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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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138. Pain, and Pleasure.

Present Grief stabs; Future holds in suspence,
The fearful Soul; yet delights, when gone hence.
Dolorous Pleasures, please; when Smart is past:
'Tis Sad; if Pleasure fades, whilst Sorrows last.