Now sith so farre as sense can ever trie
We find new worlds, that still new worlds there be,
And round about in infinite numbers lie,
Further then reach of mans weak phantasie
(Without suspition of temeritie)
We may conclude; as well as men conclude
That there is aire farre 'bove the mountains high,
Or that th' Earth a sad substance doth include
Even to the Centre with like qualities indu'd.

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For who did ever the Earths Centre pierce,
And felt or sand or gravell with his spade
At such a depth? what Histories rehearse
That ever wight did dare for to invade
Her bowels but one mile in dampish shade?
Yet I'll be bold to say that few or none
But deem this globe even to the bottome made
Of solid earth, and that her nature's one
Throughout, though plain experience hath it never shown.

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But sith sad earth so farre as they have gone
They still descrie, eas'ly they do inferre
Without all check of reason, were they down
Never so deep, like substance would appear,
Ne dream of any hollow horrour there.
My mind with like uncurb'd facilitie
Concludes from what by sight is seen so clear
That ther's no barren wast vacuitie
Above the worlds we see, but still new worlds there lie,

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And still and still even to infinitie.
Which point since I so fitly have propos'd,
Abating well the inconsistencie
Of harsh infinitude therein supposd
And prov'd by reasons never to be loos'd
That infinite space and infinite worlds there be;
This load laid down, I'm freely now dispos'd
Awhile to sing of times infinitie,
May infinite Time afford me but his smallest fee.

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For smallest fee of time will serve my turn
This part for to dispatch, sith endlesse space
(Whose perplext nature well mans brains might turn,
And weary wits disorder and misplace)
I have already passed: for like case
Is in them both. He that can well untie
The knots that in those infinite worlds found place,
May easily answer each perplexitie
Of these worlds infinite matters endlesse durancie.

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The _Cuspis_ and the _Basis_ of the _Cone_
Were both at once dispersed every where;
But the pure _Basis_ that is God alone:
Else would remotest sights as bigge appear
Unto our eyes as if we stood them near.
And if an Harper harped in the Moon,
His si