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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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27. Upon the excellent Swimmers.

The docil Crue of Watry Nymphs did Vie
To paint the Waves; with their Vivacitie.

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A threatning Trident, Anchor, scalding Oare;
A stately Ship; we beheld from the Shore.
Castor, and Pollux, the Pilots delight;
And tumid Sail-cloaths, gratifi'd our Sight.
To whose Invention, should we this refer;
Did Thetis instruct us, or we, teach Her?