Quote #9

Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes), Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes; Who loving novels, full of affectation, Receive the manners of each other nation.

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  1. Bright-flaming, heat-full fire, The source of motion.
  2. From north to south, from east to west.
  3. Not unlike the bear which bringeth forth In the end of thirty dayes a shapeless birth; But after licking, it in shape she drawes, And by de…
  4. Hot and cold, and moist and dry.
  5. And reads, though running, all these needful motions.
  6. From the foure corners of the worlde doe haste.
  7. Night's black mantle covers all alike.
  8. Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies.

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