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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...it certain. How these verses should be read, it is impossible to settle satisfactorily; such is the variation of copies. SICKNESS. what lamentations the false report of your death caused amongst your fellow-creatures, and you enjoy what will be Baid of you by posterity. Live as though you were stolen from death, and seize fleeting joys, and thus your recovered life will not have lost a single day. 0 doctor, learn'd as ever fill'd a chair, Whose doctrine's primitive, and life is fair; What an amazing Providence did save, And thus recall you from the opening grave! We cease to pray; despairing w e deplore; Our tears burst out; we crv, " He is no more! Kind Heaven relented ere it was too late, And sent an angel to retard your fate. Conscious what sorrow from this rumour came, You now inherit your own future fame. Lose not one day, that was so kindly given: Employ each well, in gratitude to Heaven. Hay. XLVIII. ON ANNIUS. Annius has some two hundred tables, and servants for every table. Dishes run hither and thither, and plates fly about. Such entertainments as these keep to yourselves, ye pompous; I am ill pleased with a supper that walks. Annius two hundred tables has, I think, And for those tables boys to fill him drink. The platters fly, And chargers run about most fluently. Rich men, take to yourselves these feasts and stir; 1 care not for your walking supper, sir. Fletcher XLIX. TO SEVEBUS. I send you, Severus, the small offerings of my suburban garden; eggs good for your throat, fruits to please your palate. What has my little garden for thee got? Apples to please thee; eggs to clear thy throat. Anon. L. TO THE FOUNTAIN OF IANTHIS, STELLA'S MISTRESS. Fount of thy Mistress, queen of the spot in which Ianthis delights, glory and...