Volume 8: The Epigrams, Epithalamions, Epitaphs, Inscriptions, and Miscellaneous Poems

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]

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]

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]

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]

Apoth Apotheosis Ignatij Loyolae. [Qui sacer antefuit]