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His Divine Weekes And Workes with A Compleate Collectio[n] of all the other most delight-full Workes: Translated and written by yt famous Philomusus: Iosvah Sylvester

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3 Quatuor Elementa.

Fire, Air, Earth, Water, warring Each with Other,
Turn and return them one into another;
As pleas'd th'All-Maker in This All dispose
Th'accorded Discords of these Friendly-Foes:
To shew, that Wee should for our Blisse repair
Else-where then where is Earth, Fire, Water, Air;
And that Our Rest rests in a Place far higher
Then Earth, or Water, or the Air, or Fier.