Fovre bookes of Du Bartas I. The Arke, II. Babylon, III. The Colonnyes, IIII. The Columues or Pyllars: In French and English, for the Instrvction and Pleasvre of Svch as Delight in Both Langvages. By William Lisle ... Together with a large Commentary by S. G. S |
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Besides, when th'aire to drops of water melts apace,
And lesned fals to spring, what bodie filles the place?
For no where in this all is found roome bodilesse:
Sad waue will sooner mount, and light aire downward presse.
And lesned fals to spring, what bodie filles the place?
For no where in this all is found roome bodilesse:
Sad waue will sooner mount, and light aire downward presse.
Then how (thou'lt aske me) come these huge and raging floods,
That spoile on Riphean hils the Boree-shakē woods,
Drowne Libanus, and shew their enuious desires
To quench with tost-vp waue the highest heau'nly fires?
Ile aske thee (Cham;) how Wolues & Panthers from ye Wild
At time by Heau'n design'd before me came so mild.
That spoile on Riphean hils the Boree-shakē woods,
Drowne Libanus, and shew their enuious desires
To quench with tost-vp waue the highest heau'nly fires?
Ile aske thee (Cham;) how Wolues & Panthers from ye Wild
At time by Heau'n design'd before me came so mild.
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