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 And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic Fowl; but as an Eagle His cloudless thunder bolted on thir heads. So vertue giv'n for lost, Deprest, and overthrown, as seem'd, Like that self-begott'n bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows nor third, And lay e're while a Holocaust, From out her ashie womb now teem'd Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deem'd, And though her body die, her fame survives, A secular bird ages of lives.
 * Man.Come, come, no time for lamentation now,

Nor much more cause, Samson hath quit himself Like Samson, and heroicly hath finish'd A life Heroic, on his Enemies Fully reveng'd, hath left them years of mourning, Rh