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The wisedome of the ancients

written in latine by the right honourable Sir Francis Bacon Knight, Baron of Verulam and Lord Chancelour of England. Done into English by Sir Arthur Gorges
Gorges, Arthur (1557?-1625)

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[For rich-vaind Orpheus sweetely did rehearse]

For rich-vaind Orpheus sweetely did rehearse
How that the seedes of fire, ayre, water, earth,
Were all pact in the vast voyd vniuerse:
And how from these as firstlings all had birth,
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And how the body of this Orbicque frame
From tender infancy so big became.
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