Volume 8: The Epigrams, Epithalamions, Epitaphs, Inscriptions, and Miscellaneous Poems
The Epigrams
Antiq Antiquary. [If in his study]
AutHook Ad Autorem. [Non eget Hookerus]
AutJos Ad Autorem. [Emendare cupis Joseph]
Beggar A Lame Beggar. [I am unable, yonder beggar cries]
Cales Cales and Guiana. [If you from spoil]
Disinher Disinherited. [Thy father all from thee]
Faust Faustinus. [Faustinus keeps his sister]
Hero Hero and Leander. [Both robbed of air]
Jug The Juggler. [Thou callest me effeminate]
Klock Klockius. [Klockius so deeply hath sworn]
Liar The Liar. [Thou in the fields walkest]
Licent A Licentious Person. [Thy sins and hairs]
Martial Raderus. [Why this man gelded Martial]
Merc Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus. [Like Aesop’s fellow slaves]
Niobe Niobe. [By chilldren’s birth and death]
Philo An Obscure Writer. [Philo with twelve years’ study]
Phrine Phrine. [Thy flattering picture, Phrine]
Pyr Pyramus and Thisbe. [Two by themselves each other]
Ralph Ralphius. [Compassion in the world again is bred]
SelfAc A Self Accuser. [Your mistress, that you follow whores]
Ship A Burnt Ship. [Out of a fired ship]
Wall Fall of a Wall. [Under an undermined and shot-bruised wall]
Wing Sir John Wingfield. [Beyond th’old pillars]
The Epithalamions
Eclog Eclogue at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset. [Unseasonable man, statue of ice]
EpEliz Epithalamion upon . . . the Lady Elizabeth. [Hail, Bishop Valentine]
EpLin Epithalamion Made at Lincoln’s Inn. [The sunbeams in the east]
Epitaphs and Inscriptions
EgDD Epigraph from Death’s Duel. [Corporis haec animae]
EtAD Epitaph for Ann Donne. [Annae / Georgii More de filiae]
EtED Epitaph for Elizabeth Drury. [Quo pergas, viator]
EtRD Epitaph for Robert and Anne Drury. [Roberti Druri / quo vix alter]
EtSP John Donne’s Epitaph . . . in St. Paul’s Cathedral. [Iohannes Donne / Sac: Theol: Profess:]
InAA Inscription in the Album Amicorum of Michael Corvinus. [In propria venit]
InLI Inscription in a Bible Presented to Lincoln’s Inn. [In Bibliotheca Hospitii]
Miscellaneous Poems
Amic Amicissimo et Meritissimo Ben Jonson. [Quod arte ausus es hic tua]
Gaz Translated out of Gazaeus. [God grant thee thine own wish]
Ignatius Verse from Ignatius.
Stat Stationes from Devotions. [Insultus morbi primus]
Dubium
Apoth Apotheosis Ignatij Loyolae. [Qui sacer antefuit]