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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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105. Upon Bald-pate.

You had a thing, call'd forehead, when shook down,
The leaves were not, from your well-shaded crown.
But since the hair fel off; (with reverence,)
'Twixt head, and fore-head, there's no difference.
In jumbling head and face, age hath mistook:
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