Book ii

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It [Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind.

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Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.

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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.[170-1]

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States as great engines move slowly.

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