Ne let the tender heart too harshly deem

Of this rude sentence: for what rigour more

Is in consuming fire then drowning stream

Of Noahs floud which all creaturs choak’d of yore,

Saving those few that were kept safe in store

In that well builded ship? All else beside

Men, birds, and beasts, the lion, buck, and bore

Dogs, kine, sheep, horses all that did abide

Upon the spacious earth, perish’d in waters wide.

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