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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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26. Upon a certain Covetous, and sordid Bishop.
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26. Upon a certain Covetous, and sordid Bishop.

If old Methusalem I should outvie;
The Bishops Bounty, claims my Memory.
He's vastly Rich; doth many Cities owe:
To his Commands, an Hundred Servants bow.
Yet when, I of mean Rank, did him approach;
He kindly spoke; and chid not for Encroach.
Nay more, he search'd both Pockets, for the Key
Of's Wine-Cellar: saying, You may be Dry.