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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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25. Death not to be feared.

What Madness 'tis for Sickness, Poverty,
To refuse Death; the end of Misery?
That only once, inflicts a short-liv'd Pain;
And that endur'd, it troubles not again.
But some Diseases, are, so rude, that they,
Revisit; where they lodg'd, but th'other day.