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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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21. Upon the Brightness of Augustus Cæsar's Countenance.

Phœbus did not so many Rayes comprise;
As were resplendent in Augustus Eyes.
No wonder Light, in his Face made abode:
Whose Father by Adoption, was a God.