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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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193. To Paulus, after Burial.

Though you were at Birth naked; now you have,
An Holland sheet; to sleep on in the Grave.
You carry that away, you did not bring:
Thank not your Mother Earth; for any thing.