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The Riddles of Heraclitus and Democritus


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[Farre in the west I wot not wheare]

Farre in the west I wot not wheare
Are trees men say which oisters beare,
I woonder how that comes about
Those oisters she not, out of doubt
And fall straight like a swarme of bees
At home here on our apple trees.
Growe they on trees, those oisters? fie:
Me thinkes it soundeth like a lie,
A kinde of trees, I know tis true,
In purpoole lane beare oisters new
And fish and flesh, and now and then
They beare (I tell you) honest men.

If euery man and woman be an arbor reuersa, then the shril oister queanes in Graies Inne lane, are trees and plants: though not so sweete to plant vpon, as be in other groues about London.
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