XXII.

Else might he long have liv'd; man did not know

Of gummie blood, which doth in holly grow,

How to make bird-lime, nor how to deceive

With faind calls, hid nets, or enwrapping snare,

The free inhabitants of the Plyant aire. 215

Man to beget, and woman to conceive

Askt not of rootes, nor of cock-sparrowes, leave:

Yet chuseth hee, though none of these he feares,

Pleasantly three, then streightned twenty yeares

To live, and to encrease his race, himselfe outweares. 220

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