IN THE MOON.
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265 Especially at so hugely vast
A Distance, as this Wonder's plac't;
Where the least Error of the Sight
May show Things false, but never right:
Nor can we try them, so far off,
270 By any sublunary Proof.
For who can say, that Nature there
Has the same Laws, she goes by here?
Nor is it like, she has infus'd
In every Species, there produc'd,
275 The same Efforts, she does confer
Upon the same Productions here:
Since those with us, of several Nations,
Have such prodigious Variations;
And she affects so much to use
280 Variety, in all she does.
Hence may b’infer'd, that, tho' I grant
We've seen i’th' Moon an Elephant,
That Elephant may differ so
From those upon the Earth below,
285 Both in his Bulk, and Force, and Speed,
As being of a diff'rent Breed;
That, tho' our own are but slow-pac't,
Theirs there may fly, or run as fast;
And yet be Elephants no less,
290 Than those of Indian Pedigrees.
This said, another of great Worth,
Fam'd for his learned Works put forth,
A Distance, as this Wonder's plac't;
Where the least Error of the Sight
May show Things false, but never right:
Nor can we try them, so far off,
270 By any sublunary Proof.
For who can say, that Nature there
Has the same Laws, she goes by here?
Nor is it like, she has infus'd
In every Species, there produc'd,
275 The same Efforts, she does confer
Upon the same Productions here:
Since those with us, of several Nations,
Have such prodigious Variations;
And she affects so much to use
280 Variety, in all she does.
Hence may b’infer'd, that, tho' I grant
We've seen i’th' Moon an Elephant,
That Elephant may differ so
From those upon the Earth below,
285 Both in his Bulk, and Force, and Speed,
As being of a diff'rent Breed;
That, tho' our own are but slow-pac't,
Theirs there may fly, or run as fast;
And yet be Elephants no less,
290 Than those of Indian Pedigrees.
This said, another of great Worth,
Fam'd for his learned Works put forth,
