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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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80. Upon a certain Versifier.

You drink, as if, none could a Poet be;
Without from Ale, they learn the Mysterie.
You swill, as if, the Muses lend an Hand
To none; but those, whom Beer forbids, to stand.
When drunk, you Rhythm, without all wit, or Fear:
You may love drink; your self, an Hogs-head are.