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Of Nobility. SECT. VIII.
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WHen wise Prometheus had his fine Clay drest
To fashion Man, he nothing more did shun
Then Natures uniformity in Beasts,
Of which by Art there can be nothing won,
Whence in these creatures frame he did comprize
Many both strong and strange varieties,
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That as there divers kinds be of complexions,
So in them there might be preheminence,
Divers of spirit, vigor, and affections;
To keep up which degrees of difference,
Reason, of Life the Guardian, was ordain'd,
As Conscience to Religion was chain'd.
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And to confirm this inequality
Have not the feigned Gods in Orbs above
Gloriously plac'd that specious Hierarchy
Whose influence doth inferior spirits move;
And in slack, or swift courses, high or low,
The divers honours of each being show?