That spirit, being much diviner,
May be proportionably finer;
Nor is this merely postulatum,
’Tis proved by facts, and thus I state them.
Dame Nature erst, in mood of merriment,
Perform’d the following odd experiment;
She took a most diminish’d sprite,
Smaller than microscopic mite,
An hundred thousand such might lie
Wedged in a cambric needle’s eye,