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Of the SilJ^e Wtormes 
For region faith, and fenfc doth almofl fwcarc, 
Natures entire to be created furfl: 
Bodies t’hauebeene before the members were. 
The found before the ficke,the wholejthe burfl 
That confidence had time w hen lacked feare* 
That blefled Bate fore-wentthe flateaccurfl: 
Briefdy, al bodyes that begotten beene. 
Were not before created bodies feene. * 
Now what ate feedes and egges of wormes or foule. 
But recrements ofpreexi fling things. 
The bodies burden yoyd of life and foule? 
Yea,from themfelues corruption onely fprings 
Vnlcfle by brooders heate (as from the whole) ’ 
They changed be to belly,feete,or wings: 
Refemblingthem now metamorphofed, 
In,by,and from whofe eflence they were bred. 
Dhhifos and Yca 3 vfiul phrafe fuch dreames confuteth quite 
Seneei0 > their For neu ^ r maiij this is Anerocsherme favd, 
md E»Mgtius, l oat egges aie things by former natures layde 
” c g°tte ofmingled leede by day ornfoht 
Cf'LirZ' Neither wuhskmne, nor ftelLnor forme arrayd, 
* llJ lon g tl)C Y taue abode in natures nefl, 
And wearied womb be with their weight opprefl 
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