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 144 Anne Bradji reefs Works.

The faculty of fpeech doth here abide,

The Spirits animal, from hence do Aide:

The five moft noble Senfes here do dwell;

Of three it's hard to fay, which doth excell.

This point now to difcufs, 'longs not to me.

Fie touch the fight, great'ft wonder of the three ;

The optick Nerve, Coats, humours all are mine,

The watry, glaffie, and the Chryftaline;

O mixture ftrange ! O colour colourlefs.

Thy perfect temperament who can exprefs .•

He was no fool who thought the foul lay there.

Whence her affe6lions paffions fpeak fo clear.

O good, O bad, O true, O traiterous eyes

What wonderments within your Balls there lyes,

Of all the Senfes fight fhall be the Queen;

Yet fome may wifh, O had mine eyes ne're feen.

Mine, likewife is the marrow, of the back.

Which runs through all the Spondles of the rack,

It is the fubftitute o'th royal brain.

All Nerves, except feven pair, to it retain.

And the ftrong Ligaments from hence arife.

Which joynt to joynt, the intire body tyes.

Some other parts there iffue from the Brain,

Whofe worth and ufe to tell, I muft refrain:

Some curious " learned Crooke^^ niay thefe reveal

But modefty, hath charg'd me to conceal

Here's my Epitome of excellence:

For what's the Brains is mine by Confequence.

V worthy. * See Introduction.

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