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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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17. Concerning Hercules, Riding to Heaven, upon a Bull.

That the Bull was snatch'd up into the sky;
Seems not a Pageant, but true Piety.
On a Buls back, Europa rid at ease;
But not to Heaven; as did Hercules.
Let Jove, and Cæsar's Buls, for credit Vie:
Jove's did but swim; and Cæsar's Bull could flie.