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 1 mI,    3   |         I behold the decrees of Nature 1 in abeyance; when society
 2 mI,    3   |       this very grief commands, Nature implores that, as, I weep,
 3 mI,    3   |           has the loveliness of Nature, the beauty of character,
 4 mI,    3   |      love of virtue departed? 3 Nature weeps, character passes
 5 mI,    3   |       orphan. The sex of active nature trembles shamefully at the
 6 mI,    3   |        it declines into passive nature. Man is made woman, he blackens
 7 mI,    3   |         far. He, though made by Nature's skill, barbarously denies
 8 mI,    4   | conversion causes the rights of Nature to perish. He strikes on
 9 mI,    5   | wickedly gives away the gift of Nature for a gift, in selling for
10 pI,    5   |     native clearness surpassing nature, showed on a starry body
11 pI,   10   |        by close relationship of nature, of a family with the star
12 pI,   11   |         and the air of the same nature. On it, as a picture fancied
13 pI,   12   |     life. There ~on the peacock Nature had rained so great a treasure
14 pI,   12   |         but, by some miracle of nature, revived in another, and
15 pI,   12   |       concord 1 paid tribute to Nature by decimating its brood.
16 pI,   12   |       that you would think that nature had dozed at its making.
17 pI,   13   |         but with the mastery of nature, as one most skilled in
18 pI,   13   |     graphic picture told of the nature of the watery creation,
19 pI,   14   |       The eel, which copied the nature of the serpent, was thought
20 pI,   15   |       doubled the body given by nature by a manifold usury. The
21 pI,   16   |        ass, and, emancipated by Nature's command, inhabited bold
22 pII,   19  |         weakness of the womanly nature, and guided the approach
23 pIII,   24 |      with the higher glories of nature, ~be united the more agreeably
24 pIII,   25 |      the world itself, combined nature may appear. For just as,
25 pIII,   26 |      exile. And, in this, man's nature cannot reproach me for my
26 pIII,   26 |         in the greater gifts of nature, the ~universe finds its
27 pIII,   28 |     dawn of age arises in human nature, there begins man's early
28 pIII,   30 |       midwife; but rather am I, Nature, ignorant of the nature
29 pIII,   30 |         Nature, ignorant of the nature of this birth. and in the
30 pIII,   31 |        the superlative, that of Nature the comparative, that of
31 pIII,   31 |      speak more intimately-I am Nature, who have sought after thee
32 pIII,   31 |     with my conversation. ~When Nature unveiled to me through these
33 pIII,   31 |         headlong at the feet of Nature, and, in the place of a
34 pIII,   32 |        association, frail human nature is always wont, like a pupil
35 pIV,   35  |         the natural impulses of nature, and arms against me the
36 pIV,   45  |        by thy delineation, the' nature of Cupid, on whom thy speech
37 pIV,   45  |       authors have pictured his nature under the covering wrap
38 pIV,   46  |         as the explanation of a nature inexplicable, let this be
39 pV,   49   |  honorableness to the essential nature of love if it is checked
40 pV,   52   |        retentive of substantive nature. Besides this, I added that
41 pV,   52   |     abandonment of its peculiar nature to turn into the active,
42 pV,   52   |      letters of the passive the nature of the active, to assume
43 pV,   54   |          from the law of their ~nature, the more humble step of
44 pVI,   61  |     Bacchus, which the favor of nature has showered upon him, are
45 pVI,   63  |        in its sound to her real nature, it is fitting to call with
46 pVII,   71 |       those to whom the plan of nature denies the gifts of the
47 pVIII,   76|     disciplinae semitam. ~While Nature's discourse was proceeding
48 pVIII,   78|       approached close to where Nature' stood, she, calling him
49 pVIII,   78|      who had come as Hymen. Him Nature placed at her right hand,
50 pVIII,   78|       was being enjoyed between Nature and Hymen, behold, with
51 pVIII,   78|     holy art that the finger of Nature, the finisher, had not failed
52 pVIII,   78|     right hand of most powerful Nature had planted there, with
53 pVIII,   79|      her obedient service. When Nature had perceived ~her near
54 pVIII,   80|         of Chastity. ~Now while Nature was welcoming her with glad
55 pVIII,   80|        the throat in drink. Her Nature recognized, though surrounded
56 pVIII,   81|       of Temperance. ~And while Nature was receiving the presence
57 pVIII,   81|         vision for the heights. Nature had finished her appearance
58 pVIII,   82|      haste to approach, behold, Nature ran quickly to meet her
59 pVIII,   82|     cloud of doubt. ~Then while Nature was performing to Generosity
60 pVIII,   82|     from the living fountain of nature, had breathed upon her whole
61 pVIII,   83|        then, as she approached, Nature went with especial haste,
62 pVIII,   83|         sorrow from the face of Nature, and were striving to produce
63 pVIII,   83|    feelings of inward pain, lo, Nature, anticipating their speech
64 pVIII,   84|      catalogue of the things of nature, from the bounds of my jurisdiction.
65 pVIII,   84|    humility, and freely gave to Nature abundant signs of their
66 pVIII,   85|       in the immediate sight of Nature, declared himself obedient
67 pVIII,   85|     composition of this sort: ~`Nature, by the grace of God delegated
68 pVIII,   85|       thee, as in the mirror of Nature, myself again in marked
69 pVIII,   86|    graved the name and image of Nature, to her legate to deliver.
70 pIX,   88  |    rites of his mystic embassy, Nature, in a sorrowful speech of
71 pIX,   88  |   dishonor the orderly being of Nature. Although Fortune smiled
72 pIX,   89  |      relief of tears. ~ ./. But Nature, who considered what the
73 pIX,   89  |         who abuses the gifts of Nature in the waste of ungovemed
74 pIX,   90  |     foundation of everything in nature! O special protection for
75 pIX,   90  |         He, then, who sells his nature to ruin and abomination,
76 pIX,   91  |      whose workmanship followed nature, seemed now to be in flames
77 pIX,   92  |        the loving kiss alone of Nature and her son, when the Eternal
78 pIX,   92  |       beauty, which scorned our nature's mortality. Her raiment,
79 pIX,   92  |         garments, of unfamiliar nature, so to speak, supplementary
80 pIX,   92  |         I and confessed none of Nature's gifts, for old age had
81 pIX,   93  |     Truth harmoniously formed. ~Nature at this gave free reins
82 pIX,   93  |        this form of speech: ~`O Nature, I do not believe that without
83 pIX,   94  |      speech to these few words, Nature drew aside a little the
84 pIX,   94  |  soldiery, and the agreement of Nature and the assisting ministry
85 pIX,   94  |      degraded from the favor of Nature, let him be isolated from
86 pIX,   94  |       assembly of the things of Nature, whoever turns awry the