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A02836	Quodlibets lately come ouer from New Britaniola, old Newfound-land Epigrams and other small parcels, both morall and diuine. The first foure bookes being the authors owne: the rest translated out of that excellent epigrammatist, Mr. Iohn Owen, and other rare authors: with two epistles of that excellently wittie doctor, Francis Rablais: translated out of his French at large. All of them composed and done at Harbor-Grace in Britaniola, anciently called Newfound-Land. / By R.H. sometimes Gouernour of the plantation there.	Hayman, Robert, 1578 or 9-1631?.; Owen, John, 1560?-1622. Epigrammata. Book 1-4. English. Selections.; Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553?; Habert, Francois, ca. 1508-ca. 1561.	1628 (1628)	STC 12974; ESTC S106081	67,153	134

Too much too little hurts Light Corne beares ground that 's not with dressing dight Without some learning wit growes vaine and light As too much dressing cause weeds ranck and bad So too much Learning makes a quicke wit mad 21. Greatnes and Loue moue not in one Spheare Greatnes soares vpward Loue is downeward mou'd Hence 't is that Greatnes Loues not nor is Lou'd 22. To an enuied Fauorite right worthy of his preferment Enuious and bad 'gainst vertue goodnesse fight Would Good and wise did vnderstand you right 23. To a casheard Fauorite who hath deserued his disgrace I grieue at thy disgrace blush at thy shame But this drawes teares Thou hast deseru'd the same 24. How Little how Great The least of all the fixed Stars they say Is some times bigger then the earth and Sea Poore little I that from earth haue my birth Am but a clod compared to the Earth How little now how great shall I be then When I in Heauen like to a Starre shall shine 25. On Young weekely Newes-writers old Chroniclers Currantiers lye by Vbiquity But Chroniclers lye by Authority Newes-writers Trauellers are Historians old Trauellers and old men to lye may be bold Not then Not there cannot their lyes vnfold 26. Conscience Whilst concious men of smallest sinnes haue ruth Bold sinners count great Sinnes but tricks of youth 27. To a weake braind Good-fellow Thy braine is weake strong drinke thou canst not beare Follow my Rule Strong drinke doe thou forbeare 28. The only Foundation Rocke of Christs Church To the Diuines of Rome Out of the Creed wherein we both consent Peter I proue is not the Rocke Christ ment Doe we belieue in God of all the maker In that the Iew with vs is a partaker Doe we belieue that Christ was borne and dy'd And that he was vnjustly Crucifi'd The Turke beleues so and sayes he did stand Till theirs came mediating at Gods right hand That he shall Iudge all that beleeue in him Both Iew and Turke Forgiuenes of all sinne Belieue the fleshes Resurrection The blessed Saints holy Communion And life eternall almost as we doe And that their Church is Catholicke and true They doe beleeue the Spirits influence Though not like vs but in a larger sense But all within our Creed which doth conduce To proue Christ Iesus is the only sluce Of our Saluation and Gods only Sonne In that we Christians doe beleeue alone This is the Rocke whereon Christs Church is built Take away this all our Faiths frame will tylt And this was Peters wise confession Whence I deduce this firme conclusion Not Peter his confession the Rock is And Christ said not On Thee but Vpon This. 29. An honest wrong'd Mans Meditations Since for my Loue Friends me vnkindly serue God will not vse me as I doe deserue 30. The good effects of Corrections Sea-water though 't be salt salt meates makes fresh So doth correction our ill liues redresse 31. Preachers Fame and Ayme Young Preachers to doe well doe take much paine That all may doe well is old Preachers ayme 32. To the Reader This one fault Reader pardon and endure If striuing to be briefe I grow obscure 33. A Christian Meditation I hope and I doe faithfully beleeue That God in loue will me Saluation giue I hope and my assured firme faith is God will accept my Loue to him and his I hope by faith his Loue will me afford All this only through Iesus Christ our Lord. 34. A Messe of Mistakers Lewd loose large lust is loue with Familists Papists chiefe Hope in their owne workes consists Some Protestants on barren Faith relye Atheists haue no Faith Hope nor Charity 35. An Appendix to this Epigram Loue is the fruite Hope the leaues Faith the tree Who hath a perfect Faith hath all these three Only by such a Faith men saued be 36. A Guilty Conscience When God did call to Adam Where art thou He meant not thereby where or in what place God knew in which bush he was well enough But Where art Adam that is In what case 37. To giue the Church of Rome her due To a Separatist Though thou art loth to put it in thy Creed The Church of Rome is a true Church indeed So is a Thiefe a true truely a man Although he be not truely a true one How is it else that Children there baptizde By other Christians Christians are agnizde 38. To Quick siluer headded Innouators Because of the vncertainty of Wits Our Law commands a certainty in Writs For as good cause is our Church Lythurgie Wisly reduced to a certainty If that were yeelded to that some men seeke We should haue new Church-Seruice euery weeke 39. Faire Good Wiues Cleare-skind true colour'd Wiues with exact features With wise mild chaste Soules are the best of Creatures 40. Faire Shrewes Cleare-skind faire colour'd Wiues with exact features With shrewd lew'd wild minds are the worst of creatures 41. A Probleme hereupon If fine flesh be so ill with an ill mind What is a foule outside thus inward lin'd 42. A Trestick to these three Disticks by way of Answer To all constant Batchelers especially to my Good Friend Mr. Roger Michell Caribdis one the other Sylla is And though the first an harbour be of blisse You steare the safest course these Rockes to misse 43. To an honest old doting Man such as I may be if I liue a little longer A Lyer should haue a good memory For want of it thou vtterest many a Lye Thou dost remember many things in great But the particulars thou dost forget Thou tell'st thy Lyes without ill thought or paine Th' are no malicious Lyes nor Lyes for gaine 44. A Crue of Cursing Companions To the Bishop of Rome With Bell Booke Candle each Ascension day Thou cursest vs who for thee yeerely pray But on good Fryday the Greeke Patriark Doth banne thee branding thee with this lewd marke He stiles thee Father of Corruption Of Ancient Fathers the corrupting One They saw long since thy knauish forgery As we now see thy Purging Knauery 45. To the same man He that doth dead Saints Reliques Idolize Their liuing writings lewdly falsifies 46. Enuies Dyet Old wits haue seuerall wayes drest Enuies food Each hath his sawce if rightly vnderstood Her owne heart her owne flesh A Toade A Bone Which she deuoureth sitting all alone Though these are faire This dish doth me best please When I find her gnawing a wreathe of Bayes For her chiefe food Is well deserued praise 47. To a hansome Whore One told me what a pretty face thou hast And it 's great pitty that thou art not chaste But I did tell him that did tell it me That if thou wert not Faire thou chaste wouldst be 48. The mad life of a mad Sea-man of Warre He liues and thriues by death and by decay He drinkes sweares curseth sometimes he doth pray That he may meet somewhat to be his prey And spends the rest in sleepe

like the old fain'd Gyant-Generation Would pluck the Gods out of their habitation With raising Pelion vpon Ossa hill And Babel towre build with a strange new skill Burne Troy to ashes and her peace disquiet And bring all things vnto a second Fiat Addition On this neuer the like heard of Treason and neuer to be forgotten Deliuerance Ne'r did the like report sound in mans eare God blest vs that That sound wee did not heare 202. To the Reader To those Gunpowder Traytors who on a Tuesday intended to blow vp the Parliament House Traytors would you with fire New-Troy destroy 'Cause Trayterous Greekes with fire destroyd old Troy Tuesday is Mars his day the God of Warre A day fit for a plot of Gunpowder 207. To the Reader Thou that readst these shalt find them shor and few Were these few many they would larger grow Thou that read'st these shalt find them few and short Were these few long they 'd be the larger for 't 208 Voice and Writing Though voice be liuing writing a Lead better Yet voice soone dyes writing liues long and etter PART OF MASTER IOHN OWENS EPIGRAMS TRANSLATED into ENGLISH THE FOVRTH BOOKE WHICH HE CALL HIS SOLE BOOKE Epig. 3. To his Booke THou now must passe euen through a world of hands Thy censure vnder diuers iudgements stands Who doth not reade thee may thee discommend More fault-finders then Readers thou wilt find 4 To the Inhabitants of Great Brittaine As bad as mad we well That man may hold Who doth despise needfull free-proferd gold He worthy were to weare a Bedlam fetter You did despise the Vnion that was better 10 The three Dimensions to a prating Iack. In thy talke are but two dimensions found 'T is large 't is long but not at all profound 16 To a great Courtier If the King smile on thee all will doe so As shaddows doe after our bodies goe If the King frowne all the Court will looke black As when the Sunne is set we shaddows Iack. 17 Baldnesse through Vice Though not one haire can on thy head be seene On that white table all may reade thy sinne 18 To Pontilian Calls he thee into Law Pontilian He calls not thee he calls thy mony man Addition He hopes to worke on thee by bribery By thy feare comprimise or forgery 20 Enuies Genealogie To the admirably-vertuous Sir Iohn Harrington then Heire to the Lord Harrington Faire Vertue foule-mouth'd Enuie breeds and feeds From Vertue onely this foule Vice proceeds Wonder not that I this to you indite 'Gainst your rare Vertues Enuie bends her spite 23 A rich Promiser but a poore Performer We should performe more then we promise can For God hath giuen one tongue two hands to man Nothing thou giu'st yet grantest each demand As if thou hadst two tongues but not a hand 26 Euery man flatters himselfe Of all the Planets betwixt vs and Heau'n The Moone though least seemes greatest of the seu'n To best conceits that other wayes doe know Because she 's neerest vs she seemeth so So though I am a Poet small and bad To my neere selfe I seeme the finest Lad. 29 Thy shaddow in thy Looking-glasse When thou dost laugh thy shaddow seemes to smile Whilst thou dost weepe he mourneth all the while Sleeping he winks all postures hee 'l afford Yet when thou speak'st he speaketh not a word 31 To a sleeping talker In sleepe thou speak'st vnfore-thought mysteries And vtt'rest vnfore-seene things with clos'd eies How well would'st thou discourse if thou wert dead Since sleepe Deaths image such fine talke hath bred 33 Mans misery Angels want bodies and are neuer sick Beasts wanting soules their conscience neuer prick Onely poore man of soule and body made Their bodies paines sadnesse their soules inuade Reason that should rule passion is not able She only shewes men they are miserable 35 To an vnmarried friend Good doers deserue Heau'n after this life Thou hast thy deseru'd heau'n thou hast no wife 36 Woe to the alone To a married friend proposing God for an example God made him Angels to attend his Throne And why because God would not liue alone Addition Hauing made Man makes Woman of his bone And why because man should not liue alone 38 An Atheists Inheritance When any man of Heau'n doth talke to thee Thou say'st they vaine and idle prattlers be What 's aboue vs to vs doth not belong Hell is below thee to burne such a tongue 40 To the Readers Dost thou aske me Why I take so much paine To be thus briefe Reader 't is for thy gaine As trauellers find gold lesse cumbersome Then siluer such is breuity to some 41 The New Roman Computation Rome that sayes she holds all points without change Why doth she old feast from the old ranke range 50 To an enuious Momus who found fault with his three first Bookes Had fiue iust men amongst a wicked brood Been found Gomorah to this day had stood For a few bad loose verses thou findst heere My whole booke thou black Reader wouldst casheere 53 The poore Cuckolds Complaint For my wiues close-stolne sports why am I blam'd And of the common vulgar Cuckold nam'd And pointed at For what I did not act But you I know not who call 't not my fact 69 Cardinall Wolseys Ego Rex mens I and my King Grammarians will allow I and my King The Courtier say's it was a saucy thing Grammarians teach words Courtiers words well sort This phrase might passe in Schooles but not at Court 75 Deaths Trouer Death finds some as Vlysses found his wife With care and sorrow spinning out her life Addition To her Vlysses was a welcome guest To some as welcome is Deaths sad arrest 80 A bad Debtor I know thou tak'st great care both night and day Not how thou mayst but how thou mayst not pay Thou payst me nothing that 's thy wickednesse But payst thy Lawyer that 's thy foolishnesse 82 The deriuatiue Church There is but one true Church as one true Faith Which from th' Eternall Spirit hath her breath From Primitiue all would themselues deriue To proue it they strange arguments contriue 84 The good of want If how good things are by want best are knowne I should know mony 's good for I haue none 87 Democrates many Worlds If all those Worlds were those innumerable Which fond Democrates did earst belieue I doe beleeue that amongst all that rabble This world would be the worst wherein we liue 88 Of Epigrams An Epigram that 's new quick tart sharp witty Is like a Wench that 's new faire smooth neate pretty Whilst they are new and fresh they are respected Once commnon though still good they are neglected 91 A couetous mans bounty or a sure marke-man He giues to take takes not to giue againe Giuing his arrowes are his marke is gaine 93 Penelope's Patience Penelope's patient Fidelity Was once a Prouerbe now a Prodigy 94 To Anetta Nature 't is said with 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