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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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13. Venus.

Sowre is the Exit, though sweet the address,
Of the salacious Cyprian Emperess.
She dresses up the first salutes with Joy;
Till the sad parting proves her a Decoy.
So sweet and dulcid Rivers, when they thrust
Themselves on Neptune, borrow salt disgust.