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   {
    "text": "Oh, to what height will love of greatness drive",
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   {
    "text": "Thy learned spirit, sesqui-superlative?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Venice’ vast lake thou’st seen, and wouldst seek then",
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   {
    "text": "Some vaster thing, and found’st a courtesan.",
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   {
    "text": "That inland sea having discover’d well,",
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   {
    "text": "A cellar-gulf, where one might sail to hell",
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   {
    "text": "From Heidelberg, thou longed’st to see; and thou",
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   {
    "text": "This book, greater than all, producest now.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Infinite work! which doth so far extend,",
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   {
    "text": "That none can study it to any end.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "’Tis no one thing; it is not fruit nor root,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor poorly limited with head or foot.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If man be therefore man, because he can",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Reason and laugh, thy book doth half make man.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "One-half being made, thy modesty was such,",
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   {
    "text": "That thou on th’ other half wouldst never touch.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When wilt thou be at full, great lunatic?",
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   {
    "text": "Not till thou exceed the world? canst thou be like",
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   {
    "text": "A prosperous nose-born wen, which sometimes grows",
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   {
    "text": "To be far greater than the mother-nose?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Go then, and as to thee, when thou didst go,",
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   {
    "text": "Münster did towns, and Gesner authors show,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Mount now to Gallo-Belgicus; appear",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As deep a statesman, as a gazetteer.",
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   {
    "text": "Homely and familiarly, when thou comest back,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Talk of Will Conqueror, and Prester Jack.",
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   {
    "text": "Go, bashful man, lest here thou blush to look",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Upon the progress of thy glorious book,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To which both Indies sacrifices send.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The West sent gold, which thou didst freely spend,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Meaning to see ’t no more, upon the press.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The East sends hither her deliciousness,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And thy leaves must embrace what comes from thence,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The myrrh, the pepper, and the frankincense.",
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   {
    "text": "This magnifies thy leaves; but if they stoop",
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   {
    "text": "To neighbour wares, when merchants do unhoop",
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   {
    "text": "Voluminous barrels; if thy leaves do then",
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   {
    "text": "Convey these wares in parcels unto men;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If for vast tons of currants and of figs,",
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   {
    "text": "Of medicinal and aromatic twigs,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy leaves a better method do provide,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Divide to pounds, and ounces subdivide;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If they stoop lower yet, and vent our wares,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Home-manufactures, to thick popular fairs;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If omni-pregnant there upon warm stalls",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They hatch all wares for which the buyer calls;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then thus thy leaves we justly may commend,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That they all kind of matter comprehend.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Thus thou, by means which th’ ancients never took,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A Pandect makest, and universal book.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The bravest heroës, for public good,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Scattered in divers lands their limbs and blood;",
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   {
    "text": "Worst malefactors, to whom men are prize,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Do public good, cut in anatomies;",
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   {
    "text": "So will thy book in pieces for a lord,",
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   {
    "text": "Which casts at Portescue’s, and all the board",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Provide whole books; each leaf enough will be",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For friends to pass time, and keep company.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Can all carouse up thee? no, thou must fit",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Measures and fill out for the half-pint wit.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Some shall wrap pills, and save a friend’s life so;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Some shall stop muskets, and so kill a foe.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou shalt not ease the critics of next age",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So much, as once their hunger to assuage;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor shall wit-pirates hope to find thee lie",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All in one bottom, in one library.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Some leaves may paste strings there in other books,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And so one may, which on another looks,",
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   {
    "text": "Pilfer, alas, a little wit from you;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But hardly much; and yet I think this true;",
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   {
    "text": "As Sibyl’s was, your book is mystical,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For every piece is as much worth as all.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Therefore mine impotency I confess;",
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   {
    "text": "The healths, which my brain bears, must be far less;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy giant wit o’erthrows me; I am gone;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And rather than read all, I would read none.",
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