<p>What was this Figures meaning, but to show,<lb/> That, as these kinde of Shell-fish backward goe,<lb/> So now the World, (which here doth seeme to take<lb/> An arseward Iourney on the Cancer's backe)<lb/> Moves counterwise; as if delight it had,<lb/> To runne a race, in Courses retrograde :<lb/> And, that, is very likely to be true,<lb/> Which, this our Emblem, purposeth to shew.<lb/> For, I have now, of late, not onely seene,<lb/> What backward motions, in my Friends have beene;<lb/> And, that my outward Fortunes and Affaires,<lb/> Doe of themselves, come tumbling downe the staires:<lb/> But, I have also found, that other things,<lb/> Have got a wheeling in contrary Rings ;<lb/> Which Regresse, holding on, 'tis like that wee,<lb/> To Iewes, or Ethnicks, backe shall turned bee.<lb/> Some punie Clerkes, presume that they can teach<lb/> The ancient holy Doctors, how to preach.<lb/> Some Laicks, learne their Pastors how to pray.<lb/> Some Parents, are compelled to obay<lb/> Their Sonnes ; and, so their Dignitie to lose,<lb/> As to be fed and cloth'd, at their dispose.<lb/> Nay, wee have some, who have assay'd to draw,<lb/> All backward, to the Bondage of the Law ;<lb/> Ev'n to those abrogated Rites and Dayes,<lb/> By which, the wandring Iew markes out his wayes.<lb/> And, to pursue this Round, they are so heady,<lb/> That, they have made themselves, and others giddy.<lb/> Doe thou, these froward Motions, Lord, restraine,<lb/> And, set the World in her due course againe.<lb/> </p>

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<p>The motion of the World, this day,<lb/> Is mov'd the quite contrarie way.</p>

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