Or Thus.

LEt hoary Time's vast Bowels be the Grave
To what his Bowels birth and being gave;
Let Nature die, (Phoenix-like) from death
Revived Nature take a second breath;
If on Times right hand, s…t fai…e Historie;
If, from the seed of empty Ruine, she
Can raise so faire an Harvest: Let Her be
Ne're so farre distant, yet Chronologie
(Sharpe sighted as the Eagles eye, that can
Out-stare the broad-beam'd Dayes Meridian)
Will have a Perspicill to find her out,
And, through the Night of error and dark doubt▪
Discerne the Dawne of Truth's eternall ray,
As when the rosie Morne budds into Day.
Now that Time's Empire might be amply fill'd▪
Babels bold Artists strive (below) to build
Ruine a Temple; on whose fruitfull fall
History reares her Pyramids more tall
Then were th' Aegyptian (by the life, the…e give,
Th' Egyptian Pyramids themselves must live:)
On these she lifts the World; and on their base
Shewes the two termes and limits of Time's race:
That, the Creation is; the Iudgement, this;
That, the World's Morning, this her Midnight is.