Weak and envy'd, if they should conspire, / They wreck themselves, and he hath his Desire.
Why should the flow of water within a fjord be of interest to the geologist? After all, fjordic geomorphology has changed little over the last few thousand years. One reason is that attention has recently focused on fjords as archives of Holocene climate change.
This Pattern pleas'd thee ſo, th' haſt fram'd by it,
Th' eternall Watch-births of thy ſacred Wit:
Thy pithy Book of Proverbs richly-grave,
Unto the PORCH may rich relation have:
For that it gives us Oeconomike Lawes,
Rules Politike, and Private civill Sawes;
And for (the moſt) thoſe Leſſons generall
At Humane matters ayme the moſt of all.
Such was his toil, when one night coming home, / Such swell uncivil, who'd been out to roam / In search of lark, or some delicious gig / The mind delights in, when 'tis in prime twig,