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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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38. Upon his wish, that some Eminent Mischief, might befall; during his Reign.

Caius had a mishapen Body; Face,
Exceeding Wan; nor did fair vertue Grace,
His inward Parts: yet the Audacious Clod,
Commanded Worship, to himself; as God.
You needed not to wish Calamity;
What Plague can exceed, such a Prodigie?