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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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68. To the most learned Gentlewoman; Mris. Jane Owen.

I never heard of, nor did ever see,
Those Sisters, a Fifth Father, gave to Thee.
Therefore how many, and how Qualifi'd;
By unacquaintance, could not be descry'd.
Yet what they are, (Dear Jane!) I full well know;
If't be their happiness, to be like you.