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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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34. To Mr. John Ogilbie.

Your sparkling Genius I then did prise;
When you poor Æsop, pleas'd to Manumise.
I sacrifice these Lines, lest I alone,
Should prove the Cock; & slight a precious Stone.

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Were Maro now alive, He must you prise:
And by you, Homer, shall regain his Eyes.