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A poem dedicated to the memory of the Reverend and excellent Mr. Urian Oaks,…A poem dedicated to the memory of the Reverend and excellent Mr. Urian Oakes,…
A poem dedicated to the memory of the Reverend and excellent Mr. Urian Oaks, the late pastor to Christ's flock, and president of Harvard-College, in Cambridge. Who was gathered to his people on 25d 5mo 1681. In the fiftieth year of his age. : [Seven lines of quotations]A poem dedicated to the memory of the Reverend and excellent Mr. Urian Oakes, the late pastor to Christ's flock, and praesident of Harvard-Colledge, in Cambridge. Who was gathered to his people on 25d 5mo 1681. In the fifty'th year of his age. : [Seven lines of quotations]
printed for John Ratcliff, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Vixêre fortes ante Agamemnona Multi; sed illachrymabiles Urgentur ignotique longà Nocte; carent quia Vate sacro. Hor.
Non ego cuncta meis amplecti Versibus opto. Virg.
—Ingens laudato Poema: Exiguum legito!— Call.
Qui legis ista, tuam reprehendo, si mec laudes Omnia, Stultitiam: Si nihil, Invidiam. Owen.
Non possunt, Lector, multae emendare Liturae Versus bos nostros: Una litura potest. Martial.