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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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12. Upon a Niggard.

Sir, Sir! you're Poor; say others what they please:
Use, Riches makes; saith Apollophanes.
Whilst you use your Estate, so long 'tis thine:
That ceasing, your Heir may cry; This is Mine.