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justice_n	chief_a	lord_n	plea_n	5,523	5	9.8646	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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