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220 Whate'er he labour'd to appear, His understanding still was clear; Yet none a deeper knowledge boasted, Since old Hodge Bacon, and Bob Grosted. Th' intelligible world he knew, And all men dream on't, to be true, That in this world there's not a wart That has not there a counterpart; Nov can there, on the face of ground, An individual beard be found, That has not in that foreign nation A fellow of the self-same fashion; So cut, so colour'd, and so curl'd, As those are in th' inferior world. He'd read Dee's prefaces before The Devil, and Euclid o'er and o'er; And all th' intrigues 'twixt him and Kelly, Lescus and th' emperor, would tell ye: