Cease Earth, ah ! cease, proud Babel Earth, to swell; Heav'n blasts high tow'rs, stoops to a low roof'd cell ; First Heav'n must dwell in man,then man in Heav'n shall dwell. XXVII, Close to Kerdia, Pneumon takes his seat, Built of a lighter frame and spongy mould: Temp'ring those burning fumes with moderate cold: In divers streets and out-ways, multiplied; Fitly 'tis clothed with † hangings thin and light, This pipe was built for th' air's safe purveyance, In hundred circles bended, hard and dry, *The Pneumon, or lungs, is nearest the heart; whose flesh is light and spongy, and very large. It is the instrument of breathing and speaking, divided into many parcels, but all united into one body. The Jungs are covered with a light and very thin tunicle, lest it might hinder their motion. The wind-pipe, which is framed partly of cartilages, or gristly matter, because the voice is perfected with hard and smooth things (these cartilages are compassed like a ring) and partly of skin, which tie the gristles together. XXX. The second's drith and hardness somewhat less, All in one body jointly comprehending : The * last most soft, which where the circle's scanted, Upon the top there stands the pipe's safe † covering, Above it fourteen careful warders hov'ring, Of substance hard, fit for the voice's guiding: Close by this pipe, runs that great channel down, Straight at whose § mouth a flood-gate stops the way, For swallowing soon to fall, and rise for inspiration. And because the rings of the gristles do not wholly meet, this space is made up by muscles, that so the meat-pipe adjoining, might not be galled or hurt. + The Larynx, or covering of the wind-pipe, is a gristly substance, parted into four gristles; of which the first is ever unmoved, and in women often double. Adjoining to it, is the Oesophagus or meat-pipe, conveying meats and drinks to the stomach. § At whose end is the Epiglottis or cover of the throat; the principal instrument of tuning, and changing the voice; and therefore gristly, that it might sqoner fall when we swallow, and rise when we breathe. XXXIII. But see, the smoke mounting in village nigh, Begins the night, and warns us home repair : Bright Vesper now hath chang'd his name and place, Home then, my full fed lambs; the night comes, home apace." CANTO V. I. BY Y this the old Night's head (grown hoary gray) Foretold that her approaching end was near; And gladsome birth of young succeeding Day, Lent a new glory to our hemisphere : The early swains salute the infant ray, Then drove the dams to feed, the lambs to play: And Thirsil with night's death, revives his morning lay. II. "The highest region in this little Isle, Is both the Island's, and Creator's glory: Make this inglorious verse, thy glory's instrument. So shall my flagging Muse to Heav'n aspire, The third precinct, the best and chief of all, Though shap'd at first the *least of all the three; Yet highest set in place, as in degree; And over all the rest bore rule and sovereignty. ས. So of three parts, fair Europe is the least, In which this earthly ball was first divided; Here all the tsenses dwell, and all the arts: And sure for ornament and buildings rare, Lovely aspect and ravishing delight, These suburbs many call the Island's face; Whose charming beauty and bewitching grace, Oft times the §Prince himself inthralls in fetters base. * The head of these three regions is the least, but noblest in frame and office, most like to heaven, being highest in this little world, as also, in figure, being round. The brain is the seat of the mind and senses. The head is divided into the city and suburbs; the brain within the wall of the scull, and the face without. The mind. |