Poems, and phancies written By the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, And Excellent Princess The Lady Marchioness of Newcastle [i.e. Margaret Cavendish]. The Second Impression, much Altered and Corrected |
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Motion makes Atomes a Bawd for Figure.
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Motion makes Atomes a Bawd for Figure.
Motion makes Atomes by his subtile Skill,His Bawds, to get new forms him to his will;
For they would still, as they themselves had plac't,
Be in one Figure, and so for ever last:
But Motion, he perswades new Forms to make,
Because he doth in Change great pleasure take;
And makes all Atomes run from place to place,
That Figures young he might have to imbrace.
For some short time he loves to make a stay,
But after he is tyr'd, hee'l run away;
And by his Change most Figures are undone,
For Young take place of th'Old when they are gone;
Yet 'tis but like a Batch of Bread, which still
Is of the same Flower and Seed. Thus will
Inconstant Motion a new Figure bake,
Only that he may have a new hot Cake.
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