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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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30. To the Egregious Poet, Sir Will. Davenant.

That Ben, whose Head, deserv'd the Roscian Bayes;
Was the first gave the Name of Works, to Playes.
You his Corrival, in this Waspish Age;
Are more then Atlas, to the fainting Stage.
Your Bonus Genius, you this way display:
And to delight us, is your Opera.