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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In some part of the World, I know not where,
But sure Sr Thomas Mardeuile was there.
Betwixt a Clocke and a Sunne-dyall fell
A difference which I with sorrow tell.
With sorrow, for this error calls to minde
Th'vncertainty, which we in Story finde;
Where computations crosse, and make vs doubt
Of what we all seeke, cannot one finde out.
How to agree, and reconcile th'obscure,
The fabulous, and certaine Age of our.
The Age obscure; is that before the Floud:
The Fabulous, on fained Wonders stood
The race of gods, on golden Legends told,
Where for sad truths, mad fictions were enrold.
This latter Age more plaine and cleere, we call
The certaine Age, or th' Age Historicall.
Yet houres, and dayes, and yeeres haue sure been lost
In some of these, which our accounts haue crost.
And so they easily might, when from the Sunne
To lying Clocks for our accounts we runne.
But sure Sr Thomas Mardeuile was there.
Betwixt a Clocke and a Sunne-dyall fell
A difference which I with sorrow tell.
With sorrow, for this error calls to minde
Th'vncertainty, which we in Story finde;
Of what we all seeke, cannot one finde out.
How to agree, and reconcile th'obscure,
The fabulous, and certaine Age of our.
The Age obscure; is that before the Floud:
The Fabulous, on fained Wonders stood
The race of gods, on golden Legends told,
Where for sad truths, mad fictions were enrold.
This latter Age more plaine and cleere, we call
The certaine Age, or th' Age Historicall.
Yet houres, and dayes, and yeeres haue sure been lost
In some of these, which our accounts haue crost.
And so they easily might, when from the Sunne
To lying Clocks for our accounts we runne.
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