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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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24. Upon the ceasing of Oracles, at the same Time.

If the Emperial Head, did chance to Ake;
Forthwith to Delphos, Rome did Journeys take,
To enquire who the Successor should be;
To her redundant Soveraignity.
Augustus did, on the same Message send;
But Hell was cop'd; & could not stand his Friend.