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UPON SIR JOHN LAURENCE'S BRINGING WATER OVER THE HILLS ... by JOHN SUCKLING

First Line: AND IS THE WATER COME? SURE'T CANNOT BE
Last Line: FOR LOVE WILL CREEP WHERE WELL IT CANNOT GO.
AND is the water come? sure 't cannot be;
It runs too much against philosophy:
For heavy bodies to the centre bend,
Light bodies only naturally ascend.
How comes this then to pass? The good knight's skill
Could nothing do without the water's will:
Then 'twas the water's love that made it flow,
For love will creep where well it cannot go.



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