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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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8. Upon Aulus.

Why were you made a Knight? because that more,
Your wife might love you, then she did before?
But you mistook your self; Sir Aulus, she,
Will love her self, the better; but not thee.
Former expence must double every yeer:
You shall have cause, to call your Lady, Deer.