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And always sing, and fiddle to
110 Things of the greatest Weight they do.
 While thus the learn'd Man entertains
Th' Assembly with the Privolvans;
Another of as great Renown,
And solid Judgment in the Moon;
115 That understood her various Soils,
And which produc'd best Genet-moyles;^[1]
And in the Register of Fame
Had enter'd his long-living Name;
After he had por'd long and hard
120 In th' Engine, gave a Start, and star'd—
 Quoth he, a stranger Sight appears
Than e're was seen in all the Spheres,
A Wonder more unparalel'd,
Than ever mortal Tube beheld.
125 An Elephant from one of those
Two mighty Armies is broke loose,
And with the Horrour of the Fight
Appears amaz'd, and in a Fright;
Look quickly, lest the Sight of us
130 Should cause the startled Beast t'imboss.

1. And which produc'd best Genet-Moyles.] Butler here had in his Eye John Evelyn, Esq; F.R.S. who wrote a philosophical Discourse of Earth, and presented it to the Royal Society, April 29, 1625, which is dedicated to Lord Viscount Brounker. He also wrote a Treatise called Pomona, or an Appendix concerning Fruit-trees in relation to Cyder, in which (speaking of the best sort of Cyder-Apples) he says, p. 65.—Some commend the Fox-whelp; and the Gennet-Moyle was once prefer'd to the very Red-strake, and before the Bromsbury-Crab; but upon mature Consideration the very Critics themselves now recant,

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