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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07090	Selected epigrams of Martial. Englished by Thomas May Esquire; Epigrammata. English. Selections	Martial.; May, Thomas, 1595-1650.	1629 (1629)	STC 17494; ESTC S112307	21,625	104

personated Leander was here saved the true one was drowned in the Hellespont THat this night-sea thy life Leander saves Cease youth to wōder they were Caesars ● av●● When bold Leander swam to his faire Love And gainst the swelling waves now weari'd strove Thus the approaching ●illowes he bespake This life but going spare returning take Young men skilfull in swimming attired in the habit of Sea-Nymphs played upon the water of the Theater Which artificiall spectacle hee preferreth before the true Exercises of Thetis and her Nymphs ON Seas a well-taught Troope of Sea-Nymphs playde And various rankes on th' easie waters made The threatning Tridēt the crook'd Anchors there The Ships the Oares we thought did true appear Th' Oebalian Twins the Sailors saviours shin'd Broad Sailes did seeme to swell against the wind Who first such workes on liquid waters wrought These sports here Thetis learn'd or Thetis taught Of Carpophorus HAd former ages bred Carpophorus No Monsters Caesar had beene left for us Nor had men fear'd the Nemean Lions rore The Cretan Bull nor fierce Arcadian Bore By his arm'd hand Hydra one death had dy'd He at one blow Chimaera had destroy'd Tam'd Colchos Buls without Medaea's ayde And freed Andromeda and the Troian Maide Count great Alcides praises and to tame Twice ten wilde Beasts at once is greater fame He preferreth the Sea-fights exhibited for spectacle by the Emperours Titus and Domitian before those of Augustus Claudius and Nero. TO ioyne two fleets and with Sea-trumpets raise A navall fight was great Augustus praise More is our Caesar's Galataea view'd And Thetis too strange Beasts in water shew'd And Triton Sea-wett Chariots here hath seene And thought they had his Masters horses beene For these fierce ships whilst he prepares a fight Old Nereus would not from his Chariot light What ere upon the circke or stage men see Caesar's rich water does present to thee Let Claudius Lakes and Nero's not be knowne To after times but this Sea-fight alone When two Sword-Players fought equally and neyther yeelded Caesar though the People desired it would not dismisse them till at last both equally yeelded Vpon which hee dismissed them both crowned them both as Conquerours and freed them from the service of the stage by seading them Staves as the Custome was WHen Verus here there Priscus did prolong The fight and both their strengths in ballance hung The Peoples clamours oft dismission pray'd For both but Caesar his owne Law obey'd Which was the yeelder must his finger show How er● he gif● and ●unkets did bestow At last an end this equall combate found Both fought alike and both alike gave ground Caesar to both gave prize and libertie All this became ingenious vertues fee 'T was never known Caesar before thy raigne That two should fight and conquest both obtain● FINIS MARTIAL His Epigramms Hic est quem legis Epig. 1 Lib. 1. HEre whom thou seek'st Reader thou hast Martiall through all the knowne world grac'd For Epigrams of choysest wit To whom alive and knowing it Reader the favour thou hast showne Few Poets Vrnes have ever knowne Cum peteret Regem Epig. 22. Lib. 1. WHen Mutius mist of his King-killing ayme His willing hand he offer'd to the flame But the milde Foe such Miracles abhorr'd And safe from fire his Prisoner home restor'd That hand that Mutius from least fainting free Durst burne the King could not endure to see Thus happy errour greater glory wonne And lesse this hand if not deceiv'd had done Po●●peios iuvenes Epig. 74. Lib. 5. EVrope and Asia Pompey's sonnes interre He tomb'd in Lybia lyes if any where No marvell t is they scatter'd thus remaine Since no one place such ruine could containe Coniugis audisset fatum Epig. 43. Lib. 1. WHen Brutus death to Portias eare was brought And weapons hid from her her sorrow sought Know ye not yet quoth she death 's nere deny'd Learn'd you not so much when my Father dy'd This said hot swallowed coales dispatch her life In vaine alas have you deny'd a knife Dum dubitaret Epig. 32. Lib. 6. WHile civill Furies fate did doubtfull stay And yet soft Otho might have wonne the day Mars he condemn'd with blood already cloy'd And his own life his certaine hand destroy'd Though Cato's life than Caesars greater was Not Cato's death could dying Otho passe Quod magni Thrase● Epig. 9. Lib. 1. THat great Thrasea's Sect thou dost maintaine And dying Cato's yet still safe remaine Nor on drawne Swords thy naked breast hast run What I could wish has Decianus done I weigh not him whose glory death must raise Give me the man that living merits praise Cum gravis Epig. 73. Lib. 4. WHen sicke Vestinus drew his latest breath And saw before his eyes approaching death The Sisters drawing his last thread he prayes In that blacke taske to use some small delayes Dead to himselfe he now lives to his friends The Fates gave way to his Religious ends Then parting his large wealth he yeelds his breath And thinkes himselfe now old enough for death Vu fieri liber Epig. 53. Lib. ● THou would'st be free thou ly'st thou would'●● not be●● But if thou wouldst I le chaul● the way to thee At others Tables canst thou scorne to dine Canst quench thy thirst with small Etrurian wi●●●● And cast on Cinna's Plate no covetous eye And be content with such a gowne as I Can a cheape Wench suffice thine appe●ite And roomes in which thou canst not stand uprigh● Couldst thou thy minde to this true temper bring Thou shouldst live freer than the Parthian King Nullos osse Deos Epig. 21. Lib. 4. THat in the Heavens no gods there be Selius affirmes and proves cause h● Still thinking so lives happily ●sse quid hoc Epig. 10. Lib. 5. WHence i st that men alive no praise can gaine And that few Readers their own times mainetaine Thi● Regulus is Envie 's wonted guise To praise what 's past and present things despise So we old Pompey's Gallery desire And ●ulius Temple our old men admire ●nnius Rome read whilst Maro there resided By his own times great Homer was derided F●w Stages ●●ownd Menander sounded forth None but Corinna knew her Ovids Worth But haste not you my Bookes for Fame to whom ●is soone enough if after death it come Sit cister●● mibi Epig. 55. Lib. 3. A Vineyard at Ravenna no a Well For Water there than Wine doth dearer sell Callidus imposiat Epig. 56. Lib. 3. THe Vin●ner cheated me and pure Wine gave Wine mixt with Water ● desir'd to have Callidus effracta Epig. 43. Lib. 5. THieves may thy Coffers breake steale coyne or plate Thy house a sudden fire may ruinate Debtors may Vse and Principall deny And dead thy seedes in barren Grounds may lye Thy Steward may be cheated by a Who●re Thy Merchandise the Ocean may devour But what thou giv'st thy friends frō chance is free Thy gifts alone shall thine for ever be COntinual showrs have so

fable verifi'd we all have seene Let not old times Caesar selfe-praised bee Since what fame fings the stage presents to thee In the hunting of the amphitheatre a woman it seeme● had killed a lion vpon which he extolleth the exercises of Caesar's theatre before former times THat Mars doth conquer Caesar at thy fights T is not enough but tender Venus fights The lion slaine in Nemean Vale of old Fame as a great Herc●lian action told Let old fame silent be for since thy show As much we saw a womans hand to do Men condemned to dy did personate in their death● some ancient fable vpon the stage as this Prometheus AS to the Sythian rock Promotheus bound Fod stil a bird with his breasts deathles woūd Laureolus on no false gibbet here So yeelds his brest t'a Calidonean beare His torne bloud-dropping members liv'd one wound And in 's whole body was no body found Surche that suffer'd thus with impious sword Murder'd his Father or had slaine his Lord Or rob'd the temples of their sacred gold Or fired Rome What ere that crime of old His crime surpast for what they did invent Oftothers harme was his true punishment Vpon a Malefactor personating Daedalu● VVHen by a bear thou Daedalus wer● torne How gladly then wouldst thou thy wings haue w●r●● Of a Rhinoceros THe fierce Rhinoceros Caesar in thy sight More than he promis'd did perform the fight How fierce in rage how strōg of horn was he Whose strength in th' aire made bulls like balls to flee He praises the iustice of Caesar who cōmanded a Lion to be killed on the Stage for hurting or killing his Keeper ATreacherous Lion hurt his Keeper late Daring those well known hands to violate But for his foule offence he pai'd full deare In stead of stripes he felt a killing speare Vnder a Prince that teaches gentlenesse To beasts what manners should his men expresse Of a Beare caught with bird-lime on the Theatre VVHilst ore the bloody stage a Beare so fast Doth roll in bird-lime caught he lost his haste Let cased hunting spears now vseless stand And iavelins fly no more from th'hunters hand Let huntsmen in the aire pursue their prey If beasts be caught after the fowlers way Of a Sow chased ore the Theatre and killed with a speare who out at that wound farrowed 〈◊〉 pigges AT our Caesarian Dians cruell show A flying dart had hurt a praegnant sow When from the damms death-wound the pigges proceed Cruel Lucina this the way to breed The dying sow would of mo● wounds be glad To make sad way for all the pigs shee had Deny not Bacchus borne by mothers death A God might well since so a beast tooke breath Another of the same A Breeding sow hurt with a mortall blow At once lost life and did new life bestow What certaine aime the iaueline-thrower tooke I thinke it was Lucinaes hand that strooke Her death the power of both Diana's try'd Help'd as a da●●e as hunting game shee dy'd Another of the same A So● now great the fruit of her ripe wombe Brought forth a parent by a wound become That lay not still but runne when the dam feli How witt in suddaine chances doth excell ●e praises young Carpophorus a favourite of Domitian the Emperour's who to winne honour fought with beasts vpon the stage as the custome was he prefers him before Hercules and Meleager A Bore whose death gave Meleager name But part is of Carpophorus his fame He in a Beare as great as any were Vnder the North did sheathe his hunting speare He slow a Lion of unusuall size That might be held a faire Herculean prize And a swift Libbard yet his freshnesse such When crown'd for this he could have done as much A spectacle in which by an engine the image of Domitian arrayed like Hercules seemed to bee carryed by a Bull up into heauen he compares it with the Bull that carryed Europa THat from the Stage a Bull did mount the sk●e It was no worke of Art but Pietie A Bull Europa bore through's Brothers Seas Now to the sky a Bull bare Hercules Caesar's and love's devices now compare Though both bare equall loades this highest bare Of an Elephant adoring Domitian the Emperour THat th' Elephant whose might the Bull before So fear'd thee Caesar prostrate did adore T was not his Keepers teaching or commands Even hee thy God-head Caesar understands Of a Tiger and a Lion A hard-got Tiger from th' Hyrcanian Land That us'd to licke his fearelesle Masters hand Lately in rage a thing not heard before A mighty Lion all to pieces tore He durst not doe within the Forrest thus But grew more furious since he liv'd with us Of a Bull and an Elephant THe Bul that late provoked on the stage By fire did tosse the Bals up in his rage Did fall at last by strength of horne whilst so He thought in th' ayre an Elephant to throw He flatters the wisedome of Domitian who satisfied at once the desires of both factions of the People WHile some Triumphus Myrinus some crave Caesar at once with both hands promise gave This merry strife who better could accord Oh pleasant wit of an unconquer'd Lord The Fable of Orpheus was presented on the Amphitheater in which acondemn'd man was torue by a Beare as Orpheius was by the Women in the sacrifice of Bacchus WHat ●re of Orpheus Aemus vale did see Thy stage OCaesar did present to thee The Rockes did creepe the Woods were running seene Such as th' Hesperides were thought t' have been Beasts after him both wilde and tame did throng And sholes of Birds about the Poet hung But he was slaine by an ungratefull Beare This here was true t' other was fained there Of the Rhinoceres WHilst long the fearefull Keepers did provoke Th' Rhinoceros ere he his anger tooke They did despaire th' expected sight t' obtaine At last his usuall rage return'd againe For with his double horne he tost a Beare As high as Buls stuff'd Bals have tossed there Of Carpophorus HOw strong and sure yet in his tender yeares Carpophorus throwes his Dorick hunting speares Two mighty Bullocks easily he kill'd To him the bugle and fierce Bull did yeeld From him a Lion on the weapons ranne Blame not the tarrying of the combate than A navall fight presented on the Theater the water being suddenly let in by certain devices made spectators that were strangers beleeve it was the Sea but that presently after they saw the water let out and the Sword-players exercising in the same place SPectator thou that com'st from some far shore And never saw'st these sacred showes before Be not deceiv'd with Sea-like Pooles that beare Whole navall fights dry Land was lately there Doo'st not beleeve stay till the Fencers play By Land here lately was the Sea thou 'lt say The History of Leander personated upon the water let into the Amphitheater in which he prayseth the emperour as more mercifull than Neptune for this