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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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36. Upon a Roman Nose.

Proclus can't blow his Nose; but must confesse,
Though his Hand's great; yet then his Nose 'tis lesse.
Nor when he sneezeth, can He Himself hear:
His Nostrils are so remote, from his Ear.