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Nicholaus Borbonius.
On a Covetous man.
Dying Avarus weeps, not to lament
His death, but coin in Cake, and Coffin spent.
To his Father.
Father, you say my Fancie's cold and low:
The Water-Poets fancy's alwayes so.
Sales epigrammatum being the choicest disticks of Martials fourteen books of epigrams, and of all the chief Latin poets that have writ in these two last centuries : together with Cato's Morality / made English by James Wright.
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- Sales epigrammatum being the choicest disticks of Martials fourteen books of epigrams, and of all the chief Latin poets that have writ in these two last centuries : together with Cato's Morality / made English by James Wright.
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- 1663.
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Nicholaus Borbonius.
In avarum.
Dum moritur, lacrymat, non quòd moriatur avarus,
Sed loculum tanti quod sibi nollet emi.
Ad Patrem.
Frigida nostra pater dixisti carmina: sanè
Frigent quae fecit carmina potor aquae.