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Like those in Hospitals, who dare presumeTo make French Cordage now of English Rhume;Or slender Ropes, on which, in steadOf Pearle, revolted Teeth they thred;For limitting my Cheekes, that else had beeneSwolne like the signe, o'th Head o'th Saracen;For preservation from a longConcealement of my Mother-Tongue;Whilst speechlesse, sow'd in Hoods, I should appeare,An Antarminian, silenc'd Minister;Or some Turks poyson'd Mute; so fretSo fome at mouth, make signes, and spet.Whilst all I eat, goes downe, with lookes to sightMore forc'd, than Quailes t'each full-cramm'd Isralite;Whose angry swallowing denotesThey lay at Flux, and had sore throats.For these deliverances, and all the goodMy new returne of Senses, strength, and blood,Shall bring; for all I mine can boast,Whilst my Endimion is not lost,By'th feeble influence of my Starre; or turnesFrom me, to one whose Planet cleerer burnes;

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