[Gnōthi seauton] Know yourself. A poem / [John Arbuthnot].

  • John Arbuthnot
Date:
1734
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Credit: [Gnōthi seauton] Know yourself. A poem / [John Arbuthnot]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [2] Am I but what I feem? mere Flefh and Blood; :f» . k , •* . ’ ’ • • . ; . x ✓ > A branching Channel? with a mazy Flood ? The purple Stream that through my VefTels glides? Dull and unconfcious flows like common Tides: The Pipes thro’ which the circling Juices ftray? # 4>* f s ■ ^ ^ * v » *■ Are not that thinking I? no more than They: This Frame? compacted with tranfcendent Skill? Of moving Joints? obedient to my Will; Nurs’d from the fruitful Glebe? like yonder Tree? Waxes and waftes; I call it Mine? not Me: New Matter ftill the mould ring Mafs fuftains? The Manfion chang’d? the Tenant ftill remains; And from the fleeting Stream repair’d by Food? Diftindfc? as is the Swimmer from the Flood. What am I then ? Sure? Thy Parents Right? I But claim fupcrior Who warin’d th’ ~ Eflence a e by my^S irIe? & ire: ..vt i; * & By double Nature?v —- With