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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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12. Upon a Bear.

A Bear rol'd Barrels on the bloudy Sand;
And was Arrested, at Bird-limes command.
There's no more need to throw, the lethal Spear;
Or that a Lance, should forbid coming near.
Hunts-men may chase the Birds, unto a Bay:
If Fowlers to catch Beasts; conceive fair Play.