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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London :: Printed by T.R. for Christopher Eccleston ...,
1663.
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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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67161.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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Angelus Politianus.
Upon Pamphilus.
Still you send Wine to me, still Wine: now know,If you would please me more, then Thirst bestow.
To Laurentius.
The Civick Oaken Crown you well may have,Who do not one, but every Subject save.
On Albiera taken away by a too sudden fate, To her Father.
In Heaven your daughter lives; de'e weep to beAlbiera's Father now a Deity.
To Prince Galeotus.
Gifts why he brings not promis'd long ago,Ask you your Poet? He's a Poet know.
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To Franciscus.
Envy her self, Franciscus, never bit,He did so well, him who against her writ.
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Angelus Politianus.
In Pamphilum.
Mattis vina mihi; mihi, Pamphile, vina supersunt:Vis magè quod placeat mittere? mitte sitim.
Ad Laurentium.
Quam benè glandiferâ eingis tua tempora quercu,Qui civem servas non modò, sed populum!
In Albieram fato immaturo ereptam. Ad genitorem.
Quid quereris genitor? vivit tua filia coeloAlbiera: annè deam progenuisse doles?
Ad Galeotum Principem.
Cur promissa tibi tuus poetaNondum praestiterit rogas? poeta est.
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Ad Franciscum.
Scripsit in invidiam quidam, Francisce, poetaTam benè, tam doctè, nullus ut invideat.
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