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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...

Pecke, Thomas

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201. Against the Conspirators, upon Tuesday, the Fift of November, 1605.

To make low Earth, challenge the lofty Sky;
And sordid Dust, oppose the Deity:
What is this, but for to revoke the Hour,
And Architecture, of Confusions Tow'r?

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'Twere to make wanton Ilium, once more Burn;
And antiquated Chaos, should return.