Note 32 — ASTRÆA REDUX. A POEM.
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In "A Poem to His Most Excellent Majesty, Charles the Second, Ego beneficio tuo (Cæsar) quas ante audiebam hodie vidi Deos: Nec feliciorem ullum vitæ meæ aut optavi aut sensi Diem, by H. Buston, Winton; together with another, by Hen. Bold, olim Winton," the royal genealogy is thus deduced from the primitive father of mankind:
On which side shall we trace your stock? beyond The loins of Egbert, or of Pharamond; Now sunk in Adam's entrails it is found, And thence shoots through the world to you all crowned. Vain boldness of the age (age of deceits), Knew this, and therefore coined Præ-Adamites.