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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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18. Of an Elephants kneeling down.

That devout Elephant, did ye adore;
O Cæsar! which, worsted a Bull before.
None taught him Homage; but by instinct, he
Kneel'd down to you; because a Deity.