Mores hominum = The manners of men / described in sixteen satyrs by Juvenal, as he is published in his most authentick copy, lately printed by command of the King of France ; whereunto is added the invention of seventeen designes in picture, with arguments to the satyrs ; as also explanations to the designes in English and Latine ; together with a large comment, clearing the author in every place wherein he seemed obscure, out of the laws and customes of the Romans, and the Latine and Greek histories, by Sir Robert Stapylton, Knight.

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Mores hominum = The manners of men / described in sixteen satyrs by Juvenal, as he is published in his most authentick copy, lately printed by command of the King of France ; whereunto is added the invention of seventeen designes in picture, with arguments to the satyrs ; as also explanations to the designes in English and Latine ; together with a large comment, clearing the author in every place wherein he seemed obscure, out of the laws and customes of the Romans, and the Latine and Greek histories, by Sir Robert Stapylton, Knight.
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Juvenal.
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London :: Printed by R. Hodgkinsonne,
1660.
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"Mores hominum = The manners of men / described in sixteen satyrs by Juvenal, as he is published in his most authentick copy, lately printed by command of the King of France ; whereunto is added the invention of seventeen designes in picture, with arguments to the satyrs ; as also explanations to the designes in English and Latine ; together with a large comment, clearing the author in every place wherein he seemed obscure, out of the laws and customes of the Romans, and the Latine and Greek histories, by Sir Robert Stapylton, Knight." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A46427.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.

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The sixth Designe.

HOW 1 Posthumus? thou wilt not sure engage To this young Beauty in thy drooping age? She's coy, and shuns thee only to entice: But follow thy friend 2 Juvenal's advice. Here hangs the steep 3 Tarpeian Rock: here flowes Swift 4 Tiber: there thy 5 Iberina goes: Chuse two of three, a precipice, or wave; Casting thy self away, thy credit save: We shall conclude thee mad, to marry now When 6 Urbicus the Clown milks Aelia's Cow; And 7 Paris the young Player gains the hearts Of Ladies, How? with acting great mens parts: Whil'st th' ill-look'd Fencer 8 Sergius steals aboard Fair 9 Hippia, marri'd to an ancient Lord. By th' Author such examples are pickt out To cross her marriage, whom th' old man's about: Not to defame her sex, for these few blots; Ev'n in the Sun we have discover'd spots, Yet still he shines in heav'n, and not more fair Then Ladies fames flie in the Roman aire; Where Lucrece seal'd the faith of Wives in blood, Portia the constancy of Widowhood.
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