Classic Poem

Of Poliphemus his sight in Geometry

E PIG . 230.

No Geometricians (though they oft haue tride)
Haue ere found out a circles quadrature,
Or giu'n an equal lyne vnto its side,
The truth heereof lyes in such couerture:
But Caueleero Poliphem hath don't,
If the earths globe be throughly sphericall:
For he doth square with all in compasse on't;
For which he oft doth step aside with all;
 Whose rule for equall rule is still at strife,
 Till rule by equall lyne doth end his life.