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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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202. Upon the same.

VVould ye have thrust fair Troy into the Fire;
And Millions thrown upon the Fatal Pyre?
Were ye bewitcht, to pitch on such a Day?
Tuesday was never made Ash-Wednesday.