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OF EPIGRAMS. 15
Of truth, and modefly their had report,
While with a valiant heart, and teftimony
Of a good confcience, you your felfe comfort,
Contemne thofe rafeals, that infult upon ye ;
For a reproach, by honeft meanes obtain'd,
Doth full of glory to the heav'ns afcend.
OF LUST, AND ANGER.
Lust taking pleafure in its owne delite,
Communicats it felfe to two togither ;
But far more hafe is anger, whole deipite
Rejoyceth at the forrow of another ;
For th' one is kindly, th' other fows debate ;
Lull hath a fmack of love, but wrath of hate.
AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO AN IMPATIENT MAN IN AN AGUE.
Why fhould you in your ficknefl'e thus enrage,
Seeing patience doth a gen'rous mind befit ?
You may be fure, it will not laft an age ;
For if it leave not you, you mult leave it :
Take courage then, faint not, but bravel' endure
Whats'er to kill the foule hath not the pow'r.
THE FIRME, AND DETERMINATE RESOLUTION OF A
COURAGIOUS SPIRIT, IN THE DEEPEST CALAMITIES,
INFLICTED BY SINISTER FATE.
Seeing croffes cannot be evited, I'l
Expofe my felfe to Fortune, as a rock
Within the midft of a tempeftuous ocean,
So to gainftand the batt'ry of her Ipight,
That though jaile, fickneffe, poverty, exile
Affault me all, with each a grievous ftroak
Of fev'rall mifery, at the devotion
Of mifadventure, ev'ry day, and night,