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 132 Anfie Bradji reefs Works.

And when fuch thou art, even luch are we,

The friendly Coadjutors ftill of thee.

Nextly the Spirits thou doft wholly claim,

Which nat'ral, vital, animal we name:

To play Philofopher I have no lift.

Nor yet Phyfitian, nor Anatomift,

For afting thefe, 1 have no will nor Art,

Yet fhall with Equity, give thee thy part

For natural,^ thou dolf not much conteft;

For there is' none (thou fayft) if fome not belt;

That there are fome, and belt, I dare averre

Of greatelt ufe, if reafon do not erre : "

What is there living, which do'nt firlt '' derive

His Life now Animal, from vegetive:

If thou giv'ft life, I give the'" nourifhment.

Thine without mine, is not, 'tis evident:

But I without thy help, can give a growth

As plants trees, and fmall Embryon know'th

And if vital Spirits, do flow from thee

I am as lure, the natural, from me;

Be ^ thine the nobler, which I grant, yet mine

Shall jultly claim priority of thine.

I am the fountain which thy Ciftern fills [31]

Through warm blew Conduits of my venial rills:

What hath the heart, but what's fent from the liver

If thou'rt the taker, I muft be the giver.

J th' natural. t are.

« More uleful then the relt, don't reafon erre :

-'■ cannot. «» thee. -^ But.

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