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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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138. Upon Adrian the Fifth.

Your silly Epigrams; your dull Verse, fears
It should endure the sting, of acute Jeers.
Though they are not Facetious; Readers smile,
And laugh to see no Wit come, all the while.