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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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42. The mad way to Health.

The more Healths in your Belly swim; the less
Shall your drown'd Body, dwell with healthfulness:
I envy not your thousand Healths; to me,
A single Health, is a sufficiency.
It is the only Health, no Healths to drink:
In drinking Healths, there is no Health; I think.