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Now Iaphet spred along from th'Ellesponticke waters,
Th'Euxine, and Tanaies, vnto the mount Gibraltars
Renowned doubl'ascent, and that sun-setting Maine,
Which with his ebbe and flow playes on the shore of Spaine:
And from that higher sea, vpon whose frozen alleyes
Glide swiftly-teemed carres insted of winged gallies,
Vnto the Genoan Tyrrhene and prouence Seas,
With those of learned Greece, and of Peloponese.
Accoast the goodly shore of Asia the lesse,
(The second paradise, th'worlds chiefe happinesse)
And Tartarie, the ground that reacheth from Amane
Vnto the springs of Rha, and pleasant bankes of Tane.
Th'Euxine, and Tanaies, vnto the mount Gibraltars
Renowned doubl'ascent, and that sun-setting Maine,
Which with his ebbe and flow playes on the shore of Spaine:
And from that higher sea, vpon whose frozen alleyes
Glide swiftly-teemed carres insted of winged gallies,
Vnto the Genoan Tyrrhene and prouence Seas,
With those of learned Greece, and of Peloponese.
Accoast the goodly shore of Asia the lesse,
(The second paradise, th'worlds chiefe happinesse)
And Tartarie, the ground that reacheth from Amane
Vnto the springs of Rha, and pleasant bankes of Tane.
All those braue men at armes, that France haue ouer-spred,
Of Gomers fruitfull seed, themselues professe, are bred;
And so the Germans are, sometime hight Gomerites:
Of Tubal Spaniards came, of Mosoch Moscouites,
Of Madai sprong the Medes, of Magog Scythians,
Of Iauan rose the Greekes: of Thyras Thracians.
Of Gomers fruitfull seed, themselues professe, are bred;
And so the Germans are, sometime hight Gomerites:
Of Tubal Spaniards came, of Mosoch Moscouites,
Of Madai sprong the Medes, of Magog Scythians,
Of Iauan rose the Greekes: of Thyras Thracians.
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