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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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129. To Sextilianus, A spurious Brat.

Your Father, never purpos'd to create
You, Sextil! But himself, to recreate:
If we not Gifts, but Donors mindes, respect;
To Thank him for your Life, you may neglect.