The Scourge of Folly Consisting of satyricall Epigrams, And others in honour of many noble Persons and worthy friends, together, with a pleasant (though discordant) Descant upon most English Proverbs and others [by John Davies] |
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Epig. 230. Of Poliphemus his sight in Geometry.
No Geometricians (though they oft haue tride)Haue ere found out a Circles quadrature
Or giu'n an equall Lyne, vnto it's side,
The truth heereof lyes in such Couerture:
But, Caueleero Poliphem hath don't,
If the Earths Globe be throughly Sphericall:
For, he doth square with all, in Compasse on't;
For which he oft doth step aside with all:
Whose rule, for equall rule, is still at strife,
Till Rule by equall Lyne doth end his life.
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