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The Riddles of Heraclitus and Democritus


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[As Pallas was ingendred from her fathers braine]

As Pallas was ingendred from her fathers braine,
So was one other guest, that I see men doe entertaine,
She sprang from neither grift, nor plant, nor egge nor seede,
Ne is she fish, or flesh, or graine, or pulse or herbe or weede,
With Ladies and great Lordes, she is both day and night,
And clergie men, and prelats graue, sometime in her delight.

Some thinke that the deuill, begat her on his dame,
Because that he much euill doth and mischiefe by her frame:
I thinke not so, but wish, she soberly were vsed,
That neither she nor men by her, might hencefoorth be abused.

It may well be vnderstood by cardplay.
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