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248 And yet they're far from satisfactory, T' establish and keep up your factory. Th' Egyptians say, the sun has twice Shifted his setting and his rise ; Twice has he risen in the west, As many times set in the east ; But whether that be true or no, The devil any of you know. Some hold, the heavens, like a top, Are kept by circulation up, And were't not for their wheeling round. They'd instantly fall to the ground : As sage Empedocles of old, And from him modern authors hold. Plato believ'd the sun and moon Below all other planets run. Some Mercury, some Venus seat Above the sun himself in height.