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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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179. To Marcus.

VVhen to Pray, you at any Time shall please;
You institute your Bed, Chappel of ease.
You might well think, Heaven would exclude thence,
Prayers; presented with irreverence.
Till wandring thoughts, rude gestures, you forbear:
God Audience gives; but is not pleas'd to Hear,