PRŒMIUM TO THE SECOND PART
It happened that searching lately among the works of those who have writ things pertinent to this philosophy I found in the third volume of the Noctes Nebulosæ of Dummerkopfius some very notable and ingenious versicles that seemed to me well worthy of a place in this book, so I here annex them as a manner of Preface to my Second Part.
"The lazy Earth doth steam amain,
And fumes and smokes beneath the rain:
The Rivers, Brooks, and Rivulets are
No less in smoke particular
At nightfall: and the storm blast loud
Is often wont to blow a cloud
Around the Mountain-tops, and they
Do take delight in this same way;
And send a fiery fume from out
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