Flovvers of epigrammes, out of sundrie the moste singular authours selected, as well auncient as late writers. Pleasant and profitable to the expert readers of quicke capacitie: by Timothe Kendall, late of the Vniuersitie of Oxford: now student of Staple Inne in London

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Flovvers of epigrammes, out of sundrie the moste singular authours selected, as well auncient as late writers. Pleasant and profitable to the expert readers of quicke capacitie: by Timothe Kendall, late of the Vniuersitie of Oxford: now student of Staple Inne in London
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Kendall, Timothy, fl. 1577.
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Imprinted at London :: [By John Kingston] in Poules Churche-yarde, at the signe of the Brasen Serpent, by Ihon Shepperd,
1577.
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Epigrams.
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"Flovvers of epigrammes, out of sundrie the moste singular authours selected, as well auncient as late writers. Pleasant and profitable to the expert readers of quicke capacitie: by Timothe Kendall, late of the Vniuersitie of Oxford: now student of Staple Inne in London." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A04794.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 11, 2024.

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The properties of certaine birdes. Of the Peacok.

WHen Argus with his hundred eyes, Hermes had conquerd q••••ght By sweet melodyous harmony, and Musyckes heauenly might. Then Iuno tooke his watchfull eyes, and brauely by and by, She plast them in my traine, where now they shine as sunne in skye. My name hights Peacocke comonly, I take a greate delight In settyng vp my plumes alofte, that brauely glister bright. I haunt where princely buildings be, I loth the Cottage base:

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I haue a fearfull feendlike note, a theuish softly pace. My fleshe as hard as hard may be, from Samos Ile I cam: Iuno doth mee defend and keepe, and Iunos byrd I am.
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