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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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34. Upon a Picture, unlike.

I going lately to a Painters Shop;
Thy Pourtraicture, my wandring eyes did stop.
I am perswaded, that He did compact,
You should sit three Dayes; for to mak't exact.
At the first view, I understood 'twas you:
For I believ'd the Limner; swearing so.