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Epigrams. 337 3 . Atheists pastimes.Grammarians talk of times past and hereafter :I spend time present in pastime and laughter.74. On Paulus.Because thou followst some great Peer at Court,Dost think the world deem's thee a great one for't ?Ah no ! thou art mistaken Paulus, knowDwarfs still as pages unto giants goe.75. On a cowardly Souldier.Strotzo doth weare no ring upon his hand,Although he be a man of great command ;But gilded spurres do jingle at his heelesWhose rowels are as big as some coach-wheels,He grac'd them well, for in the Netherlands,His heels did him more service then his hands.76. A uri sacra fames quid non ?A smooth fac'd youth was wedded to an old,Decrepit shrew, such is the power of gold :That love did tye this knot, the end will prove,The love of money not the god of love. :*$VOL. II.77. On Lepidus and his wife.Lepidus married somewhile to a shrew,She sick'ned, he in jesting wise to shewD