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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They slight his cauils; And the Whale demands
In whose vnknowne, strange gouernment it stands
If not in one of theirs? For ayre, earth, sea,
And all they haue (but Man and what Mans be),
Doe properly belong to one of these,
Who may dispose of all, as they best please.
I pray then (quoth the Cormorant) relate
To whose Emperiall crowne, and to whose state,
My enuy'd neast belongs? which of you three
Claime th'interest as Lord by right of fee?
For if it proper be to one, the rest
Haue done much wrong, t'vsurp his interest
Whose it should be. This question he did make
Hoping thereby their setled loues to shake
By couetous ambition, whilst they all
Would make their claimes, and so asunder fall.
But the foreseeing Eagle bids him minde
His owne affaires, and not to thinke t'vnwinde
The snares true Iustice laies about his life,
But interposing such slight cause of strife
Betwixt such firme friends, in strong league combinde
And with all strength of entercourse entwinde.
And yet to satisfie this curious doubt,
Know (quoth the Eagle) that being hem'd about
With floting waters, it belongs to him
Who gouerns all that in the waters swim.
But as it on the stedfast earth doth stand,
It longs to him that is the king of land.
And the large tree which spreads his spacious bowes
In th'open ayre, within my kingdome growes.
Thy neast thus longs to all of vs, thy food
Stolne from our subiects, in th'ayre, earth, flood:
And thou thy selfe must needs, if thou beest either
Beast, bird, or fish, be one of ours; if neither,
Say what thou art, or whose thou art; for all
But Man and Monsters in this number fall.
In whose vnknowne, strange gouernment it stands
If not in one of theirs? For ayre, earth, sea,
And all they haue (but Man and what Mans be),
Doe properly belong to one of these,
Who may dispose of all, as they best please.
I pray then (quoth the Cormorant) relate
To whose Emperiall crowne, and to whose state,
My enuy'd neast belongs? which of you three
Claime th'interest as Lord by right of fee?
For if it proper be to one, the rest
Haue done much wrong, t'vsurp his interest
Whose it should be. This question he did make
Hoping thereby their setled loues to shake
Would make their claimes, and so asunder fall.
But the foreseeing Eagle bids him minde
His owne affaires, and not to thinke t'vnwinde
The snares true Iustice laies about his life,
But interposing such slight cause of strife
Betwixt such firme friends, in strong league combinde
And with all strength of entercourse entwinde.
And yet to satisfie this curious doubt,
Know (quoth the Eagle) that being hem'd about
With floting waters, it belongs to him
Who gouerns all that in the waters swim.
But as it on the stedfast earth doth stand,
It longs to him that is the king of land.
And the large tree which spreads his spacious bowes
In th'open ayre, within my kingdome growes.
Thy neast thus longs to all of vs, thy food
Stolne from our subiects, in th'ayre, earth, flood:
And thou thy selfe must needs, if thou beest either
Beast, bird, or fish, be one of ours; if neither,
Say what thou art, or whose thou art; for all
But Man and Monsters in this number fall.
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