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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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68. Venus.

Love hath his Flux, and Reflux; Venus bred
Was in the soyl where Tethys layes her head.
No credit Venus merits; her descry
You may, 'twixt Sol, and seduc'd Mercury.
The Planets are her Cronists: none so far
Can scout from sense, to call her fixed star.