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Well may I grant you then (faith one perhaps) ther's naught
In all this lower world, but will at length be raught
By mans ambition; it makes a breach in hills;
It runneth dry by Sea among the raging Scylls;
And in despite of thirst it guides the Carauands
Amids the drie Tolmish, Arabick, Numyd sands.
But yet he lewdly thinks it goes against all sense
That one house, beds but foure, should breake so large a sense,
As t'ouerbreed the lands of Affrick, Europe, Ase,
And make the world appeare too narrow for the race.
In all this lower world, but will at length be raught
By mans ambition; it makes a breach in hills;
It runneth dry by Sea among the raging Scylls;
And in despite of thirst it guides the Carauands
Amids the drie Tolmish, Arabick, Numyd sands.
But yet he lewdly thinks it goes against all sense
That one house, beds but foure, should breake so large a sense,
As t'ouerbreed the lands of Affrick, Europe, Ase,
And make the world appeare too narrow for the race.
What ere thou be, if light thou reck th'Immortals hest,
That once againe the bond of sacred mariage blest,
And said Encrease and fill: if thou profane denie
That Iacobs little traine so thicke did multiplie
On Pharoh's fruitfull ground, that in foure hundred yeere
The seuentie liuing soules fiue hundred thousand were.
That once againe the bond of sacred mariage blest,
And said Encrease and fill: if thou profane denie
That Iacobs little traine so thicke did multiplie
On Pharoh's fruitfull ground, that in foure hundred yeere
The seuentie liuing soules fiue hundred thousand were.
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