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188 Or (since fumes have property to mount) To charge a globe with fumes, sufficiently To carry me aloft !

Well, that makes four !

Or smear myself with marrow from a bull, Since, at the lowest point of Zodiac, Phoebus well loves to suck that marrow up !

Five!

Sitting on an iron platform - thence To throw a magnet in the air. This is A method well conceived - the magnet flown Infallibly the iron will pursue : Then quick ! relaunch your magnet, and you thus Can mount and mount unmeasured distances !

Here are six excellent expedients ! Which of the six chose you ?

Why, none ! - a seventh !