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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descriptionPage 98
Matthaeus Zuberus.
Of the death of John Lauterbachius.
Phoebus thy Verse did envy; he, thy Fate,And not the Parcae, did anticipate.
Of Prisca.
Prisca, though rich in Vertue, and in GoldNo Suiter hath: her Name doth speak her old.
To John Ortelius his Schoolmaster.
You Argus are; yet when our exerciseYou do peruse, lay by your hundred Eyes.
descriptionPage 99
Matthaeus Zuberus.
Joannes Lauterbachii poetae nobilis tumulus.
Te, Lauterbachi, Phoebus, non Parca necabat;Ne superaretur carmine, causa fuit.
Priscae, virgini Lavinganae.
Dives es, & casta es: cur est tibi nullus amator?Prodere quòd nomen, Prisca, videtur anum.