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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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59. Upon Flavius Domitians Timerousnesse.

Domitian the tedious Day did passe,
In Galleries; forging a Looking-Glasse;
By help of the Phengites Stone. His Minde
Was hugely intent, to observe behinde.
His Cruelty, had run much on the Score:
He look'd Behinde; He should have look'd Before.