And as his Numbers, so his Reliques prize.
If that Philosopher, which did avow
The world to be but Motes, was living now:
35He would affirme that th' Atomes of his mould
Were they in severall bodies blended, would
Produce new worlds of Travellers, Divines,
Of Linguists, Poets: sith these severall lines
In him concentred were, and flowing thence
40Might fill againe the worlds Circumference.
I could beleeve this too; and yet my faith