Philomythie or Philomythologie wherein Outlandish Birds, Beasts, and Fishes, are taught to speake true English plainely. By Tho: Scot ... The second edition much inlarged |
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All workes the ayre, the water, or the land
Did ere produce, these Captaines vnderstand:
But none found able to enforce his strength:
The warlike Lyon yet conceiu'd at length
How to effect it. Great confederates heare,
(Quoth he) what I propound. There's nought I feare
But what I speake of. Once I did rebell
Against out Generall Soueraigne Man: to tell
This fault doth touch my honour, but you all,
I know haue been co-partners in my fall,
And his most gracious pardon. Then, O then
I kept within my fort, a hideous den
Caru'd out of rocke it was; and no way he
Could force me out, or make assault on me.
At last with indignation mou'd, he takes
A mighty flint vp, and with hurling, breakes
The same against a rocke, which flying sings,
And sparkles from the ayre betwixt them springs
As from a red-hot yron, when a Smith
With heauy hammer beats it on a stith.
Neere hand he had before laid leaues with rosse
From Okes torne with a Northern blast, and mosse
Dride in the parching Sun: and wood which dide
By killing age, and stood my den beside.
The sparks inflam'd this stuffe, which in the mouth
Of my darke Caue he plac'd: the winde then South
Forc'd in the smoke, and this ayre-thickning smoke
Infor'd me thus, either come out or choke.
The issue you remember: this alone
Must be our proiect now; or Art hath none.
Hie therefore braue-bird brother, quickly take
Twixt your strong tallents this great flint, and make
Experience of my plot. Mount with it hie
And let it fall, that fire may from it flie:
Which kindled once, fan gently with your wing,
And cherish with soft breath: then let the king
Of fishes with his mighty nostrels puffe
Till it flames fiercely, and burnes hot enough.
Did ere produce, these Captaines vnderstand:
But none found able to enforce his strength:
The warlike Lyon yet conceiu'd at length
How to effect it. Great confederates heare,
(Quoth he) what I propound. There's nought I feare
But what I speake of. Once I did rebell
Against out Generall Soueraigne Man: to tell
This fault doth touch my honour, but you all,
I know haue been co-partners in my fall,
And his most gracious pardon. Then, O then
I kept within my fort, a hideous den
Caru'd out of rocke it was; and no way he
Could force me out, or make assault on me.
At last with indignation mou'd, he takes
A mighty flint vp, and with hurling, breakes
The same against a rocke, which flying sings,
And sparkles from the ayre betwixt them springs
As from a red-hot yron, when a Smith
With heauy hammer beats it on a stith.
Neere hand he had before laid leaues with rosse
From Okes torne with a Northern blast, and mosse
Dride in the parching Sun: and wood which dide
By killing age, and stood my den beside.
The sparks inflam'd this stuffe, which in the mouth
Of my darke Caue he plac'd: the winde then South
Forc'd in the smoke, and this ayre-thickning smoke
Infor'd me thus, either come out or choke.
Must be our proiect now; or Art hath none.
Hie therefore braue-bird brother, quickly take
Twixt your strong tallents this great flint, and make
Experience of my plot. Mount with it hie
And let it fall, that fire may from it flie:
Which kindled once, fan gently with your wing,
And cherish with soft breath: then let the king
Of fishes with his mighty nostrels puffe
Till it flames fiercely, and burnes hot enough.
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