EPIGRAMS:

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Court Characters.

Carmina vix placeant Rome fi difplicet Author Docta premit Livor, ftulta favore vigent.

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Lib. 2. Ep. 41,

VID, who bid the Ladies laugh,
Spoke only to the Young and Fair;
For Thee his Council were not fafe,
Who of found Teeth has fcarce a Pair;
If thou thy Glafs, or Me believe,
Shun Mirth, as Foplings do the Wind;
At Durfy's Farce affect to grieve;
And let thy Eyes alone be kind,

Speak not, the't were to give Confent;
For he that fees thofe rotten Bones,
Will dread their monumental Scent,
And fly thy Sighs like dying Groans.
If thou art wife, fee difmal Plays,
And to fad Stories lend thy Ear;
With the Afflicted spend thy Days,
And laugh not above once a Year.

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SEXTUS

Lib. 2. Ep. 55.

Offer Love,but thou Refpect wilt have; Take Sextus, all thy Pride and Folly crave;

But now, I can be no Man's Friend and Slave.

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NISUS.

Ow fhall we please this Age? If in a

How Song

We put above fix Lines, they count it long;
If we contract it to an Epigram,

As deep the dwarfish Poetry they damn;
If we write Plays, few fee above an Act,
And thofe lewd Masks, or noifie Fops diftract:
Let us write Satyr then, and at our ease
Vex th' ill natur'd Fools we cannot please.

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CLASSICUS

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Lib. 2. Ep. 69,

Hen thou art ask'd to Sup abroad,
Thou fwear'ft thou haft but newly
Din'd;

That eating late does overload

The Stomach, and opprefs the Mind But if Appicious make a Treat,

The flend'reft Summons thou obey'st, No Child is greedier of the Teat,

Than thou art of the bounteous Feast, There thou wilt drink till every Star Be swallow'd by the rifing Sun: Such Charms hath Wine we pay not for, And Mirth, at others Charge begun. Who fhuns his Club, yet flies to every Treat, Does not a Supper, but a Reck'ning hate.