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EPIGRAM XVIII.

[To Mercury your Oraisons address]

To Mercury your Oraisons address,
That Timonactes meet with wish'd Success,
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Who fix'd these Porticoes, my sweet Abode,
And plac'd me sacred to the Herald-God.
All who the bright-eyed Sciences revere,
Strangers and Citizens, are welcome here.
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