Wherefore this wide and wast Vacuity,

Which endlesse is outstretched thorough all,

And lies even equall with the Deity,

Nor is a thing meerly imaginall,

(For it doth farre mens phantasies forestall

Nothing beholden to our devicefull thought)

This inf’nite voidnesse as much our mind doth gall

And has as great perplexities ybrought

As if this empty space with bodies were yfraught.

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