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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"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 May 7, 2024.
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wot not her name what they should call.
For if by corps supposd may be
her seex, then sure a virgin she:
But sure I wot not ponderyng all,
how I woman may her call.
For why? nor fear, nor greef, could make
her sturdy stomake stoute to quake.
She misbehavd her self in nought,
she freely spake what so she thought.
And when that silence best beseemd,
then none then she more silent deemd.
She neuer she, held dauncing deere:
she neuer deckt nor tuft her heere:
She neuer vsed paintyng dye:
she neuer vsd to role her eye:
No wanton word would she put out:
therefore she was a man no dout.
Yet sure she was no man I know,
I not why I should name her so.
Such heauenly hue suche bewty braue,
we neuer saw yet man to haue.
Both man and woman then was she:
nay that agen may no wayes be.
I haue already proued this,
that she ne man nor woman is.
A goddesse then neades must she be,
or els a new Mineru•• she:
And though she be a Lady bright,
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yet hath she hart and manly might.
Yet Pallas crueltie is knowen,
eak vice of gods abroad is blowen.
Wherefore of force we must suppose,
that this same Tomb doth here inclose
Such one as euery state did staine:
men, women, gods aloft that raigne.