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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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100. The Roman Flora.

Taxes on the whole World, were by Rome laid;
Yet this Great City to the Tribute paid.
For what, for Hackney-hire, was given you;
Was but as Tribute, to your Beauty due.