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 alway when the Sunne his giue day charrot guides
Right vnder line thereof, and rometh not besides,
The day and night goe euen, and cunning Nature than
In eu'ry country metes them out with equall span.
This other couched here next vnd'r it ouerth wart,
Whose poles doe from the poles of th'All warp-out apart
Some twenty foure degrees, is call'd the Zodiack,
The race of wandring flames: here Phœbus keeps his track
To bring-about the yeares, and monthly changing Innes
Procures the quarter-change of Seasons double twinnes.
This other passing-through the poles both of the world
And of the foresaid wheele where Phœbus round is horld,
And framing angles euen on th'Equinoctiall rote
A th'onside thwarts the Crab, ath'otherside the Goat,
The Solsticial Colure is call'd, for Phœbus there
Runs slow, as not along, but ath'onside the Sphere:
Right vnder line thereof, and rometh not besides,
The day and night goe euen, and cunning Nature than
In eu'ry country metes them out with equall span.
This other couched here next vnd'r it ouerth wart,
Whose poles doe from the poles of th'All warp-out apart
Some twenty foure degrees, is call'd the Zodiack,
The race of wandring flames: here Phœbus keeps his track
To bring-about the yeares, and monthly changing Innes
Procures the quarter-change of Seasons double twinnes.
This other passing-through the poles both of the world
And of the foresaid wheele where Phœbus round is horld,
And framing angles euen on th'Equinoctiall rote
A th'onside thwarts the Crab, ath'otherside the Goat,
The Solsticial Colure is call'd, for Phœbus there
Runs slow, as not along, but ath'onside the Sphere:
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