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Du Bartas

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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39 Glacies.

Hee that makes the World his Nest,
Settling heer his onely Rest;
Never craving other Scope,
Never having higher Hope:
What thinks (think you) such a One?
Thus: To sit secure vpon
A Ball of Ice, a slippery Bowl,
Which on the Seas doth ever roule.