A miscellany of sundry essayes, paradoxes, and problematicall discourses, letters and characters; together with politicall deductions from the history of the Earl of Essex, executed under Queen Elizabeth. / By Francis Osborn Esquire.

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Title: A miscellany of sundry essayes, paradoxes, and problematicall discourses, letters and characters; together with politicall deductions from the history of the Earl of Essex, executed under Queen Elizabeth. / By Francis Osborn Esquire.
Author: Osborne, Francis, 1593-1659.
Publication: London, :: Printed by John Grismond,; 1659.
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Subject terms: Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1558-1603 -- Early works to 1800.
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The Authours EPITAPH upon Himselfe.

I Envy not such Graves as take up room,
Meerely with Jet & Porphyry; since a Tomb
Adds no Desert: Wisdom, thou thing divine:
Convert my humble Soul into thy Shrine.

And then this Body though it want a Store, Shall dignifie all places where 'tis throwne.