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1 I| from any thing,~ No fixed seed required. Men from the sea~ 2 I| increases from its lawful seed,~ And through that increase 3 I| all things exist,~ With seed imperishable, Nature allows~ 4 II| scent;~ Or hold as of like seed the goodly hues~ Of things 5 II| infinite increase.~ For in one seed, in one small frame of any,~ 6 II| there is that's not of mixed seed.~ And whatsoe'er possesses 7 II| again,~ Hath in herself the seed whence she can raise~ The 8 II| things exist by intermixed seed.~ ~ But still 'tmust not 9 II| see~ All are from fixed seed and fixed dam~ Engendered 10 II| or the black~ Of a black seed; or yet believe that aught~ 11 II| Or swans turn black from seed of black, or be~ Of any 12 II| thee until thou grant~ The seed (which here thou say'st 13 II| Once more, we all from seed celestial spring,~ To all 14 III| that came~ From its own seed and breed waxes the same~ 15 IV| Now first has passed the seed (engendered~ Within their 16 IV| regions turgid now~ With seed abundant; so that, as it 17 IV| And as said before,~ That seed is roused in us when once 18 IV| human kind rouses the human seed~ To spurt from man. As soon 19 IV| goaded regions swell with seed, and then~ Comes the delight 20 IV| when perchance, in mingling seed with his,~ The female hath 21 IV| offspring, more from mothers' seed,~ More like their mothers; 22 IV| mothers; as, from fathers' seed,~ They're like to fathers. 23 IV| generation rises forth~ From seed paternal, and from mother' 24 IV| more from singleness of seed than faces~ Or bodies or 25 IV| birth~ Is from a twofold seed; and what's created~ Hath, 26 IV| render big by plenteous seed their wives -~ And plague 27 IV| sterile, are these men by seed too thick,~ Or else by far 28 IV| abortively. And then since seed~ More gross and solid than 29 IV| Or, having entered, the seed is weakly mixed~ With seed 30 IV| seed is weakly mixed~ With seed of the woman: harmonies 31 IV| places~ Deflects the spurt of seed. And courtesans~ Are thuswise 32 V| and every kind begot from seed~ Of beasts of draft, as, 33 V| from a man and from the seed of horse,~ The beast of