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Of Fire in the Flint.

The reason, Fire doth lye in Flint unseen,
Is, other Figur'd Atomes stick between:
For being bound, and over-power'd by
A Multitude, they do in Prison lye;
Unless Motion do come, and set them out,
With a strong power, and then they fly about.
But if that Flint be beat to Powder small,
The Grossest to divide, releas'd are all;
And when they once are out, they ne're come back,
But seek about another Form to make.