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The Riddles of Heraclitus and Democritus


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[After midnight, ere it was day]

After midnight, ere it was day
His eies he did vnclose,
And striuing for to get away
From prison he arose,
With bodies two as colde as Leade
He wrought so fine a feate,
That other two which seemed dead
Receiued life and heate.
Then dead men came about him round,
I wot not who they were,
But of much thing deepe and profound
With them he did confer.

A student, rising from bed, with his flint and steele, giueth fire to the match and candle. The dead men which came about him, were S. Ambrose, S. Augustine &c. or if ye will Plowden and my Lord Dyer.
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