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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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166. Of Faith, and Charity.

Before there be a Tree, who Fruit expect?
Above all Vertues, we must Faith respect.
Love joyn'd to Faith, do Life beget: the Poor,
Can't live by Hope; but they must labour more.
Faith is the Chieftain; but Love is the King:
As well as Faith; we must Affections bring.