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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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207. To the Reader.

My Epigrams are short, and also few:
From many short, Longitude would ensue.
Reader, these few, are short; for were they Long;
Few, would prove Many; and thy Patience wrong.