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The wisest, unexperienc't, will be ever240
Timorous and loth, with novice modesty,
(As he who seeking Asses found a Kingdom)
Irresolute, unhardy, unadventrous:
But I will bring thee where thou soon shalt quit
Those rudiments, and see before thine eyes
The Monarchies of the Earth, thir pomp and state,
Sufficient introduction to inform
Thee, of thy self so apt, in regal Arts,
And regal Mysteries; that thou may'st know
How best their opposition to withstand. 250
With that (such power was giv'n him then) he took
The Son of God up to a Mountain high.
It was a Mountain at whose verdant feet
A spatious plain outstretch't in circuit wide
Lay pleasant; from his side two rivers flow'd,
Th' one winding, th' other strait, and left between
Fair Champain with less rivers interveind,
Then meeting joyn'd thir tribute to the Sea: