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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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25. Upon a Sea-fight.

Foreign Spectators, perchance present be;
Whose Eyes did never, Cæsar's Bounty see:
Naval Bellona, shan't Equivocate;
In Neptunes Throne, Ceres did sit of late.
But want ye Faith? after the Fight; you'l vow
That is firm Land, which was Sea, even now.