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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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48. To a Lover of his Countrey.

'Tis Honour to dye for my Countrey; fit:
Suppose Death may my Countrey benefit.
Yet to Live for my native Countrey, I
Humbly conceive more pleasant, then to Dye.