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The Riddles of Heraclitus and Democritus


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[Svch as the companie is, such am I]

Svch as the companie is, such am I,
And I thinke some other folke are so too,
To two Ladies great I euer am nie,
And we with the world haue much to doo:
Tis hard for a lowte to tell ye my name,
And shame for a clerke if he hit not the same.

An excellent expositour of heauenly mysteries, tooke this to be a looking glasse which receiueth the similitude of any thing, that commeth trauerse. The two great Ladies, he tooke to be pride and lecherie. But the propounder vnderstandeth this riddle, by the planet Mercurie, placed meane betwixt Venus and Luna: being (say the Astronomers) eiusdem naturæ, cum planeta cui coniungitur.
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