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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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63. Upon Pontia.

His Wife told Pontius, there was a Law,
All Cuckolds should be thrown, where Surges aw
The Mariner; Pontia in love to him,
Cry'd out, For God-sake Husband! learn to swim.