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In which there is in order plac't
Phœbus with the nine Muses grac't,
In compasse, siting like a crown.
This is the place of great renown:
Heere all good learning is inschrynd,
And all grave wisedome is confin'd,
Clio with stories ancient times,
Melpomené with Tragick lines,
Wanton Thalia's comedies,
Euterpe's sweetest harmonies,
Terpsichore's heart-moving cithar,
Lovely Erato's numbring meeter,
Caliope's heroick songs,
Vranias heavenly motions;
Polymnia in various musick
Paints all with flowres of Rhetorick,
Amidst sits Phœbus laureat,
Crown'd with the whole Pierian State.
Here's Galene and Hippocrates,
Divine Plato and Socrates,
Th' Arabian skill and exccellence,
The Greek and Romane eloquence,
With manie worthie worke and storie
Within this place inaccessorie.
These models, in this Cabine plac'd,
Are with the world's whole wonders grac'd:
What curious art or nature framd,
What monster hath beene taught or tamd,
What Polycletus in his time,
What Archimedes rich ingine,
Who taught the Art of menadrie
The Syracusan synedrie.
What Gods or mortals did forth bring
It in this cabinet doth hing,

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