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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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187. Upon an Infant dying before Baptism.

Alas! I dy'd, before pure Water could,
Mark me, A Lamb; belonging to Christs Fold.
The Church implores, my Saviour would not look,
For Name: Lord! write me Nameless, in thy Book.

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Though I want Name, yet am I known to Thee:
For thy Names-Sake; be Merciful to Me.