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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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169. The shortness of Life.

To unborn Infants, all things equall are:
For what is past, grave Seniors seldom care,
If past, and future Times, I should substract:
What a small number; Present hours exact!