Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 346 of 400
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This is a page of running prose poetry from what appears to be an early modern philosophical text (not Victorian penny dreadful, despite the assignment framing). The text presents philosophical arguments about unity and hierarchy in creation, arguing that all things proceed from and tend toward "One," and that man—as God's image—embodies this universal principle through the interconnection of his body parts, senses, and soul. The dense, archaic verse employs elaborate conceits about bodily unity to explain metaphysical oneness, concluding that God himself represents the ultimate unity beyond which nothing exists.
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~ | yp PB EN NGEAND! ie -Prefpectiue to one Poynt all Lines: vntoone Right all Law. All Phificke tends to health and health is humors fet at one. _ Todiuers Pafhons Ethickes all doe make one Reafonknowne. a AllGouernment,deuvifiuely reduceth to one Sway. ~ Vaion,in breefe,is foyfonous,and Difcorde works dec av. Noris there aught ofall that is from by-Referments free : ? Butbeftandbafeit mutual ly do ferue and ferned bee: And everie thing varo the whole affers,in fome degree: _ Sinceall things then proceed from One,andtend to One,be fure 4 gamer and molt Swele-One direéts fuch Vnion pure, Now Man(thou Image both of God,& worlds true Counterpaine)* — Vato thy felfe,out of thy felfe,this Vnitie explaine. ~ Not one of all thy many Lymmes may fauleynfeale of All: Nat can faile it Office but the whole abie it fhall.. _ Whith theweth all to be of Ove the Workmanthip : even fo Lik, ysenfe,& Breath by Sinewes, Vaines,& hart-{irings that beftow 5 Ehemfelues through-out,& from one Braine sLiver,& hart do grow. q Onnit we ore als ei bodies ACtions,and: _ Thy Soule,tofus’d through-out the whole: one of one powerfull hand =, _ Andtothy ‘onder ff anding Minde(thy Soules-Soule)letvs come: | - For thisof hight,depth,length, & breadth cafts & conceiues the Sum 2 | _ And all th’aforefaid /nities,regardiuely obferues : i And, faue finne-feel’d,not wholy from this Yvions Author {warucs,. | Bow for that former Soule of Man all Creatures were made: - This latter Sou/e for God himfelfe,who is in it purtraide : ~ Fartherthan whom, 4lls-Vnitze,may nothing be con uaide.