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A90351	Parnassi puerperium: or, some well-wishes to ingenuity, in the translation of six hundred, of Owen's epigrams; Martial de spectaculis, or of rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most select, in Sir. Tho. More. To which is annext a century of heroick epigrams, (sixty whereof concern the twelve Cæsars; and the forty remaining, several deserving persons). / By the author of that celebrated elegie upon Cleeveland: Tho. Pecke of the Inner Temple, Gent.	Pecke, Thomas, b. 1637.; Martial.; More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535.; Cottrel, James, fl. 1649-1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing P1040; Thomason E1861_1	59,144	197

advance T'other reply'd My Rise must be A Favourites mischance 172. To the Reader LEt not my Book Tobacco light but rather Let it the Refuse of your Close-stool gather 173. To his Book MY Life perhaps may my Books years out-vie The Son before the Father oft doth die But whether it dies first or sees Me Rot I understand A Mortal I begot OWEN'S EPIGRAMS THE SECOND BOOK 1. To the Reader LEt my Verse not please Fools the world is full I would not be the Darling of a Gull Few Readers will suffice grant me but one If no body me like I 'm pleas'd with None 2. To the Lady Mary Nevill OThers Renown is but the Poets praise Your splendid glory your own Merits raise 3. To the same IF you have Enemies they need not fear To oblige friends you make your chiefest Care This you observe Friends never to Forget Ne'r to Remember with Foes to cry Quit. 4. To the same THat a fair Face might beauty keep alive The curious Pencil helps it to survive I though a stranger to the Limners Trade To keep your Fame alive in Verse essay'd Although Apelles Pencil one Divine Should Draw Apollo's Verses her enshrine 5. To Mr. J. H. NO whit portentous but a Poet I You are no Poet but a Prodigie 6. What Newes ALL that know Me my Patience thus abuse Good Mr. Owen hear you any News I Answer I know None and tell them True Of all I know for I know nothing New 7. The Court HE who to all Mens Humours can't stoop down Hath got a foolish Humour for his own 8. Vpon Aulus WHy were you made a Knight because that more Your wife might love you then she did before But you mistook your self Sir Aulus she Will love her self the better but not thee Former expence must double every yeer You shall have cause to call your Lady Deer 9. Upon the Chymist IT is the silly Chymists doting Fate To seek for Gold and Lose his whole Estate None must Elixar have but He alone Till all away is squandred Stick and Stone 10. A Trojan AFter Troy's burning the Trojans grew wise In this True Trojan who Himself denies 11. The Cure of Love BY frequent Fastings take wood from the Fire Let not a Ladies Glance kindle desire If still your Fervour will not let you rest A Wife will quench the Flame Probatum est 12. Troynovant To the Londoners NO Phoenix beautifies the gilded East Before Sol lights her Mothers fragrant Nest So decimated Troy the Grecians burn Majestick London sprouts from Troy's pale Urn 13. The Lawyers God A Deity cal'd Term Rome did adore But now at Westminster He 's Worshipt more 14. The Earth TO charm our Tongues the middle hath a Spell For there we think the golden Mean doth dwel Therefore in play for Praise earth throws an Ace Above the Heavens here 's the Middle place 15. To King James De. of the Faith YOu are Faiths chiefest Guardian to intrust Her with your sacred self Envy thinks Just 16. To the Lord Treasurer A Treasurer whom Vertue makes to hold Vulturian Talons from the Regal Gold Is Himself greater Treasure then can shine In the Rich womb of an Exchequers Mine 17. To the Kings chief Secretary THe Secrets of three Florid Nations lie Committed to your Tested Secrecie The Kings thoughts are not safe till in the Chest They be lockt up of your most Tacid Breast 18. To the Venetians A Fair laid your Foundations at the first Neptune turn'd Foster-father and them nurst Nor shall mute Fish the Sea Monopolize Your Palaces make proud waves pay excize The Sea now fetter'd gives a City Birth Art baffling Nature water turn'd to Earth Your Empire survives time waves ebb and flow Yet never dare unconstant prove to you It is not strange Venice her self loves Lawes Since she the out-law'd Ocean over-awes 19. To the Lord Chancellor LEst that the Quirks or Rigour of the Laws Should accidentally Injustice cause Deservedly it in your power doth lie To bridle Common-Law with Equitie 20. To the Lord Richard Sacvil Earl of Dorchester YOur Ancestors were Noble you we see The glory of renew'd Nobilitie For you which was a Wonder in old time Seems now Prodigious to our vicious Clime Rewards attending Merits disrespect Love prudent Lawes devasting Arms neglect To prefer Vertue before Power think good And Learning's Jewel before Noble Bloud 21. Cecil Lord Treasurer 1597. ARms abroad are invalid unless that Prudence at Home and Cecil steer the State Cecil is Atlas Brother born Above Cecil Props up Elisa Atlas Jove 22. Vpon the Lord William Cecil's Motto Virtute Duce Comite Fortuna Vertue my Leader Fortune my Companion DIvine Elizabeth Fortune did grace Your wisht Companion with an Earls high place Since there was None her Pleasure durst Rebuke Why made She not Vertue your Leader Duke 23. To Richard Vaughan Bishop of London YOu British Honour are the first from Wales Arriv'd at Londons Sea through happy Gales 24. To the same THose Doctors alwaies pleas'd me who account Their good Lives their good Sermons to surmount Most learned Bishop you not only teach Others their duty but by Life do Preach 25. To Tho. Bilson Bishop of Winchester YOu were my School-master let who will know All these I write I to your Precepts owe 26. The Life of William of Wicham formerly Bishop of Winchester publisht in Latine by Tho. Martin Doctor of the Civil Law THat a dead Man a Person should have freed From deaths black Dungeon few wil make their creed Had you not don this work in Lethe's Brook You had bin drown'd now both live by this Book 27. Winchester Colledge EUrope's chief School our Winchester appears Where I was honour'd to spend younger years To give her the first place Zoilus is bound Suppose he knows great Wicham did her Found 28. Sir Philip Sidney BEcause old Homer did his Praises sing Achilles was thought happy by the King Of large Aemathia Poor wretch am I Whose Muse can't divine Philip Deifie 29. To the same VVHo acts things worthy to be writ or writes Things worth the Reading on no small bliss lights No Plummet sounds your Repute who alone By a rare Genius make these Two but One Readers your Writings covet ev'ry Act Might all Historians Table-books exact Your writings prove you Learned Deeds attest That Prowess Anchors in your noble Brest 30. Upon the Marriage of William Earl of Pembrook and Mary Daughter to the Earl of Salisbury 1605. FOr Nature Wisdom Beauty Age Estates Nobility ye are most equal Mates Yet Sir I this confess you have not wed So Nobly as deserv'd your Bridal-bed And I acknowledge Madam that you are Worthy a Husband yours excelling far 31. To Elizabet Countess of Rutland Daughter to Sir Philip Sidney RAre Philip's Praise did not on Error trip Since he was Father to your Ladiship That was his Honour Yours is for to be Daughter to such Heroick Chivalrie 32. To Lucia Countess of Bedford LIght gave

words dispence To his Admirers Flowrs of Eloquence Learning about to die these late sad Wars Ordained yee Her Co-executors 5. To Sir Edmund Prideaux Attorney-General IF Law if Rhetorick my Muse avow In you Enthron'd I sing what all Men know Of your great Vertue most are Ignorant How Charitable unto those that want You have found out the untrack'd path to Bliss To sue for Heaven in Forma Pauperis 6. To those Excellent Conveyancers Sir Orlando Bridgman and the worthy Mr. Geofry Palmer WIse Greece Rome did both in this combine To make addresses to the Delphian Shrine And with divine Apollo to advise Was the Preludium of an Enterprise Few English men dare purchase an Estate Unless your Wisdom's unsophisticate The Title vouch Ye can stop Hymens way For Portions Joyntures both Sexes must pay Due Thanks Wise Fathers Ranters keep in awe Craving from ye the Oracles of Law Help to entail their Lands Whilst your selves be Tenants of Riches of Renown in Fee 7. To Mr. Recorder of the celebrious City of London YOur Pupil London did a great while Long To have a learned Head and fluent Tongue Now she vaunts happy Fortune for to you All sorts those two rare Faculties allow Pallas and Suada Triumphant are seen May you for ever flourish long be Green 8. To the Learned Lawyer and Eloquent Pleader Henneage Finch Esquire THe divine Samian guess'd aright in this That Souls affect a Metempsycosis The Penetration of Dimensions be Not dissonant from my Philosophie For two great Finches Souls the Sages know Pardon the Phrase concorporate in you 9. To his Honoured Cousin Edward Peck of the Inner Temple Esquire CErtain set Forms fixt in the Memory Almost accomplish for the Chancery It matters not in what your Practice lies Your Law your Love are no Formalities 10. To a certain old Barrister GRave Monsieur Plowden elected a time To tell my Father Law 's not writ in Rythme Ergo I must the two-topt Mount defie And give my Vale unto Poetry Were not thy skin good Buffe my Muse should send The Long-nail'd Furies which thy soul should rend I have fierce Satyrs that can assault Hell Dash out Medaeas Brains in spight of spell Reclaim an unback'd Impudence Make Bleed A Rock And stab the fell Medusa's Head And dares thy empty Skull bandy at Me Lord Paramount of gross Stupidity 11. To his most indulgent Grandmother Mrs. Anne Talbot THey who on Aesculapius Altars tend To my slack Memory this Notion lend That Children who are sent abroad to Nurse Delight in them and Love their Mothers worse If such Affection in Cradles appears What Love may you expect from mature years Your greatest Study was my Life to save Your self was prompt to Bail Me from the Grave When Tissical distempers stopt my Breath And my clog'd Wind-pipe seem'd to whistle death I beleeve Nature only gives Me Day That in some sort I might strive you to Pay 12. To his Honourable Father I Must acknowledge my Life did commence From you Dear Father Thanks to Providence Who ordain'd you Agent for what was done I could not choose a Father you a Son Reflecting on the Will we Actions call Vertues or Vices yours was General An Heir was wish'd but you could not foresee My Sex my VVit or my Stupidity For Birth my Muse shall grateful Hymns rehearse In praise of him who made the Universe My dutiful Devoirs to you are ty'd For my Well-being 'cause you thus Provide 13. To his Honourable Mother MOther-in-Lawes Poets much Vilifie You did I never no not secretly When own Mothers prove Sowre Unnatural Mother-in-Laws Sons may them aptly call She that is not by Nature yet may be An Own Mother by sweet Indulgency I shall endeavour Duty to improve According to the Merits of your Love You shall not lose those Favours you lend Me This is the Time for my Retaining Fee 14. To his Highly valued Vncle Thomas Pecke of Spixworth Esquire VVHen as it was my happy Chance to lie Sucking sweet Milk from th' University My happy Fortune prompted you to hold Fast my Affection by the Threads of Gold But now the Scene is chang'd You 'l not confer Your Cash but on the sprightful Traveller What though you cannot push me into France Though you cease Piping still my Love shall Dance 15. To the worthy Mr. Philips late Vsher of the Free-school of Norwich WHen Languishings gave leave I went to School To you kinde Sir your Favours made Me whole I cannot Chide your Passion for a Blow Not whipping then makes me obsequious now 16. To his very loving School-master Mr. Tho. Lovering MY weak endeavours you were pleas'd to prise As hating over Lads to Tyrannize Indulgence made my School-boyes Life a Sport You did not Lash to Study but Me Court This this perswades him to remain your Friend Who may perhaps prove witty in the End 17. To his Endeared Tutor Mr. Will. Naylour Senior Fellow of Gon. and Cai. Colledge in Cambridge TO your Protection Sir my Muse doth flie As conscious of her Imbecilitie It were Impiety to question now The Residence of Candour on your Brow Frequent Experiments made Manifest She as Queen Regent triumphs in your Breast I that am Flint to whatsoever Threat And can't be Anvil'd to a base Regret From things displeasing to you did refrain Nor were your Moral Lectures read in vain The Curb of Tutor did not chafe my will This made Me Obey then and Honour still On Pain of Death I durst not too much Rove Lest I should seem a Rebel against Love 18. To the highly deserving Dr. Love Master of Corpus Christi Colledge in Cambridge WHen first I read the Orphean History I conceiv'd it a gem of Poetry I must recant my error That is True For very Fresh-men Beadles adore you 19. To the learned Doctor Brown RAre Oculist whose Genius did devise To cut the Cataracts from Vulgar Eyes The Sun-shine of your Learning brought the day And chas'd the Fogs of Ignorance away Your Universal Judgment search'd about And put Gray-bearded Errors to the rout Yet Modesty made you mistake Most True A Phoenix exists The world Brown doth owe 20. To the Celebrated Doctor Scarborowe PSyche close vail'd from Galen made escape Nor could he view her Entrails in an Ape What dissect Beasts you are far more precize Galen himself you dare Anatomize 21. To the Honourable John Lord Herbert MAy my Pen venture to approach a Name Long since Espous'd to an Immortal Fame Deslowr'd Astraea in a Sable weed For your Grand-father did not weep but bleed Till she saw you who are intent to awe Audacious Vice and by your Life vouch Law 22. To the Honourable Lord Richardson OUr Virgin-Queen beheld with great content Our Sister Suffolk's happy Government But till her Progress she knew not the Cause To be the Gospels Marriage unto Lawes When to meet her the Justices did Ride Not one but had a Chaplain by his side To Love the Learned Pious

Beleeve as Friendship so Men Try Their Reputations by Utility 89. Art GOd did in Natures Bosom place the Arts That Man might have a Touch-stone for his Parts 90. Adam's Apologie FOr sin's first Author Men have flings at Mee Did not Eve pull the Apple from the Tree 91. The Serpents Answer THis Allegation prove you never can To Tempt you but your self there was no Man 92. Alwaies the same GOd alwaies was is shall be thought but One Why came not Faith down to the world alone One Faith as well as Day gives Light a Birth There 's but one Sun in Heaven God on Earth 93. Cordial Prayer SInce your Breast is the Church let it be pure The Holy Ghost for Minister procure And because God for uprightness will look Make a clean Heart thy devout Prayer-book 94. The five Wounds CHrist's Wounds we soveragn Emplaisters finde They heal the Ulcers of a troubled Minde 95. Friendship delineated WHen Sol puts on his splendid Robes of State Our Bodies Shadow turns Associate When Solar Beams yeeld to a churlish sky Our Shadows vanish with Celerity Whilst Fortune smiles upon ye never fear The want of Friends thou shalt have some to spare When the Stern Fates turn to storms serene Day Friends will as much as shadows Post away 96. Vertue NOt Talk but Actions Vertues Pearls comprise Faith Hope and Love are Real Entities 97. Rachel WHat weep because Children are from you torn Had you not Grief enough when they were Born 98. Solomon SO many wise Men as the world can cull So many things are in it wonderfull Solomon died before Greece seven nurst He was not the eighth Wise-man but the first 99. Hope I Can't prevent what must fall to my share I 'l neither Hope for Good nor Evils fear Yet Hope will do me all the Good she can Expectancy drawes out my Lifes short Span. 100. Humane Ignorance I Scarcely know what Life is how should I Tell what 't is to be Born and what to Die 101. Christ is the Way CAnst not thou the streight way to Heaven see Behold the Way it self comes down to thee 102. Of Fame DO well and crouch not to Plebeian Fame 'T is but an empty Adjunct to thy Name 103. Faith AMongst Opinions Faith had most Respect From the Tongue-tyed Pythagorean Sect. For whatsoever the old Samian knew An ipse dixit did confirm it true 104. Indifferency BE Death far off be the fatal stroke nigh 'T is culpable to wish or fear to Die 105. The freshest Date IF I mistake not I may boldly say That the first Age was the Worlds New-years Day Then studious Reader let me crave of you Are the Times we now live in Old or New 106. The Will WOuld you be Good Vertue you may acquire He will inable who made you desire 107. To the Sun TWice eighty times Astronomies express Sol bigger then the Earth yet seems much less If you a Pygmie Sol appear to Me A little Worm how small seem I to Thee 108. Probity GOod Men are oft out-witted and what then Since they excel in Vertue wiser Men 109. A Man THe chief Ingredient to Mans heart is Care Foul noysom Carkasses our Bodies are Birth is but sickness and that Life we have Frequently found a passage to the Grave 110. Concerning Loquacity To the Preacher SO many Sermons your bad Life denote For what need words if Men your Deeds might quote 111. Death is both contrary and according to Nature IF you would follow Nature cruel Death You should snatch Parents before Childrens Breath To Natures Dictates we obsequious be For Life and Death are both by her Decree 112. Eloquence GReat Talkers are not alwaies Eloquent A few neat Fancies Auditors content Nor is that field thought Fruitful whence proceeds A thousand Cart-loads full of stinking weeds 113. God AS Clouds permit not Heaven to descrie So none see God 'cause Mists on their mindes lie None have seen God but few did ever hear Hence * Faith is scarce but * Love is much more Rare 114. To Ponticus YOu would think Me unkinde should I deny To tell you how many years old am I Since my Age is this Moment I say None For the years I have Liv'd away are flown 115. Love and Friendship To Charles WHat space betwixt Nature and Habits lie So far is Love distant from Amitie 116. Princes HUgely Religious ye seem to be And very Zelots as to Pietie 'T is not Love of Religion makes ye thus But thirst of honour Sanctimonious 117. O the wickedness of our Times LEt the worst Vices happen to be nam'd Innocent Time is certain to be Blam'd Yet we can't prove him guilty of such Crimes Men are not undone by but in the Times 118. Philosophy THe World loves to know much but few things will Beleeve hence comes great Faith little skil 119. Evils are innumerable VVE Die a thousand waies are Born but One Thousand Diseases push at Health alone 120. Vpon Controversies WIll Divines everlastingly contend Would they were pleas'd a Judge the strife might End Concerning who should be the Judge they Brawl I wish sincerely that dispute were all Might I contemplate once within my Life As great a strife of Love as Love of Strife 121. Christ upon the Cross BEtwixt two Thiefs Christ fill'd the empty space Now Vertue had if ever Middle Place 122. The Daughter of Time TRuth lies along Time hid yet comes to Light Greece cals her {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 'cause she flies sight 123. Law and Physick IF Men would Live as Prudent Nature teach They should climb quickly out of Galen's reach If Men were wise they would not so long Jar Till they are witnest Fools by the whole Bar But Bartolus should then despair to please And Mice might comment on Hippocrates 124. Husband and Wife VVHen Angry a whole House can't us contain A Bed can hold when we are friends again 125. The shortest Day OUr Lifes last day doth the most short appear Quite through that Day the end is very near 126. Vertues Complaint LOve hath few servants who will Vertue own Credit and honour extreme dear are grown Riches are sold Mony made Merchandize Vertue for her Rewards must pay Excise 127. The Rigid Father THe Avaritious Father is most Free The more he scrapes the more He leaves to thee 128. A Prayer to God in time of Sickness NAtures great Parent when as thou shalt please My Soul from flesh Her Prison to release Let Grace with thy afflicting Hand comply When I want strength to Live give will to Die 129. To the Pleader WHere Judges Favour not they invent flaws 'T is not your Eloquence secures a Cause Throw Reports by and Study Day and Night What to turn Lawyer No but Favourite 130. Vpon Brunonius OUr Ancestors ordained Fasting-daies That Flesh might obey Spirit that God Praise Your Table turns Fasts into Feasts We see That Spirit might serve Flesh and Flesh serve Thee

not rash count no opportune Time cheap To fearful Nature Prudence lends a Shield None dangers dread who their Ambush beheld 173. Sir minde the matter in hand VVHat though Philosophers on the Face fly One word will vanquish them say I deny 174. Justification DOth God us Justifie by Works or Faith By both together holy Scripture saith 175. The Day of Judgment IF all this Day their large Accounts must clear St Barnabie will be too short I fear 176. To Marianus GOod Men for Vertues sake do detest Vice But now a Daies there 's few that are so Nice Goodness is so contemned in our Time That to be Good is thought an heinous Crime 177. Mary Magdalens Sorrow ONe Mountain here two well-fed Springs can show From whence two Rivers of Salt water flow 178. Upon the Soul THe Soul is not infus'd for if it were It would be mortal as our Bodies are 179. To Marcus VVHen to Pray you at any Time shall please You institute your Bed Chappel of ease You might well think Heaven would exclude thence Prayers presented with irreverence Till wandring thoughts rude gestures you forbear God Audience gives but is not pleas'd to Hear 180. Hell WHo can reduce Cloth dyed Black to White What Damned Soul enjoy'd again the Light 181. To his poor Friend YOur bad Estate I wish worse for your sake On extreme evils Fate may pity take 182. Europe Asia Africa America THe worlds division is into Four parts So many distinct * Faiths possess Mens hearts 183. The causes of Discord WHen Sense and Reason be enslav'd to Will They prove the Source of segregating Ill Will Brethren sets at distance for we see When Will consents Kindred do well agree 184. The Liberal Man THe Just to ev'ry Man his own allow Let Rich have Justice to poor Mercy show 185. The Temperate WHo know things Causes who Times supervise Bridle their Passions Actions rule are Wise 186. A Wise Man FAte governs Fools a wise Man curbs the Stars His Wisdom shields him from intended scars 187. Upon an Infant dying before Baptism ALas I dy'd before pure Water could Mark me A Lamb belonging to Christs Fold The Church implores my Saviour would not look For Name Lord write me Nameless in thy Book Though I want Name yet am I known to Thee For thy Names-Sake be Merciful to Me 188. The Flatterer and Envious ENvy and Flattery are both content To fall under the same Predicament Zoilus hates Good Mens Vertue Gnatho will Labour of Goodness to defraud the Ill. 189. Love and Friendship WIth Prudence Friendships Knot may be unty'd To purchase Love but on the other side It were a foolish Fancy to remove For fickle Friendship a well-grounded Love 190. St. Peter and Paul EMpire the Sword Wealth the Key signifies Peter's Richer then Paul as I surmise That Paul was Poor his Epistles record But Peter's Pen let slip not one such Word 191. Socrates YOu nothing know and you know only this To know that you know nothing something is Yet that something you understand I shall According to directions Nothing call 192. A Man NO sooner Born but you began to cry Since Life 's no Pleasure why is 't Grief to Die 193. To Paulus after Burial THough you were at Birth naked now you have An Holland sheet to sleep on in the Grave You carry that away you did not bring Thank not your Mother Earth for any thing 194. To such Courtiers as shall please to Read MOst touch upon the Schools but few them court Observe my humor to divide my sport 195. Prudent simplicity MOrality endeavour to improve To Innocence as candid as the Dove But lest good Nature should to Mischiefs lead To Dovelike Hands annex the Serpents Head 196. The eyes of the Common-wealth LAw and Religion are the Nations Eyes One forbids Sins the other Injuries 197. To John Gifford Doctor of Physick NO wonder Gifford knows Apollo's Art Of his own Body He knows ev'ry part Though Know your self was not Galen's command To that Advice Apollo set his Hand 198. The Daw WHich Sister of the Grove dares make pretence To excel Me in nimble Eloquence The Goose FOr some things I my Self may be turn'd loose Though you Prate more you write less then a Goose 199. The Afflictions of Job IF you on Riches Children or Health look The Devil by Gods Leave away these took When all was gone his Wife was left behinde Lest some small Comfort should refresh Job's minde 200. Pauls and Westminster-Abbey THe Pleading Place Exchequer and White-Hall Are Neighbours to St. Peters-Abbey all The Learned Preachers make St. Pauls to sound And furnisht Stationers encompass round The two Apostles very well agree Most Gold hath Peter Paul Divinity 201. Against the Conspirators upon Tuesday the Fift of November 1605. TO make low Earth challenge the lofty Sky And sordid Dust oppose the Deity What is this but for to revoke the Hour And Architecture of Confusions Tow'r 'T were to make wanton Ilium once more Burn And antiquated Chaos should return 202. Upon the same VVOuld ye have thrust fair Troy into the Fire And Millions thrown upon the Fatal Pyre Were ye bewitcht to pitch on such a Day Tuesday was never made Ash-Wednesday 203. The King to his Kingdoms NEws of my Death swoln Fame did lately bring I am not dead By the Word of a King 204. To England concerning the Vnion WE shall enjoy Thrice-Happy Peace since Three Are Married to a lasting Unity Wales is your Wall ev'ry Scot is your Scout You are secure O England without doubt 205. To Tho. Nevill an Ingenious young Gentleman YOu are Branch'd from the Noble Nevil's Race Nature hath Limn'd both Parents in your Face But what of that She likewise thought not fit You should want Mothers Vertues Fathers Wit 206. Upon the Death of Charles Blunt Earl of Devonshire 1606. SHall I to pin upon thy Herse devise Eternal Praises or weep Elegies Fame hath of you a double-tongu'd Report Your Death was Good Mens Sorrow Bad Mens Sport 207. To the Reader MY Epigrams are short and also few From many short Longitude would ensue Reader these few are short for were they Long Few would prove Many and thy Patience wrong 208. The Difference betwixt Words and Writings VOice is alive Writing 's Inanimate Yet the Tongue before Quill resigns to Fate Libellus de Spectaculis Or an Account of the Most memorable Monuments of the ROMANE GLORY Composed by the ever-celebrated Epigrammatist M. Val. Martial And now Periphrastically Translated into English Verse By T. P. of the Inner Temple Gent. Non cuivis Lectori Auditorive placebo Lector Auditor non mihi quisque placet Owen l. 3. Printed at London 1659. Libellus de Spectaculis Or an Account of the Most memorable Monuments of the ROMANE GLORY 1. Vpon the Caesarean Amphitheater NO more let Sun-burnt Cayro vaunt that She Bequeaths her wonders to Eternitie Let not Euphrates in a superb Style Brag her Wall

Ground must lie 12. Vpon a Niggard SIr Sir you 're Poor say others what they please Use Riches makes saith Apollophanes Whilst you use your Estate so long 't is thine That ceasing your Heir may cry This is Mine 13. The Spiders Hunting A Busie Fly laying aside due Care Was fast entangled in a cobweb Snare The Spider Thanks good Fortune now she 's sure To have a Dinner Be not too secure Arachne's Stomach did her Anger whet She leaps to seize the Fly and breaks the Net The Spiders fall making her very faint Away flies Spoyl-meat from her loath'd restraint Under the very Ax Hope may remain A thousand Guards to wickedness are vain 14. Upon a Cynick indiscreetly abstinent A Stubborn and grave Cynick set his best Side outwards by this carriage at a Feast None could perswade him Radishes to Eat Vertue abhors such kinde of luscious Meat Casting about his dull unpleasant Eye He chanc'd fine tender Onions to espie He snaps up those Though Radishes a' nt Good It seems that Onions are a vertuous Food 15. Vpon a Chamber-maid deceased HEr Body serv'd Her soul was alwaies Free Kinde Death hath set that too at Liberty 16. Upon a Fisher-man who was faln in Love withall A Fisher intent on the dropping Net Cast it so well He did a Sweet-heart get It was a Rich mans Daughter so that He Prov'd Master of much Wealth immediately Said He Our Trade is Gainfull In retort His wife made Answer who may you thank for 't 17. Vpon Mediocrity PIndar tells us envy'd Felicity Surpasseth passeth far lamented Misery The Rich are hated the Poor scorn'd God grant I either may abound nor suffer Want Avant Extreams the Mean is best of all Peasants are kick'd Lords can't prevent their fall 18. Fear is altogether unprofitable ANd why so stupid as to lend an Ear To the false Alarms of amazing Fear If evils come not then our Fears are vain And if they do Dread will encrease the Pain 19. A Cause finely pleaded A Certain cause was come to Tryal where Plaintiff Defendant and the Judge Deaf were The Plaintiff pleaded that He had much wrong His Cash was due Five Moneths since All night long Said the Defendant my Mill went Why strive Reply'd the Judge your Mothers are alive 20. Vpon the uncertainty of the Hour of Death I Weep not for those conquered by Fate I weep the fear of Death should Macerate 21. Upon the same YOu would bewail next Moneth to meet chill Death And can you laugh next Hour may stop your Breath 22. Upon a certain Ridiculous Astrologer CVmaean Sybils could not more descry Although enlightned from Divinity Then our Astrologer whose profound Art Could through the Stars a thing when past impart 23. Upon the same THe Prophet counsel'd by the Stars did crye No Man so happy in a Wife as I Looking again when She was run away He gravely foretold that unlucky Day 24. On the same SAturns far distance makes him think all hush He can't discern a Hare from a Brake-Bush Thy Bashfull Moon adventures not to see Actions improper for Virginity Great Jove Europa lov'd Kind Venus led Stout Mars a Captive to her wanton Bed Sol courted Daphne Lovely in the eye Dame Hyrce was of craftie Mercurie Thy Wife securely may spread forth her Sailes For their own Honours Planets can't tell Tales 25. Death not to be feared WHat Madness 't is for Sickness Poverty To refuse Death the end of Misery That only once inflicts a short-liv'd Pain And that endur'd it troubles not again But some Diseases are so rude that they Revisit where they lodg'd but th' other day 26. Upon a certain Covetous and sordid Bishop IF old Methusalem I should outvie The Bishops Bounty claims my Memory He 's vastly Rich doth many Cities owe To his Commands an Hundred Servants bow Yet when I of mean Rank did him approach He kindly spoke and chid not for Encroach Nay more he search'd both Pockets for the Key Of 's Wine-Cellar saying You may be Dry 27. Upon the Inconstancy of Fortune FOrtune observes no Method for throughout Humane Affairs her Wheel is turn'd about With great Inconstancy Low things arise High are confounded by her quick surprize Good Fortune is transmuted into Ill For to make Evill Good is at her will Let not them grieve who under hard Fates lie Good Fortune's near at Hand for shame don't die 28. Vpon Death THey who brag themselves Rich shall quickly see When Death casts their Accounts how Poor they bee 29. Upon a Rabbet that was catch'd twice I Fled from a Mans hands into a Net Ah sad Escape must I pay twice a Debt 30. Concerning Wifes ALl Men exclaim they never in their Lifes Met such great Crosses as their brawling wifes Talke is but Talke for should the sixth wife die The seventh should succeed her presently 31. On the same Subject A Wife afflicts yet She may usefull be If shee 'l die quickly and leave all to thee 32. Upon an Emperick who sold a Drop of Balsam very Deer SIr Q●ack his Patient told nothing could cure The stubborn Feaver did He not endure To pay for precious Balsam to be found With none but Him One Drop would cost ten Pound Five I require to have lay'd down in Hand The other when you 're well I shall demand But about this there scarce can be a strife What is ten pound to secure a Mans Life The Bargain 's made from a well-cover'd Glasse A Grain of this Elixar taken was The sick crav'd all as willing to be sound No the Remainder 's worth an hundred pound Besides the present Dose would stand instead And so it did for He was quickly dead Unhappy Bargain what won't the Fates do Life was not onely lost but Balsam too 33. Vpon a Picture much resembling the Party YOur shadow for your self might almost passe 'T is not your Picture but your Looking-Glass 34. Vpon a Picture unlike I Going lately to a Painters Shop Thy Pourtraicture my wandring eyes did stop I am perswaded that He did compact You should sit three Dayes for to mak 't exact At the first view I understood 't was you For I believ'd the Limner swearing so 35. Vpon a Ridiculous Prognostication A Fam'd Astrologer all Ears did fill Saying This year the King of France lies still New Almanacks were scarcely come in Date Before the Christian King resign'd to Fate The Prophet persists in Defence of 's ill Roving and askes doth not France now lie still The vulgar made his speech a common Jest Often repeating The French King 's at rest This Pill the Starres Interpreter did choake Therefore in Anger He them thus bespoke Ye simple Souls are all your skulls of Lead Doth not the King lie still now he is dead 36. Vpon a Roman Nose PRoclus can't blow his Nose but must confesse Though his Hand 's great yet then his Nose 't is lesse Nor when he sneezeth can He Himself hear His Nostrils are

131. Time TIme sweeps all things away as well as brings As all things have their Times Time hath all Things 132. Upon Miracles IS Gods Hand shortned that Miracles cease Is it not rather caus'd by Faith's decrease 133. To Irus YOu would Live ever ever you can't Live Yet you can wish you ever might survive But since you are so Poor I wonder still Though you may wish to Live that Live you will 134. Science IN my Judgment Happy are they alone Who all things know or they who know not one 135. Christ AUrora expels Night and Day begins Christ was Death's Ruine a Fount to purge sins 136. Who art Thou MY eyes fail when they should themselves behold My minde in Mental Scrutinies is cold If noblest Parts pass unknown I may cry To the next Comer Sir Pray who am I 137. The Kingdome of Heaven THough Heaven's large Most have an Hellish Doom Perhaps the straight way gives no Elbow-room 138. pain and Pleasure PResent Grief stabs Future holds in suspence The fearful Soul yet delights when gone hence Dolorous Pleasures please when Smart is past 'T is Sad if Pleasure fades whilst Sorrows last 139. St. Peter CAiphas was last High-Priest in that Place where Jehovah's Temple Jury did Revere Kephas was first High-Priest whose Chair did rest Where the Emperial Eagle built her nest 140. Sleep BY Metaphors of Death we sleep express The more Men sleep 't is sure they Live the less 141. Rome THe World was scarce of Age when Envious Cain His Brother Abel in the Field had slain Princely Rome was no sooner Edified But Remus Bloud her walls in Crimson Dyed Cain's cruel Murder did the World pollute Rome the worlds Mistress his steps prosecute 142. Mans Perfection 'T Is the Perfection of every thing To return to that whence it first did spring Frail flesh will my accomplishment adjourn Till I to Earth and Heaven shall return 143. Lord encrease our Faith Luk. 17. OUr Age shan't need after this form to Pray We rather Lord diminish Faith may say As numerous as Men Religions are Though Faiths be many Faithfulness is rare Lord decrease our Faiths 144. Vpon a Covetous Person HErcules travel'd till the furthest West Stopt his Career gave his wandrings rest The Covetous go further their desire Is alwaies Errant and can never Tire 145. Good transcends NO Genus no bounds Good can comprehend No Mundane Creatures do to Goodness tend 146. Omnia Vanitas All is Vanity VVHat showers of Tears had Heraclitus seen Our times Democritus had burst his spleen But one Democritus cannot suffice To Laugh at such mad Tricks as men devise And Heraclitus eyes approach not nigh Due Lamentations for our Misery 147. Upon the Voluptuous I Often hear young men complain how short The pleasures are of the Venereal sport I often hear Gray-headed Sirs thus cry O what a curse is vital Brevity Lifes Pleasure Pleasures Life are short who prize Them both at little may be termed wise 148. Works VErtuous and Vitious Persons when they Die Carry their Works with them for company 149. The beginning of Wisdome NOne desire Heaven but those who fear Hell Dread of the worst makes prudent Men Hope well 150. Vpon one delighting in Tautologies HOw you torment good Scholars I let pass And how your Tales run quite beyond the Glass When you have kil'd your Hearers in this sort You exclaim But I see the Time is short Return to Oxford and Distinctions learn Till you long Prating from short Time discern 151. Upon the same TUlly's Orations cannot be too long Who thy short Sermons fault their Judgment wrong 152. Upon those who imagine many Gods O Foolish People have ye lost your wits Over one World one God as Ruler sits 153. Concerning Ingenuity and Study NEglect of Study renders wit obtuse So Swords will rust by reason of disuse Study wits Ladder wits downfal hath bin As Grind-stones sharpen knives they wear them Thin 154. Know your Self NOne understand themselves yet a young Man The years of Child-hood well remember can And an old Father troubles much his Tongue To relate what he did when He was young 155. Art is long and Life is short LIfe is too short to make us truly wise Death creeps behinde and unawares surprise 156. To old Moranus AS you have many things for to acquire So to Unlearn if goodness you desire But how should you do either since you lie Under old Ages Incapacity 157. To D. T. CAuse you have happy been you must needs lie Under a double weight of Misery Happy is he who hath had heretofore Adversity for the Storm is blown o'r 158. Every one as they like THe Laick seeks not Christ but his own Gains Not to get Christ but Tythes Parsons take Pains 159. Vpon Brunonius THat Plagues are Gods sharp Arrows you confess Whence comes then Bruno your great Health-fulness The Reason's ready for a Plague like you Your Countrey disclaims that she ever knew 160. Reflect upon your End RAther fore-see thy end reflect on Birth Look up to Heaven and look down on Earth 161. Sense Reason Faith Charity God SEnse without Reason is worth little and Reason's unruly unless Faith command What is Faith without Love Love cannot bee Advantage till my God! it fix on Thee 162. Of Prudence OUr Actions are jejune unless address Be made to Prudence Vertues School-mistress She teaches what to choose what to eschue In Life as in Art Logick tels what 's true 163. To my Parents DEar Father I am part of you and part Of you dear Mother cast Lots for my Heart You two yet but one flesh my Body make What dangers fear I be they for your sake 164. Prudence and Fortitude PRudence foresees Evils valour can bear One seeks Prevention the other slights Fear 165. In the sweat of thy Face HE who commands Labour for daily Bread Will deny Manna to the drowzie Head 166. Of Faith and Charity BEfore there be a Tree who Fruit expect Above all Vertues we must Faith respect Love joyn'd to Faith do Life beget the Poor Can't live by Hope but they must labour more Faith is the Chieftain but Love is the King As well as Faith we must Affections bring 167. If thy right Eye offend thee c. IF as oft as they Sin Men were inclin'd To pluck out eyes the World would be stark blinde 168. Christian Adverbs NOt Adjectives Adverbs please the most High When we do good we must do 't Cordially 169. The shortness of Life TO unborn Infants all things equall are For what is past grave Seniors seldom care If past and future Times I should substract What a small number Present hours exact 170. Lex Talionis To Aulus YOu peruse not the Ancient History Expect like Justice from Posterity 171. Time TIme devours Things His Sithe our Legs will hit We have our pastimes Time and we are Quit. 172. Abundance of Caution hurts not BE not afraid yet look before you leap Be