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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08687	Epigrams of that most wittie and worthie epigrammatist Mr. Iohn Owen, Gentleman. Translated by Iohn Vicars; Epigrammata. English. Selections	Owen, John, 1560?-1622.; Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1619 (1619)	STC 18993; ESTC S113769	23,712	112

this Life highly to Prize EPIG 19. Knowledge Loue. TWo things there be which I must Know And two things I must Loue God and My-selfe God and my Friend These Knowledge Loue approue EPIG 21. Of God and the World GOd is not in this World the World 's in God We are i th' World O would we were in God EPIG 22. The right of First-fruits and Tithes GOd's Al●ha and Omega therefore Hee Must of thy Goods the Tithes and First-fruits see EPIG 50. Grauity Leuity THough Grossenes Lightnes cleane contrary bee A Light-Head Grosse-Head I 'd not wish to Mee Both which are ●ad and such a Wife I hate A Light or Lewd a Grosse or Grieuous Mate EPIG 52. Schoole-Diuines WHat profits all thy Learned-Skill If Vertue thou neglect Leaue off to Search the Truth of Things And Good Things more affect EPIG 58. Democritus Heraclitus DEmocritus Mens falls and faults In his Times did Lament Hera●litus Mens Foolishn●sse Did Laugh-at with Contempt And euer more such Wretches vile And Fooles will still remayne That if they Liu'd from Laughes and Teares They neuer could refraine EPIG 60. Against Arrogant Ignorant Linus A Two-fold Ignorance hath thee O Linus captiuated Thou Knowest Nought yet Nought to Know Thou wilt not be Conceited EPIG 65. Against a Couetous Niggard TO Count thy Coyne is nothing worth T' Encrease the Heape's as small As much to Multiply Deuide Then I 'le thee wealthy call EPIG 67. Against the Writers of this Age. WE Crop the To●s of others Crop Old-Writers Workes most rare The most of vs which now doe write Old-Writers Eccho's are The Authours Desire A Good-mans Desire EPIG 69. WIth Wealth I wish-not Bags and Chests to stuffe To●-much Too-little's Ill Enough 's Enough EPIG 78. Christs Life and Death MVch hath Christ Done and Much Endur'd All for vn-worthy M●e His Passions shew'd Him to be Man His Actions God to bee EPIG 79. The Wise-Mens Starre A Starre to Math'mat●cks vnknowne At Christs Birth shining bright The Gent●le-Typing Wise-Men led To Christ the Lord of Light This Heau'nly Guide di● w●th them ●ide Till they found Christ their Ki●● Heau'n grant I pray Faith my Starre may Me also to Him bring EPIG 83. Of the Deluge and Worlds-End THe crying Crimes of Noah● Times For foule-Lust-burni●g Loue Were Drown'd Drench't that Heat wa● Quench't With Water from aboue This Freezing Age of Frosty Loue And Key-cold Charity Will in due Time for this Cold Crime Make All with Fire to fry By Compositions thus Phisicians Make Contraries to Cure And Heau'ns Phisician Frost with Flames Water with Fire can Pure EPIG 86. Of the Iust and vniust PLeasure the Good but Paine attends the Bad This frights th' Vniust tother the Iust makes glad EPIG 88. Our Redeemer WOrth Sight but Thee i th' World I nothing See And I am wise in nothing but in Thee My Sunne thou art by Grace Shine in my Heart Thou Thou alone my Sole Sweet Sauiour art EPIG 91. A Paradox TO Hell though euery wretched Atheist goes In Hell's no Atheist there He Hell well knowes EPIG 94. Difference betwixt a Good King and a Tyrant A Good King marks what 's godly iust and right A Tyrant mindes his strict Command Might I Good Kings Power preferre 'fore Tyrants Pray Th' Ones threates are treates the Others Pay's Decay EPIG 95. Against a certaine FOr Mad-men Bedlem Bride well's for a Knaue Choose wheth'r of these two thou hadst rather haue EPIG 98 Life-Bloud MOses the Life of All i th' Bloud did place My Life in Christs Bloud hath his onely Grace EPIG 100. Against a Foolish Writer THy Booke 's aeternall if such Bookes may bee Beginning none nor End of it I see EPIG 102. Vpon the Death of Prince Henry 1612. DEad is that Prince whom Dead we may lament With Flouds of Teares till Teares last Drops bee spent Our Albions Hope Glory of Britaines King Arts Prop Warres Piller Vertues hopefull Spring To whom none e're came neere but his deare Brother Saue his sweet Sister neuer such Another A Prince much Honour'd Liuing Lou'd when Dead Hi● Nations Light Delight whiles Li●e Hee led Whiles I these things wich Teare-swolne eies sigh-out From both my Springs Teares gush-●orth all about Beleeue me Reade● if what 's Griefe thou know Sighes stop my Speech I weepe Teares ouer-flow His Epitaph Herr● lyes dry Eyes reade not this Epitaph Kings Queenes Prince Princesse Peoples hopeful Staffe Omnis Gloria Deo debita FINIS To the Excellent Translatour of the EPIGRAMS of Master IOHN OWEN Master IOHN VICARS OWen doth owe thee much that thou hast so Transplanted these his Plants made th●m grow Within our Soyle and we owe much to eyther T' Him that them set to Thee that brought'st them hither Idem ad Lectorem Wouldst thou know where Wits Quintessence doth lye Read these few Leaues thou 'lt see it by-and-by Nathaniel Hall Gent. * Epig. 2. Lib. Pri. * Be their fathers * Mulier quasi mollior * Genesis 28.12 * Who was a Fisher * Being awakened * Because on our Eng●●sh Gold was stamped the Image of the Angell Michael

Bad For if my Dreames be Good I grieue But being Bad I 'm glad EPIG 119. Scoffing Prudence WIt without Wisedome is Salt without Meate Rude-Literature Meate without Salt to Eate EPIG 123. Against a tedious Oratour WHen thou hast Said all thou wilt Say 'T remaynes to Say I 'ue Said This onely-word would please mee more Than all the Speech th' ' ast made FINIS EPIGRAMS Out of the three last Bookes The First Booke EPIG 3. Lawyers and Phisicians VNlesse the One Deale-●raftily The Other Desperate bee They Both may Eate on Beggers Meate And Li●e in Penury EPIG 9. Against Tomasinus THe Prayse of prayse-lesse-Asses some Haue writ in these our dayes Amongst the rest haue beene exprest O Tom-Asine thy Prayse EPIG 10. Against Fabianus SOme-Men are Bald without thou Inwardly Those want their Haires thy Brain-pan 's almost Dry EPIG 12. Dalilah SAmsons deceitfull Dalilah His Strength in 's Haire destroyed In these dayes by such Dalilahs Are many-men annoyed EPIG 14. Birth TO Present things w' are Borne Re-borne To things to-come we are Though that Be P●ime yet Principall Is this and Better farre EPIG 18. Against Paetus a Probleme FAther nor Fath'r-in-law thou art t' all Those Which thy Wife bare thee then What th' art who knowes EPIG 19. Against Pontiliana WHy wedded●t thou th' ele●'nth day of Decemb●r Because than this no day's more short night longer EPIG 22. Against Festus an vn-Iust Iudge WHat Iudas or what Pilate did Doe thou thou Iudge vn-Iust With Iudas if thou wilt not Hang. With Pilate Wash thou must EPIG 26. Against Colinus Dying Intestate WHiles thou didst Liue thou nought wouldst giue Thou Leau'st All now thou canst not Liue Like Greedy Hogge thy Life was Led Like Greazie Porke thou now ly'st Dead EPIG 36. From Bad to Worse HE 's Dasht 'gainst Scylla from Charibdis flying Which hopes to Salue hi● Sore by Phisike Dying Fooles voyding Vice the Contrary commit Are those to shunne Strife which on Lawyers hit EPIG 47. Against a Foolish-Writer O I could wish thy Paper were All-blacke Or that it did Least Spot of blacknesse lacke EPIG 51. Females YOng-Wenches Coy and Wanton are Faire-Maides are Infamous Witty are Wily full of Craft Lustfull Lasci●ious EPIG 52. Foure Law-Termes THe Lawyers haue foure Termes to which they frame A most significant and proper name First Michelmasse from th' Angell Michael For Lawyers Purses then with Angels swell The next is Hill●ry a name most fit For this Terme make● the Lawyer m●rry sit And Easter-Terme like Churc●-mens ●aster-Booke Much Gold and Gaine then to themselues they hooke Trinity-Terme so call'd because the Law Three Persons alwayes doth together draw To wit ●he Iudge Lawyer and Clyent poore Who trauailes vp to pay the Lawyers-Score EPIG 57. To Faustine THat my Booke 's Good thou Faustine saidst to me If it be Good would I my Booke might be EPIG 65. A Widdow HE which for 's Wife a Widdow doth obtayne Doth like to those which Buy-Clothes in Long-Lane One Cote 's not fit Another's too-too-old Their faults I know not but th' are manifold Epig. 78. Doctor Ios. Hals Vowes and Meditations THou Vowed'st Vowes fit to be Vow'd Worth Reading Workes dost write He 's blest that Reades thy Vowes if hee To doe them take delight EPIG 95. The forsaken Louer EVen as Hell-fire doth Burne but doth not Shine So thine not Shines but sorely burnes my Heart But towards Thee like Heau'nly fire is wine It Shines on Thee not burnes thee that 's my smart Oh if thy Loue still burne and giue no Light My shining flame it selfe will waste out quite EPIG 98. The Epitaph of C●oesus and Irus VNder this Stone lyes Croesus buryed Wher 's Irus then Here All are Poore when Dead EPIGRAMS Out of the second Booke EPIG 9. Wheele-Greace MEn th' Axeltree doe Greaze that they may n't screake But Lawyers must be Greaz'd to make them speake EPIG 17. Against a certaine Drunkard MVch Prattling causeth greatest Thirstinesse Thy Wife Talkes more then Thou why Drinkes Shee Lesse EPIG 49. Veni Vidi Vici Christ. INto this World Coelestiall Caesar came Mans Mis●ry with Mercies-Eye Hee Saw He Death O're-came to his immortall fame Then Him to 's Throne of Mercy did with-draw He came O're-Came He Saw fore-saw all things All this He did that we might Raigne as Kings EPIG 58. A Pure Sacrifice THis World was on●e the Temple of the Lord The C●osse the ●l●tar Christ the Sacrifice Chri●t God and M●n our High-Priest paid the Price To th' Altar like a Lambe fast bound with Cord. EPIG 71. Of the King Law and People THe King 's the She●heard Men are Sheepe Lawes are their Pasture faire The Flocke being Ill the King● great Skill By 's Lawes their Hurts repaire EPIG 78. The Deuils Force and Fraud THe Diuell like a Lion fierce Runnes all the World about Each wand'ri●g Soule that he may Slay Like Wind his Rage flyes-out Yea like a Foxe most f●audulent Satan spreads priuate Nets Thus whom by Force he cannot force By subtill Snares he gets EPIG 79. Precept Practice THe learned Preachers Words though plaine To Plaine-men Truth may Preach But Pastours pious Practice doth A Holy-Life them Teach Th●t Doctour is Diu●ne indeed Whi●h by Good-Workes proues Words More Harme doe Ill-Examples breed Than Good-Words Good affords EPIG 84. Against Couetous-Men Sell all that thou hast and giue it to the Poore AH Killing-Letter Out-Alas What 's this thus Diues cryes What meanes the Holy-Ghost sayes hee Sell All can such be wise What meanes the Holy Ghost Thou Wretch He meanes what Thou ne're thought He will Giue All vnto the Poore And thou wilt Giue them Nought EPIG 87. Man a Hunter a Fisher a Fowler MAn Hunts for Wealth and Riches store Spreads Nets for Dignities And like a Fisher sounds the Dep●h Of Deepest Mysteries But whiles fond Man doth fish to know With Pride Preferments watcheth And Auaricious Riches seekes He shame and blame oft catcheth EPIG 26. Christ a Diuine a Phisician a Lawyer CHrist a Diuine Phisician was whiles heere In Heau'n He shall a Iudge most Iust appeare EPIG 43. Baptisme to a Iew. BAptisme doth Wash but Circumcision Wound The Lawes dire Launch Christs Washing makes most sound FINIS EPIGRAMS Out of the third-Booke EPIG 9. Matrimoniall Rule THe Nightly Gouernment is due Vnto the Female kind And vnto Masculines to Rule i th' Day it is assign'd And this we see Experience prooues For Cynthia Rules the Night And Phoebus rayes his Rule displayes Who in the Day shines bright EPIG 10. Against a certaine Proud-Woman A Feather o're thy Head thou ha●t And Corke vnder thy feet Both these declare though thou be faire Thee to be fond and fleet EPIG 11. Faith MY Eyes i th' Skies the twinkling Starres The Pole Opinion spyes So with mine Eye I view Heauen high My Faith my God descryes EPIG 13. Contempt of the World WOuldst Liue a Good-Life then this Life despise 'T's a wretched Life