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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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39. Upon the Parliament, that voted down the Universities.

VVhen infant Vipers to the Light do come,
They kill their Dams; by knawing of their Womb.
A Generation, Bald-pate Time ne're Ey'd:
That durst concurre, in voting Matricide.
Such Vipers as could not their Stings refrain:
Had not a Pia Mater, to their Brain.