Epigrammes vvritten on purpose to be read: with a proviso, that they may be understood by the reader; being ninety in number: besides, two new made satyres that attend them. By John Taylor, at the signe of the Poets Head, in Phœnix Alley, neare the middle of Long-Aker, or Covent Garden.
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- Epigrammes vvritten on purpose to be read: with a proviso, that they may be understood by the reader; being ninety in number: besides, two new made satyres that attend them. By John Taylor, at the signe of the Poets Head, in Phœnix Alley, neare the middle of Long-Aker, or Covent Garden.
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- Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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- London :: [s.n.],
- printed in the yeare, 1651.
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"Epigrammes vvritten on purpose to be read: with a proviso, that they may be understood by the reader; being ninety in number: besides, two new made satyres that attend them. By John Taylor, at the signe of the Poets Head, in Phœnix Alley, neare the middle of Long-Aker, or Covent Garden." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A64168.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.
Contents
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epigrams
- To the good or bad Reader.
- 2. Of friends.
- 3. Unity, Enmity, Amity.
- 4. Of Credit.
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Honest Jone. - 6. Teeth and Hornes.
- 7. Of Seales and Armes.
- 8. Thrifty preaching.
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Devout Margery. - 10. Things done by neither wise men or fooles.
- 11. Labour in vaine.
- 12. Hang pride.
- 13. Another.
- 14. Another to the same tune.
- 15. Just payment.
- 16. Content.
- 17. Sufficient knowledge.
- 18. Of Death.
- 19. Well and ill.
- 20. Beware Hypocrisie.
- 21. Of the fashion.
- 22. Of speech.
- 23. On long and short life.
- 24. Of true friendships use.
- 25. Better lost then kept.
- 26. Extreames.
- 27. A fig for Fortune.
- 28. Good gain'd from bad.
- 29. How I would be esteemed.
- 30. Reverence to Saints.
- 31. Do thy worst blind Fortune.
- 32. Want of knowledge.
- 33. Had I wist.
- 34. Fast and loose.
- 35. A lye, and no lye.
- 36. True Love.
- 37. Treasure.
- 38. To be rul'd, or not rul'd.
- 39. Wit bought too deare.
- 40. All comes to one passe.
- 41. A hopefull Boy.
- 42. A plain case.
- 43. All is true.
- 44. Well grown is good.
- 45. Few faults.
- 46. A chac'd unchaste woman.
- 47. To be quiet or unquiet.
- 48. Avoyd Hypocrisie.
- 49. Freedome and Bondage.
- 50. Glorious Vanity.
- 51. Of just anger.
- 52. Wilfull Will.
- 53. A brace of Beagles.
- 54. A good Memento.
- 55. Mutability.
- 56. Good Greatnesse.
- 57. Of Angels.
- 58. The Crosse brings glory.
- 59. Words are winde.
- 60. Feares and jealousies.
- 61. B and C.
- 62. Adoration.
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63.
Honest Besse May. - 64. Quick and free passage.
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65. Desperate
Dick. - 67. A slovenly Schollar.
- 68. To a scornfull Reader.
- 69. Manna and Mammon.
- 70. Blind zeale.
- 71. On the late Kings poore servants.
- 72. A good faith.
- 73. Gluttony inward and outward.
- 74. Sir reverence love.
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75.
Kates kind Answer. - 76. Brave resolution.
- 77. Leggs worthy of love.
- 78. Paine with pleasure.
- 79. Friends are better then Lovers.
- 80. Of lying and giving.
- 81. Great Place, small Grace.
- 82. A great Witch.
- 83. Repast, and Repose.
- 84. Sunday.
- 85. Sabaoth.
- 86. A sweet Saint.
- 87. Want and abundance.
- 88. A hard businesse.
- 89. Thoughts and words.
- 90. Good mornings practise.
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A SATYRE: Hypocrisie discovered. - A Satyre against swearing, equivocation, mentall re∣servation, and detestable dissimulation.