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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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10. Innocency, is obnoxious to Injury.

The fearful Mouse, dares venture for to bite,
The vicious Man: Tush! Proverbs say not right.
A Mouse dares bite the Innocent; a Knave,
Out of a Dragons Mouth, himself can save.