{"id":766,"date":"2017-06-11T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/142.150.46.75\/poemsandfancies\/?p=766"},"modified":"2019-04-26T18:08:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T18:08:51","slug":"fire-compared-to-stings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"Fire Compared to Stings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing is so like fire, as a fly\u2019s sting,
\nIf we compare th\u2019effect which both do bring.
\n<\/span>For flies when they sting the flesh,<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> no blood they<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> draw,
\n<\/span>But blisters raise, the skin made red, the flesh raw.<\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Were there as many stings as fiery atoms small,<\/span>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> 5
\n<\/span>Would pierce into the flesh, bones turn to ashes all.<\/span>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Thus we find flies do carry everywhere
\n<\/span>Fire in their tails, yet do their breech<\/span>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span> not fear.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nothing is so like fire, as a fly\u2019s sting, If we compare th\u2019effect which both do bring. For flies when they sting the flesh, no blood they draw, But blisters raise, the skin made red, the flesh raw. Were there as many stings as fiery atoms small, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5 Would pierce into the flesh, bones … Continue reading Fire Compared to Stings<\/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-766","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\/766","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=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}