They say wee are nigh neighbours to the Pole,
Or frozen poynt: more nere the fire are they:
What poysons breede with them, and Libians sole
In parcheing sands the writers wise display.
Can nature frame mankinde more deepe decay?
[Perdy] where parching heat, where serpents vgly breede,
A Clyme most fit from whence mankinde should[1089] first proceede.
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But now ile tell why Scythians should possesse
This noble Isle: first, Lord Neptunus gaue