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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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172. Abundance of Caution, hurts not.

Be not afraid, yet look, before you leap:
Be not rash; count no opportune Time, cheap.
To fearful Nature, Prudence lends a Shield:
None dangers dread, who their Ambush beheld.