent but they must have some wit 117. An Herculean labour IF strong Alcides his wifes tongue could tame A thirteenth labour might augment his fame 118. War Death WAr brings forth famin famin is the cause That thrusts poor mortals on the plagues sharp jaws Then plague or famine two-edg'd war is worse The humane glutton supreme Jove's choice curse War is the Alpha of succeeding Wo Death the Omega of all trouble so When Canons thunder to fly Mars counts cheap From Alpha to Omega at one leap 119. Upon Cynthia THe gods conform your Nature to your shape And to your Lilly-hand be your minde Ape 120. Vpon Gellia YOu sin unseen that is a feign'd pretence You never sin but some give Evidence 121. Upon Albinus O Albin Felix cry'd your neighbor burn Home home with speed for next will be your turn Albin surpris'd his Horn-maker at home And cry'd Wise Felix Faith my turn is come 122. Vpon Claudius the raw Philosopher GOod hath three species which are inclin'd To sojourn in the body estate mind Sick poor and silly Claudius we see He cannot challenge one among these three 123. Vpon Bardella the Mantuan Thief A Monk Bardella to be hang'd cheer'd up And said To night in heaven thou shalt sup Bardel reply'd This I keep fasting-day If you please to accept my place you may 124. Upon lascivious Flora YOu tell of all your Bed-fellows and so More hurt by prating then by acting do 125. Upon Quintil. QUintil's friend can get nothing Quintil's Lass Hath got himself and what e'r worth he was 126. To Aulus concerning old Quintius CAn't Quintius marry at decrepit years But Aulus you must sting him with your jeers Why Epigrams Epitaphs best befit Old doting Lovers that have lost their wit An Elegie in all haste let him have For he hath dig'd already his own grave 127. Upon Costus SCotfree he sins that 's all Costus can plead But this fail'd when you know what lost its head 128. An Answer to Cynthia's