Fovre bookes of Du Bartas I. The Arke, II. Babylon, III. The Colonnyes, IIII. The Columues or Pyllars: In French and English, for the Instrvction and Pleasvre of Svch as Delight in Both Langvages. By William Lisle ... Together with a large Commentary by S. G. S |
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And other bodies breake
With eu'ry knock, because they haue both bay and peake,
Beginning, end, and ioynts; whereas the bodie round
Is creastlesse, cornerlesse, and eu'ry-side-way sound.
Son, summon here thy wits, and marke that few haue found,
The doubling of a Cube, and squaring of a Round:
Such hundred-folded knots, such hidden mysteries,
As shall troubl' all the schooles of our posterities.
With eu'ry knock, because they haue both bay and peake,
Beginning, end, and ioynts; whereas the bodie round
Is creastlesse, cornerlesse, and eu'ry-side-way sound.
Son, summon here thy wits, and marke that few haue found,
The doubling of a Cube, and squaring of a Round:
Such hundred-folded knots, such hidden mysteries,
As shall troubl' all the schooles of our posterities.
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