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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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111. Death is both contrary, and according to Nature.

If you would follow Nature, cruel Death!
You should snatch Parents, before Childrens Breath.
To Natures Dictates, we obsequious be:
For Life, and Death; are both by her Decree.