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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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173. To his Book.

My Life perhaps, may my Books years, out-vie;
The Son, before the Father oft doth die.
But whether it dies first, or sees Me Rot;
I understand, A Mortal, I begot.