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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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139. I, Thou, He.

Self-Love's the Quarry, at which all Birds flie
From hence the first of Persons, must be, I.
You can both flatter, and Back-bite; thus see,
He stands next, Thou; and Thou, the nearest mee.