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Next it, a Whale is high in Cables ty'd,
Whose strength might Herds of Elephants controul;
Then all, (in payres of ev'ry kind) they spyd,
Which Death's wrack leaves, of Fishes, Beasts & Fowl.
Next it, a Whale is high in Cables ty'd,
Whose strength might Herds of Elephants controul;
Then all, (in payres of ev'ry kind) they spyd,
Which Death's wrack leaves, of Fishes, Beasts & Fowl.
35.
These Astragon (to watch with curious Eie
The diff'rent Tenements of living breath)
Collects, with what far Travailers supplie;
And this was call'd, The Cabinet of Death.
These Astragon (to watch with curious Eie
The diff'rent Tenements of living breath)
Collects, with what far Travailers supplie;
And this was call'd, The Cabinet of Death.
36.
Which some the Monument of Bodies, name;
The Ark, which saves from Graves all dying kinds;
This to a structure led, long known to Fame,
And call'd, The Monument of vanish'd Minds.
Which some the Monument of Bodies, name;
The Ark, which saves from Graves all dying kinds;
This to a structure led, long known to Fame,
And call'd, The Monument of vanish'd Minds.
37.
Where, when they thought they saw in well sought Books,
Th'assembled souls of all that Men held wise,
It bred such awful rev'rence in their looks,
As if they saw the buryd writers rise.
Where, when they thought they saw in well sought Books,
Th'assembled souls of all that Men held wise,
It bred such awful rev'rence in their looks,
As if they saw the buryd writers rise.
38.
Such heaps of written thoughts (Gold of the Dead▪
Which Time does still disperse, but not devour)
Made them presume all was from Deluge free'd,
Which long-liv'd Authours writ ere Noah's Showr.
Such heaps of written thoughts (Gold of the Dead▪
Which Time does still disperse, but not devour)
Made them presume all was from Deluge free'd,
Which long-liv'd Authours writ ere Noah's Showr.
39.
They saw Egyptian Roles, which vastly great,
Did like faln Pillars lie, and did display
The tale of Natures life, from her first hear,
Till by the Flood o're-cool'd, she felt decay.
They saw Egyptian Roles, which vastly great,
Did like faln Pillars lie, and did display
The tale of Natures life, from her first hear,
Till by the Flood o're-cool'd, she felt decay.
40.
And large as these (for Pens were Pencils then)
Others that Egypts chiefest Science show'd;
Whose River forc'd Geometry on Men,
Which did distinguish what the Nyle o're-flow'd.
And large as these (for Pens were Pencils then)
Others that Egypts chiefest Science show'd;
Whose River forc'd Geometry on Men,
Which did distinguish what the Nyle o're-flow'd.
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