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HO would believe what strange bugbears Mankind creates itself, of fears, That spring, like fern, that insect weed, Equivocally, without seed, And have no possible foundation, But merely in th' imagination? And yet can do more dreadful feats Than hags, with all their imps and teats; Make more bewitch and haunt themselves, Than all their nurseries of elves. For fear does things so like a witch, 'Tis hard t' unriddle which is which; Sets no communities of senses, To chop and change intelligences; As Rosicrucian virtuosos Can see with ears, and hear with noses;