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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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3. Upon an ignorant Rhetorician.

Five absurd Phrases, I let Flaccus have;
To requite my Good Will, he Fifty gave.
Take these in Hand, said He; Beyond the Seas,
When I have been; you shall have what you please.