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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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35. To his Loving Friend Edmund Wharton, M. A. and Fellow of Gon. and Cai. Coll. in Cambridge.

Over three Lustrums, Time hath almost flown;
Since your Acquaintance, I desir'd to own.
When Age adopted, you were at Expence,
Of Time, and Brains; to purchase Eloquence.
Nor would you let profound Philosophy,
Be exempt from a serious Scrutiny.
Run on the Race; be ever Fortunate:
I wish you egresse, at Honoris Gate.