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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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11. Upon Aulus, an ignoble Nobleman.

For Honour (sordid Aulus) which you share,
To Predecessors, you indebted are.
But your base Spirit hath contriv'd to let
Posterity, from living in your debt.