Third Argument
Children of the same parents turn out nothing alike.
[p. 7] Some Children prove a mean degenerate Race,Some shew their Father's Mind, as well as Face;In One, their Vertue, and their Fortune riseTo greater height, and in Another dyes.One ¹⁵mad in Love, to Troy will carry War,Or swim the Flood, and view the Torch from far,The Other is determin'd to the Bar.A Son his Father, Father kills the SonOn mutual Wounds two headlong Brothers run;These Combats prove the force of ruling Powers,For they are too unnatural to be Ours.
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¹⁵ To reconcile the different Interpreters, I have hinted at both Paris, (or rather Hercules) and Leander. (Creech’s note, 1697)
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The text is Thomas Creech's 1697 verse translation, checked word by word between three scans of the same type (the 1697 printing, the 1700 printing and a third copy). The long s is printed as s; every other spelling is Creech's. Pages are cited as the 1697 printing numbers them. The portrait is William Marshall’s engraving of Lilly from the front of the 1659 printing (Wellcome Library, public domain).