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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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20. To a certain young Noble-man.

That until hoary Hairs you spin out Breath,
All your acquaintance wish; but none your Death:
Conjoynt desires, will afford a disease;
As for the Cure, to wish that none will please.