3 Of life, and generation of all 4 That lives, pertains in charge particular, 5 Who wondrous things concerning our welfare, 6 And strange phantoms does let us oft foresee, 7 And oft of secret ill bids us beware:
ill > evil
8 That is our Self, whom though we do not see, 9 Yet each does in himself it well perceive to be.
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Therefore a God him sage Antiquity
2 Did wisely make, and good Agdistes call:
But this same was to that quite contrary,
4 The foe of life, that good enuyes to all,
That secretly doth vs procure to fall,
6 Through guilefull semblaunts, which he makes vs see.
He of this Gardin had the gouernall,
8 And Pleasures porter was deuizd to bee,
Holding a staffe in hand for more formalitee.
1 Therefore a god him sage antiquity
antiquity > ancient times (esp. of the Greeks and Romans); ancient records
2 Did wisely make, and good Agdistes call):
Agdistes > (So called in Myth. 4.3)
3 But this same was to that quite contrary,