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Of the Silly vnormes 
signtsof their Thus being keptand fed nine weekes entire, 
readineffet » Surpriz’d with age ere one would thinke them yon g* 
with what an ardent zeale and hot defirc 
To recompence tfiy trauels do they long? 
They neither fkcpe,nor meate,nar drinke require, 
But'prefle and ftriue, yea fiercely ftriue and throng. 
Who firft may find feme happy bough or broom. 
Whereon tofpinneand leaue their amber loome* 
'Tfcymujl Then virgins then* with vndefiled hand 
ftourethm- Seuer the greatefl: from the (mailer cruc, 
F° r al alike in age like ready (land, 
them to writ. Now to begin their rich and oual clue, 
(Hauing firft paid as Nature doth command; 
To bellies-farmer that which was his due) 
For nothing muft remaine in body pent. 
Which may defile their lacred monument. 
Tor that it the 
hefi and fafeji 
\eay to loofe 
none of them. 
So being elenfde from al that is impure. 
Put each within a(i)paper-cofiFin fine. 
Then dial you fee what labour they endure. 
How Carre they pafte the weauers craft of line, 
V V hat cordage firft they make and tackling fure,. 
To ty thereto their bottom ©oft diuine. 
Rounding themfelnes ten thousand times Sc more 
Y et (pinning (til behind and eke before. 
