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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...

Pecke, Thomas

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88. Love is Naked.

Nature cloathes Fields, with Grass; and Beasts, with Hair:
Birds have their Plumes; Sheep, warm in Fleeces are.
What ever Animal, is Born; or Bred;
By Nature; or by Art, is covered:

But why should Love, to Nakedness, be sold
Alone? because it Naked, feels least cold.