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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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23. To those Eminent Members of Parliament, Sir Horatio Townshead; and Sir William Doyle.

Our Mother Norfolk trusting in your Care,
As to Heroick Spirits, and sincere;
Elected ye as Guardians to us all:
As Good Fathers, let not your Children fall.
Ye who a splendid County represent;
Must strive to Give, the wiser sort content.
A joynt consent, made ye our Supreme Parts:
Your vertues, attract to our Heads; our Hearts.