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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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56. Upon his Avariciousnesse.

None could Vespasians Impositions flie,
But, who were troubled, with the Strangurie.
His manifest Extortions, were so vile;
That Rome was taxed, ev'ry Pissing while.