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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

as God-mother your honour Name That through the world might shine your Lucid Fame You for your Birth to noble Parents owe But wit and Vertue you the Light did show 33. The Knights Ring To Sir Henry Goodyear LEt Honour be the Gold Vertue the Stone Until that Ring your Finger leaves alone 34. To Mr. J. H. YOur Verses deserve well yet want Applause Some Writers are much prais'd for little cause 35. To D. B. IF he who keeps things close lives well then you You hide your Faculties they greater show 36. To Th. M. the Princes Tutor TO a Decorum you the Prince do bring Will make him of himself as Britains King Rule of himself all other will out-vie This one excels the Four-fold Soveraigntie This one laid in the Balance will weigh down Babylon Persia Grecia Romes proud Crown 37. To the same NOw Age makes our Prince docil his green youth Imbibes grave Precepts from your learned mouth O Teach him so that future times may say Our King is great good learned which bears sway 38. To Mr. Walter Gwyn YOu make the Princes happiness compleat By Prophesies * flourish in Arthur's Seat Nature hath given Parts let Fortune be As much profuse in her Indulgencie And as the Prince grows bigger I wish you May swell in Honour and still greater grow 39. Francis Drake 1581. DRake hath embrac'd the Word and did espy Both Polar Tenter-hooks which hold the sky If men be silent Stars will blaze thy Fame And So● will Trumpet his Dear Comrades Name Drake did but bait at Calpe and may cry Great was Alcides true but Greater I. 40. Britains Strength To the Prince HAvens are England's Gates the Navy Wals Sea Tents works Bodies and Hearts Admirals 41. The Terrestrial Globe WAter Earth make but one Globe 't is strange For Earth moves not the waters always range 42. The mad way to Health THe more Healths in your Belly swim the less Shall your drown'd Body dwell with healthfulness I envy not your thousand Healths to me A single Health is a sufficiency It is the only Health no Healths to drink In drinking Healths there is no Health I think 43. The Divine YOur knowledge is a Cypher without you To light your Brothers Candle it allow The Politician MY Brother shall be hang'd first before I Reveal one tittle of my Mystery 44. All things desire that which seems Good DOth Optimus from Opto steal its Name The Best to Wish in Latin ne'r the same Why may not this be so since none can rest From Wishing except Fools what they think Best 45. A Black Swan A Maid of Burgundie lean as a Rake Made by Green-sickness was advis'd to take Sedum minus 2 M. which some vow As rare an Herb as can in Gardens grow The Pious Maid her Doctor did deny Chose before sin Sins wages and would Die 46. Democritus and Heraclitus DEmocritus laught at what e'r befell Plague Famine Murders stil the World went well At Feasts at Weddings brewing brinish Tears Sad Heraclitus with sore eyes appears Shall we weep for Heraclitus or thus Shall we laugh at merry Democritus 47. Vpon Langa LAnga a Papist wedded to a Man That did Profess himself a Lutheran To prevent Future strife Husband said shee I 'l make for once this fair offer to Thee Grant me but Free Will and then there 's an end About the other Points I sha'nt contend 48. King Arthurs Round Table VVHy did Heroick Arthur so much care For a Round Table and rejected square Not without Reason for Gods work is Round But humane heads the Quadrature have found 49. To Theophila B. C. HE must be zealous in Brains no whit dull Who can ye Love or praise unto the full 50. Vpon Hernicus HIs Soul to Heaven Body to the Grave Commended Hernicus about to leave This sinful world but hearing that his Wife Would quickly period her Widows Life In very anger he recal'd his Breath But before that he was resolv'd for Death 51. Of Love and Faith LOve and Faith are divorc'd we know it thus Faith is suspected Love suspicious 52. The Lover UNcertain Hope short Pleasures constant Fears Joy-grief sweet Pains fall to poor Lovers shares 53. The Golden Age WHen to fill Bags with Gold men did not rage Why did they call such Times the Golden Age 54. Vpon Alana NAture ordain'd you to Lie under yet At Table uppermost be sure you 'l sit Thus Man and Wife finde out Pacifique waies He rules the Rost by Night She rules the Daies 55. The German Death To Polynicus NOt to be Death grave Seneca did think But Germany supposeth Not to drink 56. Vpon Philodemus OF scarce Commodities you hate the Price But to take common if cheap are not Nice I 'le tell you what because a friend of Mine A cheap costs more then a dear Concubine 57. Vpon Long-tongue BAttus talks like a fool and then of course Comes out Pray pardon Sir my long Discourse No want of Pardon should to you belong If you could learn the Art to hold your Tongue 58. The Gordian Knot WAS the strain'd Gordian Knot rather unty'd By the Kings Wit or did his Sword divide Without wit you may untye this Knot but Were Alexander here He could not Cut 59. Love WAr Peace Peace War such faults are found in Love For Love from strife doth seldom far remove 60. The Laws The loss of Quiet To the Lawyers STrife breeds Laws Laws Strife without strife no Man Useth to live without the Laws none can 61. The Covetous and the Prodigal THe Prodigal affects high polisht strains Nothing but Rhetorick coms neer his Brains The Covetous in Logick takes delight And scrapes up Syllogisms day and night For Avarice Logicks close fist we call Suadas broad Palm denotes the Prodigal 62. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Labour or Trouble PAin was scarce Labour to most Active Rome To Idle Greece Labour was Troublesome 63. A Good man Valiant Wise GOod men have seldom wealth or stout men wit And to Beleeve a Wise Man few think fit 64. The Order of the Golden-Fleece FRom Philip Duke of Burgundie saith Fame The Order of the Golden-Fleece first came His Heir now wears Rich Peru's Regencie This was no Order but a Prophesie 65. Tho. Earl of Dorchester's Motto Nec Temere nec Timide Not Rashly not Cowardly WIsely Despair of all things Boldly Hope Beware of all things yet scorn fear to cope 66. Sir Tho. Nevil's Motto Ne vile velis Scorn Baseness LEt not vain or Vile things thy Honour stain Vile things are worth but little Nothing vain 67. To Sir Phil. Sidney concerning his Arcadia YOu did at Death witness your wife command That your Arcadia through some bloudy hand Should give a Treat to the Impartial flame And like a Phoenix Nest perfume thy Name But if the Crime be fatal that hot Fires Were by it kindled in Lovers desires Those queint Lines by more Justice had been sent A present to the

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.

be a swift evil yet it spares Your Ladiship not to vent slanders dares 10. Of Caecilia Daughter to that Lady NO Limner can Qualities shadow forth And yet you have a Picture of your worth 11. To the Candid Reader WHat I make Good you Praise my worst wit may Pass for indifferent Thus you please to say 12. To the Envious Reader IF I make any Bad none can be Worse If tolerable them you likewise Curse Hercules his two waies MOst men can err in four waies some in three Alcides lost his way in two we see 13. Concerning Vertue VErtue slights Praise yet Praise resolves to be Constant Retainer to her Familie Glory waits upon Merit as the shade Upon that Body which it perchance made Vertue is real Honour is not thus Substance are we not the shade waits on Us 14. Lifes Dial. MY Daies verge upon West lost are the Best Nor shall I see again the vanisht East I had my Birth last night Live just this Day Finde me to Morrow in the Grave you may 15. Of God THy Omnipresence Euclid's Rules confutes Plato's Scholar knew not thy Attributes 16. The Atheist THat there 's no God the Psalmists Fool avers But the most simple to Beleeve it fears If no Fool denies God what creature 's He Call'd Atheist One that wish no God should be 17. Charity NO Wife is Faithful but Love makes her so Where Faith resideth Charity dwels too 18. Dives and Lazarus DIves is put i' th' Gospel without Name But Poor were then call'd Lazers still the same 19. Encrease and multiply POor Man created was at first alone But shortly after Woman added one When Adam married Eve then as before The World was Rul'd by One and not one more After Creation Man did multiply God conjoyn'd Eve so came posterity 20. Vnion FRom Hell sprung Discord Union is Divine God is but One Hells Quotient none assign 21. The three Tempters THe World and Flesh will flatter Devil Lie They Oratory use He Sophistry 22. The Spirit and the Flesh WHat the Spirit command the Flesh controul Thus Grace and Sin divide my wretched Soul Would Flesh and Spirit but conclude a Peace Revenge Jars Wars quite through the world should cease 23. A man was a God to another Is now a Wolf MAn like a God his Brother did defend Man like a Wolf his Brother now will rend Christ to be God to Man came from on high But Adam practis'd Wolfish cruelty 24. Gods Word PRaescience belongs to God to Man mistakes Vain Man talks much God only one Word makes 25. The Narrow way TO the broad Streets of Heaven Scripture hath Commanded Us to choose the narrow Path. The straight way leads to Heavens Palaces Or Broad way puts ye in Hells Little-ease 26. St. John the Baptist AS the Suns approach is foretold by Light John before Christ saluted mortals Sight 27. Of Autumn AUtumn shakes off the Leaves and brings Fruit too I wish we could like gelid Autumn doe 28. The Miseries of Life ALL wish to Live though they be sickly poor Small Griefs will not suffice they wish for more The forlorn Irus desires not to Die That is is loath to part with Miserie 29. Of Nature and Grace NAture dispelleth Darkness like the Moon But Grace is like the Sun at exact Noon 30. A Catechism TWelve Articles of Faith you must believe That you may not the Holy Spirit Grieve If you desire effectually to Pray Christ's seven Supplications use you may Duties incumbent on all sorts of Men Have their Sum total in the Number Ten. 31. The Rich Man WHy go few Rich to Heaven why because They grieve for Breaking Sums but not God's Laws 32. O Treacherous Hope RAther fallacious World for Hope will stay Till extream Ruine sign our fatal Day 33. Vpon our Redeemer AS one Mans sin did Death on all entail So one Mans Death our souls from Hell did Bail The falsest Calumnies were meekly born Adam offended Christ was made a scorn 34. The Holy Ghost TO white Dove-houses Pigeons take their flights In candid Hearts God's Spirit much delights 35. Valour THe Wise Man knows the Just will render right He which joyns Courage is the Man of might 36. Of the King LAws without King in a Parallel run With duskish light discarded by the Sun King without Laws is Phoebus in the Night What though there be a Sun we see no Light The People chose their King they both made Laws Hence Laws hence Lords the Royal Scepter awes 37. The Welsh WAles is not sole Heir to the British Name For England Scotland answer to the same 38. The English-Scot THese Nations differ in their Customs how Came they espoused to an Union now The Law Predominant in ev'ry Land The Kingdom's safety joyn'd them hand in hand 39. Roses were united by Henry Kingdoms by James To the King THe superb Red and White Rose might Revie Fraternal wounds with Cadmus Progenie Like Leda's Twins they disdain'd to appear Consuls of the same convex Hemisphere But as the Argent Day routs Sable Night Then the Earth's shadow captivates the Light York should no longer an Occasion have Then till Lancastrian Prowess could Enslave Until the Isle of Man whence British bee Ambitious to derive their Pedigree Until this high-priz'd Isle which vaunts a Name By Tacitus put in the Rolls of Fame So happy was as to bring Thewder forth A {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} both by Name and worth This Gift of God to him was neer Allied Who in a Gordian Knot two houses tied Whose Red-rose Birth Thanks Hymen did unite The ●lister'd Discord of the Red and White But les● disgust should think Divorce to sue Henry betrothed Roses Kingdoms you 40. John Napiers Revelation NInety and two years hence the World shall end Is it at your disposal my Good Friend But why would you no shorter Time devise What to be call'd a Liar you are Wise God and Man GOd could not suffer Death and Man could not Over the Crave a Victory have got But Christ could Die and Vanquish because He Had God-head joyned to Humanity 42. Death DEath sought by Good shun'd by such as offend Ends Evils or brings those which have no End 43. God GOd is Immense because nothing can fly Commensuration by Omnisciency Numbers Perfection is by Him outgone The Dual begins Number God's but One 44. A Miracle THe Vulgar admire Miracles to Mee Nothing is Marveilous O God! but Thee 45. Adam's Disobedience GAlen Justinian Aquinas and all Might have been spar'd but that for Adam's Fall 46. To Adam THe Devil to deceive Thee lent Eve skill She gave Good Morrow but did mean to kill 47. To the Divine THe Countrey Horologe first claps his wings Before he News of grateful Day-light brings Thou that wouldst have thy Preaching take effect What thy own Life is first of all reflect 48. The Tempter AS nibling Mice use to deal with old Chests The Devil finds or makes waies into

Brests 49. Mortification UNless Sin Dies no hope of Life then try In time to make it facile for to Die 50. To Day THis instant time Men yesterday did call To Morrow what strange Name will it befal To Morrow the Name of Yesterday then Shall be put on it by all kinde of Men Cras is neer yet never comes I shall say Upon these Thoughts To Morrow is to Day 51. Against thee only have I sinned A Subject sins against God Law and King None but a Prince can such an excuse bring 52. Prayer AS Christ came in although the doors were shut So into Heaven Fervent Prayers get 53. Vpon Mary Magdalen WHat faults her eyes were guilty of in years Of wantonness she blots out with her tears A faculty to weep resides in eyes For by their Treachery most sins surprize 54. Concerning Hope and Fear RIches and Fears are huge Concomitants Hope a Companion unto him that wants Yet Hope is thought a comfortable thing But fear darts through the Soul a forked sting Hope belongs to the Poor to wealthy Fears You may take Hope I fancy Golden Cares 55. Methusalem is dead NOt to have Liv'd but to Live Life implies If Man lives many years at last He Dies 56. Of Lawes and Justice MEn the Laws Path more then Astraeas track Yet Justice they find quick and the Law slack 57. Intemperance THe Universal wish is to Live long Yet Luxury may freely lead us wrong We destroy what we wish for Life must be A debtor to Physicians not to Thee 58. To Ponticus 'T Is hard to become Rich since you are Poor If you were Rich 't were nothing to get more 59. The Pharisees THeir Life was foul Speech fair our Age likewise To cloud Hypocrisie are grown precise But if you credit what Grammarians tell Faith comes from Fio delights to do well 60. Liberty 'T Is Happiness what I wish to acquire Why then do Men destructive things desire Goodness is the grand Freedome only they Live to content whom Vertue teach the way 61. What Countrey Christ was of COnceiv'd A Nazaret Born Bethlemite But to Two Countrys Nature pretends Right 62. Christ's Crucifixion CHrist was a Life to such sad Souls as knew The Second Death was wages to them due To sick a Cure a Way to them at Loss Death unto Death a Torment to the Cross 63. Christ's Cross THe Cross bare Christ Christ the Cross up did take Thus Mercy mov'd Him for distress'd Mans sake 64. Upon Religion IN Pious Hearts a Tree must Grafted be Whose Fruit is Honour whose Root Industrie That Fear made Gods I readily assent For godly Fear is Graces Instrument Although the Root of Piety speaks Gall Yet She is Hony uppermost of all Fear is the Fount the River which thence springs Is Love whose ev'ry Drop much sweetness brings 65. Vpon the Prodigal and Covetous THe Miser not one Farthing gives till Death Spend-thrift hath nothing to give more then Breath 66. Man and Wife LEt Husbands Love their Wifes Wifes recompence Their Husbands Love with strict Obedience As Husband is the Head let the wife be Heart to her Head in meer humanity 67. Study SOme lose their wits by Study but ne'r they Grow mad who study Vertue Night and Day 68. Memento Mori Think on Death THe Hour of Death is dubious and yet A certain Time by Destiny is set No Man is far remote from West from East Yet when we think on them 't is but in Jest 69. The Virgin Mary GOd's Spouse her Fathers Mother might be styl'd A Daughter to her own Coelestial Child She was a Virgin and yet Married She A Mother was yet kept Virginitie That which is Rare is not alwaies Dear A Paradox VIce is a Disease Epidemical Yet 't is held Dear Its price will never fall Though seldom humane Eyes Vertue behold Yet for all that at easie Rates 't is sold 71. A Beast ON Future things not on those which are past Is it the fashion Hopes Anchor to cast Things Vanishing Hope Dies or hopes appear But where is the enjoyment that 's not near Times Past the Future both do Tyrannize The Beast takes what is present He is wise 72. Reason NAture is Mother Reason Queen of things Nature begets Reason to Order brings 73. Nature REason is Natures Childe and therefore saies If you 'l be Happy follow Natures waies 74. I must take leave to talk my Minde ALas poor Creature all your Freedom 's gone For you no more may rave against the Throne But Liberty of Tongue will never cease If you can obtain Leave to hold your Peace 75. To Marcus A Problem WHat if you take a Bad or honest Course For Bad by Law are punish't Good by Force 76. Upon Antiquarians and Novators 'T Is foolish Envy to pass all things by But what are moudly with Antiquity 'T is Envious Folly all things to explode But what are adorn'd with the newest Mode 77. What Death is to a Christian THrough Death at Life eternal we arrive 'T is not an End but Beginning to Live 78. To Christ LOrd thou Hopes Anchor art which never fails A Sea of Love the Ship where our Faith sails Thou art Salt to the Earth Sun to the Sky The Ransom paid for Souls captivity Destruction was destroy'd Death by thee slain Who thought Death could have suffer'd Deadly Pain 79. Self-Love THey who see others Faults and not their own For others Wise for themselves Fools are grown 80. The Lifes of Saints NOt to read Lifes of Saints but such to Live Is that which in the end will Profit give To turn Leaves over no Advantage brings Strive not to Read but Relish Holy things 81. A man's Countrey A Good Man alwaies is at Home a wise Under the fear of Banishment ne'r lies A valiant Son of Mars where e'r he be Converts that Place into his own Countrey Where we can't Thrive we there as exiles dwell My Countrey is where ever I am well A Good Mans Countrey from him can't be rent The wicked alwaies are in Banishment 82. Against the Atheist TIme past cannot Avail Future can't Ope To such a Reprobate the door of Hope Thy choyce desires only on that reflect Which for this moment doth the Sence affect 83. Upon Hereticks FRom Ennius dunghil Virgil scrapt up Gold Hereticks Dung from Truths most precious Mold 84. The effect of Praise GOod Men are made Better Bad worse by Praise Crafty More sly 't will the Fools folly raise 85. Not too Fast A Good Man is not quickly built take heed Though in plain way you make not too much speed Prudent Advice those slight which are in hast First thy self Collect then correct at last 86. The Envious and the Fool THe one wants Honesty the other wit One cannot see the other thinks not fit 87. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Reason 'T Is Reason which God speaks and which we Pray Thus God and Man both Rationally say 88. Opinion NOne will

Beleeve as Friendship so Men Try Their Reputations by Utility 89. Art GOd did in Natures Bosom place the Arts That Man might have a Touch-stone for his Parts 90. Adam's Apologie FOr sin's first Author Men have flings at Mee Did not Eve pull the Apple from the Tree 91. The Serpents Answer THis Allegation prove you never can To Tempt you but your self there was no Man 92. Alwaies the same GOd alwaies was is shall be thought but One Why came not Faith down to the world alone One Faith as well as Day gives Light a Birth There 's but one Sun in Heaven God on Earth 93. Cordial Prayer SInce your Breast is the Church let it be pure The Holy Ghost for Minister procure And because God for uprightness will look Make a clean Heart thy devout Prayer-book 94. The five Wounds CHrist's Wounds we soveragn Emplaisters finde They heal the Ulcers of a troubled Minde 95. Friendship delineated WHen Sol puts on his splendid Robes of State Our Bodies Shadow turns Associate When Solar Beams yeeld to a churlish sky Our Shadows vanish with Celerity Whilst Fortune smiles upon ye never fear The want of Friends thou shalt have some to spare When the Stern Fates turn to storms serene Day Friends will as much as shadows Post away 96. Vertue NOt Talk but Actions Vertues Pearls comprise Faith Hope and Love are Real Entities 97. Rachel WHat weep because Children are from you torn Had you not Grief enough when they were Born 98. Solomon SO many wise Men as the world can cull So many things are in it wonderfull Solomon died before Greece seven nurst He was not the eighth Wise-man but the first 99. Hope I Can't prevent what must fall to my share I 'l neither Hope for Good nor Evils fear Yet Hope will do me all the Good she can Expectancy drawes out my Lifes short Span. 100. Humane Ignorance I Scarcely know what Life is how should I Tell what 't is to be Born and what to Die 101. Christ is the Way CAnst not thou the streight way to Heaven see Behold the Way it self comes down to thee 102. Of Fame DO well and crouch not to Plebeian Fame 'T is but an empty Adjunct to thy Name 103. Faith AMongst Opinions Faith had most Respect From the Tongue-tyed Pythagorean Sect. For whatsoever the old Samian knew An ipse dixit did confirm it true 104. Indifferency BE Death far off be the fatal stroke nigh 'T is culpable to wish or fear to Die 105. The freshest Date IF I mistake not I may boldly say That the first Age was the Worlds New-years Day Then studious Reader let me crave of you Are the Times we now live in Old or New 106. The Will WOuld you be Good Vertue you may acquire He will inable who made you desire 107. To the Sun TWice eighty times Astronomies express Sol bigger then the Earth yet seems much less If you a Pygmie Sol appear to Me A little Worm how small seem I to Thee 108. Probity GOod Men are oft out-witted and what then Since they excel in Vertue wiser Men 109. A Man THe chief Ingredient to Mans heart is Care Foul noysom Carkasses our Bodies are Birth is but sickness and that Life we have Frequently found a passage to the Grave 110. Concerning Loquacity To the Preacher SO many Sermons your bad Life denote For what need words if Men your Deeds might quote 111. Death is both contrary and according to Nature IF you would follow Nature cruel Death You should snatch Parents before Childrens Breath To Natures Dictates we obsequious be For Life and Death are both by her Decree 112. Eloquence GReat Talkers are not alwaies Eloquent A few neat Fancies Auditors content Nor is that field thought Fruitful whence proceeds A thousand Cart-loads full of stinking weeds 113. God AS Clouds permit not Heaven to descrie So none see God 'cause Mists on their mindes lie None have seen God but few did ever hear Hence * Faith is scarce but * Love is much more Rare 114. To Ponticus YOu would think Me unkinde should I deny To tell you how many years old am I Since my Age is this Moment I say None For the years I have Liv'd away are flown 115. Love and Friendship To Charles WHat space betwixt Nature and Habits lie So far is Love distant from Amitie 116. Princes HUgely Religious ye seem to be And very Zelots as to Pietie 'T is not Love of Religion makes ye thus But thirst of honour Sanctimonious 117. O the wickedness of our Times LEt the worst Vices happen to be nam'd Innocent Time is certain to be Blam'd Yet we can't prove him guilty of such Crimes Men are not undone by but in the Times 118. Philosophy THe World loves to know much but few things will Beleeve hence comes great Faith little skil 119. Evils are innumerable VVE Die a thousand waies are Born but One Thousand Diseases push at Health alone 120. Vpon Controversies WIll Divines everlastingly contend Would they were pleas'd a Judge the strife might End Concerning who should be the Judge they Brawl I wish sincerely that dispute were all Might I contemplate once within my Life As great a strife of Love as Love of Strife 121. Christ upon the Cross BEtwixt two Thiefs Christ fill'd the empty space Now Vertue had if ever Middle Place 122. The Daughter of Time TRuth lies along Time hid yet comes to Light Greece cals her {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 'cause she flies sight 123. Law and Physick IF Men would Live as Prudent Nature teach They should climb quickly out of Galen's reach If Men were wise they would not so long Jar Till they are witnest Fools by the whole Bar But Bartolus should then despair to please And Mice might comment on Hippocrates 124. Husband and Wife VVHen Angry a whole House can't us contain A Bed can hold when we are friends again 125. The shortest Day OUr Lifes last day doth the most short appear Quite through that Day the end is very near 126. Vertues Complaint LOve hath few servants who will Vertue own Credit and honour extreme dear are grown Riches are sold Mony made Merchandize Vertue for her Rewards must pay Excise 127. The Rigid Father THe Avaritious Father is most Free The more he scrapes the more He leaves to thee 128. A Prayer to God in time of Sickness NAtures great Parent when as thou shalt please My Soul from flesh Her Prison to release Let Grace with thy afflicting Hand comply When I want strength to Live give will to Die 129. To the Pleader WHere Judges Favour not they invent flaws 'T is not your Eloquence secures a Cause Throw Reports by and Study Day and Night What to turn Lawyer No but Favourite 130. Vpon Brunonius OUr Ancestors ordained Fasting-daies That Flesh might obey Spirit that God Praise Your Table turns Fasts into Feasts We see That Spirit might serve Flesh and Flesh serve Thee

Ground must lie 12. Vpon a Niggard SIr Sir you 're Poor say others what they please Use Riches makes saith Apollophanes Whilst you use your Estate so long 't is thine That ceasing your Heir may cry This is Mine 13. The Spiders Hunting A Busie Fly laying aside due Care Was fast entangled in a cobweb Snare The Spider Thanks good Fortune now she 's sure To have a Dinner Be not too secure Arachne's Stomach did her Anger whet She leaps to seize the Fly and breaks the Net The Spiders fall making her very faint Away flies Spoyl-meat from her loath'd restraint Under the very Ax Hope may remain A thousand Guards to wickedness are vain 14. Upon a Cynick indiscreetly abstinent A Stubborn and grave Cynick set his best Side outwards by this carriage at a Feast None could perswade him Radishes to Eat Vertue abhors such kinde of luscious Meat Casting about his dull unpleasant Eye He chanc'd fine tender Onions to espie He snaps up those Though Radishes a' nt Good It seems that Onions are a vertuous Food 15. Vpon a Chamber-maid deceased HEr Body serv'd Her soul was alwaies Free Kinde Death hath set that too at Liberty 16. Upon a Fisher-man who was faln in Love withall A Fisher intent on the dropping Net Cast it so well He did a Sweet-heart get It was a Rich mans Daughter so that He Prov'd Master of much Wealth immediately Said He Our Trade is Gainfull In retort His wife made Answer who may you thank for 't 17. Vpon Mediocrity PIndar tells us envy'd Felicity Surpasseth passeth far lamented Misery The Rich are hated the Poor scorn'd God grant I either may abound nor suffer Want Avant Extreams the Mean is best of all Peasants are kick'd Lords can't prevent their fall 18. Fear is altogether unprofitable ANd why so stupid as to lend an Ear To the false Alarms of amazing Fear If evils come not then our Fears are vain And if they do Dread will encrease the Pain 19. A Cause finely pleaded A Certain cause was come to Tryal where Plaintiff Defendant and the Judge Deaf were The Plaintiff pleaded that He had much wrong His Cash was due Five Moneths since All night long Said the Defendant my Mill went Why strive Reply'd the Judge your Mothers are alive 20. Vpon the uncertainty of the Hour of Death I Weep not for those conquered by Fate I weep the fear of Death should Macerate 21. Upon the same YOu would bewail next Moneth to meet chill Death And can you laugh next Hour may stop your Breath 22. Upon a certain Ridiculous Astrologer CVmaean Sybils could not more descry Although enlightned from Divinity Then our Astrologer whose profound Art Could through the Stars a thing when past impart 23. Upon the same THe Prophet counsel'd by the Stars did crye No Man so happy in a Wife as I Looking again when She was run away He gravely foretold that unlucky Day 24. On the same SAturns far distance makes him think all hush He can't discern a Hare from a Brake-Bush Thy Bashfull Moon adventures not to see Actions improper for Virginity Great Jove Europa lov'd Kind Venus led Stout Mars a Captive to her wanton Bed Sol courted Daphne Lovely in the eye Dame Hyrce was of craftie Mercurie Thy Wife securely may spread forth her Sailes For their own Honours Planets can't tell Tales 25. Death not to be feared WHat Madness 't is for Sickness Poverty To refuse Death the end of Misery That only once inflicts a short-liv'd Pain And that endur'd it troubles not again But some Diseases are so rude that they Revisit where they lodg'd but th' other day 26. Upon a certain Covetous and sordid Bishop IF old Methusalem I should outvie The Bishops Bounty claims my Memory He 's vastly Rich doth many Cities owe To his Commands an Hundred Servants bow Yet when I of mean Rank did him approach He kindly spoke and chid not for Encroach Nay more he search'd both Pockets for the Key Of 's Wine-Cellar saying You may be Dry 27. Upon the Inconstancy of Fortune FOrtune observes no Method for throughout Humane Affairs her Wheel is turn'd about With great Inconstancy Low things arise High are confounded by her quick surprize Good Fortune is transmuted into Ill For to make Evill Good is at her will Let not them grieve who under hard Fates lie Good Fortune's near at Hand for shame don't die 28. Vpon Death THey who brag themselves Rich shall quickly see When Death casts their Accounts how Poor they bee 29. Upon a Rabbet that was catch'd twice I Fled from a Mans hands into a Net Ah sad Escape must I pay twice a Debt 30. Concerning Wifes ALl Men exclaim they never in their Lifes Met such great Crosses as their brawling wifes Talke is but Talke for should the sixth wife die The seventh should succeed her presently 31. On the same Subject A Wife afflicts yet She may usefull be If shee 'l die quickly and leave all to thee 32. Upon an Emperick who sold a Drop of Balsam very Deer SIr Q●ack his Patient told nothing could cure The stubborn Feaver did He not endure To pay for precious Balsam to be found With none but Him One Drop would cost ten Pound Five I require to have lay'd down in Hand The other when you 're well I shall demand But about this there scarce can be a strife What is ten pound to secure a Mans Life The Bargain 's made from a well-cover'd Glasse A Grain of this Elixar taken was The sick crav'd all as willing to be sound No the Remainder 's worth an hundred pound Besides the present Dose would stand instead And so it did for He was quickly dead Unhappy Bargain what won't the Fates do Life was not onely lost but Balsam too 33. Vpon a Picture much resembling the Party YOur shadow for your self might almost passe 'T is not your Picture but your Looking-Glass 34. Vpon a Picture unlike I Going lately to a Painters Shop Thy Pourtraicture my wandring eyes did stop I am perswaded that He did compact You should sit three Dayes for to mak 't exact At the first view I understood 't was you For I believ'd the Limner swearing so 35. Vpon a Ridiculous Prognostication A Fam'd Astrologer all Ears did fill Saying This year the King of France lies still New Almanacks were scarcely come in Date Before the Christian King resign'd to Fate The Prophet persists in Defence of 's ill Roving and askes doth not France now lie still The vulgar made his speech a common Jest Often repeating The French King 's at rest This Pill the Starres Interpreter did choake Therefore in Anger He them thus bespoke Ye simple Souls are all your skulls of Lead Doth not the King lie still now he is dead 36. Vpon a Roman Nose PRoclus can't blow his Nose but must confesse Though his Hand 's great yet then his Nose 't is lesse Nor when he sneezeth can He Himself hear His Nostrils are

regal Chaire Became his Seat by leading life so faire But when he felt the Gratifying Crown Deboshed Clodius could not put him down Whilest Vices Wings are clipt it can't soare high Honour 's the Touchstone of Morality 41. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} A Grecian Lawyer 's Impudence did quote Claudius Dotage and as Fool him note Princes should not let loose the Reins A Frog Trampled his King when Jove threw down a Log 42. Vpon his ridiculous Resolution CLaudius was half resolv'd by his Edict To concede Leave Wind might no more afflict The Entrails detain'd by Civility At Feasts at Banquets the Guts might let fly His Nostrils alwayes wept you might suppose Before I told you this He wanted Nose 43. Vpon Nero's feigned Clemencie THe Bloud-Hound Nero when desir'd to set His Hand to fatal Warrants us'd Regret And to prevent th' Incursions of Hate In mercie wish'd himself Illiterate Whence was his Quill in writing obstructed The Ink was Black and He lik'd none but Red 44. Upon his Quinquennium TIll Sol had kiss'd the Equinoctial Line Ten times in Nero Vertues Rays did shine After five years He did degenerate And prov'd a Vulture to the Roman State Most Kings make Good beginnings Few endure A Murtherer waits till He seems secure 45. Occidar modo Imperet WHen Nero's Embryo did his Mother fill She search'd the Bowels of Chaldean skill Would'st know his Fortune Thy Issue shall be A King thy Life shall feel his Tyrannie Pride swell'd her Joy that she could not refrain Let my Son kill me so my Son may Reign Her wishes took Effect Nero was kinde To observe punctualy his Mothers minde 46. Vpon his inhumane Wish NEro hearing one say that when he dy'd He car'd not if the Earth in Fire were fry'd Belch'd forth this wish O might I live to see The World grone under that Catastrophe 'T were frivolous Alecto should so do Thy Tyranny may serve both Her and You. 47. Vpon his being deluded by the Oracle NEro consulting Delphos Oracle How long His Soul might in her Palace dwell Receiv'd this Answer Very carefull be To ten times seven when there's added Three This Age from Nero far remote appears His own were counted and not Galba's years When on Destruction the Gods are intent They use Security as Instrument 48. Upon his inordinate Delight in Musick BLest Agrippina your Dear Son can tell To Tune an Harp and play a Lesson well Why should his Faculty incurre dislike As great as He have learn'd to play Mardike 49. Vpon Sulpitius Galba's Deformity GAlba long since did lose becoming Hair Extreamly crooked both Hands and Feet were 'T is strange his Honour seven Moneths should stand Who was defective in Head Feet and Hand 50. Upon his Studies THe Study of the Laws did Galba please Better then other charming Sciences When Princes want the Knowledge of the Law 'T is Tyranny not Reason keeps in Awe 51. Vpon Salvius Otho's Perruck DEformed Otho's Hair was spred so thin That to wear False He accounted no Sin What did our Fashions lie in Otho's Road Yes if his Perruck were cut A la Mode 52. Upon his Curiosity FIve hundred times a Day the Looking-Glasse Commended Otho for a cleanly Face This Fool to make it Fair Sops did apply Had He no Wife to learn him Mercury 53. Vpon the Justice of Aulus Vitellius THose who with Galba's Bloud had their Hands stain'd To suffer death Vitellius constrain'd He who was thus precise was no whit Nice To plunge Himself into the Mire of Vice One Swallow makes no Summer Vertuous call Rulers when Vertue is Habitual 54. Upon his Gluttony TWo thousand Fishes and seven thousand Fowl Once Feasted this Epicurean Soul But He was granted but eight Moneths command A compleat year might have starv'd half the Land 55. Vpon Flavius Vespasians Vertue VEspasian during his Privacie Led such a Life as was Exemplary The Souldiers Love ordained him the Chair He grew more High and his Demeanour Fair In the 12 Caesars O how frail are Men Honour made but Two better Worser Ten. 56. Vpon his Avariciousnesse NOne could Vespasians Impositions flie But who were troubled with the Strangurie His manifest Extortions were so vile That Rome was taxed ev'ry Pissing while 57. Upon Titus Vespasians sweet Disposition DEbonaire Titus rejoyc'd to confer Benefits on the sad Petitioner His Love kept Sentinels lest some by chance Might return with dejected Countenance His Subjects were his Sons They well assign'd His Epithite The Darling of Man-kinde 58. Upon his Assiduity in Goodnesse THe Days bright Father had hid profuse Light Under the Curtains of a Pur-blinde Night When good Vespasian publickly did say Alasse my Friends I did no good this Day Fame take a Note Rome the like never Bred. Vespasian was a God and yet not Dead 59. Upon Flavius Domitians Timerousnesse DOmitian the tedious Day did passe In Galleries forging a Looking-Glasse By help of the Phengites Stone His Minde Was hugely intent to observe behinde His Cruelty had run much on the Score He look'd Behinde He should have look'd Before 60. Upon Domitians private Recreation CHildish Domitian no Pastime did prise To the Heroick Turnament at Flies Let Hercules Nemaean Lyons kill Or Julius with admiration fill The Worlds dimensions who did disarray The Two and fiftieth hot Battalia Fierce Meleager vapours in a Boare Let thy Carpophorus kill Twenty score Of short-Neck'd Bears What should Domitian trie Dangers so Evident A Flie a Flie EPIGRAMS upon Various Subjects 1. To His Serene Highnesse Richard Lord PROTECTOR c. A Vgustus was most lovely in the Eyes Of Romes Grave Senate who did Eternise His Fame and without Arguings agree To Honour him with Pater Patriae In a Pacifick and auspicious Hour You made an Ingresse to the Supream Power Your sweet Demeanour gives publick Content Love Candor finde but few Malevolent Your Father Julius was Augustus be Your Countreys Father Mecoena 's to Me 2. To the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Glyn. ONe of your Predecessors pleas'd to tell Posterity that the Law is a WELL Men are the thirsty Buckets which receive More or lesse Water as Reason gives Leave There 's an Eternal Spring or else no doubt You had long since drawn all the Water out 3. To the Right Honourable Oliver St. John Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas WHere ever Sol emits his innate Light On purpose to transport the drowzie Night The English valour will endure the Test Nor do her Lions fear the Eagles Nest Had Britain many Nestors like to you She should be as Renown'd for Wisdom too 4. To the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Baron Widdrington And his Brother Mr. Vniversity-Orator ANd did the Juncto of the Gods agree To make you Sol your Brother Mercury Nature doth seldome so exhaust her Store Of Ingenuity as to makemore Then one wise in an House ye needs must be Chronicl'd for an happy Prodigie You Grace the Law your Brother's