266 Of the Dissolution

Stars being fed with Vapours exhaledthe Earth, all the moisture will at length D 6drawn out, and the World fly on fire. I'hef* Mlnut. were afraid * Ne humore omni consumpto totsFelix. mundus ignesteret. The Poet Lucan, Wj^seems to be of the Stoick Sect, in the be# 11 'ning of his first Book, describing the Dif^lution of the World, makes it to be a fal^jin pieces of the whole Frame of HeavensEarth, and a jumbling and confounding ^all their parts together.

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