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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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29. Upon his Gaming.

Augustus was not spotted with much Vice,
Yet He was Proud, and hugely shak'd the Dice,
Antony out-threw all, but him Alone:
Who by a lucky Passage, won the Throne.