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BedfRef ["Yow haue refind mee; and to worthiest thinges"]


Widdowd, and reclusd els, her Sweetes she enshrines
As China, when the Sun att Brasill dines.

Out from your Chariott, Morninge breakes att night
And falsifies both computations, so,
Since a new world doth rise here from your light
Wee your new Creatures, by new reckoninges goe.
This showes that yow from nature, lothlye straie
That suffer nott an Artificiall daie.

In this yow haue made your Court the Antipodes
And wilde you Deligate, the Vulgar Sun
To doe profane Autumnall Offices,
Whilst hee to yow wee sacrifisers rvnne.
And whether Priests, or Orgaines, yow wee obay
Wee sound your Influence, and your Dictates say

Yett to that Dietye, which dwells in you
Your Vertuous Soule, I now not sacrifice,
These are Petitions, and nott Himmes; They sue
But that I may seruaie the Edifice;
In all Religions as mvch care hath bin
Of Temples, frames, and Beawtie, as Rites within

As all which goe to Roome, do not thereby
Esteeme Religions, and hold fast the Best,
But serue discourse, and curiositie
With that, which doth Religion but invest;
And shun the Intangling Laberinthes of Schooles
And make itt Witt to thinke the wiser fooles.
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