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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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12. Troynovant. To the Londoners.

No Phœnix beautifies, the gilded East;
Before Sol lights her Mothers fragrant Nest:
So decimated Troy, the Grecians burn:
Majestick London, sprouts from Troy's pale Urn.