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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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22. The Spirit and the Flesh.

What the Spirit command, the Flesh controul:
Thus Grace, and Sin, divide my wretched Soul.
Would Flesh, and Spirit, but conclude a Peace;
Revenge, Jars, Wars; quite through the world should cease.