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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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18. The German Truth.

Merry Democritus, affirm'd Truth did
In some deep Hogs-head (from Mens view) lie hid.
Grant but the Adage true, that Truth's in Wine;
Upstarts the Dutch-man, and swears, Truth is mine.