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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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40. Upon Owen.

Fertilis Autumno, pinguescat Vallis opimo:
Aurea saxosis, Mons habet Exta locis.
Anglia Doctrinæ, lætis ditescat Aristis:
Jactat Odœnum, Wallia sioca Tagum.

Let crouded Wheat, the humble Valleys line:
The steril Mountains Bowels, with Gold shine.

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Let England boast Sagacity: Since Wales,
Can with her Golden Owen turn the Scales.