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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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133. To Irus.

You would Live ever; ever you can't Live:
Yet you can wish you ever might survive.
But since you are so Poor; I wonder, still:
Though you may wish to Live; that Live, you will.