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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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28. To that profound Grecian, Mr. Duport, President of Trinity Coll. in Cambridge.

The witty Limner, ancient Poets fed;
With that which admir'd Homer vomited.
Your curious Palat, hated that crude Meat;
Homer himself, you disjoynted; and Eat.
And lest his Children, should the Fact reveal;
You devour'd them too: the succeeding Meal.