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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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135. Desperate Debt.

Men are bound to their wifes; but who dares say,
He hath enough, the Total sum to pay?
For though some to have paid, may make pretence;
Yet they still owe, a due Benevolence.