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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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121. Upon one Davis.

To boast your self of Cockney, you think good;
Lest som should say, you were of British Bloud.
You refuse that, (which would a Wise Man grace)
To procure descent, from an obscure Race.
You, and your Countrey, Ill; yet well, Agree:
You are asham'd of that; and that, of Thee.