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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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162. Upon Cerellia, married to Gallus, an Eunuch.

Had not we (fools) the Spartan fashion loath'd;
Then parties naked, should have bin betroth'd.
Cerel in thought, had married a game-cock;
But Cock, prov'd Capon; craven'd by a Smock.