Epigrams theological, philosophical, and romantick Six books, also the Socratic Session, or the Arraignment and Conviction, of Julius Scaliger, with other Select Poems. By S. Sheppard |
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Epig. 7. To Lillie the Starre-Gazer.
VVhat weather waites upon the Hyades,Orions progresse, and the Pleiades,
Arcturus and his Sonnes, with the two Beares,
Cynthias revolv's, the motions of the Spheares,
And what Pelides Schoolmaster doth doe;
Whether the Sun (so bright to humane view)
Be not a lumpe of matter, made red hot
With fire, (at first by fervent heate begot?)
And whether pale-fac'd Cynthia so unstable,
Be not a Region, (though inhabitable?)
What Zoroastes , and the Chaldes taught,
And what Ægyptian Ptolomey hath brought
To light, thou know'st (Oh Emperick Divine)
Predicting with the liver of a Swine.
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