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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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9. Julio, & Cæsare, Consulibus.

Cæsar , and Bibulus, elected were;
Joyntly the weight, of Consulship to bear.
Cæsar's Activity, brought it to passe;
That nothing, but by him, transacted was.
And the swift Torrent, of a flowing Fame;
Wash'd clean away, grave Bibulus his Name.
Some Magistrates, void Cyphers we may call:
Uselesse; but to make others, Decimal.