The Body Is the World of the Animal Spirits.

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The art’ries2 are the ocean deep and wide,
The blood the sea, which ebbs and flows in tide,
The nerves, the3 continent they travel through;
Muscles are cities, which4 they traffic to.

  1. The Body Is the World of the Animal Spirits.] The description of their world, which is the Body. 1653
  2. art’ries] Arteries 1653, 1668
  3. the] great 1653
  4. Muscles are cities, which] The Muscles Cities are 1664; The Muscles, Cities are, 1668