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 |
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O hellish-blasphemie if of vnlawfull matches
Sproong since a world of beasts, that were not vnder hatches
In that same floating parke, a many diuers kinds
Of Cockes, of Doues, of Haukes, of Dogs, of Cats, of Hinds,
Pyde Leopards, giddie Mules, and such as daily increase
By linsiewoolsie loue t'a sundrie-seeming spece:
A thing wherein we find dame Nature hath delight,
And euer had to shew her cunning and her might:
Nay if I plainely proue, with measure foot by foot,
That in so large an hulke they might all well be shut,
So cunningly deuisd and so proportionall,
(Sith euery cubits length was Geometricall)
What Momus can replie? if reason go for pay
Among the mad, who stand against the Lord in ray.
Sproong since a world of beasts, that were not vnder hatches
In that same floating parke, a many diuers kinds
Of Cockes, of Doues, of Haukes, of Dogs, of Cats, of Hinds,
Pyde Leopards, giddie Mules, and such as daily increase
By linsiewoolsie loue t'a sundrie-seeming spece:
A thing wherein we find dame Nature hath delight,
And euer had to shew her cunning and her might:
Nay if I plainely proue, with measure foot by foot,
That in so large an hulke they might all well be shut,
So cunningly deuisd and so proportionall,
(Sith euery cubits length was Geometricall)
What Momus can replie? if reason go for pay
Among the mad, who stand against the Lord in ray.
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