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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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24. Upon Carpophorus.

VVhat Beast is so well Arm'd, as not to fear;
Young Carpophorus, his approved spear?
His strange Dexterity, Two Buls pull'd down;
Two thick-skin'd Buffs, had no more Favor shown.
He made a Lion leap into the Toyle:
So much Time lost, the Vulgar can assoyl.