: :P.^N ECy y/R I C KE. 



Which Inundations were for Earth unfit : 



But hee whose Hand?a\&. Head this WORKE composed, 



Shewes how to drowne the Earth to profit it : 



And beeing 111, to make it Well-disposd. 



(a)FewHad- 

 lands take 

 pleasure to 

 behold the 

 lands they 

 had. 



(b) Trenches, 

 by which his 

 workes are 

 effected. 



Some with their Lands, doe oft so sinck them-selves, 

 That they to it, and it to them yeeld nought, 

 But, in the Ocean what doe yeeld the Shelves, 

 Which when they see, they (a) flee, with pensive thought. 



But in His Drownings, He makes Lands arise, 

 In grace and goodnesse to the highest pitch ; 

 And Meades, and Pastures price he multiples ; 

 So, while some lies, He rise doth in the (U) Ditch. 



His royall TRENCH (that all the rest commands 

 And holds the Sperme of Herbage by a Spring) 

 Infuseth in the wombe of sterile Lands, 

 The Liquid seede that makes them Plenty bring. 



By equi- 

 vocation it 

 may bee 

 taken for 

 Infants as 

 wel as 

 Barnes : 

 Barne being 

 the name of 

 1 nfant in 

 some places 

 of England. 



Here, two of the inferior Elements 

 (Joyning in Co'itu) Water on the Leaze 

 (Like Sperme most active in such complements) 

 Begets the full-pancht Foison of Increase : 



For, through Earths rifts into her hollow wombe, 

 (Where Nature doth her Twyning-Issue frame) 

 The water soakes, whereof doth kindly come 

 Full-(c]Barnes, to joy the Lords that hold the same : 



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