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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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126. Vertues Complaint.

Love hath few servants; who will Vertue own?
Credit, and honour; extreme dear are grown.
Riches are sold; Mony, made Merchandize:
Vertue, for her Rewards; must pay Excise.