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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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57. Upon Long-tongue.

Battus talks like a fool; and then of course
Comes out; Pray pardon Sir, my long Discourse.
No want of Pardon, should to you belong;
If you could learn the Art to hold your Tongue.