Now to that shift that sayes Vacuity

Is nought, and therefore not at all extent

We answer thus: There is a distancy

In empty space, though we be well content

To balk that question (for we never meant

Such needlesse niceties) whether that it be

A reall being; yet that there’s parts distent

One from another, no mans phantasie

Can e’re reject if well he weigh’t and warily.

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