1 For having three times fhook his Head With Noife alone beat off the Gaul. Beyond the Reach of Eye or Hand: Where Where the Stars only made to light To wait on Drunkards, Thieves, Gold-finders, But not know what is faid or done? That was not born and bred up And therefore cannot be to learn, In any inferiour Concern. here? Were they not during all their Lives, Moft of 'em Pyrates, Whores, and Thieves? And is it like they have not still In their old Practices fome Skill? Is there a Planet that by Birth Does not derive its Houfe from Earth ? And And therefore probably must know What is, and hath been done below Who made the Balance, or whence came Did not we here the Argo rig, Whofe Liv'ry does the Coachman wear? And therefore as they came from hence, Plato deny'd, The World can te (For Money b'ing the common Scale That puts the other down in Worth, As far as Heaven's above the Earth. Thefe Reafons (quoth the Knight) I grant Are fomething more fignificant Than Than any that the Learned use Upon this Subject to produce; Some hold the Heavens, like a Top, Are kept by Circulation up ; And, were't not for their wheeling round, They'd inftantly fall to the Ground: As fage Empedocles of old, And, from him Modern Authors hold, Below all other Planets run. Some Mercury, fome Venus feat, Above the Sun himself in height, That That in twelve hundred Years and odd, And nearer to the Earth is come 'Bove Fifty Thousand Miles from home: And he that had fo little Shame Have long fince chang'd their antique Stations. In Taurus now, once in the Ram: |