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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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162. Pliny Translated into English, by Doctor Holland.

Pliny is Long, 'cause many things he writes;
Pliny is short, much Matter, He endites.
Holland is Longer; Shorter; because He,
Hath Writ more full; hath shun'd Obscuritie.