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ANNUS MIRABILIS:
163.
(t) By a more exact measure of Longitude. (t) Instruct'd Ships shall sail to quick Commerce;
By which remotest Regions are alli'd:
Which makes one City of the Universe,
Where some may gain, and all may be suppli'd.

164.
Then, we upon our Globes last verge shall go,
And view the Ocean leaning on the Sky:
From thence our rolling Neighbours we shall know,
And on the Lunar world securely pry.

165.
This I fore-tel from your auspicious Care,
Who great in search of God and Nature grow:
Apostrophe to the Royal Society. Who best your wise Creator's Praise declare,
Since best to praise his works is best to know.

166.
O truly Royal! who behold the Law
And rule of Beings in your Makers mind:
And thence, like Limbecks, rich Idea's draw,
To fit the levell'd use of Human-kind.

167. But