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id: A12072
author: Sharpe, Roger.
title: More fooles yet. Written by R.S.
date: 1610
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words: 4857
sentence: 266
flesch: 81
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summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Moreouer t is a scent of honest thrift , And many Gallants vse it for a shift : Therefore to frugall be and winne repute , To Lauender he doth commit his sute .


id: A64168
author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
date: 1651
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words: 5936
sentence: 333
flesch: 86
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title:
  Epigrammes vvritten on purpose to be read: with a proviso, that they may be understood by the reader; being ninety in number: besides, two new made satyres that attend them. By John Taylor, at the signe of the Poets Head, in Phœnix Alley, neare the middle of Long-Aker, or Covent Garden.

summary:
  And as men that would travell , would attaine Some knowledge in the tongues of France , or Spaine , Th' Italian , or the High , Low , spacious Dutch , The Russe , Shavonian , Latine , Greeke , or such As is the language where they mean to go , Each Traveller these tongues would gladly know , That when they came to any forraine Land , They might the peoples speeches understand : So swearers will to hell a voyage make , And therefore they most studious pains do take To learn hels language , to blaspheam and sweare , That all their friends may understand them there : These men in their mad furies do suppose That Hel's a Kingdome where all pleasure grows ; And that Elyzium is a pleasant place , Where soules immortall dance the wild-goose chase : Their stupid brains the Devill hath so possest , That Hel's a place of wealth , joy , peace , and rest ; That Heaven 's a fiction , and no place of pleasure , That to be damn'd is everlasting treasure : This is the cause they scorne to aske salvation , And pray God dam'em , and beg for damnation . Their speech to God ( or of God ) is most base , To curse or sweare are th' only garbs of grace :


id: A09041
author: Parrot, Henry.
title: The mous-trap
date: 1606
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mime: application/xml
words: 6251
sentence: 342
flesch: 85
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summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. HOnest friend , and good fellow , ( for so durst I cal a very good mans Sonne )


id: A07123
author: Martyn, Joseph.
title: Nevv epigrams, and a satyre. VVritten by Ios: Martyn, a wel-wisher to study
date: 1621
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mime: application/xml
words: 6796
sentence: 357
flesch: 83
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summary:
  Yet ( Epigram ) if such thou meet'st with any , ( I feare thou canst not scape them , th' are so many ) THou dost complaine of ease , and dost neglect thy wife , because she 's kind , yet didst thou know * A good thing common , is of more respect , thou wouldst be kinder vnto her , ( I trow . )


id: A02441
author: Heath, John, Fellow of New College, Oxford, attributed name.
date: 1619
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7377
sentence: 411
flesch: 86
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title:
  The house of correction: or, Certayne satyricall epigrams. Written by I.H. Gent. Together with a few characters, called Par pari: or, Like to like, quoth the deuill to the collier

summary:
  The vtmost end of his studie . is but to attaine to the secrets of the Arte of L●●ming , wherein being vnskilfull , hee sometimes layes his Colours on a false ground , whereby they fading he himselfe is disgraced . Sure these are spitefull ●●●es .


id: A14954
author: West, Richard, fl. 1606-1619, attributed name.
title: VVits A.B.C. or A centurie of epigrams
date: 1608
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words: 8070
sentence: 392
flesch: 84
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summary:
  But not being able to lye vnder the bulke of euery mans censure ( as he did ) and so to mend any thing I see is a fault , as also to reprehend any prating Cobler , with ne sutor vltra crepidam . In court , in countrey , in cittie , and towne , Old , yong , men , women feare fashions frowne .


id: A39709
author: Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?
title: Epigrams of all sorts written by Richard Flecknoe.
date: 1669
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9029
sentence: 417
flesch: 83
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summary:
  THeir wit and Judgment 's small , we well may say , By the acting or not acting , judge the Play , For t is not the act 〈…〉 ightly understood But writing makes the Play or bad or Good ; If Good , like mine , it is the Actors fault , And not the Writers , if they act it not , But if 't be bad , like thine , then if they do , 'T is both the Actors and the Writers too . T Was wonder knowing the Poet they shou'd press , And run so far to see his Poetess , But 't was no wonder seeing it , at last They prest and ran away from it , as fast .


id: A09038
author: Parrot, Henry.
title: Epigrams. by H.P.
date: 1608
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mime: application/xml
words: 8641
sentence: 435
flesch: 82
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summary:
  Non omnia possumus omnes Who saies Alcides hath more beard then wit ? Whose place and countenance controlleth it : Pish 't was not meant he should more vnderstand , Then might concerne him to subscribe his hand . Magus hath studied long to breake a iest Vpon these rimes he doth somuch detest , And can you blame him ?


id: A01794
author: Goddard, William, fl. 1615.
date: 1615
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mime: application/xml
words: 9533
sentence: 236
flesch: 67
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title:
  A neaste of vvaspes latelie found out and discouered in the Law-Countreys, yealding as sweete hony as some of our English bees

summary:
  t' is cause hee spies In 's daie-runn course , thy daie-done villanies . 101 My Epigrams make their encrease as men As Fathers getteth sonns , soe sonns getts sonns agen 16 Plorus your wise let tenn — in one night One of those tenn you knowes the Parsons right Why pay 't him then ; thou knowst a barlie strawe Will make a parish parson goe to lawe Paye him his — oh pry thee lett him ha'te Lesse thinges then — will stirr them to debate , 17 T is saide that Idelnes doth mischeefe breed And soe it doth ; that sayings true indeed Then Parish parsons you are nowe a daies The onelie men that doe deserue best praise For lawyers would growe Idle , did not you Stirr your parish to sett them taskes to doe A blessed worke ; a deed well worthy noate A thing befitting best , men of your coate I doe applande the deede ; and lawyers shall Stand bare to you , shall you theire maisters call .


id: A09205
author: Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
date: 1620
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mime: application/xml
words: 10781
sentence: 494
flesch: 85
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title:
  Thalia's banquet furnished with an hundred and odde dishes of newly deuised epigrammes, whereunto (beside many worthy friends) are inuited all that loue in offensiue mirth, and the Muses. By H.P.

summary:
  Epigram●4 ●4 . TThe Turkes hold this opinion very odde , That madme●s soules are talking still with God , And that to be an Ideo● o● a Vice , Is th' onely way ●o purchase Paradis● If t●is be true their Alka●ons relate , Our Puritans were sure in happy state . DRumme by descent swear●● he●● a Gentleman , For●● fa●her can set stone●●●d 〈…〉 I●well , And Drumme , as we●l as he , ●epor●s he can , Set stones , but how ? in morter with a trowell .


id: A39728
author: Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?
title: A treatise of the sports of wit
date: 1675
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mime: application/xml
words: 11034
sentence: 450
flesch: 75
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summary:
  So there are divers sorts of this , some acting Proverbs in Dancing ; others in dumb shew and mimick gesture , and the like ; which may be sports , but not sports of Wit , or but dumb wit at most ; whereas , that of these Ladies , added words unto action : Of which , we shall give you an example or two , not doubting , but if the Ladies be delighted with it , there are wits enough to furnish them with more . In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.


id: A39343
author: Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.
date: 1655
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mime: application/xml
words: 10444
sentence: 660
flesch: 89
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title:
  Dia poemata, poetick feet standing upon holy ground, or, Verses on certain texts of Scripture with epigrams, &c. / by E.E.

summary:
  Et ●ine typis apoc yphos In Lucem prodeas lure Canon●●o : Dentes ne vereare Sa●y●icos Tam Sacra pagin● haud ●●n● Schism●t● Nec blasphem 〈…〉 erit Criticus . Hic Musarum opsonator apis instar mi●e Aletymi 〈…〉 , E Bibli●rum fol●is collegit mells poctic● , Nec , ' Laurta nempe cinct as fuit astro percit 〈…〉 .


id: A81983
author: Davis, John, b. 1628 or 9.
date: 1652
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mime: application/xml
words: 11291
sentence: 528
flesch: 81
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title:
  Psalmos theios, or a Divine psalme or, song, wherein predestination is maintained, yet the honour of Jehovah preserved and vindicated: and to that eternall song the holy scripture dedicated, / by John Davis. Whereunto is annexed an elogie upon the patron, with certaine divine epigrams to whom the author presented some of his books..

summary:
  Seventhly , to teach to fear , and tremble Reason 7 At God alone , before whom men assemble , And to wait on him , and wholly to depend Upon his grace , which none can comprehend , Since every f Change in mens hearts indeed Doth not from man , but God alone proceed . On no other grounds but his royall will , Shall we choose this man for a favourite , And others disrespect , reject , and slight ? And shall not God according to his name Bound by no desert of man do the same ?


id: A64606
author: Urquhart, Thomas, Sir, 1611-1660.
title: Epigrams, divine and moral by Sir Thomas Vrchard, Knight.
date: 1641
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mime: application/xml
words: 11091
sentence: 449
flesch: 73
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summary:
  TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ▪ IAMES LORD MARQVIS OF Hamilton , Earle of Arren , and Cambridge , Lord Baron of Even , and Innerdale , Lord Master of his Majesties Horses , Knight of the most noble order of the Garter , and one of his Majesties most Honourable privie Counsell in both Kingdomes , &c. MY LORD , BEing confident , that your gracious disposition will hold in greater account the ingenuous meaning of who gives , then the sufficiency of the present : I here tender to the favour of your Honours acceptance a bundle of Epigrams ; Which though they be but flashes of wit , and such , as may with advantage receive point from your ordinary conceptions : yet for that nothing doth better recommend them , then vivacitie of conce●t , I cannot figure to my fancie a fitter Patron to protect the sublimest Poems of this Nature , then your owne Noble selfe ; of whose valour , and prudence , even from your infancie , both this , and forraine Nations will afford an approbation so Authentick , that by the universall consent of all , that ever knew your Lordship , the depth of experience since the memory of man was never seene wedded to fewer yeares : nor the splendor of heroicke vertue to the astonishment of whole Armies , and Princes Palaces , more evidently apparent , then in the magnanimity of your generous carriage . But that , if men were pleas'd , would turne to peace .


id: A08687
author: Owen, John, 1560?-1622.
date: 1619
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mime: application/xml
words: 13558
sentence: 1382
flesch: 97
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title:
  Epigrams of that most wittie and worthie epigrammatist Mr. Iohn Owen, Gentleman. Translated by Iohn Vicars

summary:
  IN thee , doe shine such Gifts worth admiration ; That , thogh All-T●ue , they pas●e al true relatiō . FRiends wish their Friends long Liues to Liue , But , None their Death desire ; As one should wish a sore Dis-ease , But Ne're would Cure requi●e . EPIG .


id: A01428
author: Gamage, William.
title: Linsi-woolsie. Or Two centuries of epigrammes. Written by William Gamage Batchelour in the Artes
date: 1621
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mime: application/xml
words: 14012
sentence: 1121
flesch: 90
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summary:
  IOseph , with his Apostles twelue first plants , In Englands Soile , Religion pure to grow ; But thou , and thy twise sixe infernall Wants , Didst this endeauour to supplant ; and Sow Thy Popish D●…rnell ; but the season fail'd , And thou with thine , to Tyburns post was nail'd . Epig. To his cosen Io : Vaughan of his fall from a Wor●…eshead . SOme fall , whose falling doth their Deaths procure , Thy fall was great yet doth thy life remaine ; The ods is , they themselues to climbe inure , And sithence , thou from climing do'st refraine . Epig.


id: A39713
author: Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?
date: 1675
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15918
sentence: 638
flesch: 80
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title:
  Euterpe revived, or, Epigrams made at several times in the years 1672, 1673, & 1674 on persons of the greatest honour and quality most of them now living : in III books.

summary:
  Now Noble Monmouth , Was it not enough That thou in Court shu'dst give so great a proof How gallant and how brave thou wert , but thou I' th' Field shu'dst give no less a proof of 't too ? And here I 'd praise you for your Piety , But 't is of late in so great obloquy With th' vulgar sort , 't is only look't upon As Relique of the Old Religion , Or Counterbanded Goods , which none , for fear Of the Pragmatick , longer dares to wear ; Neither should I be safe , if I should praise A thing that 's held so dangerous now adayes :


id: A70401
author: Killigrew, Henry, 1613-1700.
date: 1697
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mime: application/xml
words: 15791
sentence: 814
flesch: 84
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title:
  A court of judicature in imitation of Libanius. With new epigrams. By the hand that translated Martial.

summary:
  While thou art safe , thy Soldiers , on thy score , By Thousands fall on Heaps all Europe o'er ; Th' Assassins undergo just Princes Rage , 'T is pitty , thou thy self dost ne'er engage . Nor to dispatch me needs there Cord or Sword , All Instruments of Death my Griefs afford ; Without regard to Laws , of Life bereave , Make haste , my Lords , or they 'll not stay your Leave The Harangue done , 't was with no little Pain , The Court from open Laughter did refrain : But siting there to save , not to despise , Their Sense , with gracious Smiles , they did disguise One to th' Afflicted se'd , 'T is my Birth-Day , Rejoyce with me , all Sadness cast away .


id: A45579
author: Harflete, Henry, fl. 1653.
date: 1653
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15731
sentence: 664
flesch: 69
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title:
  A banquet of essayes, fetcht out of famous Owens confectionary, disht out, and served up at the table of Mecoenas by Henry Harflete ...

summary:
  1. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , ] or else {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , which word signifies , plaga , ictus , or vul●●is , a wound or stroke . 'T is true in●eed , that the words of the reproover must be cutting to make them curing : {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is derived from {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} super , and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} percussio , a wounding or striking upon the conscience .


id: A18370
author: Chamberlain, Robert, b. 1607.
date: 1638
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mime: application/xml
words: 8384
sentence: 367
flesch: 73
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title:
  Nocturnall lucubrations: or Meditations divine and morall Whereunto are added epigrams and epitaphs: written by Rob: Chamberlain of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.

summary:
  APollos skill , the Grecian pen for wars , And Virgils too , transcēd the glittring stars : Praise makes men live , but thou a child unfit , Transcends the limits of an old mans wit. To incurre Gods displeasure for mans favour , is for a man to kill himselfe to avoid a hurt .


id: A04651
author: Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.
date: 1640
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mime: application/xml
words: 8739
sentence: 335
flesch: 81
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title:
  Ben: Ionson's execration against Vulcan· VVith divers epigrams by the same author to severall noble personages in this kingdome. Never published before.

summary:
  Draw first a Cloud , all save her necke , And out of that make day to breake : Till like her face it doe appeare , And men may thinke all light rose there . That since thou tak'st all envious care and paine , To ruine every issue of her Braine ? Had I wrot Treason there , or Heresie , Impostures , Witchcraft , Charmes , or Blasphemy , I had deserv'd then thy consuming lookes , Perhaps to have beene burned with my books :


id: A87724
author: Killigrew, Henry, 1613-1700.
title: Innocui Sales. A collection of new epigrams Vol. I. With a præfatory essay on epigrammatic poetry.
date: 1694
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mime: application/xml
words: 17020
sentence: 923
flesch: 84
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summary:
  THe Life , the Soul , Upholder of the Port , Whose Arms the Crescent ' gainst the Cross support ; Want of true Greatness , and the thirst of Sway All that is Sacred makes thee to betray , Faction and Treason to foment and nurse In ev'ry Land , Europe's , even France's , Curse ; For thou no less thy Agents do'st employ , Thy Subjects , than thy Neighbours , to destroy ; Myriads of harmless Souls thou hast undone , With loss of Justice their Land from them won ; And while they mourn , thy Pleasure thou dost take , Upon a Couch War with the World do'st make ; Sloathful thy self , by others gets Renown , Thou winn'st a Game at Cards , while they a Town . But thou , tho' most deform'd , do'st not despair , Agreeable to be , tho' nothing fair , By acting what thou see'st the Fair to do , As if the same , the same were , done by two :


id: A01256
author: Freeman, Thomas, b. 1590 or 91.
title: Rubbe, and a great cast Epigrams. By Thomas Freeman, Gent.
date: 1614
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mime: application/xml
words: 18571
sentence: 1043
flesch: 85
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summary:
  In L●●●●ettam . Lector & exurgens leget , atque inquiret eund● E●quis habet talem Ribliopola librum : Inventique petens pretium , persolvit , abitque , Et modo mercato : perlegit vsque Iocos .


id: A03920
author: Hutton, Henry.
date: 1619
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10044
sentence: 566
flesch: 84
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title:
  Follie's anatomie. Or Satyres and satyricall epigrams VVith a compendious history of Ixion's wheele. Compiled by Henry Hutton, Dunelmensis.

summary:
  SHould I commend you Satyres ? faith no , tu●●● ▪ 'T is an old Prouerbe , Good wine needes no bush . 〈◊〉 was shreudly 〈◊〉 because the Ghosts D●●●rb'd the Gods their their 〈…〉 coile ▪ Which Quorum Iustice 〈…〉 To chaine each Furie to his former 〈◊〉 : And 〈◊〉 the stranger which in 〈◊〉 did lurke .


id: A09039
author: Parrot, Henry.
title: Laquei ridiculosi: or Springes for vvoodcocks Caueat emptor.
date: 1613
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mime: application/xml
words: 25484
sentence: 992
flesch: 78
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summary:
  ●Arcellus museth how to spend that day , Wherein it likes him not to see a play ; ●t then he falles in some worse place ( I doubt ) 〈◊〉 staies so long till he be fired out . 146 Laesus amor in Furor . ●OM went to th'Market where Tom met with Tom , Tom asked Tom , What Tom● how far'st thou Tom ? ●ho Tom , I Tom ?


id: A78187
author: Baron, Robert, b. 1630.
title: Pocula Castalia· The authors motto. Fortunes tennis-ball. Eliza. Poems. Epigrams, &c. By R.B. Gen.
date: 1650
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 25955
sentence: 1366
flesch: 88
cache: cache/A78187.xml
txt: txt/A78187.txt
summary:
  There they did all Commence , and though they strive Thou mad'st each one's degree superlative ; This in thy morn of Youth did soar so high As th' early Larke of well-fledg'd Poetry : And if thy rising Sun did blaze so soon How will thy splendor dazle us at Noon ? To one and yet to all th' art wed : for there The Graces all concenter in thy Dear : They claim thy Head , and She thy heart by vow , Though they plead contract , she pleads contact now : Thus may each Poet Prophet be and Priest , And shew the Muses choice Polygamist . THO. MOORE , of the Inner Temple , De Lauro effigiem Nobissilimi Amici Rob. Bar. circumvallante .


id: A19912
author: Davies, John, 1565?-1618.
title: VVits bedlam ----vvhere is had, whipping-cheer, to cure the mad.
date: 1617
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 28613
sentence: 1806
flesch: 93
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summary:
  And if She ●aue mee , through my Fortunes wrack , I le fly her ; so , to binde her to my Backe : For Men by Nature , rather then thei 'le be Nothing , of Something ; they desire to flee Vpon the Winges of euiternall FAME Beyond Decay ; and Bee , though but in Name . And be it that vnsanctified Wit With hellish Flashes may soone kindle it , And make ●t burne in glory still ; yet lust I mo●e for That , than all that turnes to dust . And in the other put Ayres worser name , ( Cal'd same for Folly , or a vaine conceit ) Wil This , not light ; That , heauy make my fame ? Shal aged Thoughts so doa● ? Shal Childhood now Inuade my Iudgement with so fierce assault , That it to idle Fancies so should bow , As still to beare the weight of Follyes fault ? And shall I sell my Birth-right for such Grewell As feeds , but fattens not ; or , fats but Fooles ?


id: A02909
author: Basse, William, d. ca. 1653.
date: 1630
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 28859
sentence: 946
flesch: 69
cache: cache/A02909.xml
txt: txt/A02909.txt
title:
  A Helpe to memory and discourse with table- talke as musicke to a banquet of wine : being a compendium of witty, and vsefull propositions, problemes, and sentences / extracted from the larger volumes of physicians, philosophers, orators and poets, distilled in their assiduous and learned obseruations, and which for method, manner, and referent handling may be fitly tearmed, A Second misselany, or helpe to discourse.

summary:
  In Relation and Memory : for as without knowledge our memory hath no su●iect to worke vpon , euen so without m●mory , our knowledge is alwayes in the A●tumne , withering , and decay ; the brittle and slippery footing whereof ( as testifieth each mans experience ) forgets much more then it can containe . Of all the excellent attributes and faculties of man , in none doth he differ more from a beast , then in his Ratione & Oratione , in his Reason and Discourse : In the excellency and perfection whereof , like the penne of a ready Writer , is the tongue of a perfect speaker , which in the wise management and excellency of that quality , in the prosecution of his relation and story , possesseth with a silent 〈◊〉 derment and admiration , the eares and 〈◊〉 fes of those within the compasse of his c●●ning : for as the Poet could say , Dic mihi musa virum — Qui mores hominum multorum vidit & vrbes ,


id: A36301
author: Donne, John, 1572-1631.
date: 1652
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 35241
sentence: 1056
flesch: 63
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txt: txt/A36301.txt
title:
  Paradoxes, problemes, essayes, characters written by Dr. Donne, dean of Pauls ; to which is added a book of epigrams ; written in Latin by the same author ; translated into English by J. Maine D.D. ; as also, Ignatius his Conclave, a satyr, translated out of the originall copy written in Latin by the same author, found lately amongst his own papers.

summary:
  And Nature saw this faculty to be so necessary in man , that she hath been content that by more causes we should be importuned to laugh , than to the exercise of any other power ; for things in themselves utterly contrary , beget this effect ; for we laugh both at witty and absurd things : At both which sorts I have seen men laugh so long , and so earnestly , that at last they have wept that they could laugh no more . HE hath a Soule drownd in a lump of Flesh , or is a piece of Earth that Prometheus put not half his proportion of Fire into , a thing that hath neither edge of desire , nor feeling of affection in it , The most dangerous creature for confirming an Atheist , who would straight swear , his soul were nothing but the bare temperature of his body : He sleeps as he goes , and his thoughts seldom reach an inch further then his eyes ; The most part of the faculties of his soul lye Fallow , or are like the restive Jades that no spur can drive forwards towards the pursuite of any worthy design ; one of the most unprofitable of all Gods creatures , being as he is , a thing put clean besides his right use , made fitt for the cart & the flail , and by mischance Entangled amongst books and papers , a man cannot tel possible what he is now good for , save to move up and down and fill room , or to serv as Animatum Instrumentum for others to work withal in base Imployments , or to be a foyl for better witts , or to serve ( as They say monsters do ) to set out the variety of nature , and Ornament of the Universe , He is meer nothing of himself , neither eates , nor drinkes , nor goes , nor spits but by imitation , for al which , he hath set forms & fashions , which he never varies , but sticks to , with the like plodding constancy that a milhors follows his trace , both the muses and the graces are his hard Mistrisses , though he daily Invocate them , though he sacrifize Hecatombs , they stil look a squint , you shall note him oft ( besides his dull eye and louting head , and a certain clammie benum'd pace ) by a fair displai'd beard , a Nightcap and a gown , whose very wrincles proclaim him the true genius of formality , but of al others , his discours and compositions best speak him , both of them are much of one stuf & fashion , he speaks just what his books or last company said unto him without varying one whit & very seldom understands himself , you may know by his discourse where he was last , for what he read or heard yesterday he now dischargeth his memory or notebook of , not his understanding , for it never came there ; what he hath he flings abroad at al adventurs without accomodating it to time , place persons or occasions , he commonly loseth himself in his tale , and flutters up and down windles without recovery , and whatsoever next presents it self , his heavie conceit seizeth upon and goeth along with , however Heterogeneal to his matter in hand , his jests are either old flead proverbs , or lean-starv'd - Apophthegm's , or poor verball quips outworn by Servingmen , Tapsters and Milkmaids , even laid aside by Bassaders , He assents to all men that bring any shadow of reason , and you may make him when he speaks most Dogmatically , even with one breath , to averr pure contradictions , His Compositions differ only terminorum positione from Dreams , Nothing but rude heaps of Immaterial-inchoherent drossie-rubbish-stuffe , promiscuously thrust up together , enough to Infuse dullness and Barrenness of Conceit into him that is so Prodigall of his eares as to give the hearing , enough to make a mans memory Ake with suffering such dirtie stuffe cast into it , as unwellcome to any true conceit , as Sluttish Morsells or Wallowish Potions to a Nice-Stomack which whiles he empties himselfe of , it sticks in his Teeth nor can he be Delivered without Sweate and Sighes , and Humms , and Coughs enough to shake his Grandams teeth out of her head ; Hee l spitt , and scratch , and yawn , and stamp , and turn like sick men from one elbow to another , and Deserve as much pitty during this torture as men in Fits of Tertian Feavors or selfe lashing Penitentiaries ; in a word , Rip him quite asunder , and examin every shred of him , you shall finde him to be just nothing , but the subject of Nothing , the object of contempt , yet such as he is you must take him , for there is no hope he should ever become better .


id: A02647
author: Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612.
date: 1618
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 36139
sentence: 1741
flesch: 85
cache: cache/A02647.xml
txt: txt/A02647.txt
title:
  The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington, Knight digested into foure bookes: three vvhereof neuer before published.

summary:
  That when old P●leus call'd thy Lord an Asse , You did but smile ; but when he cald him Oxe , Straight-waies you curst him with all plagues & pox . ●oule deem this deare , because from me you haue it , ● deem your faith more deer , because you gaue it .


id: A02836
author: Habert, Francois, ca. 1508-ca. 1561.
date: 1628
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 34876
sentence: 2559
flesch: 89
cache: cache/A02836.xml
txt: txt/A02836.txt
title:
  Quodlibets lately come ouer from New Britaniola, old Newfound-land Epigrams and other small parcels, both morall and diuine. The first foure bookes being the authors owne: the rest translated out of that excellent epigrammatist, Mr. Iohn Owen, and other rare authors: with two epistles of that excellently wittie doctor, Francis Rablais: translated out of his French at large. All of them composed and done at Harbor-Grace in Britaniola, anciently called Newfound-Land. / By R.H. sometimes Gouernour of the plantation there.

summary:
  Cursed is he that puts his confidence In Man : Onely in man is the right sense . It 's held , The Stars gouerne the works of Men :


id: A10251
author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
title: Diuine fancies digested into epigrammes, meditations, and observations / by Fra. Quarles.
date: 1633
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 40349
sentence: 1685
flesch: 82
cache: cache/A10251.xml
txt: txt/A10251.txt
summary:
  ●thing , if compar'd with Thee ; If lesse and worse then Nothing , tell me than , Where is that S●mthing , thou so boasts , proud Man ? 16. Madam , May your Honors increase with your howers , and let eternall Glory crowne your U●rtues ; that when this Age shall sleepe in Dust , our Children , yet unborne , may honour your glorious Memory , under the happinesse of his Government , whose Governesse you are ; which shall be daily the Subject of his Prayers , who is The sworne-Servant of your Ladiships Perfections , FRA : QVARLES .


id: A90351
author: Cottrel, James, fl. 1649-1670.
date: 1659
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 31123
sentence: 2979
flesch: 90
summary: Vpon a certain Woman . Vpon the same .
cache: cache/A90351.xml
txt: txt/A90351.txt
title:
  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.


id: A89611
author: Fletcher, R.
date: 1656
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 47773
sentence: 2383
flesch: 85
cache: cache/A89611.xml
txt: txt/A89611.txt
title:
  Ex otio negotium. Or, Martiall his epigrams translated. With sundry poems and fancies, / by R. Fletcher.

summary:
  In Sutorem , Epig. 74. O thou whose teeth were wont to reach old hides , And gnaw base rotten soles with dirty sides , For thou for fear least there should bee Ought left for thy posteritie , Hast wasted all thy wealth in luxurie , Thy brace of millions in one year was spent , Was not this perishing incontinent ? Ad Rufum , Epig. 89.


id: A15606
author: Herbert, George, 1592-1637.
title: Wits recreations. Selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses
date: 1640
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 42344
sentence: 3219
flesch: 95
cache: cache/A15606.xml
txt: txt/A15606.txt
summary:
  Creta doth love her husband wondro●s well , It needs no proof , for every one can tell : So strong 's her love , tha● if I not mist ake , Yet Virgill for his strain was counted great , And Ovid for his love was bannished quite ; No marvell then if c●ur●ezie grow cold , When hare is prais'd and love it self control'd .


id: A52102
author: Killigrew, Henry, 1613-1700.
title: Epigrams of Martial, Englished with some other pieces, ancient and modern.
date: 1695
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 50415
sentence: 3496
flesch: 93
cache: cache/A52102.xml
txt: txt/A52102.txt
summary:
  Gallus , thou 'd'st have me thee attend alway , To pass th' Aventine three , four times a day . That none , but thou , does in these days extend A pinching Gift , unto a needy Friend , Think not for this , thou' rt Noble .


id: A50616
author: Mennes, John, Sir, 1599-1671.
date: 1654
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 61106
sentence: 3857
flesch: 92
cache: cache/A50616.xml
txt: txt/A50616.txt
title:
  Recreation for ingenious head-peeces, or, A pleasant grove for their wits to walk in of epigrams 700, epitaphs 200, fancies a number, fantasticks abundance : with their addition, multiplication, and division.

summary:
  One he fits drinking healthe to such a friend , Then to his Mistris he a health doth send : This publick Captain● health he next doth mean , And then in private to some nasty Que●n ; Nothing but health● of love is his pretence , Till he himselfe hath lost both health and sense . IF new , or old wit , please the Reader best , I 've hope , each man of wit , will be our Guest The new , was fram'd to humour some mens tast ▪ Which if they like not , they may carve the last ▪ Each dish hath sawce belongs to 't ; and you wil● By your dislike , censure the Authors skill ;


id: A56191
author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
date: 1642
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 62570
sentence: 4598
flesch: 90
summary: Jean C●●spin Lesta● , d● L●●glise . S●●s .
cache: cache/A56191.xml
txt: txt/A56191.txt
title:
  A pleasant purge for a Roman Catholike to evacuate his evill humours consisting of a century of polemicall epigrams, wherein divers grosse errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome are discovered, censured, refuted, in a facetious yet serious manner / by William Prynne ...


id: A15623
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
title: Abuses stript, and whipt. Or Satirical essayes. By George Wyther. Diuided into two bookes
date: 1613
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 75859
sentence: 1839
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A15623.xml
txt: txt/A15623.txt
summary:
  Shall in mans heart retaine the second place ; Because it shrouds her vile deformed face Vnder Loues vizard , and assumes that name , Hiding her owne fault with the others blame : T is a base passion , from the which doth flow Many base humours ; t is the ouerthrow Of all in whom it enters ; 't is an euill , Worse then to be possessed with a diuell : This 't is that oft hath caused publike strife , And priuate discord ; this makes man and wife Grow each to other cold in their affection , And to the very marrow sends infection ; And as Phisicians say , it makes the face Looke wan , pale , yellow , and doth much deface The beauty of it ; and as for the fight It either dums it or bereaues it quight ; It dries the body , and from thence doth sprout Griefes of the stomack , leprosie and gout , With other such ; beside it doth decay Not life alone , but also takes away , Both memory and vnderstanding toe ; Reade it , weekely , daily , yea and howerly toe : what though it bee thine owne ? thou knowest mans nature to bee so vncertaine , and prone to forgetfulnesse , euen in the best things , that thou canst not haue too many Memorandums .


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  colendo juvenique tam propter morum suavitatem acutissimam ingenii indolem , & prosapiae antiquissimae generositatem honorando dom.


