A select collection of old plays . MICROCOSMUS M ORAL MASK A&us primus. After a confufed noife, and mufizk out of tune, Natureenters as ama%d at it, ©?^|®S^ltf© HAT horror wakes me ! and difturbs^ the peace1 fate inthrorTd in ? fhall difTention ruinEternal ads ? Hath the great deityMade me his inftrument, and fhall mypower Be flighted fo by their rebellious difference ?Ceafe mutiny, or be your own confufion, that negle&s the formNature prefcribes. I rather would preferve ye;That in diftinguihYd order ye might fliewThe glory of my work ; each in his fphere O 4 Subfcribing.
A select collection of old plays . MICROCOSMUS M ORAL MASK A&us primus. After a confufed noife, and mufizk out of tune, Natureenters as ama%d at it, ©?^|®S^ltf© HAT horror wakes me ! and difturbs^ the peace1 fate inthrorTd in ? fhall difTention ruinEternal ads ? Hath the great deityMade me his inftrument, and fhall mypower Be flighted fo by their rebellious difference ?Ceafe mutiny, or be your own confufion, that negle&s the formNature prefcribes. I rather would preferve ye;That in diftinguihYd order ye might fliewThe glory of my work ; each in his fphere O 4 Subfcribing. 320 MlCROCOSMUS. Subscribing to my better government But my commands are ufelefs. Their deaf wills Perfift to act their own and my fad ills. To her my delight! whence is this fad deje&ion ?How amazd Nature ftands \ Have our embracesBrought forth a race of elemental formsThat live in fimple bodies, to be madePregnant for other birth?, and will fhe nowNegledt their teeming ? I would be a grandfather,And fee my irTue multiply. Nature. O hufband !Our union hath been vain ; our off-fpring provesA rebel to our peace, and natures fire defcends to earth, beneath whofe weightHe groans to be delivered, till with flrugglingHe lifts earth up, in whofe repreifion, airContracts his forces to extinguifh , fire from this mutinous afTaultDoubles his ftrength ; when flrait ambitious waterClimbing his feat confumes herfelf in fire, air, water, earth, each would be all,And are made neither ; but a confusd mafs,And indigefted chaos. Janus. Am I Janus,(The
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