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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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163. To my Parents.

Dear Father, I am part of you; and part
Of you, dear Mother; cast Lots for my Heart.
You two, yet but one flesh; my Body make:
What dangers fear I; be they for your sake?