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…as it were, whereth describes Pliny, Aelian, Lucretius, and other writers of Naturall things. For the Fire and Water sweetly conspire together in mutual service, with an inviolable friendship and wedlock, for the good of the whole in their several and distinct private-lodgings, as we may so say, and hidden receptacles; spreading themselves far and wide …
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