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Ad Lectorem Epig. 2.

This whom thou readst is he by thee required,
Martiall, through all the world fam'd and desired,
For sharpest Books of Epigrams, on whom
(Ingenious Reader) living, without Tombe,

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Thou hast bestow'd that high and glorious wreath,
Which seldome Poets after death receive.