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The Riddles of Heraclitus and Democritus


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37

[With cordes they haled her from the ground]

With cordes they haled her from the ground,
And did about them lay,
Like lustie ringers of the bels,
Vpon some holiday.
Her legs and armes close to a tree,
She tottered vp and downe,

Clap{pin}g her iron lined breech
Close to a lubbers crowne:
Whome she strooke downe into the ground,
Full twenty foote and more,
And yet he neuer did complaine,
Or felt that he was sore.

It describeth, the manner of driuing piles into the ground, wherewith are made firme, the foundations of buildings, set in meadowes, marshes and lowe places.

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