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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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26. Upon Leander.

Leander wonder not, curl'd Waves thee spare;
These inoffensive Surges, Cæsars are.
When Tethys stopt, Love-sick Leander's Breath;
And some few drops, would hurry him to Death.
Thee poor Wretch begg'd; O waft Me safe to ground:
When I have seen my Dear; let me be Drown'd.