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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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80. The Lifes of Saints.

Not to read Lifes of Saints, but such to Live;
Is that which in the end will Profit give.
To turn Leaves over, no Advantage brings:
Strive not to Read, but Relish, Holy things.