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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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19. Of a Tyger, and a Lion.

A fierce Hircanian Tyger, which is rare;
Used to lick his Masters Hands; did dare,
Upon the dreaded King of Beasts to fly:
And to Amazement, won the Victory.
In the thick woods, he never Triumph'd thus:
Our Company, made him Magnanimous.