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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1. Upon the Cæsarean Amphitheater.
No more let Sun-burnt Cayro vaunt, that She,Bequeaths her wonders, to Eternitie.
Let not Euphrates, in a superb Style,
Brag her Wall, Girdle, unto sixty Mile.
Who lends Diana confidence, to tell;
Her Cedar-Statues, scorn a Parallel?
What if Apollo's horned Altar, stands
Unimitable, by Lysippus Hands?
Let Carian Impudence, presume so far;
As to make Mausoleum, kiss a Star.
Dame Tellus! and thy Prodigies confer;
They must kneel to the Amphitheater.
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Hath the Monopoly, of checquer'd Fame.
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