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ELOG1 VM VIII.

ANGLIA-

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FERDINAND I IIL

AVGVSTISSIMI

Iuxta & Sapientisiimi Imperatoris munificentiam, quaobstetricante Kircherianus Oedipus post viginti an-norum nixum feliciter editur in lucem.

ENCOMIVM ANGLICYM

lacobi Albani Gibbe/tj , Med. c Do&.

O no more, turn'd milky cow, doch stray ,

Nor Jj)is , the black oxe, Canopian hayChews into oracles: Ambis nowBarkes North, and Ibis heares noCoptick vow.

Nor 'Pyramtds , nor Hieroglyphicb hauoOr place, or priest in Memphis ; 'Belus graue-»

Ic seife lyes digg’d vp , withoutObeliske,

To open ayre* wherein forne Bafiliske,

Or fowler serpent lurkes; which was in yort->

Prest ( wondrous to behold) by many’ a fcoroOf lofcy towring spires. So nothing standsTouch to feli cyme ,or fcapes its greedy hands.

Cambyses could doe this! Augustus yet,

Inclin'd by pitty fau'd what he might get.

Rome shews in whole and parcels ali the rubbloOf wasted ASgypt, giuing pleafant troublc ,

And most fweet rack to witts, to know, and feoThe mangled parent of Anciquitie.yEgypt-, mother of arts, where hetter mightThen here, ith* lapp of fcience , take delight,

Gather'd in %pme , difmemberM ? perhaps tooAppeare farr brighter, then did euer doe.

A Capitol, a Cirque , a Vatiam ,

Mars field , a Pallace, markett Flpian,

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