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Marius Bettinus.
Of the Baptist in the Wilderness.
Poet. Baptist.
Poet.
Thee, Cave-inhabitant, what shall I call?
Bapt.
Dost thou not hear? the Cave doth tell; a Call.
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 72
Upon Judas.
If Hail bring death, what may an evil word?
If thus thy kiss doth wound, how would thy Sword?
Upon Christs birth-night.
The night shineth as the day, &c.
Psal. 139.12.
Upon Thomas the Apostle.
Unless confirm'd by Sight, there is in thee
No faith, no faith will ever, Thomas, be.
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Marinus Bettinus.
De Baptista in eremo.
Poeta. Baptista.
Poeta.
Cultor antri, quem te vocem?
Bapt.
Audin? antrum reddit; vocem.
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In Judam.
Morte quid efficies, si fers fera fata salute?
Oscula si feriunt, vulnera quid facient?
In noctem Christi natalem.
Nox sicut dies illuminabitur, &c.
In Thomam Apostolum.
Si tibi, ni rebus fuerit firmata videndis,
Non erit ulla fides, non erit ulla fides.