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and anon when I am warm'd, I'gad you shall hear me call 'em Doctors, Captains, Horses and Horsemen in the very same Breath.Pag. 35. You shall hear how I go on now,

Pag. 11.

Or else reforming Corah spawn'd this Class,
When opening Earth made way for all to pass.

Johns.For all, Mr. Bayes?

Bayes.Yes, They were all lost there, but some of 'em were thrown up again at the Leman-Lake: as a Catholick Queen sunk at Charing-Cross, and rose again at Queenhithe.

Pag. 11.

The Fox and he came shuffled in the dark,
If ever they were stow'd in Noah's Ark.

Here I put a Quære, Whether there were any Socinians before the Flood, which I'm not very well satisfied in? I have been lately apt to believe that the World was drown'd for that Heresy; which among Friends made me leave it.

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Quickned with Fire below, these Monsters breed
In Fenny Holland, and in Fruitful Tweed.

Now to write something new and out of the way, to elevate and surprize, and all that, I fetch, you see this Quickning Fire from the Bottom of Bogs and Rivers.

Johns.Why, Faith, that's as ingenious a Contrivance as the Virtuoso's making a Burning-Glass of Ice.

Bayes.Why was there ever any such thing? Let me perish if ever I heard of it. The Fancy was sheer new to me; and I thought no Man had reconcil'd those Elements but my self. Well Gentlemen! Thus far I have followed Antiquity, and as Homer has numbred his Ships, so I have rang'd my Beasts. Here is my Boar and my Bear, and my Fox, and my Wolf, and the rest of 'em all

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