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The Riddles of Heraclitus and Democritus


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7

[Beleeue me now I tell it for no tale]

Beleeue me now I tell it for no tale,
There is a Queene, or else a Goddesse t'one,
That without helpe of man, or any male
Conceaueth daughters by her selfe alone:
But at their birth, be it by night or day,
Some skilfull man, the midwiues part doth play.

When they be borne, and perfectly brought foorth,
Both olde and yong doe greatly them desire;
Their beautie and their power is of such woorth,
That all mens harts, therewith are set on fire:
And in all times they beare as great a sway
As if on earth, there were no queenes but they.

It is meant, by the faire Ladie Tellus, which conceiueth in her wombe, the resplendent mettals of golde and siluer, the vnwoorthie burnished regents of the earth.
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