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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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21. Of two Fencing-Masters.

Half the Spectators, Triumphus did crave;
Half implor'd, they stout Myrinus might have.
Cæsar was pleas'd to tell them with both hands;
He condescended, to both their demands.
Vulgar Resentments, were quench'd quickly, thus:
O our great Lords, accomplish't Genius!