Book: Epigrams (Book I)

• To My Book

  It will be looked for, book, when some but see
   Thy title, \Epigrams\, and named of me,

  15 lines
• On Something, That Walks Somewhere

  At court I met it, in clothes brave enough
  To be a courtier, and looks grave enough

  8 lines
• On Giles and Joan

  Who says that Giles and Joan at discord be?
    Th' observing neighbors no such mood can see.

  18 lines
• To William Camden

  Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe
    All that I am in arts, all that I know

  14 lines
• Inviting a Friend to Supper

  Tonight, grave sir, both my poor house and I
      Do equally desire your company:

  41 lines
• On My First Daughter

  Here lies, to each her parents' ruth,
  Mary, the daughter of their youth;

  12 lines
• On Lucy, Countess of Bedford

  This morning, timely rapt with holy fire,
  I thought to form unto my zealous Muse  

  19 lines
• On Don Surly

  Don Surly, to aspire the glorious name
  Of a great man, and to be thought the same,

  22 lines
• Epitaph on S.P., a Child of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel

  Weep with me, all you that read
     This little story;

  24 lines

• By me, right now

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