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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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13. Upon a Sow, who cast her Pigs, by reason of a Wound.

Amongst the Various Game, that Cæsar found;
A nimble Spear, hapned a Sow to wound.
One of the Wiser Pigs, did make a shift
To escape through the Gash; at a dead lift.

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These were hard Throws; yet the Sow for her part;
To save her Babies, wisht the other Dart.
Who will dispute, Tun-belli'd Bacchus cut,
From's Mother; since a Sow probatum put?