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justice_n	knight_n	sir_n	thomas_n	12,947	5	9.6515	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68869	Epigrammes in the oldest cut, and newest fashion A twise seuen houres (in so many weekes) studie no longer (like the fashion) not vnlike to continue. The first seuen. Iohn Weeuer.	Weever, John, 1576-1632.	1599 (1599)	STC 25224; ESTC S103053	21,997	112

EPIGRAMME in the oldest cut and newest fashion A twise seuen houres in so many weekes studie No longer like the fashion not vnlike to continue The first seuen Iohn Weeuer Sit voluisse Sat valuisse At London Printed by V. S. for Thomas Bushell and are to be sold at his shop at the great north doore of Paules 1599 To the Right Worshipfull and worthie honoured Gentleman sir Richard Houghton of Houghton Tower Knight Iustice of Peace and Quorum High Sheriffe of Lanchishire c. Adorned with all giftes that valour may giue or vertue gaine KNowing and admiring Right Wor. the generall applause and loue which you haue of your cuntrie wonne no doubt by your vertues seated in a hart of curtesie And the experience which many schollers haue had of your kindnesse neuer to be forgotten but with vngratefulnesse perswade me you wil animate my yong Muse and vouchsafe to per vse the fruites of my not curious nor carelesse studies albeit I must confesse farre vnworthie your Wor view Vnlesse like the wisest senator you would haue your serious affaires intermedled with diuers delights to driue away the tediousnesse of time Then most bountifull Mecoenas if you fauour the effect of my labour it will serue you for a ieast to refresh your wearied mind continually exrcised in matters concerning the common wealth And thus I commend my Booke to your mild censure and your selfe to your soules content Yours in desire Ioh Weeuer In commendation of the worke and the Author Nor dost thou praise a pockworne tawnie trull Nor dost thou carue a liuelesse slubbred stone Nor dost thou fill thy page with great othes full Nor dost thou sonnet of King Salomon Nor dost thou like a loue-sicke milke-sop gull Vnto thy Mistris for a kisse make mone But salt with sugar honnie mixt with gall Must needes be praisde must needes be likt of al. Now I am sure thou tendes to vertues lore Shewes reading iudgement and inuention Thus writ the Epigrammatists of yore And told the world her foule abusion Thus thou and thine shal euer enui de be And like a Page will Enuy tend on thee In Authorem Why so Alcyon maketh first her nest And then into the riuer lets it slide To see if t'wil keepe water from her brest So thou thy nest my friend in me hast tride I like it wel it holdeth water out Feare fier fier is the curious scout T. B. Gen. In Authorem I wish my rough-hewne lines might gratifie The first borne of thy pleasing Poesie These be but blossomes what will be the fruite When time and age hath made thee more accute Meane while how euer Momus bite the lippe Each man will praise the weauers workmanship When wittie verse is worthily regarded Then shall thy verse be thankfully rewarded I. K. Mag Art Ad Librum So great a sence withing in so short a verse So great a worke within so short a space So great aduise to find in so few yeares Addes fame to Grant and thee to Muses race These Epigrams the buds of thy first spring Shew what thy leaues in summer time will be For more they do sprout forth the more thou sing That th'after age thy wit may verifie Thus Grant is made Pyrene our willowes baies This Booke the honor of thy yong wise daies Tho Kedgewin Gent. Vincit qui patitur To the Author Of Hemp and wooll our country weauers make Such kind of cloth as keeps vs whole and cleane This silken Weeuer subtler loomes gin take And seu'n weeks web hath warpt with finer beam His cloth discouereth vice adorning vertues lore Wherefore of greater price then Weauers heretofore Ed Gurney Gent. In laudem Authoris 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eiusdem In laudem Authoris Queris Amalthaeae cornu num quaeris Artis Nec sine mente iocos sine dente sales Huc vertes occulos animumque aduerte benignum Praeclarum doctae respice mentis opus Saepe Poeta nouem celebrauit carmine mu●●● Nunc decima audita est carmina Mu●al●qui M. Milwardmag Ar Statuto bono statuto Lectores quotquot quales quicunque estis O let my words be sweetned in a mouth If your great highnesse can discend so lo●●● As daigne to view my tender-blushing youth That twenty twelue months yet did neuer know Right Malmsey relisht one which euer saith Good very good nay excellent in faith Dew gracious lookes vpon mine infant Muse Nip not my blossoms in their budding prime These artlesse lines at leisure do peruse Only to adde more wings to idle time My hou●ring muse could neuer get that spirit Which to peruse me might your fauour merit I neuer lay vpon a bed of Roses Twixt Beauties lips entombing of my tong Smelling rose-waterd odoriferous Poses Pleasing my mistris with a Mermaides song Ofamorous kissing more then loue-sicke lauish Whose iuice might make my words the Readers rauish The liquid waues nor did I euer plash Of siluer-channeld si● purling riuer Yet Nestor-old nymph-nursing Grant wil wash Hir Nymphs scorns preheminēce to giue hir Nor haue I spent in Troinouant my dayes Where all good witts some say are crown d with Bayes I cannot shew then in a sugred vaine Wit iudgement learning or inuention I cannot reach vp to a Delians straine Whose songs deserue for euer your attention Nor Draytons stile whose hony words are meete For these your mouths far more than hony sweet I neuer durst presume take in mine hand The nimble-tripping Faëries history I cannot I protest yet vnderstand The wittie learned Satyres mystery I cannot moue the sauage with delight Of what I cannot Reader then I write Must I then cast in Enuies teeth defiance Or dedicate my Poems to detraction Or must I scorne Castilioe's neere alliance Nay I must praise this Poet-pleasing faction Lest in the Presse my ouerthrow they threaten And of the Binders laugh to see me beaten O that I had such eloquence as might Intreate the enuious Reader boue the rest For his deepe wisedome censures all aright That by his lippes I may be alwaies blest If this suffice not for the enuiest Know then I am an Epigrammatist Iohn Weeuer Intentio operis Authoris For pride with Clio Tamyras contend For profit Otho all thy Poems spend Pedro for praise praise Burgl●neroes vice Please thou thy selfe in reading ouer thrice Tubro thy verse Speake faire ye Gnatonists But whip and scourge ye Epigrammatists To whip and scourge my chiefest meaning is With seu'n sower rods laid ful seu'n weeks in pisse Yet pleasure profit pride nor praise allures me To whip scurge But vertue that procures me To the generous Readers EPigramms are much like vnto Almanacks seruing especially for the yeare for the which they are made then these right iudging Readers being for one yeare pend and in another printed are past date before they come from