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Poesis Rediviva

or, Poesie Reviv'd. By John Collop
 
 

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On Van Helmont.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

On Van Helmont.

In luxury of wit there's more then needs:
And in the best of Gardens there's some weeds.
In Helmonts Paradise there's of life a tree,
By fruits of knowledge we may blinded be:
And while our imperfections we would smother,
Onely some figleaves take to make a Cover.
What few do, seems to know of what he wilt,
Superfætation hath no abort wit.
'Bove Galens scurf, 'bove him whose scraps might feed
Sages, yet he a school boys latine need:
Yet to set th' Kernel off, let th' shel be foil,
If not much labour, Theophrast shew'd much oyl.
But oh! while errors troops Van rashly charges,
Error him Captive takes, who truth inlarges.