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[The head strong Torchlight of Cimerian waues]
The head strong Torchlight of Cimerian waues,
With fiery frozen wonder leaps and vaults:
And on th' Atlantick Ocean cuts and shaues,
Whilst thunder thwacking Ossa limps and halts,
Robustious Ætna drownes the Artick Pole,
And forked Vulcan hath forsooke his forge,
Apollo'es piebald mare hath cast her fole,
And Mulley Mahomet hath fild his gorge.
Don Belzebub sits fleaing of his breech,
And Marble Proteus dances, leaps and skips,
Belerophon hath pend an excellent speech,
And big-boand Boreas kist Auroraes lips;
The Welkin rumbles; Argos-lies asleepe,
And Tantalus hath slaine a flocke of sheepe.
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