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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
Lisle, William (1579?-1637)

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A Pastorall Dedication to the King.
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[Fovre bookes of Du Bartas]
  
The end of Adam, and beginning of Nöe.
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The first Booke of Noe, called the Arke.
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The second Booke of Noe, called BABILON.
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The third Booke of Noe, or the Colonies.
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The Pillars, or fourth Booke of Noe.

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Who but a foole (say they) will thinke a ship so small,
A hundred fiftie long, and thirtie cubits tall,
And fiftie broad, can hold so many months a charge
So combersome and huge? when as the Snout-horne large,
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The rinde-hide Elephant, the Camell, Horse, and Bull,
They and their fodder stuffe the greatest Carack full.
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