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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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168. To the Reader, concerning himself.

I think this Brevity, my Fame can't hurt;
'Tis not a little Labour, to be curt.
The vulgar talk much, to small purpose; I,
Perhaps talk Idle; yet use Brevity.