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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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138. To H. L.

Your neighbours wife, best contents you; and he,
Counts yours most fair; thus nobly ye agree.
Tully to prove his words, may now despair;
Some Birds (it seems) think their own chick's not fair.