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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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24. Upon the Writers of our times. To the Reader.

Whether our Scriblers vent more Lies, would'st know,
In an Octavo, Quarto, Folio?
Thousands of Lies are nothing; in an Age,
Time bound in the Decimo-sexto Page:
If that the Sixteenth part, such knacks can do;
What can a sheet's, Gigantine Folio?