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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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25. Festina lente.

Augustus pleasing to reprove rash Hast,
Us'd frequently this Proverb; Not too Fast.
Seventy six years, his Lungs were seis'd of Breath:
Perhaps he read that Lecture unto Death.