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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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18. Fear is altogether unprofitable.

And why so stupid, as to lend an Ear,
To the false Alarms, of amazing Fear?
If evils come not, then our Fears are vain:
And if they do; Dread, will encrease the Pain.