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 All kinde of things. For though that fire with water aye debateth Yet moysture mixt with equall heate all living things createth. And so those discordes in their kinde, one striving with the other, In generation doe agree and make one perfect mother. And therfore when the mirie earth bespred with slimie mud, Brought over all but late before by violence of the flud, Caught heate by warmnesse of the Sunne, and calmenesse of the skie, Things out of number in the worlde, forthwith it did applie. Whereof in part the like before in former times had bene, And some so straunge and ougly shapes as never erst were sene. In that she did such Monsters breede, was greatly to hir woe, But yet thou, ougly Python, wert engendred by hir thoe.