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THE ELEPHANT
And, if the Moon produce by Nature
A People of so vast a Stature,[1]
155 'Tis consequent, she shou'd bring forth
Far greater Beasts too, than the Earth;
(As by the best Accounts appears
Of all our great'st Discoverers)
And, that those monstrous Creatures there
160 Are not such Rarities as here.
Mean while the rest had had a Sight
Of all Particulars o' th' Fight;
And ev'ry Man with equal Care,
Perus'd of th' Elephant his Share,
165 Proud of his Int'rest in the Glory
Of so miraculous a Story:
When one, who for his Excellence
In height’ning Words and shad'wing Sense,
And magnifying all he writ
170 With curious microscopick Wit,
Was magnify'd himself no less
In home and foreign Colleges,
Began, transported with the Twang
Of his own Trillo, thus t'harangue.
175 Most excellent and virtuous Friends,
This great Discovery makes amends
A People of so vast a Stature,[1]
155 'Tis consequent, she shou'd bring forth
Far greater Beasts too, than the Earth;
(As by the best Accounts appears
Of all our great'st Discoverers)
And, that those monstrous Creatures there
160 Are not such Rarities as here.
Mean while the rest had had a Sight
Of all Particulars o' th' Fight;
And ev'ry Man with equal Care,
Perus'd of th' Elephant his Share,
165 Proud of his Int'rest in the Glory
Of so miraculous a Story:
When one, who for his Excellence
In height’ning Words and shad'wing Sense,
And magnifying all he writ
170 With curious microscopick Wit,
Was magnify'd himself no less
In home and foreign Colleges,
Began, transported with the Twang
Of his own Trillo, thus t'harangue.
175 Most excellent and virtuous Friends,
This great Discovery makes amends
- ↑ And if the Moon produce by Nature—A People of so vast a Stature,] See a Passage before cited from Keplar, where he supposes the Inhabitants of the Moon to be fifteen Times bigger than any of us.
175.
