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4. SONET.
Those famous old Gymnosophists of Inde,Which Alexander did so much admire,
And compted but as churlish and vnkinde,
Cause they refus'd his offred Gold and geir.
Their greatest care and studie was we heir,
To view and marke the motions of the Sunn,
To know his courses in his Zodiac Spheir.
From Phospor's rysing till the night begun.
Such is my state, O sacred Saint by thee,
I am a poore Gymnosophist of thine,
Thou art that Sunn which I delight to see,
No wealth I wish but that on mee thou shine.
They long'd for night, so long-some was their day,
Blithe would I bee for to behold thee ay.
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