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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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107. To the Courtier.

Proud Rome, Superbus, to disgrace did bring;
What wonder? Pride, did never love a King.
Kings have not many friends; a Reason why?
Because the Scepter, detests Parity.