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The Riddles of Heraclitus and Democritus


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[Vpon some pale, or pearch]

Vpon some pale, or pearch,
Or stond, or rotten tree,
In watrie lowes and fennie grounds
Where store of fishes bee:
There will he gazing stand
And fish he faine would eate,
Bur he disdaines to touch a fish
If that it be not great.
Right good ones he lets goe,
For better still to stay,
Till that the sunne is welnigh set,

And gone almost the day:
Then downe vnto the ground
In stately sort he hies,
Where he a hungrie supper makes
On wormes and butterflies.

There is a bird, called in Italian, Perdigiornata, the daywaster: of this qualitie. And some men are of the like, that let go, all small offers, to expect better imployments.
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