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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6. To her Ladyships Son, Mr. Tho. Nevill.
Your Genius is so eminent, that dueBelief is banish't; though the story's true.
He that will praise a Childe, doth Hope commend,
And not the Merits; which must crown the end:
Not Hope, but real Worth doth magnifie
The happy Torrent, of the Ingenie.
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