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The Riddles of Heraclitus and Democritus


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[The welkin is welnigh, out of our seeing]

The welkin is welnigh, out of our seeing,
Our eies and thoughts are on the ground remaining,
On th' earth or no, where is our happie being,
Yet there we euer grudge, and are complayning,
But turne vs so, that heauen hang in our spying,
And straight we leaue, our murmur, and our crying.

Swine saith Plutarch, to whome nature hath not giuen a looke, vp to the skies, are the most crying beasts in the world, euer grunting and complaining. But tie them by the heeles, and carrie them on a staffe whither ye will: so long as they see the cloudes, they are quiet and silent. And if men could learne to leaue wrooting in the earth, and place their cogitations in heauen, their tranquillitie should be the greater.
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