It seemes that Tunis is an auncient towne
Neere to the ruines of Carthage once so prowde,
Whose stately buildings now are cleane pulled downe,
And calmde her bruit, that sounded sometime lowde:
But roome, that is their auncient far away
Doth holde, and shall, though cities all decay.
Roome is more large, then spacious Millaine faire,
Or Venice or the Tartars great Camball,
Boeams three Prages, or Egypts rich Alcaire,
Or Quinsei in Cataie, biggest of them all,
And more I say, after the day of doome
Hell shall be no where, vnles it be in roome.
Anonymous (16th century) England
Source: University of Oxford Text Archive
Though this comes from a book entitled "The Riddles of Heraclitus and Democritus" (1598) the contents were not actually written by those two ancient Greek writers!
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