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90 a Starr in this very year, whose increment and decreases were throughly observ'd; and we then saw (what will scarcely be believ'd) that in Heaven it self, there may be something Born and Dye. Behold even Varro in St. Augustine cryes out and asserts, that the Planet Venus which Plautus calls Vesperugo and Homer undefined, hath chang'd its colour, magnitude, figure, and motion. Next to the Heavens look upon the Air, it is daily changed, and passes into winds, Clouds, or showres. Look to the waters, and those Rivers and springs which we call everlasting: Some are lost, and others have altered their course, and found out new Channels. The Ocean it self that great and abstruse part of Nature, is sometimes swell'd with stormes, and at others smooth'd with calmes, and though those stormes were not, yet it hath its own Ebbs and Flowes; and to convince us that it may to- Rh