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It happened that searching lately among the works of those who have writ things pertinent to this philosophy I found in the third volume of the Noctes Nebulosæ of Dummerkopfius some very notable and ingenious versicles that seemed to me well worthy of a place in this book, so I here annex them as a manner of Preface to my Second Part.

The lazy Earth doth steam amain,

And fumes and smokes beneath the rain:

The Rivers, Brooks, and Rivulets are

No less in smoke particular

At nightfall: and the storm blast loud

Is often wont to blow a cloud

Around the Mountain-tops, and they

Do take delight in this same way;

And send a fiery fume from out

Their angry heights, and such a rout