Ouid's elegies three bookes. By C.M. Epigrames by I.D.

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Title: Ouid's elegies three bookes. By C.M. Epigrames by I.D.
Author: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
Publication: At Middlebourgh [i.e. London :: s.n.,; after 1602]
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Subject terms: Latin poetry -- Translations into English -- Early works to 1800.; Love poetry, Latin -- Early works to 1800.
Cite this Item: "Ouid's elegies three bookes. By C.M. Epigrames by I.D." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08622.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.

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In Medonem. 10.
GReat Captaine Moedon weares a chaine of gold,
Which at fiue hundred crownes is vallued
For that it was his graund-fires chaine of old,
When great King Henry Bulloigne conquered.
And weare it Moedon for it may insue
That thou by vertue of this Massie chaine
A stronger towne then Bulloigne mai'st subdue
If wise mens sawes be not reputed vaine.
For what said Philip King of Macedon?
There is no Castel so well fortified,
But if an Asse laden with gold comes on,
The guard will stoope, and gates fly open wide.