{"id":634,"date":"2017-06-09T22:11:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T22:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/142.150.46.75\/poemsandfancies\/?p=634"},"modified":"2019-04-26T17:47:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T17:47:59","slug":"of-the-motion-of-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":"Of the Motion of the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

If as we see the sea<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> doth run about
\n<\/span>The earth, it leaves a space where\u2019t first came out.<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>For if the water were as much as land,<\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>The water<\/span>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span> would not stir, but still would<\/span>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span> stand.
\n<\/span>Which shows that though the water doth go<\/span>7<\/sup><\/a><\/span> round, 5
\n<\/span>Yet is there still more land than<\/span>8<\/sup><\/a><\/span> water<\/span>9<\/sup><\/a><\/span> found.
\n<\/span>But say the air that\u2019s moveable without,
\n<\/span>And<\/span>10<\/sup><\/a><\/span> thin, doth give it<\/span>11<\/sup><\/a><\/span> leave to run about,
\n<\/span>Or like a wheel which water makes to go:<\/span>12<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>So air may cause the sea to move and<\/span>13<\/sup><\/a><\/span> flow.<\/span>14<\/sup><\/a><\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span> 10
\n<\/span>But if that air hath<\/span>15<\/sup><\/a><\/span> not room to move,
\n<\/span>It cannot<\/span>16<\/sup><\/a><\/span> any other body shove.
\n<\/span>Besides, what drives must needs be stronger far<\/span>17<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Than what it drives, or else it would not stir.<\/span>18<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>If so, then infinites of strengths must be<\/span>19<\/sup><\/a><\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a015
\n<\/span>In motion\u2019s power, to move eternally.
\n<\/span>But say all things run in a circle-line,<\/span>20<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>And every part doth to another<\/span>21<\/sup><\/a><\/span> join:
\n<\/span>They cannot in each other\u2019s places stir,<\/span>22<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Unless<\/span>23<\/sup><\/a><\/span> some places be<\/span>24<\/sup><\/a><\/span> left empty bare.<\/span>25<\/sup><\/a><\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span> 20
\n<\/span>For stop a wheel\u2019s circumference<\/span>26<\/sup><\/a><\/span> without,
\n<\/span>Its<\/span>27<\/sup><\/a><\/span> center too, it cannot turn about.
\n<\/span>If breadth and depth were full, leaving no space,
\n<\/span>Nothing could stir nor move out of its<\/span>28<\/sup><\/a><\/span> place.<\/span>29<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If as we see the sea doth run about The earth, it leaves a space where\u2019t first came out. For if the water were as much as land, The water would not stir, but still would stand. Which shows that though the water doth go round, 5 Yet is there still more land than water … Continue reading Of the Motion of the Sea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-part1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}