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Madagascar.
Where Fishes wonder at their red-dy'd flood,
And by long nourishment on humane blood,
May grow so neere a kin to men, that he
who feeds on them hereafter, needs must be
Esteem'd as true a Caniball, as those
Whose luscious diet is their conquer'd Foes.
Sure Adam when himselfe he first did spie
So singular, and onely in his eye;
Yet knew, all to that single selfe pertain'd,
Which the Sunne saw, or Elements sustain'd;
He not beleev'd, a race from him might come
So num'rous, that to make new off-spring roome,
Is now the best excuse of Nature, why
Men long in growth, so easily must die.
Eden, which God did this first Prince allow,
But as his Privie-garden then, is now
A spacious Country found; else wee supplie
With dreames, not truth, long lost Geographie:
And each high Island then (though nere so wide)
Was but his Mount, by Nature fortifi'd;
And every Sea, wherein those Islands float,
Most aptly then, he might have call'd his Moat.
And by long nourishment on humane blood,
May grow so neere a kin to men, that he
who feeds on them hereafter, needs must be
Esteem'd as true a Caniball, as those
Whose luscious diet is their conquer'd Foes.
Sure Adam when himselfe he first did spie
So singular, and onely in his eye;
Yet knew, all to that single selfe pertain'd,
Which the Sunne saw, or Elements sustain'd;
He not beleev'd, a race from him might come
So num'rous, that to make new off-spring roome,
Is now the best excuse of Nature, why
Men long in growth, so easily must die.
Eden, which God did this first Prince allow,
But as his Privie-garden then, is now
A spacious Country found; else wee supplie
With dreames, not truth, long lost Geographie:
And each high Island then (though nere so wide)
Was but his Mount, by Nature fortifi'd;
And every Sea, wherein those Islands float,
Most aptly then, he might have call'd his Moat.
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