Whether our reasons eye be clear enough
To intromit true light, that fain would glide
Into purg'd hearts, this way 's too harsh and rough:
Therefore the clearest truths may well seem dark
When sloathfull men have eyes so dimme and stark.

These be our times. But if my minds presage
Bear any moment, they can ne're last long,
A three branch'd Flame will soon sweep clean the stage
Of this old dirty drosse and all wex young.
My words into this frozen air I throw
Will then grow vocall at that generall thaw.

Nay, now thou 'rt perfect mad, said he, with scorn,
And full of foul derision quit the place.
The skie did rattle with his wings ytorn
Like to rent silk. But I in the mean space
Sent after him this message by the wind
Be 't so I 'm mad, yet sure I am thou 'rt blind.

By this the out-stretch'd shadows of the trees
Pointed me home-ward, and with one consent
Foretold the dayes descent. So straight I rise
Gathering my limbs from off the green pavement
Behind me leaving then the slooping Light.
_Cl._ And now let's up, _Vesper_ brings on the Night.

_FINIS._

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_A Particular Interpretation appertaining to
the three last books of the Platonick
Song of the Soul._

A

_Atom-lives._ The same that Centrall lives. Both the terms denotate the
indivisibility of the inmost essence it self; the pure essentiall form I
mean, of plant, beast or man, yea of angels themselves, good or bad.

_Apogee_, }
_Autokineticall_, }
_Ananke_, } See Interpret. Gen.
_Acronycall_, }
_Alethea-land_, }

_Animadversall. That lively inward animadversall._ It is the soul it
self, for I cannot conceive the body doth animadvert; when as objects
plainly exposed to the sight are not discovered till the soul takes
notice of them.

B

_Body._ The ancient Philosophers have defined it, +To trichei diastaton
met' antitupias+. _Sext. Emperic. Pyrrhon. Hypotyp. lib. 3. cap. 5._
Near to this is that description, _Psychathan_, Cant. 2. Stanz. 12. lib.
2, _Matter extent in three dimensions._ But for that +antitupia+, simple
trinall distension doth not imply it, wherefore I declin'd it. But took
in _matter_ according to their conceit, that phansie _a Materia prima_,
I acknowledge none, and consequently no such _corpus naturale_ as our
Physiologist make the subject of that science. That +Trichei diastaton
antitupon+ is nothi