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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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44. Upon his Quinquennium.

Till Sol had kiss'd the Equinoctial Line,
Ten times; in Nero, Vertues Rays did shine.
After five years, He did degenerate;
And prov'd a Vulture, to the Roman State.
Most Kings make Good beginnings; Few endure:
A Murtherer, waits till He seems secure.