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VIRTUOSO
Logitians use to clap a Proposition,
As Justices do Criminals, in Prison;
And in as Learnd Authentique Nonsense writ,
The Names of all their Moodes and figures fit;
For a Logician's one, that has been broke
To Ride and Pace his Reason by the Booke,
And by their Rules, and Precepts, and Examples,
To put his wits into a kind of Trammells.
As Justices do Criminals, in Prison;
And in as Learnd Authentique Nonsense writ,
The Names of all their Moodes and figures fit;
For a Logician's one, that has been broke
To Ride and Pace his Reason by the Booke,
And by their Rules, and Precepts, and Examples,
To put his wits into a kind of Trammells.
For as the Famous Trismegist,
B' observing of a Beast that Pist,
Is sayd t' have first found out a way
To Reckon evry Howr o' th' Day,
And, when he had the water Cast,
Could tell Correctly how time Past,
So some, by Chamber Pots and Glasse[s],
Can tell as truly how time Passes;
And, as the Tides of Liquor Run,
Can Calculate the Course o' th' Sun,
And [that] More Certain and exact
Then all the Tricks i' th' Almanack.
B' observing of a Beast that Pist,
Is sayd t' have first found out a way
To Reckon evry Howr o' th' Day,
And, when he had the water Cast,
Could tell Correctly how time Past,
So some, by Chamber Pots and Glasse[s],
Can tell as truly how time Passes;
And, as the Tides of Liquor Run,
Can Calculate the Course o' th' Sun,
And [that] More Certain and exact
Then all the Tricks i' th' Almanack.
Until our Modern Curious virtuosos,
By only knocking at the Doores of Houses,
Will, by the Sound, unriddle the Just Sum
How many Persons are in the Roome.
By only knocking at the Doores of Houses,
Will, by the Sound, unriddle the Just Sum
How many Persons are in the Roome.
Take Ptolomy That Liv'd in Adrian's Days
For some Ægyptian King of th' antique Race
And Joyn him with his Colleague in the Stars
Alphonso Sovraine of Astronomers.
For some Ægyptian King of th' antique Race
And Joyn him with his Colleague in the Stars
Alphonso Sovraine of Astronomers.
And when no Atom in the universe
The wit of Man (beyond the Name) can Pierce
It has (like Powder of a Diamond)
The Hardest Parts of Nature, Cut, and Ground,
And taught men to Discerp and Penetrate
All Form, and matter, simply as they say't.
The wit of Man (beyond the Name) can Pierce
It has (like Powder of a Diamond)
The Hardest Parts of Nature, Cut, and Ground,
And taught men to Discerp and Penetrate
All Form, and matter, simply as they say't.
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When al his wit's unable to unriddle
The wonders of the Magnete, and the Needle
That makes the Globe o' th' Earth a Thoroughfare
To pass as Quick as Light dos through the Aire
And at a Race of Motion to out-run
And beat the Jaded Horses of the Sun.
The wonders of the Magnete, and the Needle
That makes the Globe o' th' Earth a Thoroughfare
To pass as Quick as Light dos through the Aire
And at a Race of Motion to out-run
And beat the Jaded Horses of the Sun.
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