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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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20. Και συ Τεκνον.

Cæsar , by taking on him too much State;
And slighting Senators, gave Birth to Hate.
This fatal Serpent, propagated More
Conspirators, then are found, in Three-score.

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Cæsar was stab'd; and tooke it silently;
Till Brutus, abhor'd damn'd Impiety;
Wrested out these few words, And Thou my Son!
What have the Traytors, mine own Bowels won?
------ Megæra must Conclude:
No sting but Hers, shall bore, Ingratitude.