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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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4. To the Right Honourable, the Lord Chief Baron Widdrington: And his Brother, Mr. University-Orator.

And did the Juncto of the Gods agree,
To make you Sol; your Brother, Mercury?
Nature doth seldome so exhaust her Store,
Of Ingenuity; as to make more
Then one wise, in an House: ye needs must be,
Chronicl'd, for an happy Prodigie.
You Grace the Law; your Brother's words dispence,
To his Admirers; Flowrs of Eloquence.
Learning about to die, these late sad Wars:
Ordained yee, Her Co-executors.