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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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58. Upon his Assiduity in Goodnesse.

The Days bright Father, had hid profuse Light;
Under the Curtains, of a Pur-blinde Night:
When good Vespasian publickly did say;
Alasse my Friends! I did no good this Day.

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Fame take a Note; Rome the like never Bred.
Vespasian was a God; and yet not Dead.