Item 7.1 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[48r]

To Maxima

By Sir Charles Sedley

Ovid who bid the ladies laugh

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And laugh not above once a year

Item 7.2 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[48r]

To Septimus

For want of judgment through servile flattery thou dost all commend

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Who cares to please? Where no man can offend

Item 7.3 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[48v]

To Classicus

When thou art asked to sup abroad

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Does not a supper but a reckoning hate

Item 7.4 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[48v]

To Posthumus

That thou dost cashou breath and foreign gums

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He that smells always sweet, does never so.

Item 7.5 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[49r]

To Sextus

What business? or what hope brings thee to town

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None but has killed his man or writ a play.

Item 7.6 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[49r]

To Cloe

Leave off thy paint perfumes, and youthful dress

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Plain downright ugliness would less offend.

To Madam Hall

[The final rubric appears to have been added later, since it is in the shaky hand characteristic of Cowper's writing after 1705.]

Item 7.7 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[49v]

To Canidius

Thou strut'st as if thou wert the only lord

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Were they alive they'd be ashamed of thee

Item 7.8 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[49v]

To Flavius

Thou quibblest well hast craft and industry

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And so thou darest not thrive upon thy trade

Item 7.9 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[50r]

To Candidus

All things are common amongst friends thou sayest

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Nothing so common, as to use them so

Item 7.10 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[50v]

To Gaurus

That thou dost shorten thy long nights with wine

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But that thou'rt whipped, is thy peculiar shame

Item 7.11 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[50v]

To Thraso

Whilst thou sitt'st drinking up thy loyalty

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In a rich coat thou'rt but a ranting slave

Item 7.12 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[51r]

To Maximus

Would'st thou be free, I fear thou art in jest

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Thy mind thou'rt freer than the Persian king

Item 7.18 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[55v]

To Coscus

O times o manners! Cicero cried out

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Blame not our manners then, but mend thy own

Item 7.23 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[59r]

To Milo

One month a lawyer, thou the next will be

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Thou'lt end in nothing if thou grasp'st at all.

Item 9 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[59v]

To Sabinus

Surly and sour thou dislikest mankind

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But for thy misery thou'rt an atheist too

Item 11 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[60r]

To Corrinna sick Sr C.S: L W

Apollo whose kind influences produce

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He feels more torment in his own despair