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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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205. To Tho. Nevill, an Ingenious young Gentleman.

You are Branch'd from, the Noble Nevil's Race;
Nature hath Limn'd both Parents, in your Face:
But what of that? She likewise thought not fit,
You should want Mothers, Vertues; Fathers Wit.