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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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16. To his very loving School-master, Mr. Tho. Lovering.

My weak endeavours you were pleas'd to prise;
As hating, over Lads, to Tyrannize.
Indulgence made my School-boyes Life a Sport;
You did not Lash to Study; but Me Court.
This, this, perswades him, to remain your Friend;
Who may perhaps prove witty, in the End.