THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE.
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Than Ireland's wanting spiders. And, so far
From th' actual sin of bombast too they are,
(That other crying sin o' th' English Muse)
That even Satan himself can accuse
None here (no not so much as the divines)
For th' motus primò primi to strong lines.
Well, since the soil then does not naturally bear
Verse, who (a devil) should import it here ?
For that to me would seem as strange a thing
As who did first wild beasts into' islands bring j
Unless you think that it might taken be
As Green did Gondibert, in a prize at sea :
But that 's a fortune falls not every day ;
'T is true Green was made by it; for they say
The parliament did a noble bounty do,
And gave him the whole prize, their tenths and fifteens too.
From th' actual sin of bombast too they are,
(That other crying sin o' th' English Muse)
That even Satan himself can accuse
None here (no not so much as the divines)
For th' motus primò primi to strong lines.
Well, since the soil then does not naturally bear
Verse, who (a devil) should import it here ?
For that to me would seem as strange a thing
As who did first wild beasts into' islands bring j
Unless you think that it might taken be
As Green did Gondibert, in a prize at sea :
But that 's a fortune falls not every day ;
'T is true Green was made by it; for they say
The parliament did a noble bounty do,
And gave him the whole prize, their tenths and fifteens too.
THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE.
THAT THERE IS NO KNOWLEDGE.
Against the Dogmatists.
The sacred tree 'midst the fair orchard grew;
The Phœnix truth did on it rest.
And built his perfum'd nest;
That right Porphyrian tree which did true Logick shew.
Each leaf did learned notions give,
And th' apples were demonstrative;
The Phœnix truth did on it rest.
And built his perfum'd nest;
That right Porphyrian tree which did true Logick shew.
Each leaf did learned notions give,
And th' apples were demonstrative;
