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Robert Herrick

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I saw a flie within a beade
Of amber cleanly buried.
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"The Amber Bead" (published c. 1648). Compare: "Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb", Francis Bacon, Historia Vit? et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. Exper. 100.

 
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