And yet methinks, in my devicefull mind

Some reasons that may happily represse

These arguments it’s not uneath to find.

For how can the suns rayes that be transmisse

Through these loose knots in Comets, well expresse

Their beards or curld tayls utmost incurvation?

Beside, the conflux and congeries

Of lesser lights a double augmentation

Implies, and ’twixt them both a lessening coarctation.

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