XIV.

The plant thus abled, to it selfe did force

A place, where no place was; by natures course

As aire from water, water fleets away

From thicker bodies, by this root thronged so

His spungie confines gave him place to grow: 135

Just as in our streets, when the people stay

To see the Prince, and have so fill'd the way

That weesels scarce could passe, when she comes nere

They throng and cleave up, and a passage cleare,

As if, for that time, their round bodies flatned were. 140

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