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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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14. On the same Accident.

A fatal Javelin, dig'd through the Sows side;
But in a sort, She liv'd; as well as Dy'd.
O what unerring Hand, gave such a Blow?
None but Lucina, could so certain throw.
Diana did here Hunt; yet was Midwife:
A Pig was preserv'd; the Sow lost her Life.