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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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137. Upon Pomponia.

Look how the Feather, daunces on her Hat;
'Twas Mars his badg; but Venus now gives that.
'Tis to grace Mars; Venus it deigns to wear:
This shews how friendly, Mars, and Venus are.
The Crow thinks her young ones fair.
Cicero Juscul. Quæs. lib. 5.