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Danger might Change ensue; my present state
80 Unenvy'd let me keep, nor envy others Fate.
80 Unenvy'd let me keep, nor envy others Fate.
IX.
Physignathus half smiling, soft reply'd,
Thy Princely Virtues thou hast largely told,
Thou seem'st in Meats to place peculiar Pride,
Land-bred, despising what the Waters hold!
85 Amphibious Frogs can greater Wonders show.
If now thou list a Journey new t'assay;
Countries remote and Manners strange to know,
Past without Peril is the watry way.
Plac'd on my Back, thou may'st securely ride
90 Whilst I with skilfull strokes dispart the yielding Tide.
Physignathus half smiling, soft reply'd,
Thy Princely Virtues thou hast largely told,
Thou seem'st in Meats to place peculiar Pride,
Land-bred, despising what the Waters hold!
85 Amphibious Frogs can greater Wonders show.
If now thou list a Journey new t'assay;
Countries remote and Manners strange to know,
Past without Peril is the watry way.
Plac'd on my Back, thou may'st securely ride
90 Whilst I with skilfull strokes dispart the yielding Tide.
X.
He spoke, his Shoulders low the Monarch bends,
Psicharpax, clasping close his slimy Neck,
He spoke, his Shoulders low the Monarch bends,
Psicharpax, clasping close his slimy Neck,
The
