John Owen's Latine epigrams Englished by Tho. Harvey, Gent. ; dedicated by the author Mr. John Owen unto the Lady Mary Nevil, daughter of the Earl of Dorset.

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John Owen's Latine epigrams Englished by Tho. Harvey, Gent. ; dedicated by the author Mr. John Owen unto the Lady Mary Nevil, daughter of the Earl of Dorset.

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Owen, John, 1560?-1622.

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London :: Printed by Robert White, for Nevil Simmons ..., and Thomas Sawbridge ...,

1677.

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Contents

• illustration
• title page
• title page
• To Mr. Thomas Harvey upon his Translation of Owen's Epigrams.
• To Mr. Thomas Harvey of his Englishing Owen's Latine Epigrams.
• Of the same.
• To the Book.
• To the Reader.
• To his Patroness.
• In Praise of the Author.
  • To the Reader.
  • 2. To D. John Owen of his Book.
  • 3. To John Owen of his three Books of Epigrams.
  • 4. To John Owen.
  • 5. In Praise of the Author.
  • 6. To the Reader, in Praise of the Author, whose Epigrams were published the second Time within a Month 1606.
  • 7. Of the Third Edition of these Epigrams.
• The First Book.
  • To the Lady Mary Neville.
  • 2. To the Reader.
  • 3. Of his Book, to John Hoskins, a Lawyer.
  • 4. To the Lady Mary Neville.
  • 5. To the same.
  • 6. To her Son Thomas Neville.
  • 7. To her Daughter Cecily.
  • 8. Know thy Self. Of Harpalus.
  • 9. To a Lawyer.
  • 10. Of John Prote.
  • 11. To Aulus an ignoble Noble-man.
  • 12. To Hernicus.
  • 13. Of Venus.
  • 14. To Mr. Gilbert.
  • 15. To Physicians and Lawyers.
  • 16. O Times, O Manners!
  • 17. Paris his judgement.
  • 18. Germanical Truth.
  • 19. To Linus.
  • 20. To a certain young Noble-man.
  • 21. To a certain poor Physician.
  • 22. Of a certain Woman.
  • 23. On Marcus.
  • 24. Upon modern Writers. To the Reader.
  • 25. Of Phillis.
  • 26. To the same.
  • 27. A wicked Atheist.
  • 28. The Atheist's Epitaph.
  • 29. The Optative Mood.
  • 30. Of Alana.
  • 31. Prophets, Poets.
  • 32. Of Life and Death.
  • 33. Of Vulcan.
  • 34. An English Grammer.
  • 35. Free Will.
  • 36. Of Life and Love.
  • 37. The Elysian Fields.
  • 38. An Husband, and an Adulterer.
  • The Adulterer.
  • 39. New Rhetorick.
  • 40. Of Cotta lately made a Monk.
  • 41. Geneva's Arms.
  • 42. Upon the Trifles of Borbonius a Poet.
  • 43. Of Faith.
  • 44. Of Paulinus a Physician.
  • 45. Of Cottula.
  • 46. Of Fabiana.
  • 47. A Joque upon Covetous Men.
  • 48. To Philopater.
  • 49. The World.
  • 50. Of Aretinus.
  • 51. Of Silius.
  • 52. Against Atheists.
  • 53. A Physician.
  • 54. Of Lawyers
  • 55. A Courtier.
  • 56. To Marcus a Monoculist.
  • 57. Of Paulus.
  • 58. A Secret against Grey Hairs. To Bithynicus.
  • 59. Of Theodore.
  • 60. Of Apollo and the Muses.
  • 61. Of Alanus, grown old.
  • 62. The Calends of January. Of Olus and Quintus.
  • 63. Of Pontia.
  • 64. A work of Darkness.
  • 65. Thou Lyest.
  • 66. Of an Hypocrite.
  • 67. Androgynus.
  • 68. Venus.
  • 69. Of Rivals.
  • 70. A Woman.
  • 71. The Alliance of Physicians and Lawyers.
  • 72. Of Pamphilus to Philippe.
  • 73. To one Bald.
  • 74. Nilus in the Eyes. Aetna in the Heart.
  • 75. Caeteris paribus.
  • 76. Of Gyants and Dwarfs.
  • 77. Of an Abbat's two Bastards.
  • 78. Of Priests.
  • 79. A Participle.
  • 80. A Cuse. To the Lawyers.
  • 81. Of the Morning.
  • 82. Of the Day.
  • 83. Of the Night.
  • 84. To Marcus.
  • 85. Of Death.
  • 86. To his Friend.
  • 87. A good Man.
  • 88. Of a certain Old man.
  • 89. Of Paulinus.
  • 90. Of painted Ladies.
  • 91. Of Cotta.
  • 92. A Politician.
  • 93. Of Venus.
  • 94. Of Marinus.
  • 95. Of Marcus.
  • 96. To Mr. John Hoskins.
  • 97. Of Death to Epicharmus.
  • 98. Of Phylllis.
  • 99. Of Hallus the Grammaticaster.
  • 100. Of the Loadstone.
  • 101. Of Death.
  • 102. Of Clients.
  • 103. To Zoilus.
  • 104. Children and Fools tell Truth.
  • 105. To one Bald-headed.
  • 106. To the same.
  • 107. Fortunes Apology.
  • 108. On Cotta.
  • 109. On Procillus a Noble-man.
  • 110. To Paulus a Lawyer.
  • 111. To the same.
  • 112. To Marinus.
  • 113. A Chirurgion.
  • 114. The Venetian disease.
  • 115. Back-biters, Flatterers.
  • 116. To Ponticus.
  • 117. An Herculean labour.
  • 118. Mars, Mors.
  • 119. To Cynthia.
  • 120. To Gellia.
  • 121. Of Albinus.
  • 122. Of Claudius a Philosophaster.
  • 123. Of Bardella a Thief at Mantua.
  • 124. Of Flitting Flora.
  • 125. Of Quintillus.
  • 126. To Aulus of old Quintius.
  • 127. Of Costus.
  • 128. An Answer to Cynthia's Letter.
  • 129. To Sextilian a Bastard.
  • 130. Of Porcia an Hypocrite.
  • 131. Of Saturns Three Sons.
  • 132. Of a single Life. To a Married man.
  • 133. Of Corneus.
  • 134. Of Cajus.
  • 135. Of Pomponia.
  • 136. Of Pinotus sick with the Colick.
  • 137. Of Pomponia.
  • 138. To H. L.
  • 139. Venus.
  • 140. To Marinus. Difficilia quae pulchra.
  • 141. To Theodorus.
  • 142. Ka'end. Jan To Germanicus.
  • 143. Sara.
  • 144. To D. T.
  • 145. Of Paula an Atheist.
  • 146. In Medio virtus.
  • 147. Of Acerra.
  • 148. To Pinotus.
  • 149. Of Quintus and Quintina.
  • 150. A Paradox to his absent Mistress.
  • 151. Of Paulina.
  • 152. Of Gellia.
  • 153. Of a certain Woman.
  • 154. Aenigma.
  • 155. To Ponticus.
  • 156. Of D. Vitus.
  • 157. Of a Dactyle, to a certain Lover.
  • 158. Of Love descending.
  • 159. Of Balba.
  • 160. Of Theft, a Problem, to Lawyers.
  • 161. Of Ponticus.
  • 162. Of Cerellia, married to an Eunuch.
  • 163. Of Horns, a Probleme.
  • 164. To Germanicus, Calend. Jan.
  • 165. Christ-Church Colledge in Oxford.
  • 166. Of Phyllis.
  • 167. Of Himself.
  • 168. To the Reader, of Himself.
  • 169. Of boasting Thraso.
  • 170. Of Himself.
  • 171. Court Musick consisting of two Voices.
  • 172. To the Reader.
  • 173. To his Book.
• To Mr. Thomas Harvey on his Translation of the First Book of Owen's Epigrams.
• THE SECOND BOOK OF THE EPIGRAMS OF John Owen.
  • 1. To the Reader.
  • 2. To the Lady Mary Neville.
  • 3. To the same.
  • 4. To the same.
  • 5. To D. J. H.
  • 6. What News?
  • 7. The Court.
  • 8. Of Aulus.
  • 9. Of the Chymist.
  • 10. A Trojan.
  • 11. Loves Remedy.
  • 12. Troynovant.
  • 13. The Lawyers Deity.
  • 14. Of the Earth.
  • 15. To King James, Defender of the Faith.
  • 16. To the Lord Treasurer of England.
  • 17. To the Kings Principal Secretary.
  • 18. To the Venetians.
  • 19. To the Lord Chancellour of England.
  • 20. To Richard Sackeville Earl of Dorset.
  • 21. Caecil Treasurer of England 1597.
  • 22. To Guil. Caecil: Virtut Duce, Comite Fortuna.
  • 23. To Richard Vaughan Bishop of London.
  • 24. To the same.
  • 25. To Thomas Bilson Bishop of Winchester.
  • 26. The Life of William Wickham, formerly Bishop of Winchester, written in Latine by Thomas Martin, Dr. in the Civil Law.
  • 27. Winchester Colledge.
  • 28. To Sir Philip Sidney.
  • 29. To Sir Philip Sidney.
  • 30. Upon the Marriage of William Earl of Pem∣broke, and Mary, daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury 1605.
  • 31. To Elizabeth Countess of Rutland, Sir Philip Sidney's Daughter.
  • 32. To Lucy Countess of Bedford.
  • 33. A Knights Ring. To Henry Goodyeer, Knight.
  • 34. To D. J. H.
  • 35. To D. B.
  • 36. To Th. M. the Princes Tutor.
  • 37. To Th. M. the Princes Tutor.
  • 38. To Walter Gwyn.
  • 39. Francis Drake 1581.
  • 40. Britains Strength.
  • 41. The Terrestrial Globe.
  • 42. Health, unhealthy.
  • 43. The Divine.
  • The Politician.
  • 44. All Things affect good.
  • 45. A Phoenix on Earth.
  • 46. Democritus, and Heraclitus.
  • 47. Of Langa.
  • 48. King Arthur's Round-Table.
  • 49. To Theophila B. C.
  • 50. Of Hernicus.
  • 51. Of Love and Faith.
  • 52. A Lover.
  • 53. The Golden Age.
  • 54. Of Alana.
  • 55. Germanick Death, to Polynicus.
  • 56. Of Philodemus.
  • 57. Of Battus.
  • 58. The Gordian Knot.
  • 59. Love.
  • 60. Strifes, Laws, to J. C.
  • 61. The Miser and Prodigal.
  • 62. Labour.
  • 63. A good, strong, wise man.
  • 64. The Order of the Golden Fleece.
  • 65. The Motto of Thomas Earl of Dorset.
  • 66. The Motto of Henry Neville, Knight.
  • 67. To Sir Philip Sidney of his Arcadia.
  • 68. To Jane Owen a most learned woman.
  • 69. To his Friend.
  • 70. The Usurers Grammer.
  • 71. To one like neither Parent.
  • 72. To two (nameless) returning from Venice.
  • 73. Adultery and Fornication.
  • 74. Of Hercules, to C. D.
  • 75. A Saluting Kiss.
  • 76. A Problem to Naturalists, of Kisses.
  • 77. Of Labienus.
  • 78. Of Alexander.
  • 79. To Firmicus, of Aulus.
  • 80. Of a certain Poetaster.
  • 81. Of ones Lying Letters.
  • 82. Physician heal thy self, to Gilbertus.
  • 83. Of a certain Usurer.
  • 84. Of an Hypocrite.
  • 85. Of Erasmus his Book of Follies.
  • 86. Of Anagrammatists.
  • 87. Of a certain indoctrin'd Doctor.
  • 88. Of naked Love.
  • 89. Of the Exchequer, to Sir William Pits, Knight.
  • 90. Of a persidious Person.
  • 91. The Silver Sin.
  • 92. A Bawd.
  • 93. Self-Love.
  • 94. Wisdom.
  • 95. The Etymology of Venus.
  • 96. Of a certain Drunkard.
  • 97. To Polla.
  • 98. A Friend and a Wife.
  • 99. Anger.
  • 100. The Roman Flora.
  • 101. The Etymology of the English word Anger (Ira.)
  • 102. Of Himself.
  • 103. Womens Titles.
  • 104. To Zoilus.
  • 105. Of the middle Age an indefinite Definition.
  • 106. To a Grey-hair'd Dier.
  • 107. To Aulus.
  • 108. The Bed.
  • 109. Riders Library.
  • 110. Nummus, Money.
  • 111. Of J. S. a Covetous Man.
  • 112. Of Roman Flora, to Grammarians.
  • 113. Of J. Protus.
  • 114. Of Theodorus.
  • 115. Of the Plague in England 1603.
  • 116. To a certain Woman.
  • 117. Of a Perjured Person Convicted by his own Hand-writing.
  • 118. Of Cottula, a Grammaticaster.
  • 119. Anagram of Rome, to the Carthaginians.
  • 120. Of a great Clark.
  • 121. Of one called Davis.
  • 122. Of Aulus.
  • 123. Of Linus a Doctor.
  • 124. Of Thais.
  • 125. Of a nameless Voluminous Writer.
  • 126. On a Bald Pate.
  • 127. To Claudius and Linus.
  • 128. To George.
  • 129. A Lover is a Warrior.
  • 130. The Military Oath.
  • 131. Of Alanus, Covetous and Lame.
  • 132. The Condition of Kings.
  • 133. Vis, Jus, Force, Right, to J. C.
  • 134. Of Marcus.
  • 135. Desperate Debt.
  • 136. Of Culianus.
  • 137. Of Marcus, a man venust or comely.
  • 138. Of Adrian 5.
  • 139. I, Thou, He.
  • 140. Petite & dabitur vobis.
  • 141. Married Persons, Children, Parents.
  • 142. Of Marcus a Lawyer.
  • 143. To his Father.
  • 144. An Italian.
  • 145. What Wife the Author would have.
  • 146. To one complaining that his Children were not like him.
  • 147. To the Married.
  • 148. Sir Francis Drake's Epitaph.
  • 149. A Childs Epitaph dying before his Grandfather and Father.
  • 150. Epitaph of Maurus.
  • 151. Epitaph of Pyramus and Thisbe.
  • 152. Tho. Moor, dying.
  • 153. Three Languages Crucified.
  • 154. Don Antonio King of Portugal.
  • 155. Alexander, Aristotle.
  • 156. Of Plato.
  • 157. Virgil's Georgicks.
  • 158. Persius the Poet.
  • 159. Tacitus.
  • 160. To Martial.
  • 161. To Petrarch.
  • 162. Pliny, Englisht by Philemon Holland, a Physician.
  • 163. Of Cicero, to Catullus.
  • 164. Of Historians in this Age.
  • 165. Kings. People.
  • 166. The Senate.
  • 167. To an Historian.
  • 168. Of Diet, to J. H.
  • 169. The Peers of France.
  • 170. P. Magnus, C. Major, F. Maximus, Pompey, Cato, Fabius.
  • 171. To T. S.
  • 172. Of himself.
  • 173. The Five Senses.
  • 174. Seeing.
  • 175. Hearing.
  • 176. Smelling.
  • 177. Tasting.
  • 178. Touching.
  • 179. Objects of the Senses.
  • 180. Touching and Tasting.
  • 181. Epigrams, Satyres.
  • 182. A dumb man.
  • 183. Blind and Deaf.
  • 184. Teeth and Tongue.
  • 185. The Phoenix and the Viper.
  • 186. The Silk-Worm.
  • 187. The Right-Hand.
  • 188. The Left-Hand.
  • 189. Sunday.
  • 190. Terra di Lavoro.
  • 191. Garments.
  • 192. Wine.
  • 193. A Sheep.
  • 194. Soyling of Fields.
  • 195. Harmony.
  • 196. A Parret.
  • 197. Ink and Paper.
  • 198. A Comedy.
  • 199. A Cloak.
  • A Gown.
  • 200. A Satyre.
  • 201. An Eunuch.
  • 202. An Hour-glass.
  • 203. A Merchant.
  • 204. Lust.
  • 205. Donna, Lady.
  • 206. A Souldier.
  • 207. An Army.
  • 208. Lovers Tears.
  • 209. The Stars.
  • 210. The Venetians.
  • 211. An Harp.
  • 212. A Fowler.
  • 213. The Echo.
  • 214. A Looking-glass.
  • 215. The Echo, and Looking-glass.
  • 216. Musick.
  • 217. Albion, To the King.
• THE THIRD BOOK OF JOH. OWEN'S Epigrams.
  • 1. To the Lady Mary Neville.
  • 2. To the same.
  • 3. To the Reader, of his Book.
  • 4. The Virgin Birth of Elizabeth, Queen of England 1602.
  • 5. To the Hollander 1602.
  • 6. To James King of Great Britain, &c.
  • 7. To the Prince.
  • 8. Basilicon Doron, to the King.
  • 9. To the Lady Mary Neville.
  • 10. Of her daughter Cecily.
  • 11. To the Candid Reader.
  • To the malevolent Reader.
  • 12. Hercules By-way.
  • 13. Of Vertue.
  • 14. Lifes Dyal.
  • 15. Of God.
  • 16. Of an Atheist.
  • 17. Charity.
  • 18. Dives and Lazarus.
  • 19. Increase and Multiply.
  • 20. Union.
  • 21. Three Tempters.
  • 22. The Spirit and Flesh.
  • 23. Man to Man a God,Wolf.
  • 24. God's word.
  • 25. The Broad and Narrow way.
  • 26. St. John Baptist.
  • 27. Of Autumn.
  • 28. The Misery of Life.
  • 29. Of Nature and Grace.
  • 30. The Catechism.
  • 31. A Rich Man.
  • 32. O guileful Hopes!
  • 33. The Redeemer.
  • 34. The Holy Spirit.
  • 35. Fortitude.
  • 36. Of a King.
  • 37. A Welch Man.
  • 38. English-Scots.
  • 39. Henry the Roses, James the Kingdoms. To the King.
  • 40. The Apocalypse of John Napeir.
  • 41. God, Man.
  • 42. Death.
  • 43. God.
  • 44. Miracle.
  • 45. Adam's Fall.
  • 46. To Adam.
  • 47. To Preachers.
  • 48. The Tempter.
  • 49. Mortification.
  • 50. Hodie, to Day.
  • 51. Against thee only have I sinned.
  • 52. Prayer.
  • 53. Mary Magdalens Tears.
  • 54. Of Hope and Fear.
  • 55. Mathusalem is dead.
  • 56. Of Law and Justice.
  • 57. Intemperance.
  • 58. To Ponticus.
  • 59. The Pharisees.
  • 60. Liberty.
  • 61. Christ, whence.
  • 62. Christ Crucified.
  • 63. Christs Cross.
  • 64. Of Religion.
  • 65. On the Prodigal and Miser.
  • 66. The Married.
  • 67. Study.
  • 68. Remember Death.
  • 69. The Blessed Virgin.
  • 70. What's rare, not dear.
  • 71. A Beast.
  • 72. Reason.
  • 73. Nature.
  • 74. Freedom of Speech.
  • 75. To Marcus, a Problem.
  • 76. Upon Old and New Fashions.
  • 57. A Christians Death.
  • 78. To Christ.
  • 79. Self-Love.
  • 80. Saints Lives.
  • 81. Our Country.
  • 82. Upon an Atheist.
  • 83. Of Hereticks.
  • 84. An Encomiastick.
  • 85. Not too fast.
  • 86. The Envious, and Fool.
  • 87. , Sermo, Speech.
  • 88. Opinion.
  • 89. Art.
  • 90. Adams Apology.
  • 91. The Serpent.
  • 92. Still the same.
  • 93. Mental Prayer.
  • 94. The five Wounds.
  • 95. Feigned Friendship.
  • 96. Vertue.
  • 97. Rachel.
  • 98. Solomon.
  • 99. Hope.
  • 100. Mans Ignorance.
  • 101. Christ the Way.
  • 102. Of Fame.
  • 103. Faith.
  • 104. Aequanimity.
  • 105. Newest Times.
  • 106. The Will.
  • 107. To the Sun.
  • 108. Honesty.
  • 109. Man.
  • 110. Multiloquy, to a Preacher.
  • 111. Death with and against Nature.
  • 112. Eloquence.
  • 113. God.
  • 114. To Ponticus.
  • 115. Love and Friendship, to Carolus.
  • 116. Princes.
  • 117. O Times, O Manners!
  • 118. Philosophy.
  • 119. Infinite Evil.
  • 120. Of Controversies.
  • 121. Christ on the Cross.
  • 122. Times Daughter.
  • 123. Physick and Law.
  • 124. Man and Wife.
  • 125. The shortest Day.
  • 126. Vertues Complaint.
  • 127. An hard Father.
  • 128. A Prayer to God in Sickness.
  • 129. To a litigious Person.
  • 130. Of Brunonius.
  • 131. Time.
  • 132. Miracles.
  • 133. To Irus.
  • 134. Knowledge.
  • 135. Christ.
  • 136. Who art Thou.
  • 137. The Kingdom of Heaven.
  • 138. Grief and Pleasure.
  • 139. Peter.
  • 140. Of Sleep.
  • 141. Rome.
  • 142. Mans Perfection.
  • 143. Lord increase our Faith, Luk. Cap. 17.
  • 144. On the Covetous.
  • 145. Good Transcending.
  • 146. All is Vanity.
  • 147. Of Epicurus.
  • 148. Works.
  • 149. Wisdoms Beginning.
  • 150. Of Battologus.
  • 151. Of the same.
  • 152. Of Polytheans.
  • 153. Of Wit and Study.
  • 154. Know thy Self.
  • 155. Long Art, short Life.
  • 156. Of Moranus an old man.
  • 157. To D. T.
  • 158. All seek their own.
  • 159. Of Brunonius.
  • 160. Respect thine End.
  • 161. Sense, Reason, Faith, Charity, God.
  • 162. Of Prudence.
  • 163. To his Parents.
  • 164. Prudence and Fortitude.
  • 165. In the sweat of thy Brows, &c.
  • 166. Of Faith and Charity.
  • 167. If thy right Eye, &c. Mat. 5.29.
  • 168. Christian Adverbs.
  • 169. Lifes Brevity.
  • 170. Like for like.
  • 171. Time.
  • 172. Abundant Caution.
  • 173. John opposing.
  • 174. Justification.
  • 175. Doomsday.
  • 176. To Marianus.
  • 177. Mary Magdalens Tears.
  • 178. Of the Soul.
  • 179. To Marcus.
  • 180. Hell.
  • 181. To a poor Friend.
  • 182. The Parts of the World.
  • 183. The Causes of Discord.
  • 184. The Liberal.
  • 185. The Temperate.
  • 186. The Wise.
  • 187. Anonymus, an Infant dead before Baptiz'd.
  • 188. The Flatterer and Carper.
  • 189. Love and Friendship.
  • 190. Peter and Paul.
  • 191. Socrates.
  • 192. Man.
  • 193. To Paul inhum'd.
  • 194. To the Courtly Reader.
  • 195. Wise Simplicity.
  • 196. The Common-Wealths Eyes.
  • 197. To Doctor John Gifford a Learned Physician.
  • 198. The Daw.
  • The Goose.
  • 199. Jobs Miseries.
  • 200. The Temples of St. Paul in London.St. Peter in Westminster.
  • 201. Of the Conspirators in the Gun-Powder Treason upon Tuesday the Fifth of November 1605.
  • 202. Of the same.
  • 203. The King to Britain.
  • 204. To England of the uniting of Britain.
  • 205. To Thomas Nevill, an hopeful Child.
  • 206. Upon the Death of Charles Blount, Earl of Devonshire 1606.
  • 207. To the Reader.
  • 208. Of speaking and writing:
• half title
• John Owen's EPIGRAMS.
  • 1. To the Lady Arbella-Stuart.
  • 2. To the same.
  • 3. To his Book.
  • 4. Union, to the Britains, 1606.
  • 5. Vacuity.
  • 6. On Zoilus.
  • 7. From the Center to the Circumference.
  • 8. Cock-Crowing, to the Prince.
  • 9. Of Quintus.
  • 10. Three Dimensions on Battologus.
  • 11. To the Reader.
  • 12. To Simon Waterson, Stationer.
  • 13. The Sea.
  • 14. The Solstice, of Ponticus an Atheist.
  • 15. To his Book.
  • 16. Courtship, to his Friend a Courtier.
  • 17. On Corbulo.
  • 18. To Pontilian.
  • 19. To Sir Edward Herbert, Knight,
  • 20. Envies Genealogie, to J. H.
  • 21. Of Vertue, a Paradox.
  • 22. The Seven Planets, to Paula.
  • 23. To Marcus.
  • 24. A Roman Priest.
  • 25. A Minister of Geneva.
  • 26. Self-loving Poet.
  • 27. Of a penurious Client.
  • 28. Of a certain Ass.
  • 29. Of the Picture in the Looking-glass.
  • 30. Glaucus Change.
  • 31. Of Asellus a Dreamer.
  • 32. Wales and Kent.
  • 33. Heauton-timoroumenos, Self-vexing.
  • 34. Of Linus.
  • 35. Single Life.
  • 36. The Creation.
  • 37. Of Marcus.
  • 38. Of Aulus an Atheist.
  • 39. Man a Stage-Player.
  • 40. To the Reader.
  • 41. New Stile.
  • 42. To Marinus.
  • 43. Eves Fall.
  • 44. Neither in this nor in the World to come, of Damianus.
  • 45. By wanting rather than having, to Ponticus.
  • 46. Manslaughter.
  • 47. Friendship to his Friend.
  • 48. To Sir John Harington, son of the Lord Harington.
  • 49. Polydore Virgil.
  • 50. Upon Momus an unjust Censurer of the former Epigrams.
  • 51. On the same.
  • 52. Upon a domestick Carper.
  • 53. A Cuckold.
  • 54. A Self-Lover.
  • 55. Fortune assists the Bold.
  • 56. Love blind.
  • 57. Love not blind, to Firmicus.
  • 58. To Quintus, a Courtier.
  • 59. Epitaph of Justice.
  • 60. Of Marcus, skulking.
  • 61. Jesus Colledge, and Christ Church Colledge in Oxford not fully Finished 1607.
  • 62. Merchants Trust.
  • 63. Muses most sad.
  • 64. Incredulity.
  • 65. Credulity.
  • 66. Faiths Obsequiousness, to young men.
  • 67. Better to give than receive.
  • 68. Of Ponticus, a Client.
  • 69. Tho. Wolsey, I, and my King.
  • 70. To the Gauls.
  • 71. Philautus to Philaristus, Calend. January.
  • 72. Philaristus to Philautus.
  • 73. To Henry Fanshaw, Knight, 1606.
  • 74. To Henry Good-yeer, Knight, upon his Wifes Decease, 1606.
  • 75. Ulysses and Penelope.
  • 76. Of Mancinus an Artless Master.
  • 77. Upon a certain woman.
  • 78. The Celestial Archer, to William Ravenscroft, J. C.
  • 79. Ponderous things descend.
  • 80. Of a litigious Debtor.
  • 81. Of the same.
  • 82. Of the Church Derivative.
  • 83. Four Seas.
  • 84. To a Rich Friend.
  • 85. The Generation of one is the corruption of two.
  • 86. The Wedding Ring.
  • 87. The Worlds of Democritus.
  • 88. Of Epigrams to the Reader.
  • 89. The Earth.
  • 90. The Moon.
  • 91. Covetous Liberality, to Acerra.
  • 92. Of Paula, a false Catholick.
  • 93. A Prodigy.
  • 94. Of Annetta, a Franck.
  • 95. Of Marcus a Souldier, blind and blear-cy'd.
  • 96. Peace in Europe, to Divines.
  • 97. To Carolina.
  • 98. Florals.
  • 99. Man's Epitaph.
  • 100. The Souls Horizon.
  • 101. The Souls Eclipse.
  • 102. A Merchant.
  • 103. Worshipper: of Images.
  • 104. Erasmus his desire.
  • 105. A Neuter.
  • 106. Scandalizing Grandees, to the Servants of Servants.
  • 107. Mars and Venus.
  • 108. February.
  • 109. To E. J.
  • 110. A Circles Square.
  • 111. Whether an Arithmetical unite answereth to a Geometrical Point.
  • 112. From the Womb to the Tomb.
  • 113. To the King.
  • 114. The Head and Body, to the same.
  • 115. Report of the Death of Henry 4. the French King: To the French King.
  • 116. Light and Air.
  • 117. One God, many Friends.
  • 118. Donna, Danno.
  • 119. Womens Tire.
  • 120. All things Nothing.
  • 121. The East and Western Church.
  • 122. Anger, Patience.
  • 123. Ruine of Heaven and Earth.
  • 124. To Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton.
  • 125. To Pontia.
  • 126. To an Adulterer.
  • 127. To the Reader.
  • 128. To an Uxorious Man.
  • 129. To Ponticus.
  • 130. Of a certain married Priest.
  • 131. Of Innovators.
  • 132. Of Cotta.
  • 133. Tho. Egerton Chancellour of England, and Francis Leigh his Son-in-law.
  • 134. Consubstantiation.
  • 135. Funeral Sermons.
  • 136. Paul's Cross, and the Cross in Cheap, in the Parish of St. Peter.
  • 137. Loves Chronicle.
  • 138. Twins.
  • 139. Friends.
  • 140. Of the Art of Love.
  • 140. Seneca the Philosopher.
  • 141. To Attalus.
  • 142. Sir Philip Sidney's Life.
  • 143. The Bodies Valediction to the Soul.
  • The Soul departing.
  • 144. A Kingdom divided.
  • 145. How Waters.
  • 146. Of Wit and Memory.
  • 147. Comfort for the Poor.
  • 148. Of Titius and Gellia.
  • 149. The Heart.
  • 150. The Flesh and Spirit.
  • 151. The Innocents, Proto-Martyrs.
  • 152. To his Friend.
  • 153. To a friend growing old. 1607.
  • 154. Of A. G.
  • 155. Harmony. To Divines.
  • 156. Dissonancy.
  • 157. To Pontilianus.
  • 158. To Porcia.
  • 159. An Epitome of the Histories of his Time.
  • 160. London.
  • 161. Debtor and Creditor.
  • 162. Fools and Dwarfs.
  • 163. To Pontilian.
  • 164. Union.
  • 165. The Elements War.
  • 166. An Epithalamy, To Tullia.
  • 167. To Sextus, an Academian.
  • 168. To his Beloved.
  • 169. The Younger Brother.
  • 170. The Firmament.
  • 171. The blessed Virgin.
  • 172. Hope and Faith.
  • 173. Novelty.
  • 174. Marcus his Looking-glass.
  • 175. To one Uxorious.
  • 176. To a Friend.
  • 177. To Porphyrius.
  • 178. To Pontilianus.
  • 179. Love is beyond all Exception.
  • 180. Of Ponticus aged sixty years.
  • 181. Of Nigella, Candidated.
  • 182. Le Carneval de la vit.
  • 183. Quintina's Praise.
  • 184. Earth's Son.
  • 185. The lowest Species.
  • 186. Of Envy, a Paradox.
  • 187. James, of that Name, The sixth King of Scotland, The first of England, Happi∣ness to Britain.
  • 188. To James the First, King of Great Britain, &c.
  • 189. Kings and Prophets.
  • 190. Vertue.
  • 191. Envy.
  • 192. Of Battus.
  • 193. Sleep. Death.
  • 194. The Triumvirs.
  • 195. Lovers Patience.
  • 196. Of a certain Grammaticaster.
  • 197. To a pompous Dame.
  • 198. Of Aulus, a Grandee.
  • 199. Gold from Dung.
  • 200. Loves Secret.
  • 201. Mon Tout, To Marcia.
  • 202. Of Quintus and Orus.
  • 203. Ariadne's Thread.
  • 204. Of Wills and Vows.
  • 205. To a Covetous Friend.
  • 206. To Ponticus, A Lawyer.
  • 207. Of Preachers and Players.
  • 208. The Births of Christ, and J. Baptist.
  • 209. No Man is hurt but from himself.
  • 210. Upon a bawling Ass.
  • 211. Of his Heirs.
  • 212. An hollow Tooth.
  • 213. Vertues Praise.
  • 214. Aesop's Tongue.
  • 215. To the Children of Winchester Colledge.
  • 216. Wisdome leading, Fortune following.
  • 217. Grief.
  • 218. Vicissitude.
  • 219. To Germanicus.
  • 220. Armed Wickedness.
  • 221. Opinionist.
  • 222. Alma Mater Academia Oxonia.
  • 223. The Poet.
  • The Grandee.
  • 224. Man is to Man a God.
  • 225. Homer.
  • 226. Three Secretaries.
  • 227. To D. C. G.
  • 228. Ubiquitaries.
  • 229. Lovers.
  • 230. Speech.
  • 231. On an esseminate old man.
  • 232. On Harpalus, a covetous Youth.
  • 233. To the Reader.
  • 234. Of a Looking-glass.
  • 235. Of Quintia, a Hypocrite.
  • 236. A Probleme.
  • 237. Sleep. Venus.
  • 238. Lifes length and shortness.
  • 239. The Treasury.
  • 240. To self-loving Ponticus.
  • 241. Scrutiny.
  • 242. Light of Grace.
  • 243. Fame. Error.
  • 244. Historical Tradition of King Brutus, To William Camden.
  • 245. To Roger Owen, A Learned Knight.
  • 246. On a Covetous Man.
  • 247. One Foot in the Grave.
  • 248. Britains Mercury. To J. H.
  • 249. Of Himself.
  • 250. To William Butler Physician at Cambridge.
  • 251. To Paulus, A Lawyer.
  • 252. The last Divorce.
  • 253. The World.
  • 254. Laws Nullity.
  • 255. The state of man.
  • 256. To a certain Man.
  • 257. Beside Women and Children.
  • 258. A Nose of Wax.
  • 259. Heavens Ladder. 1 Cor. 13.8.13. y  t hi treiapahoFCH
  • 260. Of Battus.
  • 261. The Praise of the Ass.
  • 262. A pair of impair Courtiers. The Carper, the Parasite.
  • 263. Four causes of man.
  • 264. The last Line.
  • 265. Upon the Death of Rich. Vaughan Bishop of London, 1607.
  • 266. Of Life and Death.
  • 267. Of decrepit Paul, A Builder.
  • 268. Of Sextus, a Prodigal Robber.
  • 269. On Zoilus.
  • 270. A Pair Royal of Friends. To the English-Scots, Britains.Scots-Welsh, Britains.Welsh-English Britains.
  • 271. A Kingdom divided.
  • 272. The Ring of Concord, To the Britains in Parliament, 1607.
  • 273. Britain.
  • 274. Steganography. To the curious Reader.
  • 275. One God.
  • 276. To the Lady Arbella Stuart.
• An Anagram of the Authors Name, Invented by D. Du. Tr. of Paris. JOANNES AUDOENUS, Ad Annos Noe Vives.
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• poems to the reader
• EPIGRAMS OF John Owen A CAMBRO-BRITAN. To Henry Prince of Wales. The First Book.
  • 1. To Prince Henry.
  • 2. To Mecaenas.
  • 3. To Marcellus, A Lawyer.
  • 4. To Henry, Prince of Wales.
  • 5. Mercury Gallo-Belgick.
  • 6. Orpheus.
  • 7. Academical Vests. To the Students of Oxford and Cambridge.
  • 8. Wheter Peter were at Rome.
  • 9. To Be and Have.
  • 10. To Ligurinus.
  • 11. Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal.
  • 12. Of Alanus, A decocting Chymist.
  • 13. To the Prince.
  • 14. To Richard Earl of Dorset returned from France.
  • 15. Nine Muses,Mutes.
  • 16. Honours Etymologie.Genealogie.
  • 17. To Cornutus.
  • 18. To Dindimus.
  • 119. A Cannical Woman.
  • 20. Solomons wish.
  • 21. What News?
  • 22. A Trine of British women from whom came the British union.
  • 23. Doron Basilicon. A Kingly Gift.
  • 24. Blessed are Munisicents.Pacisicents.
  • 25. Of Gaurus, a Church-Canon.
  • 26. A Snayl: Emblematical.
  • 27. Christopher Columbus.
  • 28. Against Regicides.
  • 29. A Gratulation. To George Arch-bishop of Canterbury, 1511.
  • 30. To Decianus, a Judge.
  • 31. To Caesar, Caesars, to God, Gods.
  • 32. Three Sabbaths.
  • 33. To David Murray, Knight, one of the Bed-chamber unto Prince Henry.
  • 34. I can, will, will not.
  • 35. Patience.
  • 236. Of Genu-flexion, A Probleme.
  • 37. To William Earl of Pembroke, one of the Kings privy Council.
  • 38. To the Bishop of London.
  • 39. Of rising and setting.
  • 40. To Peter Junius, a Scot-Britain, formerly Tutor to King James.
  • 41. Of Gaurus.
  • 42. S. T.
  • 43. The saying of Henry Earl of Northampton, Uni & Univoce.
  • 44. Of Quintus a Dreamer.
  • 45. To Robert Carre of the Kings Council, &c.
  • 46. Of a certain Hypocrite.
  • 47. The death of Justus Lipsius, 1606.
  • 48. Sir Thomas Overbury's ingenious Poeme of a Compleat Wife.
  • 49. Conferring Benefits.
  • 50. Ambiguous Right.
  • 51. To Prince Henry, born the nineteenth of February, 1594. (good or) Golden luck, 1612. 19. Jun.
  • 52. To the King.
  • 53. On a Certain Miser.
  • 54. Of Thomas More formerly Chan∣cellour of England.
  • 55. Natura Brevium.
  • 56.

    Thou shalt marry a Wife, and ano∣ther shall sleep with her.

    Deut. 28.
  • 57. The Original of Britains union.
  • 58. To the learned King James.
  • 59. Of Cotta.
  • 60. As well to Mars, as Mercury.
  • 61. To John Harington, Knight.
  • 62. The Lottery: in French, the Blank.
  • 63. To G. R. A Batchelour.
  • 64. On trifling Cotta.
  • 65. On Paetus.
  • 66. Deltoton, Or the Letter D.
  • 67. The Gallows: To P. L.
  • 68. Of Womens Wit. A Probleme.
  • 69. Minerva, Evah.
  • 70. Of Helius.
  • 71. The State of Britains Union.
  • 72. Whether Bacchus be a God? To Germanus.
  • 73. To Sir Thomas Chaloner Chamberlain to Prince Henry.
  • 74. I love, a Passive; I am loved, an Active Voyce.
  • 75. On Julius, a pretended Monk.
  • 76. Priest and People.
  • 77. On Pope Julius 2.
  • 78. Like to like.
  • 79. Know thy Self.
  • 80. Death's Equity.
  • To Thomas Button, 1612.
  • 82. On Gellia, painted.
  • 83. Conjurers contest.
  • 84. Of Ruffus, An Hypocrite.
  • 85. To the English. A Probleme.
  • 86. To Cinna, A Physician.
  • 87. We have one Advocate in Heaven.
  • 88. To one young in years, old in manners.
  • 89. Anger is a short fury.
  • 90. To Henry Good-yeer, Knight, Kal. Jan. 1610.
  • 91. Love Active and Passive. To Pontia.
  • 92. To the Prince.
  • 93. Arithmetical Division. To J. S. Merchant. 1607.
  • 94. The Court Louse.
  • 95. Aesculapius Three-fac'd.
  • 96. Of Galatea.
  • 97. Waters and Earths Epithalamy.
  • 98. Of the same.
  • 99. Death's in the Pot. To Court Criticks.
  • 100. The Deluge. A double Probleme.
  • 101. A Cole of Wood.
  • 102. Of Gellia.
  • 103. Of Aulus.
  • 104. A Woman, what Creature.
  • 105. Reason and Oratory.
  • 106. Testicles.
  • 107. Upon the Death of Hen. Cuff, 1600.
  • 108. Of Festus.
  • 109. Sir Thomas Moore.
  • 110. Of Cornelius.
  • 111. On Tullus.
• THE SECOND BOOK OF JOH. OWENS Epigrams. To Prince Henry.
  • 1. To Henry Prince of Wales.
  • 2. To James of Great Britain, &c.
  • 3. Hysteron Proteron.
  • 4. On a decrepit Husband of a third Wife.
  • 5. Love.
  • 6. Minos.
  • 7. Doubtfulness.
  • 8. To the Princes Secretary.
  • 9. To Thomas Puckeringe, Knight and Baronet.
  • 10. Three Draughts.
  • 11. A double Riddle.
  • 12. Of Faith.
  • 13. To Sir Edward Cooke, Knight, a learned Lawyer, Judge, &c.
  • 14. A Mathematical Instrument vulgarly call'd a Jacobs Staff.
  • 15. Earth's Scituation.
  • 16. To Henry Davers, Baron of Dantesay.
  • 17. Death's Epitaph.
  • 18. Of the Pope, and Luther.
  • 19. Of God and Man.
  • 20. To Sir George Carew, Knight, Master of the Pupills, 1612. Jun. 13.
  • 21. Of fasting.
  • 22. A New Metamorphosis.
  • 23. Of Anonyma.
  • 24. Good from the Dung.
  • 25. To Face no Trust.
  • 26. To Will. Ravenscroft, J. C.
  • 27. History of this time.
  • 28. A fair Dowry.
  • 29. A Gallick Virgin.
  • An English Virgin.
  • 30. Upon a new Noble-man.
  • 31. Penelope's Riddle to her Suitors.
  • 32. Bias.
  • 33. Chrysostome in Greek by H. S. exact∣ly set forth at Eaton.
  • 34. The Philosophers Wife.
  • 35. Propria quarto modo.
  • 36. A pair of Fools.
  • 37. To Edward Sack-ville, the Earl of Dorsets only Brother returned from France.
  • 38. Of Jealousie. English-French-Italian.
  • 39. Socratical Wisdoms.
  • 40. King Arthur's round Table.
  • 41. Subsidie.
  • 42. A new World.
  • 43. Two-fac'd Janus.
  • 44. Earth's Body.
  • 45. To Pannicus, of Maurus.
  • 46. Of Paula, an English Dissimulatrix.
  • 47. A Physician, and Lawyers.
  • 48. To Edward Wotton, Baron, &c.
  • 49. Galen; Anagram, Angel.
  • 50. Blind Love is Deaf.
  • 51. Of Dindmus, amerchant.
  • 52. Anagramma Uxoris, The Anagram of a Wife.
  • 53. The Answer.
  • 54. The Religious.
  • The Politician.
  • 55. Three Goddesses.
  • 56. English Proteus.
  • 57. One protects two.
  • 58. The Birth and Scite of the Sun.
  • 59. The Sepulchers of Caesar, Pompey and Crassus.
  • 60. City Buildings most City-like, of Henry Earl of Northampton.
  • 61. To Oranus.
  • 62. Of Faelix.
  • 63. Francis Drake.
  • Or This.
  • 64. Man.
  • 65. Of Phoebus and Neptune.
  • 66. Uxor Vi(n)cta, that is, A Wife bound, Conquer'd.
  • 67. Naked Truth, Of Alethus.
  • 68. Of Bacchus and Byrrhia, Wine and Beer.
  • 69. Of Gellia.
  • 70. Of Papilus, pulling off his hoar Hairs.
  • 71. Be not many Masters.
  • 72. Hen. 8. Defender of the Faith.
  • 73. To Pope Leo.
  • 74. The Pride of Life.
  • 75. To Guarene Tounsend, J. C.
  • 76. Genesis and Saint Matthew's Gospel.
  • 77. Some Body, No Body.
  • 78. A Love Fancy.
  • 79. To Book-gelders.
  • 80. To Gellia.
  • 81. Eve's and the Serpents Conventicle.
  • 82. To Robert Johnson, a Scottish-Britain.
  • 83. Of Himself.
  • 84. Sell all that thou hast, and give to the Poor. To Paetus.
  • 85. Nor Of Evils the least.Of Good the greatest.
  • 86. Sirens Songs.
  • 87. A Love Letter.
  • 88. Blind Love.
  • 89. The Will of rich T. S.
  • 90. Air, Water, Earth, Hell.
  • 91. The Christian Zodiack.
  • 92. Erasmus Praise of Folly.
  • 93. Of Gymnicus, A Pastor.
  • 94. Of Dardanus.
  • 95. Pleas in the year 1609. between Rob. Calvin, Plaintiff; and John Bingley, and Richard Gryffin, Defendants.
  • 96. Of our times Discords.
  • 97. Evil Manners produce good Laws.
  • 98. Four Articles of Faith, 1, 2, 3, 4.
  • 99. To the Prince.
  • 100. To the Reader.
• EPIGRAMS OF John Owen A CAMBRO-BRITAN To Charles Duke of York, Brother to the Prince the Kings Son. The Third Book.
  • 1. A Jove Principium, Begin in God.
  • 2. To the Reader.
  • 3. To Charles, Duke of York.
  • 4. The Art of Memory.
  • 5. Things, Names and Words.
  • 6. Redemption and Regeneration.
  • 7. The Praise of Liberality.
  • 8. Oxford's new Library. To the Readers, 1610.
  • 9. To the University of Oxford.
  • 10. To Queen Anne.
  • 11. To Elizabeth the Kings Daughter.
  • 12. Speech and Writing.
  • 13. A new Man.
  • 14. An healthful Anagram, Opto, I wish, Poto, I drink.
  • 15. The forbidden Fruit.
  • 16. Cal. January.
  • 17. Of Alcon.
  • 18. To Robert Carey, Knight, Governour of Charles Duke of York.
  • 19. Example.
  • 20. A double Medium.
  • 21. N. O.
  • 22. To James Fullerton, Knight, Governour of Charles Duke of York.
  • 23. Holiness, Healthfulness.
  • 24. Sheep and Goats.
  • 25. A Ship.
  • 26. To Thomas Murrey, Tutor to Charles Duke of York.
  • 27. Blood not Vertue.
  • 28. The Sun, and time.
  • 29. The Blood.
  • 30. Of Pannicus, a rich Fool.
  • 31. Brevity.
  • 32. The Tomb of John Puckeringe, Keeper of the Great Seal.
  • 33. Homer.
  • 34. Erasmus.
  • Answer.
  • 35. A little, nothing; too much, enough.
  • 36. To Henry Wotton, Knight, the Kings Embassadour, &c. 1612.
  • 37. Foresee thine End.
  • 38. The Polar Sabbath.
  • 39. To the Desirers of the Salick Law.
  • 46. To G. Gwyn.
  • 41. Irus and Croesus Epitaph.
  • 42. The Inter-Calar Month, 1612.
  • 43. Of Faelix.
  • 44. Ten Principles.
  • 45. Logick.
  • 46. To Samuel Daniel, Poet.
  • 47. Lover of Truth. To Paulus.
  • 48. Humility.
  • 49. Three Self-Lovers.
  • 50. Saint Marks Festival.
  • 51. To Dindimus.
  • 52. Of Heaven and Earth, a double Paradox.
  • 53. The Year.
  • 54. A Client.
  • 55. Of the Covetous.
  • 56. Patience.
  • 57. The Serpent, Eve, Adam.
  • 58. The Swan.
  • 59. To Polydore.
  • 60. To N. N.
  • 61. A Three-fold Continency of the Eyes, Ears, and Tongue.
  • 62. Saturns three Sons.
  • 63. The old man speaks to the young Man.
  • 64. Of my Book.
  • 65. To Theo-dore, Gods Gift, A Physician.
  • 66. Of Quintus.
  • 67. To an Angry man.
  • 68. Of a Cloak and Coal.
  • 69. Death.
  • 70. Of Pontius, A Poet.
  • 71. Of Fabian.
  • 72. Edition of Books.
  • 73. God loves a chearful Giver.
  • 74. Of Quintus Ramista his Fathers third Son.
  • 75. Cupid's Arms, Bow and Arrows.
  • 76. Of Prose and Verse.
  • 77. Heaven.
  • 78. .
  • 79. A Nest of Boxes Suscipio Pyxidum Trias.Scipio Pyxidum Trias.Pio Pyxidum Trias.
  • 80. Of Pontilian.
  • 81. We are Dust and Ashes. Horace.
  • 82. An Aenigma.
  • 83. A Rich Man.
  • 84. Conversion of Paul.
  • 85. Right Reason.
  • 86. To Thomas Morrey, Tutor unto Charles Duke of York.
  • 87. To the Hebrews.
  • 88. Irus, a Beggar.
  • 89. God.
  • 90. An Eagle.
  • 91. Toby Mathew.
  • 92. On a Paraphrase.
  • 93. Of Corbulo.
  • 94. Of Gellia, a Grammaticastrix.
  • 95. On a certain Grammaticaster.
  • 96. Warr.
  • 97. Riches.
  • 98. Three Genders.
  • 99. S T. a note of Silence.
  • 100. Patria est ubicun{que} est bene.
  • 101.
  • 102. Rhetorick and Dialect.
  • 103. Actaeon.
  • 104. Arithmetical Multiplication and Division.
  • 105. A Tree.
  • 106. To Theodore Prise, an Oxonian Divine.
  • 107. One God.
  • 108. Dei genus.
  • 109. Government of the body.
  • 110. Malorum, the least and greatest, To Maximus.
  • 111. Unda.
  • 112. Of Dreams. A Paradox.
  • 113. Waters Original.
  • 114. Covetousness.
  • 115. The Adamant.
  • 116. Dog and Hare.
  • 117. Speech and Writing.
  • 118. The Lawrel.
  • 119. Dicacity and .
  • 120. Something of nothing.
  • 121. To William Sutton, an Oxonian Divine.
  • 122. Three Sons of Saturn and Ops, Co-heirs.
  • 123. Of a certain superfluous Orator.
  • 124. To the Readers.
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• EPIGRAMS OF John Owen AN OXONIAN AND CAMBRO-BRITAN. To Sir Edward Noel, Knight, and Baronet. The First Book.
  • 1. To the Prince of Wales.
  • 2. To his three Patrons, E.N. G.S. R.O.
  • 3. Lawyer and Physician.
  • 4. The Courtiers Ladder.
  • 5. To Edward Noel, &c.
  • 6. On Tomasine.
  • 7. To — A Courtier.
  • 8. Honour and Riches compared.
  • 9. On fabulous Poets.
  • 10. On Fabianus.
  • 11. Osculum, a Kiss.
  • 12. Dalilah.
  • 13. Coventry and Warwick, Midland Cities.
  • 14. The Birth-day.
  • 15. On the Art of Love.
  • 16 On Gallio.
  • 17. On Phyllis.
  • 18. On Paetus. A Probleme.
  • 19. On Pontiliana.
  • 20. To Fronto, a Lawyer.
  • 21. To Edward Noel, &c.
  • 22. On Festus, an unjust Judge.
  • 23. Paronomasia, (i.) Gingling with words.
  • 24. To Martha, Of Quintus.
  • 25. Of
  • 26. Of Colinus dying Intestate.
  • 27. Of Virginity and Wedlock.
  • 28. Of Pansa.
  • 29. To D. T.
  • 30. Merchants Faith.
  • 31. Gerunds and Supines.
  • 32. Give me an Angel, and I will give thee the Spirit.
  • 33. To a certain rich Man.
  • 34. To a servant of two most penurious Sisters.
  • 35. A Louse.
  • 36. From bad to worse.
  • 37. Of the Prodigal and Covetous.
  • 38. Divine Vengeance on G. R. 1603.
  • 39. Of Damas.
  • 40. On unfortunate Linus.
  • 41. To Gaurus.
  • 42. Man all-eating.
  • 43. The broad way.
  • 44. To, In, Of.
  • 45. On unmerciful Quintus.
  • 46. Error is humane.
  • 47. On a certain foolish writer.
  • 48. The usurers Apology.
  • 49. On a Cuckold.
  • 50. Things adjudged.
  • 51. A Woman.
  • 52. The four Terms at Law.
  • 53. The Cross in the Poultrey.
  • 54. That the Lawyers two Colledges, the Middle and Inner Temple are the same.
  • 55. Of the same.
  • 56. A bountiful Mecaenas.
  • 57. To Faustinus.
  • 58. O the times!
  • 59. Stammering. To Balbinus.
  • 60. Agna-Oxon.
  • 61. To Aulus, a Physician, a vernal Gratulation.
  • 62. A Poet Laureate.
  • 63. To a Citizen.
  • 64. Of Labienus, A Self-Lover.
  • 65. A Widow.
  • 66. Pyramus and Thisbe.
  • 67. To Pollux, a Client.
  • 68. Hot Cold.
  • 69. By my Faith.
  • 70. Astrology.
  • 71. Of Ponticus.
  • 72. Unequal Conflict.
  • 73. Of Lands and Money.
  • 74. Of Fame.
  • 75. Of Galla.
  • 76. Of decrepit Linus.
  • 77. A Dance.
  • 78. The Meditations and Vows of Joseph Hall of Cambridge.
  • 79. Anagram to Priscus, an old man.
  • 80. The Britains Night.
  • 81. To Naevia.
  • 82. Of Festus, a Lyar.
  • 83. Of Carpophorus.
  • 84. The World.
  • 85. To an Usurer.
  • 86. Of Giving and Satisfying.
  • 87. A Wichamite.
  • 88. Against that common Proverb, (viz.)
  • 89. No man hath seen God.
  • 90. An old man is no man.
  • 91. Of a Saracen Atheist.
  • 92. Custome.
  • 93. Of Albinus.
  • 94. An Anagram, Gerere, Regere.
  • 95. A forsaken Lover.
  • 96. The punishment of Thais, A Probleme.
  • 97. Irus his Obsequies.
  • 98. The Epitaph of Croesus and Irus.
  • 99. Of Momus.
  • 100. Unite no number.
• EPIGRAMS OF John Owen AN OXONIAN AND CAMBRO-BRITAN. To William Sidley, Knight and Baronet. The Second Book.
  • 1. To a Critical Courtier. Labor, Labos, Englished LabourArbor, Arbos, Englished A TreeHonor, Honos, Englished Honour.
  • 2. Faith.
  • 3. God.
  • 4. To William Sidley, Knight, and Baronet, &c.
  • 5. To John Sidley, only Son of the afore∣named William Sidley.
  • 6. A perpetual Equinoctial, To a blind man.
  • 7. To Ponticus, an Anabaptist.
  • 8. The Gods of Inconstancy.
  • 9. Wheel-grease.
  • 10. Of Harpalus, the reputed Father of two Sons.
  • 11. The Creation of Woman.
  • 12. Of Papinianus and Ponticus.
  • 13. Of Tustonus.
  • 14. Of Sin and Punishment.
  • 15. Of the Moors who paint Angels Black, and Devils White.
  • 16. L' Argent faict tout.
  • 17. Of a certain Drunkard.
  • 18. Verona, Placentia, Beneventum, To an Italian.
  • 19. Time, Truth, Hatred.
  • 20. Daughter of Time.
  • 21. Wedlock Love.
  • 22. The Decalogue, the Lords Prayer, and the Apostles Creed.
  • 23. To Calistratus.
  • 24. The Sun.
  • 25. A Metaphor.
  • 26. Christ a Divine, Physician, Lawyer.
  • 27. Of Law, English-Welsh-French.
  • 28. Castor and Pollux.
  • 29. What is deferr'd is not auferr'd.
  • 30. Venale Honours Apology.
  • 31. Authority and Reason.
  • 32. Luci-fer.
  • 33. Of the end of the World.
  • 34. To Pontilian.
  • 35. Love is the fulfilling of the Law.
  • 36. Devotion.
  • 37. Of Heaven and Earth.
  • 38. To Aulus, On Sextus, Of Quintus.
  • 39. Of Pollio.
  • 40. Meer trifles. To —
  • 41. To banish'd Pannicus.
  • 42. The Evening.
  • The Morning.
  • 43. Baptism, to the Jew.
  • 44. Heatuontimoroumenos.
  • 45. To William Sidley, Knight and Baronet.
  • 46. To J. P.
  • 47. On Ramista, bipartite.
  • 48. To Saint Paul, Of the City of God.
  • 49. Christ.
  • 50. To W. Cambden, Of his Britannia.
  • 51. To Perpenna.
  • 52. Of Vices and Riches.
  • 53. Apology of Death, and the Shambles.
  • 54. Eve and Proserpine compar'd.
  • 55. Astrologer and Geographer.
  • 56. To Fannia, Noble, Fair, Poor.
  • 57. Con-sci-ence.
  • 58. An unspotted Sacrifice.
  • 59. Of Mortal and Venial Sin, To Christ.
  • 60. Upon in-hospitable persons.
  • 61. Another, the same.
  • 62. Suffer little Children to come unto me.
  • 63. Of Paracelsus.
  • 64. Of Eggs.
  • 65. Of Rome, and the World.
  • 66. Magical Generation.
  • 67. Of Bread and Butter.
  • 68. The Age of Moses and David.
  • 69. Even and uneven Number.
  • 70. Physicians and Lawyers compared.
  • 71. Of King, People, Law.
  • Orthography, and Orthodox Faith, To the Hebrews.
  • 73. Few are chosen.
  • 74. Of salt Pits. Ambiguous.
  • 75. Novelty.
  • 76. Man, no man.
  • 77. Authors of Sin.
  • 78. Anagram of Diabolus, The Devil.
  • 79. To Teach and Do, Acts 1.1.
  • 80. Usury and Lot.
  • 81. Invention of Truth.
  • 82. Circumcision and Baptism.
  • 83. The Wisdome of Solomon, and of Siracides.
  • 84. On Covetous Persons.
  • 85. Of Sextus.
  • 86. An Exiles Comfort.
  • 87. Man, an Hunter, Fisher, Fowler.
  • 88. Of the same.
  • 89. Foot-mens Comfort.
  • 90. Of Wax.
  • 91. Of a certain Fair Fickle Woman.
  • 92. Of the Soul and Body.
  • 93. Of Christs Miracles.
  • 94. The old Testament.
  • 95. The New Testament.
  • 96. All things are full of Errors. Cic.
  • 97. Against all Nations.
  • 98. On Atheists.
  • 99. To his Mecaenas, William Sidley, &c.
  • 100. On Cotta, a poor and foolish writer.
• EPIGRAMS OF John Owen AN OXONIAN AND CAMBRO-BRITAIN. To his Mecaenas, Roger Owen, Knight. The Third Book.
  • 1. To Roger Owen, his Mecaenas.
  • 2. To Ponticus, Sound-unsound.
  • 3. What a Clock is't?
  • 4. Bacchus his Deifying.
  • 5. Of silent Labienus.
  • 6. Faith in Wax.
  • 7. To Firmicus. Of the seven Planets.
  • 8. Of a certain Niggard.
  • 9. Wedlocks Primacy.
  • 10. Of a certain Woman.
  • 11. Faith.
  • 12. To Thomas, Baron of Ellesmer, Chancellour of England, &c. 1612.
  • 13. Contempt of the World.
  • 14. To Robert Cary, Viscount Rochester, and Henry Danvers, Baron of Dantesay, &c.
  • 15. To his Friend, A Batchelor.
  • 16. Of Baldinus.
  • 17. The Decalogue and Creed.
  • 18. Knowledge and Charity.
  • 19. Of Tythes. To the Laitie.
  • 20. Of God and the World.
  • 21. The Right of Tythes and First-Fruits.
  • 22. Faith, Hope, and Charity.
  • 23. Of Polydorus.
  • 24. To my self.
  • 25. Of one Uxorious.
  • 26. Of Husband and Wife.
  • 27. Man Solar.
  • 28. Of Sylvanus.
  • 29. London.
  • 30. To his Friend and Kinsman Theodore Prise, Theologer.
  • 31. Of Atheists and (a) Polytheists.
  • 32. Solicitude. To Ponticus.
  • 33. F A S.
  • 34. To the Learned and Judicious Knight, Roger Owen.
  • 35. Eight.
  • 36. Of mans Primacy. A Probleme.
  • 37. Conjux. Man and Wife.
  • 38. Epigram.
  • 39. Of Paula, a most lectick Woman.
  • 40. Of a certain litigious Lawyer.
  • 41. Scripture Reading.
  • 42. To John Williams, a Cambro-Britan, Dr. in Divinity, Principal of Jesus Colledge in Oxford.
  • 43. To John Williams, a Cambro-Britan, a Divine, and fellow of St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge
  • 44. To John Williams, a Cambro-Britan, the Kings Goldsmith in London.
  • 45. To all those three.
  • 46. To the Creditor.
  • 47. Truth in the deep. To one painted.
  • 48. Of Phyllis.
  • 49. Gravity and Levity.
  • 50. Of a Pratler, sick with the Cholick.
  • 51. Of Theologaster, a Sophister.
  • 52. Action and Passion.
  • 53. Repentance and Reminiscence.
  • 54. The Damned.
  • 55. The Blessed.
  • 56. Foelix and Festus.
  • 57. Democritus and Heraclitus.
  • 58. Always the same.
  • 59. Of ignorant-arrogant Linus.
  • 60. Of the Poet Maevius.
  • 61. Helena and Penelope.
  • 62. Of Life.
  • 63. Of Paula.
  • 64. Of a Covetous Miser.
  • 65. Verity and Vertue.
  • 66. Modern Writers.
  • 67. The Worlds three Rulers.
  • 68. The Authors Vote.
  • 69. Forbidden Books.
  • 70. On Festus.
  • 71. The false Church.
  • 72. To Decianus.
  • 73. Of Dindymus.
  • 74. To G. T. 1606.
  • 75. Rule of State.
  • 76. Of a certain Cross-wearing Hypocrite.
  • 77. Christ's Life and Death.
  • 78. The wise mens Star.
  • 79. The Golden Calf broken by Moses. Exod. 32.20.
  • 80. The Triumvirs Divines,Lawyers,Physicians.
  • 81. To the Historgrapher.
  • 82. Of the Deluge, and end of the World.
  • 83. Debtor and Creditor.
  • 84. Of God and the Devil.
  • 85. Of Good and Evil.
  • 86. Do likewise. To Attaus, J. C.
  • 87. The Redeemer.
  • 88. Money's Method.
  • 89. Of Writers in these times.
  • 90. A Paradox.
  • 91. Of Gaurus.
  • 92. To my self.
  • 93. Difference between Kings and Tyrants.
  • 94. Of a certain—
  • 95. The Mother Church.
  • 96. Of Sects.
  • 97. Life in the Blood.
  • 98. To Thomas, Baron of Ellesmer, Chancellour of England, a Consolation upon the death of Mary, his only Daughter, an excellent Woman, 1612.
  • 99. On a foolish Writer.
  • 100. To his three Mecaenates, E. N. G. S. and R. O.
  • 101. Upon the Death of Prince Henry, 1612.
  • 102. To the Prince his Ghost.
  • 103. To the same Prince Henry.
• The Epilogue.
• epitaph