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the way in embryology, it was shortly super- 

 seded by works of those who had the com- 

 pound microscope at their command. Cowley, 

 a man of wide culture, wrote an Ode on 

 Harvey in which his achievement was con- 

 trasted with a failing common to scientific 

 men of his own time, and, so far as we can 

 see, of all time: 



Harvey sought for Truth in Truth's own Book 

 The Creatures, which by God Himself was writ ; 



And wisely thought 'twas fit, 

 Not to read Comments only upon it, 

 But on th' original it self to look. 

 Methinks in Arts great Circle, others stand 



Lock't up together, Hand in Hand, 



Every one leads as he is led, 



The same bare path they tread, 

 A Dance like Fairies a Fantastick round, 

 But neither change their motion, nor their ground: 

 Had Harvey to this Road confin'd his wit, 

 His noble Circle of the Blood, had been untrodden 

 yet. 



Harvey's death is recorded in a characteris- 

 tic seventeenth century sentence, taken from 

 the unpublished pages of Baldwin Harvey's 

 Bustorum Aliquot Reliquiae: 



