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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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58. The Gordian Knot.

Was the strain'd Gordian Knot, rather unty'd
By the Kings Wit; or did his Sword divide?
Without wit you may untye this Knot: but,
Were Alexander here; He could not Cut.