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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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8. Upon a Ships being Burnt.

The daunting Ship, hath quit the foaming waves;
The churlish Haven, it of life bereaves.
Now 'tis on fire, ye might it Water grant:
Before this time, it never us'd to want.