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For scituation, or for forme, for heighth,For strength, or magnitude, would (in good faith)But stale the price o'th Map; small credit beT'our Poem, lesse to our Geographie:Or as your riding Academicks use,To toyle, and vex, a long fed mutton-Muse,With taking the circumference of mine Host,Or his Wives sumitrie, were time worse lost;Since nor Taurentius, nor Van-dike, have yetCommand to draw them for the King in great.He that to night rul'd each delighted breast,Gave to the pallat of each Eare a feast;With joy of pledges made our sowre wine sweet,And nimble as the leaping juice of Creet;Was, the brave Endimion; whose triumphs, cleere,From cruell tyranny, or too nice feare;Having wit still ready, and no huge sinneTo cause a sadnesse that might keepe it in,Let flye at all; the Shafts were keene; and whenThey miss'd to pierce, he strongly drew agen.But Sleep, whom Constables obey, though theyHave twenty Bills to keepe him off till day:

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