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

IACOBVS ROGERIVS.

Vnder Hercules painted spinnyng.

WHat brynges not loue to passe? what doeth not loue constraine? It causd stoute Hercules to spinne, by whom were monsters slaine.

Against the riche vnlearned, out of Laertius.

WHat tyme Diogines, a dolte in purple did beholde: I see (saied he) a selie shepe, in fell and fleece of golde.

Of three Grecians, writers of Tragedies.

THree Grecian Poets tragicall, did leaue their liues and dye Moste straungely, as the stories of the Grecians testifie. The firste ycleped Sophocles, (as writers sundrie saie) Was chockt with kurnell of a grape, that in his throate did staie. Euripides the seconde (that from women did refraine)

By cursed hap with cruell curres, was all to torne and slaine. Now Aeschilus the thirde and laste, an Egle from an hye Let fall a shell vppon his pate, whiche kilde hym by and by.