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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...

Pecke, Thomas

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21. To the Honourable John Lord Herbert.

May my Pen venture, to approach a Name;
Long since, Espous'd to an Immortal Fame?
Deflowr'd Astræa, in a Sable weed;
For your Grand-father, did not weep, but bleed;

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Till she saw you, who are intent to awe;
Audacious Vice, and by your Life, vouch Law.