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CANTO III.] Were they not, during all their lives, Most of 'em pirates, whores, and thieves? And is it like they have not still In their old practices some skill? Is there a planet that by birth Does not derive its house from earth; And therefore probably must know What is, and hath been done below? Who made the Balance, or whence came The Bull, the Lion, and the Ram? Did not we here the Argo rig, Make Berenice's periwig? Whose liv'ry does the Coachman wear? Or who made Cassiopeia's chair? And therefore, as they came from hence, With us may hold intelligence. Plato deny'd the world can be Govern'd without geometry, For money b'ing the common scale Of things by measure, weight, and tale, In all th' affairs of church and state, 'Tis both the balance and the weight: Then much less can it be without Divine astrology made out, That puts the other down in worth, As far as heaven's above earth. These reasons, quoth the Knight, I grant Are something more significant Than any that the learned use Upon this subject to produce;