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2. Epilogue

(1)
Goe hunt ye Ocean
For Venison
And
Let ye Land
Be draggd
For Oysters may present
Both Raggd
And Orient
Pearle, to Iewell & delight
Our Various Appetite
Then bid ye Ayrs Commander
Produce ye Salamander
Whilst Soaring higher
Camelions Seek to Change their food to Fier
(2)
This done return
& let me knowe
Wher Flames are Could
And Snow
Doth burne
Wher Leaus hatch into fowle
And Beasts like Plants doe growe

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(3)
When Fields
Are ploughd wt h Keeles
And lusty Goulden Ears of Corne
All waters crowne
Then may be Sought & found
The Pretious Vnicorn
And Phenixes
Not Soe confind
Vnto Their Cinder-kind
But making wonder less
Couple & payer
Lik t'other minstrells of ye Ayer
So Procreate ye while
Some dream 'tis from their funerall Pile
(4)
All this & more though we
would find
And See
Yet can
In noe wise
Reach Impossebileties
Confess we must ye Mind
of Man
Insatiat
Thinks only that
It wanteth rare & Great
All else of lowe Esteem & Counterfaict.