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Parnassi Puerperium

or, Some Well-wishes to ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in Sir Tho. More...
  
  

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100. Of the Load-stone.

As from all Iron, Load-stones do exact
Coition: so, Lords all the Gold, attract.
Courtiers I ask ye nothing: for ye are
Stingy in giving; what ye ask, ne'r care.
You give for your own ends; I cannot see
Gifts retrograde; I shall scarce ask of yee.