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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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123. Upon Bardella, the Mantuan Thief.

A Monk, Bardella, to be hang'd cheer'd up;
And said, To night in heaven thou shalt sup.
Bardel reply'd; This, I keep fasting-day,
If you please to accept my place, you may.