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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421850" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In Praise of the Hemp-Seed</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tis paper (being printed) doth reveale<br>Th' Eternall testament of all our weale:<br>In paper is recorded the records<br>Of the Great all-Creating Lord of Lords.<br>Upon this weake ground, strongly is engran'd<br>The meanes how man was made, and lost, and sav'd,<br>Bookes Patriarchall, and Prophetical,<br>Historicall, or heav'nly Mystical,<br>Evangelicke, and Apostolical,<br>Writ in the sacred Text, in general.<br>Much hath the Church (our mother) propagated<br>By venerable Fathers workes translated<br>Saint Jerome, Gregory, Ambrose, Augustine,<br>Saint Basill, Bernard, Cyprian, Constantine:<br>Eusebius, Epiphanius, Origen,<br>Ignatius, and Lactantius (reverend men)<br>Good Luther, Calvine, learned Zwinglius,<br>Melancton, Beza, Oecolampadius,<br>These, and a world more then I can recite<br>Their labours would have slept in endlesse night,<br>But that in paper they preserv'd have bin<br>T' instruct us how to shun death, hell, and sin.<br>How should we know the change of monarchies,<br>Th' Assyrian, and the Persian Emperies,<br>Great Alexanders, large, smal lasting glory<br>Or Romes high Caesars often changing story?<br>How should Chronologies of Kings be knowne<br>Of either other countryes, or our owne?<br>But that Josephus, and Suetanius<br>Pollidore, Virgil, and Oretlius,<br>Seneca, and Cornelius Tacitus<br>With Scaliger, and Quintus Curtius;<br>Plutarch, Guichiardine, Gallobelgicus<br>Thomasio, and Hector Boetius;<br>Fox, Copper, Froysard, Grafton, Fabian,<br>Hall, Hove'den, Lanquet, Sleiden, Buchanan,<br>The Reverend learned Cambden, Selden, Stowe,<br>With Polychronicon, and Speed, and Howe,<br>With Parris, Malmsbury, and many more<br>Whose workes in paper are yet extant store.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Philemon Holland (famous for translation)<br>Hath (with our owne tongue) well inricht our nation.<br>Esope, and Aristotle, Pliny, Plato,<br>Pithagoras, and Cicero, and Cato,<br>Du Bartas, Ariosto, Martial, Tasso,<br>Plantus, and Homer, Terence, Virgill, Naso,<br>Fraunciscus Petrark, Horace, Juvenal,<br>Philosophers, and ex'lent Poets all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or Orators, historians, every one<br>In paper made their worthy studies knowne.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who ever went beyond our learned King,<br>Whose Art throughout the spacious world doth ring:<br>Such a Divine, and Poet, that each State<br>Admires him, whom they cannot imitate,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Paper, many a Poet now survives<br>Or else their lines had perish'd with their lives.<br>Old Chaucer, Gower, and Sir Thomas More,<br>Sir Philip Sidney who the Lawrell wore,<br>Spencer, and Shakespeare did in Art excell,<br>Sir Edward Dyer, Greene, Nash, Daniell.<br>Silvester, Beaumont, Sir John Harrington,<br>Forgetfulnesse their workes would overrun<br>But that in paper they immortally<br>Do live in spight of death, and cannot die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And many there are living at this day<br>Which do in paper their true worth display:<br>As Davis, Drayton, and the learned Dun,<br>Jonson, and Chapman, Marston, Middleton,<br>With Rowyle, Fletcher, Withers, Messenger,<br>Heywood, and all the rest where e're they are,<br>Must say their lines, but for the paper she ete<br>Had scarcely ground whereon to set their feete.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Acts, Statues, Lawes, would be consum'd and lost<br>All right and order, topsy-turvy tost:<br>Oppression, wrong, destruction and confusion,<br>We'rt not for paper, were the worlds conclusion.<br>Negotiations, and Embassages<br>Maps, Cartes, discoveries of strange passages:<br>Leagues, truces, combinations, and contracts,<br>Lawes, Nat'rall, Morall, Civill and Divine,<br>T' instruct, reprove, correct, inlarge, confine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All Memorandums of forepassed ages,<br>Sayings and sentences of auncient Sages,<br>Astronomy, and Phisick much renownd,<br>The Liberall Arts rules, maxiomes, or ground,<br>The glory of Apolloes Radient shine,<br>Supporter of the Sacred sisters Nine,<br>The Atlas, that all histories doth beare<br>Throughout the world, here, there, and every where.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All this and more is paper, and all this,<br>From fruitfull Hempseed still produced is. . . .</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Taylor">John Taylor</a><div class=q>
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Th' Eternall testament of all our weale:
In paper is recorded the records
Of the Great all-Creating Lord of Lords.
Upon this weake ground, strongly is engran'd
The meanes how man was made, and lost, and sav'd..."></div>
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