What Magic Is, What Are the Parts Thereof, and How the Professors Thereof Must Be Qualified Lyrics

The number and the nature of those things
Cal'd element,s what fire, earth, aire forth brings;
From whence the heavens their beginning had;
Whence tide, whence rainbow, in gay colours clad,
What makes the clouds that gathered are, and black,
To send forth lightnings, and a thundering crack;
What doth the nightly flames, and comets make;
What makes the earth to swell, and then to quake;
What is the seed of metals, and of gold what vertues,
Wealth, doth nature's coffer hold.
Now th' sun doth rule with twelve zodiack signs,
The orb thats measur'd round about with lines,
It doth the heavens starry way make known,
And strange eclipses of the sun, and moon,
Arcturus also, and the stars of rain,
The seaven stars likewise, and Charles his wain,
Why winter suns make tow'rds the west so fast;
What makes the nights so long ere they be past?