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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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31 Glacies.

Ice is fair, and shines externall;
Fair and shining th'All-Theater:
From the Ice they fall in Water;
From the World to Death eternall.
Both at last shall vanish: Ice
Into Water shall re-solve;
All the World (and all his Vice)
Into Nothing shall dissolve.