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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...

Pecke, Thomas

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43. Upon Nero's feigned Clemencie.

The Bloud-Hound Nero, when desir'd to set
His Hand to fatal Warrants; us'd Regret.

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And to prevent th'Incursions of Hate;
In mercie wish'd himself, Illiterate.
Whence was his Quill, in writing obstructed?
The Ink was Black; and He lik'd none but Red.