L.

And whether by this change she lose or win,

She comes out next, where the Ape would have gone in.

_Adam_ and _Eve_ had mingled bloods, and now

Like Chimiques equall fires, her temperate wombe

Had stew'd and form'd it: and part did become 495

A spungie liver, that did richly allow,

Like a free conduit, on a high hils brow,

Life-keeping moisture unto every part;

Part hardned it selfe to a thicker heart,

Whose busie furnaces lifes spirits do impart. 500

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