[note]In 1653 this poem is called “Comparing Flame to the Tide of the Sea”[/note]
Like as the tide, so flame doth[note]Like as the tide, so flame doth] Like watry Tides, a Flame will 1653[/note] ebb and flow,
For it will sink[note]For it will sink] By sinking downe, 1653[/note] and then straight higher grow.
And if suppressed, it in a rage breaks[note]it in a rage breaks] all in a rage breake 1653[/note] out,
Spreading[note]Spreading] Streaming 1653[/note] itself in several parts about.
Some think the salt doth make[note]the salt doth make] Salt is the cause 1664, 1668[/note] the sea to move,[note]to move,] doth move; 1664; doth move: 1668[/note] 5
If so, then salt in flame the like may prove.
And if it be that[note]And if it be that] From that Example, 1653[/note] salt all motions makes,
Then life, the chief, from salt its motion[note]from salt its motion] of Motion from Salt 1653[/note] takes.