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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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47. A Joque, upon the Covetous.

VVhat foolish humour, makes men so intent,
Natures contentedness to complement?
Whilest on the other side, but few are nice,
To cast stones at flint-hearted Avarice.
But little Nature craves; well, you'l grant us,
That nothing will suffice the Covetous.