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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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13. To his Honourable Mother.

Mother-in-Lawes, Poets much Vilifie;
You, did I never; no, not secretly.
When own Mothers prove Sowre, Unnatural;
Mother-in-Laws; Sons, may them aptly call.
She that is not by Nature, yet may be
An Own Mother, by sweet Indulgency.
I shall endeavour Duty to improve;
According to the Merits, of your Love.
You shall not lose those Favours, you lend Me:
This is the Time, for my Retaining Fee.