I had rather be encoffin'd in this chest
Amongst these bookes and papers I protest,
Then free-booting abroad purchase offence,
And scandale my calme thoughts with discontents.
Heere I converse with those diviner spirits,
Whose knowledge, and admire, the world inherits:
Heere doth the famous profound Stagarite,
With Natures mistick harmony delight
My ravish'd contemplation: I heere see
The now-old worlds youth in an history: