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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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28. The Miseries of Life.

All wish to Live, though they be sickly, poor;
Small Griefs, will not suffice; they wish for more.
The forlorn Irus, desires not, to Die;
That is; is loath to part with Miserie.