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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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4. The Off-spring of the Virgin-Queen Elizabeth. 1602.

England , and Scotland's, blessed Unity;
The Issue was, of your Virginity.
She is more glorious, who Unites two States,
Then She, who like the Vulgar Generates.
So you, great Queen! A Virgin pleas'd to die:
And happy Mother, to Posteritie.