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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descriptionPage 90
Timotheus Polus.
Whether Sleep be the Image of Death.
That Sleep's Death's Image I shall not deny;Yet when I next would steep I would not dye.
Why the Sea is salt.
Why the Sea's salt dy'c ask? The Fish I fearWould soon carrowse too much if sweet it were.
descriptionPage 92
An Ejaculation.
Command, blest God, yet give me power to do.That I may know thy Way, and walk it too.
On a Lyer.
Lyers should have good Mem'ries; but alasThy Lyes thy Memory doth far surpass.
Upon the unprofitable Servant.
If I still fruitless be performing all;That man who nothing doth, what will befall?
On a painted Lady.
Your Beauty you in th' Viol put, alass!Your Beautie's far more brittle than your Glass.
On an Almanack-maker. i
When you write fair it rains; God, you reply,Forbids, making him Author of your Ly.
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