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They [devils] are confined untill the day of judgement, to this sublunary world, and can worke no farther then the foure Elements, and as God permits them. Wherefore of these sublunary Divels, Psellus [Michael Psellos] makes six kindes, fiery, aeriall, terrestriall, watery, and subterranean Divels, besides those Fairies, Satyres, Nymphs, &c.

Dull sublunary lovers love / (Whose soule is sense) cannot admit / Absence, because it doth remove / Those things which elemented it.

Philosophers that opinioned the worlds destruction by fire, did never dreame of annihilation, which is beyond the power of sublunary causes; for the last and proper action of that element [fire] is but vitrification, or a reduction of a body into Glasse, and therefore some of our Chymicks factiously affirme; yea, and urge Scripture for it, that at the last fire all shall be crystallized and reverberated into Glasse, which is the utmost action of that element.

[T]he Conversation which employ'd the Hours between Friday and I, was such, as made the three Years which we liv'd there together perfectly and compleatly happy, if any such Thing as compleat Happiness can be form'd in a sublunary State.

Monimia hears not my complaints; her soul, sublimed far, far above all sublunary cares, enjoys that felicity, of which she was debarred on earth.

Body o' me, it makes a man sick of his kind, ashamed to belong to the race of men, to see the envy that abounds in this here sublunary wale of tears!

We must infer that God does not know of the existence of our sublunary world.

[T]he Baron was exalted by wine, wrath, and scorn, above all sublunary considerations.

For Simonie doth usually poyson and corrupt two Well-heads, whence the streames of good life doe generally flow unto all the people; that is, the Parson, and the Patron. These be, as the two great Lights in the Firmament of the Church, from whom the sublunary and subordinate people receive the direction and conduct of their life.

She was soaring upward to her native skies. She was got above earth, by means, too, of the Earth-born: And something extraordinary was to be done to keep her with us Sublunaries.