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Theodorus Beza.
Upon a certain Encomiast of Asses.
Why praise you Asses, alwaies erring thus?
Dost thou not know? know thy self,
Ponticus.
On Zoilus.
My Book to you, O Zoilus, seems too small:
I only wish it would seem so to all.
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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Page 44
Upon Drunkards.
You often ask to see a drunken man:
Such a one, Naevolus you nowhere can.
M. Brutus Felo de se.
I, under Caesar might his treasure use,
But then a Lord, free death did rather choose.
Xenophon bearing in his left hnnd a Pen, and in his right a Sword.
Mars, and the Muses serving, Barbarous men
By th' Sword I vanquish, Language by the Pen.
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Theodorus Beza.
In quendam asinorum Encomiasten.
Dum laudas asinos, toties cur, Pontice, peccas?
Nempe tibi ignotum 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 erat.
In Zoilum.
Brevem Zoile dicis huuc libellum:
O si possit idem omnibus videri!
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In Ebriosos.
Quaeris quis sit homo ebriosus? at qui
Nullus est homo, Naevole, ebriosus.
M. Brutus; 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
Divitiis uti licuit cum Caesare partis;
Ferre necem possum, non potui dominum.
Xenophon laevâ calamum, dextrâ gladium gestans.
Quid Marti, & Musis, Xenophon? sic vlcimus olim
Barbariem gladio, barbariem calamo.