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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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72. To two concealing their Names, at their Return from Venice.

You went to Venice, to seek four-fold Gains,
To fill your purses; and reward your pains.
Since ye got good; your friends were wel content,
That ye return'd; though to their detriment.