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TRUTH
Things Determind by most voyces
Are not the Greatest Truths, but Noyses.
Are not the Greatest Truths, but Noyses.
All wise men should be just as kinde
To Truth, as Truth to them they finde.
To Truth, as Truth to them they finde.
For Peace, and Truth are found t' unite
As Nat'rally, as to Ly and Fight;
And Therefor when they Battle wage
The Ly's the Signal to engage.
As Nat'rally, as to Ly and Fight;
And Therefor when they Battle wage
The Ly's the Signal to engage.
To fight for Truth, is but the Sole Dominion
Of ev'ry Idiot's Humor or Opinion,
And what it fancy's Truth, maintaine's
By ventring t' Hardest Blows, his Braine[s];
And he, whose Noddle is most tough,
Demonstrate's with the Clearest Proof.
Of ev'ry Idiot's Humor or Opinion,
And what it fancy's Truth, maintaine's
By ventring t' Hardest Blows, his Braine[s];
And he, whose Noddle is most tough,
Demonstrate's with the Clearest Proof.
For Naked Truth like naked women
Is Impudent, Deboshd, and Common,
A more Prodigious thing appeare
Then Truth would to a Princes eare.
For Truth and Kings have fierce Contests
About their Pow'r, and Interests;
And therefore by their Ministers
Are never sufferd to Converse
But Parted, as the Persian King
And Queen were, for the Selfsame thing
And by their servants at a Fitting,
Convenient Distance, kept from meeting.
Is Impudent, Deboshd, and Common,
A more Prodigious thing appeare
Then Truth would to a Princes eare.
For Truth and Kings have fierce Contests
About their Pow'r, and Interests;
And therefore by their Ministers
Are never sufferd to Converse
But Parted, as the Persian King
And Queen were, for the Selfsame thing
And by their servants at a Fitting,
Convenient Distance, kept from meeting.
Truth can be no older then
The first original of men
But Lying is much Antienter
Ever since the Fall of Lucifer
Who, b'ing the Patriarch of Lys,
Then Raisd those older Family[s].
The first original of men
But Lying is much Antienter
Ever since the Fall of Lucifer
Who, b'ing the Patriarch of Lys,
Then Raisd those older Family[s].
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For Truth is no Original, but Lines
Drawn Perfectly from Natures own Designes;
And t' understand Truth is not to be wise,
But to unriddle all intrigue of Lies.
Drawn Perfectly from Natures own Designes;
And t' understand Truth is not to be wise,
But to unriddle all intrigue of Lies.
And some have doubted whether Knights of the Post
Or Natural Historians Lie most,
Have no Regard to Truth in All they write,
But file their Forgerys the more Polite.
Or Natural Historians Lie most,
Have no Regard to Truth in All they write,
But file their Forgerys the more Polite.
The End of Learning's only to Persue
The ways of Truth within and out of view,
To Copy out th' Originals of Nature
As Far as Human wit can Imitate her,
And draw a Scheam exactly in the minde
T' agree with that shee in the world Designd.
The ways of Truth within and out of view,
To Copy out th' Originals of Nature
As Far as Human wit can Imitate her,
And draw a Scheam exactly in the minde
T' agree with that shee in the world Designd.
For Truth do's stand in Need of no Excuse;
Or if it did, 'Twould serve it to no use;
That never Suffers on its own Account,
But some things else that has been Layd upon't.
Or if it did, 'Twould serve it to no use;
That never Suffers on its own Account,
But some things else that has been Layd upon't.
Nothing a Tryal undergoes
Without some Injury, and Loss,
And cannot be prov'd true without
The charge and trouble of the Doubt.
Without some Injury, and Loss,
And cannot be prov'd true without
The charge and trouble of the Doubt.
The World's occasions cannot be supplyd
With too much Truth and Reason on it's side;
Is fain to take in Falshood, Fraud, and Error,
To sell its own Commodities the dearer.
For Truth, that is supreme and absolute,
Must not be brought to question and dispute;
But, like the sovran pow'r of Principles
In Arts, and Sciences, try all things else,
And not to any other Pow'r alive
Submit its Int'rest, and Prerogative;
Nor suffer any other Law to try
The dictates of its high Authority.
With too much Truth and Reason on it's side;
Is fain to take in Falshood, Fraud, and Error,
To sell its own Commodities the dearer.
For Truth, that is supreme and absolute,
Must not be brought to question and dispute;
But, like the sovran pow'r of Principles
In Arts, and Sciences, try all things else,
And not to any other Pow'r alive
Submit its Int'rest, and Prerogative;
Nor suffer any other Law to try
The dictates of its high Authority.
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