VIRGIDEMIARUM.

THOUGH BY MY PROFESSION A DIUINE, YET SOMETIME,

AS DIOGENES WENT INTO THE CITIE, AND DEMOCRITVS TO THE HAUEN TO SEE FASHIONS, I DID, FOR MY RECREATION, NOW AND THEN WALKE ABROAD, LOOKE INTO THE WORLD, AND COULD NOT CHVSE BUT MAKE SOME LITTLE OBSERUATION.

DEMOCRITVS IVNIOR.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR,

NOTICE of Bishop Hall, from Warton's History of

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LIB. I.

PROLOGUE,

SAT. I.

SAT II.

Fashionable modes of writing, and object

of the Author in composing his Satires,

Indelicacy of popular poetry in the reign
of Elizabeth,

SAT. III. Intemperance of poets, and state of the

SAT. IV.

SAT. V.

SAT. VI.

stage in the reign of Elizabeth,

Legendary and romantic poetry,

The "Mirror for Magistrates,"

Roman hexameters in English poetry,

SAT. VII. Sonnetteers,

SAT. VIII. Sacred poetry,

SAT. IX. An obscene writer,

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