IN THE MOON.
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Resolv'd, as suddenly, to make it good,
Or render all as fairly as they cou'd;
And rather choose their own Eyes to condemn,
265 Than question, what they had beheld with them.
While every one was thus resolv'd, a Man
Of great Esteem, and Credit, thus began;
'Tis strange, I grant! but who, alas! can say,
What cannot be, or justly can, and may,
270 Especially at so hugely wide and vast
A Distance, as this Miracle is plac't,
Where the least Error of the Glass, or Sight,
May render Things amiss, but never right?
Nor can we try them, when th'are so far off,
275 By any equal sublunary Proof:
For who can justify, that Nature there
Is ty'd to the same Laws, she acts by here?
Nor is it probable, she has infus'd
Int' every Species, in the Moon produc'd,
280 The same Efforts, she uses to confer
Upon the very same Productions here:
Since those upon the Earth, of several Nations,
Are found t'have such prodigious Variations;
And she affects so constantly to use
285 Variety in every Thing she does.
Or render all as fairly as they cou'd;
And rather choose their own Eyes to condemn,
265 Than question, what they had beheld with them.
While every one was thus resolv'd, a Man
Of great Esteem, and Credit, thus began;
'Tis strange, I grant! but who, alas! can say,
What cannot be, or justly can, and may,
270 Especially at so hugely wide and vast
A Distance, as this Miracle is plac't,
Where the least Error of the Glass, or Sight,
May render Things amiss, but never right?
Nor can we try them, when th'are so far off,
275 By any equal sublunary Proof:
For who can justify, that Nature there
Is ty'd to the same Laws, she acts by here?
Nor is it probable, she has infus'd
Int' every Species, in the Moon produc'd,
280 The same Efforts, she uses to confer
Upon the very same Productions here:
Since those upon the Earth, of several Nations,
Are found t'have such prodigious Variations;
And she affects so constantly to use
285 Variety in every Thing she does.
