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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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153. Concerning Ingenuity and Study.

Neglect of Study, renders wit obtuse;
So Swords will rust, by reason of disuse.
Study, wits Ladder; wits downfal, hath bin:
As Grind-stones sharpen knives; they wear them Thin.